The attached graphs depict the top counties in 2013 for harvest by unit area (square mile) and by simple harvest without regard to size of county. This data depicts some of the potentially best areas for deer hunters to hunt based on what was productive last season.
In terms of harvest per squre mile, the top counties are grouped closely in two different areas. In the Upstate, the top counties are Union, Spartanburg, Newberry, Anderson, Cherokee and Abbeville. Four of these counties border another top county and the other two, Anderson and Abbeville, border one another and are located on the Savannah River drainage, certainly a key to high populations of deer. But all of the top counties are clustered in close proximity.
In the lower sector of the state, top counties are Bamberg, Allendale, Calhoun and Orangeburg counties, all of which border another one of the other counties. Allendale is on the Savannah River drainage but all these counties make contact with at least one other on the list.
Based solely on the data from the SCDNR, these two areas form two distinct areas of high deer harvest potential.
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