Ohio reduces deer hunting limits in several counties for 2025-26 season
The Ohio Wildlife Council approved new white-tailed deer hunting limits in Athens, Meigs, Morgan, and Washington counties for the remainder of the 2025-26 season.
DEER LIMIT CHANGE
- Thread starter TinyTucky
- Start date
must be pretty bad if they actually did something in season. That must be where all my booners went 
I wish this was in effect Day 1, but am pleased to see it got done. Kudos to all involved in getting this responsive measure through.
60-70% conservatively across the landscape. Before the season even started, just the reported cases of EHD in Athens, Meigs, and Washington was equal to 60+% of our average annual harvest. This was truly a dieoff of "biblical proportions" as a wise man predicted early in the process.
First number is 2025, number is parentheses is last 3 years average. This is through 11/2.
Athens 142 (591)
76%
Meigs 203 (622)67.4%
Morgan 170 (567)70.1%
Washington 91 (625)85.5%
Athens 142 (591)
76%Meigs 203 (622)
67.4%Morgan 170 (567)
70.1%Washington 91 (625)
85.5%
Being down here for the weekend what i noticed other than the terrible weather is how many acorns are on the ground around every oak i have passed. It was a great year for white oaks by me or there’s just no deer to eat them. i may have to change plans for youth gun and regular gun.
Those numbers are really depressing
I have been watching and the larger percentage of deer checked in are bucks for those counties, makes me think hunters were already not shooting doe’s before the limits changed
I have been watching and the larger percentage of deer checked in are bucks for those counties, makes me think hunters were already not shooting doe’s before the limits changed