 This trustee August is hotter than ever at Appalachian Wireless, as they are slashing all normal contract pricing on all smartphones by 50% when you sign up for service. Better service, bigger saving, serving you for the last 25 years at Appalachian Wireless. While many people look forward to Labor Day weekend as the last big weekend on the lake or time for the family cookout to bow hunters in Kentucky, it's more like Christmas. The first weekend in September is always archery season comes in, and it lasts until the middle of January, so if you're a hunter, it's that time of year. Hunters are busy buying their hunting licenses and fine-tuning their equipment, but officials with the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife want them to know there have been some changes this year to the state's telecheck system. Once you harvest an animal, you must telecheck your game to get a confirmation number. This is the proof that you harvested this deer and you have checked it in if a conservation officer were to check you. But this year, anyone who has harvested a buck will be asked to answer a few more questions about his antlers when he or she calls it in. The biologists want to know the spread of the animal, whether it's greater or less than 11 inches. How many scoreable points that your animal had, and when they say that they want a measurement of over one inch antler? Kentucky has a strict one buck limit per hunter, but several does may be harvested depending on what part of the state you are hunting. And with more and more people now bow hunting, statewide harvest totals are on the rise. Last year, it was over 155,000 deer taken in the state of Kentucky, which was a record harvest year. Her biologists, they estimate the population being over 800,000 deer. For more information on Kentucky hunting regulations, you can visit the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife website or pick up a free fall hunting guide at stores where hunting licenses are sold. Reporting in Pikeville for EKB News, I'm Shannon Deskins.