CNB Hunting/Fishing Delaware: Shotgun deer season opens, and with success for many hunters

Photo caption: A DNREC Fish & Wildlife Enforcement officer checks a hunter’s shotgun and license in Kent County after a successful opening day hunt

Photo credit: DNREC/Joanna Wilson

DOVER (Nov. 14, 2014) – After a night of rain and snow to the north, Friday’s opening day of Delaware’s shotgun deer season dawned cold and dry under clearing skies, drawing hopeful deer hunters from all over the state and from neighboring states as well. By mid-morning, hunters were returning to their trucks, many of them hauling their harvest, while others strapped portable tree stands to their backs and toted their shotguns out of the field with a spring in their step, anticipating another day when they too would bring home a trophy buck or venison to the table.