NJDEP Division of Fish & Wildlife - Garden State Deer Classic

Garden State Deer Classic

List of Winners, 2018 Deer Classic (pdf, 125kb)
All-time Top 10 List Updated 1/18/18

The annual Garden State Deer Classic features outstanding white-tailed deer harvested during the previous year's hunting seasons and recognizes the hunters who took them. The deer had been entered in the Outstanding White-tailed Deer Program.

The Deer Classic is held at the Garden State Outdoor Sports Show at the New Jersey Convention & Expo Center in Edison. The 2018 show and Deer Classic was held Thursday through Sunday, January 11–14, 2018 - an event ideal for sportsmen and sportswomen and for exhibitors, drawing 40,000 sporting enthusiasts.
The Deer Classic is jointly sponsored by the NJDEP Division of Fish and Wildlife, the New Jersey State Federation of Sportsmen's Clubs, United Bowhunters of New Jersey, the New Jersey Outdoor Alliance Conservation Foundation and the Garden State Outdoor Sports Show.
A highlight of the Classic each year is a stunning display featuring some of New Jersey's largest bucks. The 2018 event culminated in an awards ceremony on Sunday, January 14.

2018 Deer Classic winners assemble with their deer.
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As part of the Deer Classic, division biologists are present the entire time to answer questions and discuss management strategies, goals and issues. Hunting and fishing equipment manufacturers' pro-staffers, division biologists and others also conduct seminars on various topics.

For seminar information please visit the Garden State Outdoor Sports Show website.

Outstanding Deer Program and All-time Winners Lists