Decatur County, Indiana
Unit info
- Game species
- White-tailed Deer
- Group
- Central Indiana
- Area
- N/A
- Public land
- N/A
White-tailed Deer — season & harvest
- Reported harvest
- 661
Draw odds for White-tailed Deeraren't on file for this unit yet. Check your state wildlife agency website for current draw statistics.
About this unit
Sign in to contributeDecatur County in southeast Indiana is a rolling agricultural county where Sand Creek and its tributaries provide the primary deer travel corridors through a landscape dominated by row crops and scattered farm woodlots. The county produces consistent deer harvests with bucks that feed heavily in corn and soybean fields before retreating to creek-bottom cover. Hunting is almost entirely conducted on private land, typical of the Indiana southeast agricultural belt.
Rolling glaciated terrain with row-crop agriculture dominating the uplands; Sand Creek and its tributaries provide creek-bottom timber corridors and the primary deer travel routes connecting isolated woodlots
Almost entirely private farmland around Greensburg; minimal public hunting access in the county; some IDNR stream access along creek corridors; lease and permission hunting is the standard approach
Moderate — local agricultural deer hunting with limited public land; mostly private lease and permission pressure concentrated on productive creek-bottom timber
Indiana statewide OTC license system; antler restrictions apply statewide; antlerless permits available
Wild turkeys present in limited numbers in creek-bottom timber; Canada geese abundant in harvested grain fields through fall and winter; occasional coyote hunting on agricultural ground
Sand Creek corridor provides reliable deer travel routes connecting isolated woodlots across open agricultural land; county produces consistent antlered deer harvests from bucks using creek-bottom staging areas adjacent to crop fields
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Boundaries: IDNR county-based deer management units. Community info last updated 106d ago.