ERC721: Mint to owner upon deployment

Smart Contracts
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I am trying to mint 100 pieces of an NFT collection directly to the deployer wallet. I am using hardhat and when I deploy it I run into a "exceeds block gas limit" error. Is there a different approach I can follow to reach my end goal?

    constructor(
        string memory _name,
        string memory _symbol,
        string memory _initBaseURI,
        string memory _initNotRevealedUri
    ) ERC721(_name, _symbol) {
        setBaseURI(_initBaseURI);
        setNotRevealedURI(_initNotRevealedUri);
        mintOwner();
    }

    function mintOwner() internal {
        for (uint8 i = 1; i <= 100; i++) {
            _safeMint(msg.sender, i);
        }
    }