(Des Moines)– Saturday marks the opening of the first shotgun deer season in Iowa.
The D-N-R’s Tyler Harms oversees the surveys and management of the deer herd. Harms says he’s had many questions about a survey that found COVID in deer — and he reassures hunters it is not a problem. Harms recommends that hunters take some basic precautions like wearing gloves and washing your hands and equipment thoroughly when you are finished processing deer.
He says last year hunters took around 109-thousand deer and the numbers for this year should hit that.
The first shotgun deer hunting season runs through December 8th. The second shotgun season runs from December 11th through the 19th.
