Current Arkansas deer harvest now available online

LITTLE ROCK –Deer hunters interested in studying the state’s deer harvest can now get real-time data on the season. Hunters can check the deer harvest numbers at https://dev.ark.org/gamecheck/reports.php.

 

The information is available as a result of the agency’s use of the online and telephone checking system for deer. In addition to ease of use, faster data processing and real-time data reporting, the new process has enabled the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission to analyze the deer harvest by date. According to the AGFC’s Deer Program Coordinator Cory Gray, the information will allow the agency to chart trends during the season. “It also will provide valuable details about the effects of season structure on harvest,”

 

Gray said. Gray said the information hunters are providing is invaluable to the agency. “It is critical that hunters provide us accurate data and give us all of the information requested,” he explained.

 

To provide the information over a cell phone, hunters must call from an area where a cell phone signal is strongest. “Hunters have 24 hours to check their game, so we’re asking people using a cell phone to go to a location with a signal stronger than one bar. Hunters need a good signal so their information comes through as strong as possible on the system,” Gray says. “It’s not going to work if you don’t have the signal strength,” he added.

 

As of right now, checking deer can be done in one of three ways, the call to 866-305-0808 or online atwww.agfc.com. There’s also iPhone and Android AGFC applications that are available.

 

When you’ve finished checking your game, you’ll be given a four-digit check number that must be recorded on the license. So make sure you have a pen ready. –