Since this end of deer season in these parts, it is fitting to examine past historic statistics. During the 1930s and 1940s, Lassen National Forest monitored the deer hunters. It was not easy task to register some 19,000 deer hunters on the Lassen. Data compiled relative to age, antlers, weight and condition of the deer, as where as the location where they killed. While there were check stations, they are also sent checkers with scales to weigh animals in the deer hunting camps.

Over 2,000 deer were killed in 1935 season on the Lassen National Forest. They consisted of 35% were forked horns; 32% had three points; 29% carried four points and the remainder 4% had five, six, seven or more points.

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