Ohio’s to-date
deer kill appears to have suffered at the hands of unseasonably warm
and dry weather and maybe an abundant mast crop in some locations
that’s kept animals away from game feeders stuffed with corn.
The to-date deer
kill count stands at 18,123 animals, including 5,824 antlered
animals, almost exclusively, bucks.
By comparison, the
close 2016 approximation date of October 25th was a then
to-date deer kill of 21,336 animals. Contained within this number
were 6,948 antlered animals.
Thus, this
deer-hunting season to-date kill is off by more than 15 percent,
though a lot of hunting remains ahead for both archery and gun Ohio
sportsmen and sportswomen.
Current leaders with
their to-date numbers (and 2016 proximate to-date figures in
parenthesis) are Ashtabula – 650 (641); Trumbull -620 (682);
Coshocton – 579 (666); Licking – 527 (643); Tuscarawas – 488
(474); Holmes – 442 (492); Knox – 406 (515); Richland – 390
(431); Muskingum – 363 (421); Clermont – 341 (364).
For Northeast Ohio,
the comparable figures – excluding Ashtabula and Trumbull counties
– are Lake – 173 (201); Cuyahoga – 277 (294); Lorain – 317
(445) ; Erie – 127 (also 127); Geauga – 254 (323); Medina – 263
(318); Summit – 291 (326).
Only seven of Ohio’s
88 counties have posted to-date gains when placed alongside their
respective 2016 to-date numbers. Besides Ashtabula and Tuscarawas
counties, the others are Fayette – 31 (26) (Fayette is also the
to-date caboose in the number of deer taken to-date during the
2017-2018 season) ; Henry – 69 (67); Madison – 55 (50); Miami –
129 (127); Union – 113 (105).
And one – Erie
County – has identical 2016 and 2017 to-date numbers, 127.
- Jeffrey L. Frischkorn
JFrischk@Ameritech.net
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