Ohio’s firearms deer hunters no doubt are hoping they’ll
fare better starting Monday than their youthful counter parts did this past
weekend.
The state’s two-day youth-only firearms deer-hunting season
shot 6,645 animals Nov. 23 and 24. That figure is way off the 2012 season tally
of 9,178 deer.
Of Ohio’s 88 counties, gains were posted for only six
counties with just two counties reporting back-to-back identical harvests by
youths.
Officials with the Ohio Department of Natural Resources and
its offspring - the Ohio Division of Wildlife – are crediting (or blaming being
the better word) last weekend’s blustery weather as the main culprit for the
serious drop.
Still, others are saying that the success of the two-day
antlerless-only, muzzle-loading-only season in October put a serious hurt on
does and fawns which often are the target of young hunters during their gun
season.
Regardless, on Monday an estimated 420,000 men, women and
kids will venture into the woods in search of their own deer. Legal game for the general firearms deer-hunting season will
be antlered as well as antlerless deer.
Projections by Wildlife Division biologists and other agency officials suggest a harvest during the seven-day gun
season of 80,000 to 90,000 deer.
New for this season will be the allowance of hunting deer
until one-half hour after sunset, a radical change from previous gun seasons
when hunters had to quit at legal sunset.
A list of all white-tailed deer checked by youth hunters using a shotgun, muzzle-loader or handgun during the 2013 youth deer-gun hunting season is shown. The first number following the county’s name shows the harvest numbers for 2013, and the 2012 numbers are in parentheses:
Adams: 148 (178); Allen: 35 (40); Ashland:
122 (152); Ashtabula: 112 (166); Athens: 127 (161); Auglaize: 40 (56); Belmont:
165 (234); Brown: 91 (133); Butler: 28 (59); Carroll: 161 (188); Champaign: 49
(69); Clark: 18 (30); Clermont: 66 (93); Clinton: 37 (61); Columbiana: 120
(147); Coshocton: 248 (295); Crawford: 37 (55); Cuyahoga: 1 (1); Darke: 23
(65); Defiance: 76 (102); Delaware: 49 (42); Erie: 19 (24); Fairfield: 69
(114); Fayette: 20 (20); Franklin: 7 (18); Fulton: 34 (54); Gallia: 113 (142);
Geauga: 38 (65); Greene: 9 (28); Guernsey: 183 (232); Hamilton: 23 (20);
Hancock: 46 (71); Hardin: 44 (43); Harrison: 165 (225); Henry: 32 (38);
Highland: 114 (168); Hocking: 128 (157); Holmes: 196 (235); Huron: 85 (136);
Jackson: 98 (168); Jefferson: 156 (176); Knox: 189 (247); Lake: 8 (19);
Lawrence: 95 (148); Licking: 189 (262); Logan: 79 (121); Lorain: 49 (63);
Lucas: 11 (14); Madison: 25 (21); Mahoning: 62 (76); Marion: 23 (30); Medina:
42 (74); Meigs: 110 (156); Mercer: 31 (53); Miami: 23 (35); Monroe: 90 (153);
Montgomery: 13 (14); Morgan: 118 (165); Morrow: 56 (66); Muskingum: 212 (280);
Noble: 105 (161); Ottawa: 10 (21); Paulding: 43 (69); Perry: 101 (143);
Pickaway: 28 (47); Pike: 83 (89); Portage: 31 (122); Preble: 36 (46); Putnam:
38 (78); Richland: 110 (141); Ross: 136 (171); Sandusky: 28 (27); Scioto: 116
(103); Seneca: 57 (99); Shelby: 57 (88); Stark: 81 (100); Summit: 11 (19);
Trumbull: 72 (109); Tuscarawas: 220 (317); Union: 29 (37); Van Wert: 29 (36);
Vinton: 98 (126); Warren: 26 (52); Washington: 140 (196); Wayne: 57 (121);
Williams: 66 (83); Wood: 30 (39); Wyandot: 50 (80). Total:
6,645 (9,178).
- Jeffrey L. Frischkorn
JFrischk@Ameritech.net
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