Pike County, Indiana
Unit info
- Game species
- White-tailed Deer, Wild Turkey
- Group
- Southern Indiana
- Area
- N/A
- Public land
- N/A
White-tailed Deer — season & harvest
- Reported harvest
- 1,477
Draw odds for White-tailed Deeraren't on file for this unit yet. Check your state wildlife agency website for current draw statistics.
Season & harvest data is published for White-tailed Deer so far. Wild Turkey also occur here — that data can be added as the community contributes.
About this unit
Sign in to contributePike County in southwestern Indiana blends reclaimed coal country, Pike State Forest timber, and Patoka River bottomland hardwoods to create a diverse hunting landscape that is consistently overlooked by out-of-state hunters. The Patoka River corridor and its expanding National Wildlife Refuge and Wetlands Management District provide increasingly accessible public land in a part of Indiana historically dominated by private ownership. Deer numbers are solid and the bottomland corridors produce quality rut hunting for hunters who know the ground.
Southwestern Indiana with a mix of agricultural flatlands, reclaimed surface mine land with young timber, and Patoka River bottomland hardwoods; Pike State Forest provides managed woodland cover; gently rolling terrain with productive creek and river drainages.
Pike State Forest is the primary public land block for walk-in hunting; Patoka River National Wildlife Refuge and Wetlands Management District is expanding acreage and opening increasing ground to public hunting; private land permission hunting is the norm for most local hunters.
Moderate — the county's mix of agriculture and forest draws a steady local hunting community; Pike State Forest sees moderate weekend pressure during firearms season.
Indiana OTC system; standard statewide regulations with no county-specific antler restrictions.
Wild Turkey are present throughout Pike State Forest and the forested drainages; the Patoka River NWR provides developing waterfowl habitat along the river corridor that will improve as the refuge matures.
Patoka River bottomland corridors concentrate deer movement during the rut as bucks travel between timber blocks; Pike State Forest provides reliable walk-in public land in a part of southwestern Indiana where public access is otherwise limited.
Questions, tips & discussion
Ask anything about Pike County— or drop a tip or trick: access points, where game holds, glassing spots, conditions, crowding, gear that worked. This is where the unit's species-specific intel gets built, hunter by hunter.
Nothing posted yet about Pike County.
Be the first — ask a question (“Best public access on the north end?”) or share a tip (“Glass the burn scars off the main ridge at first light”).
Boundaries: IDNR county-based deer management units. Community info last updated 106d ago.