Ohio could be heading for a whitetail take totaling more than 200,000. That hasn’t happened since 218,910 deer were checked during the 2012-13 season.
The whittling away at Ohio’s deer herd reached its peak for the year, as has been the custom, during the seven-day gun season that ended shortly after sunset last Sunday.
Hunters using rifles checked 55% of the deer taken during gun week. Shotguns took 38% of the total, muzzleloaders about 5%, and bows and handguns about 1% each. Four counties hit hard during the summer and fall by outbreaks of deadly epizootic hemorrhagic disease had significant declines in harvest during gun week. In southwestern Ohio, Butler County ended down 23%, Hamilton fell 21% and Warren declined 11%. In southeastern Ohio, the Vinton County take slipped 12%.
Only Madison County in central Ohio posted lower numbers than a year ago. Pickaway, which was made a two-deer county this year after being a one-deer county a season ago, increased its gun-week take by 22% from the 2021 total of 263.Next up on the deer-hunting calendar is the gun weekend set Dec. 17-18. Muzzleloader season runs Jan. 7-10. The archery hunt concludes in early February.
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