Michigan’s regular firearm deer season is over, and the numbers are coming in: Most of the nearly 130,000 deer harvested were bucks.

Michigan’s white-tailed deer harvest total for the 2025 regular firearm deer season was 129,747, as of Friday, according the harvest report from the Michigan Department of Natural Resources. That includes 48,258 anterless deer and 81,489 with antlers; that means about 63% of the harvest was bucks.

Only two counties reported harvests of more antlerless than antlered deer taken: Mason (942 antlerless and 938 antlered) and Lake (446 antlerless and 403 antlered).

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Here are the top 10 counties racking up the bucks this year:

Sanilac: 2,320 antlered (1,539 antlerless; 3

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