The deer harvest during opening weekend of this year’s firearms season is down in northwest Missouri and across the state.

By Sunday, hunters had taken 13,125 deer in the 19 counties of northwest Missouri, compared to 14,799 for the same period in 2010.

That’s a drop of more than eleven percent.

Saturday and Sunday’s total statewide was 89,717 compared to 97,833 deer in the first weekend.

In Northwest Missouri, Harrison County led the way, with 1,145 deer. Nodaway County hunters bagged 1,117 deer, while hunters in Linn County took 1,050. There were 329 deer shot in Buchanan County during the opening weekend.

The Missouri Department of Conservation updates its deer harvest map every several hours.  Click the link for the latest numbers.