I drove to Columbus this evening from meigs county. I got on the bypass around Lancaster at 5:10, from then until I couldn't see in more I saw tons of deer in the fields. I stopped counting at 50, it was nuts they were everywhere.
Deer out tonight
- Thread starter Clay Showalter
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Lots of deer in certain locations, most of the areas he was seeing them are locked up or in city limits with no hunting....
I wasn't trying to be an ass this time. Just makes my head spin sometimes when we have 10 threads on how deer hunting Ohio is on the decline then something like this pops up. I'm glad you got to see a bunch or deer.
This. 50 deer is a lot. But 50 out of 1,000 is not the same as 50 out of 10,000. What you saw is anecdotal and would have certainly been different in 1999, 1979 and 1909.
I was not saying the numbers were up at all, all I was saying was it was more deer than I have seen all year driving around Ohio. Which is not often
We see deer a lot on our road. The other night I expected to see several as I thought conditions were right and I didn't see a single deer. Last night I saw 11 in the mile it takes to get from the main road to my house. Almost the exact same conditions. Funny how some nights they just seem to have the itch to be out and about.
cspot
Member
In PA we are permitted to spotlight from a vehicle. We often make a quick loop around the country block which is a few miles. Some nights we may see 50 deer and some nights we would be lucky to see 5. Never can figure it out.
Joel
Senior Member
That's a good point. I wonder sometimes what makes them do that but haven't figured it out yet and maybe I never will.
PA Bandit
Junior Member
I remember back in the 90's when we used to see 50 in each field with larger fields usually having (2) seperate groups of 30+......now I am lucky if I see 20-30 a night in all the fields combined doing the same drive we used to....things have changed and although adapting has become necessary it still sure is depressing.