LITTLE ROCK — An estimated 290,000 people, enough to fill Donald W. Reynolds Razorback Stadium in Fayetteville more than four times, will be headed to the woods this year in search of a deer, and many of them will be celebrating their first hunt of the year this weekend with the opening of Arkansas’s modern gun deer hunting season.

Arkansas’s deer season is split into several segments, with hunters having already harvested and checked more than 47,700 deer so far during archery season, alternative firearms season and last weekend’s youth deer hunt. Those early seasons are only appetizers compared to modern gun season, which opens Saturday, Nov. 8. Historically, deer hunters have checked more than 30,000 deer in the two-day weekend opener. kAm$E277 2E E96 pC<2?D2D v2>6 2?5 u:D9 r@>>:DD:@?

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