The youth deer hunting results, coupled with a significant uptick in the archery take last weekend, surprised the Ohio Division of Wildlife.
When gun week opens before sunrise Monday, straight-shooting deer hunters aren’t likely to have trouble fixing sights on quarry if the youth gun weekend provides any guide.
The likely reason for peak returns, he said, was pent-up demand and a consequent large number of deer still standing. Evidence of whitetail abundance, at least in some locations, showed up in the number of youths that took multiple deer, including more than 50 hunters who checked three. The gun week take, which not long ago routinely pushed north of 100,000, in recent years has averaged in the 65,000-70,000 range for a variety of reasons. Those include fewer deer than in the Ohio heyday, fewer places to hunt, a declining hunter population and the embrace of bow hunting, particularly crossbow use.
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