11/12/2025
Just a little update on the season
🦌 NEWS: Ohio’s Deer Checked through First Six Weekends of Bowhunting
🏹 Archery hunters have checked 46,359 white-tailed deer through Sunday, Nov. 2, which includes the first six weekends of bowhunting. The 2025-26 statewide archery season began on Saturday, Sept. 27 and continues through Sunday, Feb. 1, 2026.
💥 Deer taken this year include 22,205 antlered deer and 24,154 antlerless deer, a category which includes does and button bucks. The average bow harvest through the first weekend of November over the last three years is 49,409 deer. Last year, hunters reported 48,306 deer checked over the same period.
📈 Ohio’s top 10 counties for deer checked through Sunday, Nov. 2:
1️⃣ Coshocton (1,829)
2️⃣ Tuscarawas (1,600)
3️⃣ Ashtabula (1,561)
4️⃣ Trumbull (1,475)
5️⃣ Holmes (1,442)
6️⃣ Knox (1,302)
7️⃣ Licking (1,186)
8️⃣ Columbiana (1,111)
9️⃣ Carroll (1,095)
🔟 Muskingum (1,087)
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