Deer Season 2023 Kentucky. The first special youth deer season is on the second weekend of october. On this page we have a variety of statewide statistics about harvest results in 2023.
The kentucky department of fish and wildlife resources (kdfwr) publishes an annual hunting and trapping guide to aid hunters in the current season. In summer 2023 the dnr estimated the state had 515 elk (355 in the northern herd and 160 in the central), 10% higher than the same time in 2022.