The New Hampshire Fish and Game department has over the years created a very helpful website. Below is a very well written summary of how New Hampshire manages its whitetail deer population by NH Deer Biologist Dan Bergeron. The chart is also found in this article. As you can see since 1982 to 2016, the total deer harvest has tripled state wide from around three thousand to nearly ten thousand.

https://wildlife.state.nh.us/hunting/deer-mgt.html

In addition to this deer harvest information there is a mountain of data found in the 2017 Wildlife Harvest Summary.

https://wildlife.state.nh.us/hunting/documents/2017-harvest-summary.pdf 

From a hunter perspective here in Southern NH, Posted Land is a fact of life. Some hunters can gain written landowner permission to hunt in these posted areas. Do your research! It may pay off!

Other hunters seek out New Hampshire’s Wildlife Management Areas (WMA) where hunting on state owned land is encouraged. See maps below

https://wildlife.state.nh.us/maps/wma.html

Way up north near Errol and further to Pittsburg, NH there are miles of open land provided by lumber companies and miles of dirt roads to get you far off the beaten path if you desire. Deer densities are lower but there are fields, deep coniferous woods and waters are simply wild. A marvelous opportunity to get away from it all.

What is so terrific about the NH Fish and Game website is that it is comprehensive provides a rich resource for information on New Hampshire Wildlife, Licensing,  the Department itself etc. A great source of educational information.

For those of you who spend time with the Harvest Survey, there is enough information by town to see where you may want to set foot this fall to deer hunt. New is good!

NH Antler and Trophy Club host a yearly gathering of Trophy Deer. See this facebook page for big bucks of New Hampshire.

Good Researching and Good Hunting!