Posted: 2/10/2026 7:12:46 AM EDT
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Ohio’s 2025-26 deer checked, by individual season: Archery: 104,731 Weeklong gun season: 85,448 Two-day gun season: 15,835 Four-day muzzleloader season: 13,055 Two-day youth season: 9,759 Controlled firearm hunts: 3,314 Top 10 counties: Coshocton: 8,527 (Coshocton County has led Ohio in the number of deer checked for 24 years in a row. Last season, hunters in Coshocton County tagged 8,196 deer.) Tuscarawas: 7,623 Ashtabula: 7,161 Knox: 6,704 Muskingum: 6,283 Carroll: 6,077 Licking: 5,770 Holmes: 5,717 Trumbull: 5,324 Columbiana: 5,245 Permit sales and use: Ohio hunters were issued 424,241 deer permits across all hunting seasons. The number of permits used to check deer are as follows: Deer management permits (30,532) Either-sex permits (138,677) Landowners checked 62,933 deer hunted on their own property (no permit required). Most popular hunting implements: Straight-walled cartridge rifle: 78,395 (34%) Crossbow: 77,938 (33%) Vertical bow: 29,845 (13%) Shotgun: 29,800 (13%) Muzzleloader: 15,602 (6%) Handgun: 562 (less than 1%) Deer checked: Does: 111,921 (48%) Antlered bucks: 95,998 (42%) Button bucks: 21,257 (9%) Bucks with shed antlers or antlers shorter than 3 inches: 2,966 (1%) License sales: Hunters from all 50 U.S. states purchased nonresident hunting licenses for use during the 2025-26 seasons, many of them for deer. States with the highest nonresident license sales were as follows: Pennsylvania (6,768) Michigan (4,426) North Carolina (2,999) New York (2,839) West Virginia (2,750) https://www.buckeyefirearms.org/ohio-odnr-division-wildlife-2025-26-deer-hunting-season-stats |
What is a democrat? Someone who wants everything you have, except for your job.
Politicians should wear uniforms like NASCAR drivers so we could see their corporate sponsors.
Politicians should wear uniforms like NASCAR drivers so we could see their corporate sponsors.
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Originally Posted By AJE: AJE 25-26 total: 0 https://i0.wp.com/media4.giphy.com/media/GW10shdM3oXok/giphy.gif No does? Were you trying for meat or horns? |
What is a democrat? Someone who wants everything you have, except for your job.
Politicians should wear uniforms like NASCAR drivers so we could see their corporate sponsors.
Politicians should wear uniforms like NASCAR drivers so we could see their corporate sponsors.
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Originally Posted By ZW17: No does? Were you trying for meat or horns? Originally Posted By ZW17: Originally Posted By AJE: AJE 25-26 total: 0 https://i0.wp.com/media4.giphy.com/media/GW10shdM3oXok/giphy.gif No does? Were you trying for meat or horns? I hit a buck with my bow but didn't recover it. I will normally take a doe but didn't try for one this year. I've shot five in the last three years, so I'm not lacking venison. |
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