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Bets on how much the deer gun harvest will be next week?

Stressless

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Plain: The kill went up by well over 10% from last year (totals for the 7 day gun hunting week, 2019 and 2020 are posted above) even with fairly bad weather on opening day this year. That's a big deal in the DRN.
 

Buckkillr

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Surprising with the bad WX Mon - the snow must have made up for it!

The harvest total during the traditional statewide gun season was 63,567 deer, 4.6% less than the three-year average in 2019.

Ohio's hunters killed 71,650 white-tailed deer during the annual gun hunting week that ended Sunday, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources Division of Wildlife.
Well I don't know where they were doing the killing cause it sure wasn't around me. I heard 2 shots and never seen a single person wearing orange while driving
 
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Bowkills

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Has anyone heard any hunters complaints about deer population? Aside from ehd counties I haven't heard anyone bitching about numbers. Farmers are starting to gripe again around here. I'm just hoping we stay the course. Seems like we are coming back to reasonable numbers for everyone to agree on....for now.
 
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brock ratcliff

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Opening day is not the big kill day anymore. Especially when it is a bad weather day. I saw far more people out on Saturday than I did all week long.

I suspect the pandemic and work from home status of many may have aided in the numbers increase. Driving through any metro area at rush hour these days is far less aggravating than it was a year ago.
 

giles

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I hate my county! Southern half is top notch, my half sucks ass. Still 3 deer limit here but a mile in almost any direction is a 1 deer County. Which makes it so you can't buy a deer track at my place.
 

Buckkillr

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I hate my county! Southern half is top notch, my half sucks ass. Still 3 deer limit here but a mile in almost any direction is a 1 deer County. Which makes it so you can't buy a deer track at my place.
Where you at? I was thinking you was in Athens for some reason
 

Buckkillr

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Highland. This county needs split and would be one that would greatly benefit if they ever actually change management areas by habitat. They've talked about it for years.

Do you hunt athens occasionally?
South west ohio ive never hunter, we fished down that way alot but that's about it
 
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