The state Game and Fish Department says North Dakota hunters killed some 100,000 deer during the 2007 hunting season.

The department says the overall hunter success rate was about 74 percent. Wildlife Division chief Randy Kreil says that's a high rate, but he says the state still has plenty of deer.

Kreil says the number of licenses this year likely will stay about the same, to try to reduce the deer population further.

The Game and Fish Department allocated 148,550 deer gun licenses in 2007.

- Associated Press