Fall is here and that means it can be more dangerous for drivers on the roads because of Minnesota's population of more than one million deer.

State officials say the animals are moving around because it's deer breeding season and while crops are being harvested.

An Excelsior man found what equates to gold for deer hunters.  The biggest antlers ever found in the state of Minnesota. 

Jay Miller found the 12 point antlers February 9 and 10 near Excelsior.  

"I was watching that deer for a month," said Miller.  He said he first saw the buck with one of it's antlers missing and decided it was time to go looking.

 The Minnesota DNR says ideal hunting weather during the opening weekend of Minnesota’s firearms deer season helped hunters harvest 207,000 deer during the 2010 season.

This is an 8 percent increase from the 2009 harvest of 194,186 and the 13th largest harvest on record.