Ohio's recent deer hunting trends show a movement from muzzleloaders to bows. Will that trend continue in 2026?

COLUMBUS — With the close of the week-long gun season on Sunday, Ohio hunters checked 87,192 white-tailed deer during the 2024 season, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources Division of ...

Ohio’s gun week for whitetails provided not only a surprise but something nearer astonishment. Hunters checked 87,192 deer between opening day, Dec. 2, and its close last Sunday, the most since 90,282 ...

The top 10 counties for deer taken during the gun season were: 1. Coshocton, 3,037 2. Ashtabula, 3,031 3. Tuscarawas, 2,764 4 ...

Ohio deer hunters this week had their best opening day of gun season in 12 years. Hunters across the Buckeye State checked 26,667 white-tailed deer on Monday, the first day of the weeklong gun season, ...

Ohio’s deer season, which began in leafy September, ended with the Feb. 2 close of archery hunting. A series of successful firearms seasons came and went along the way. By most measures, whitetail ...

Hunters in Ohio checked 15,835 white-tailed deer during the gun-hunting weekend Saturday, Dec. 20 and Sunday, Dec. 21, the ...

COLUMBUS — Ohio hunters checked 15,835 white-tailed deer during the state’s two-day gun hunting weekend held Dec. 20–21, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources Division of Wildlife. The ...

Two men from Mississippi have been ordered to pay more than $15,000 in restitution after pleading guilty to charges related ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – A man arrested for illegally shooting and taking possession of a single white-tailed deer was given a prison sentence and issued the largest fine in such a case in Ohio’s ...

WILMINGTON, Ohio (WANE) — A judge sentenced an Ohio man who played a role in poaching an 18-point white-tailed deer in 2023 to 90 days in prison, according to the Ohio Attorney General’s Office.

Chronic Wasting Disease infected more than 20 deer in Ohio this past hunting season. Ohio deer are testing positive for Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD), a neurological disease that is always fatal to ...