Definitely down in my neck of the woods, the last 3 years I have seen less and less deer.
Go to http://www.dnr.state.oh.us/LinkClick...3d&tabid=24154
I guess ODNR got what they wanted after the doe slaughter they allowed the last few years. Total harvest down 35% statewide, wow. 44% in Jackson County.
"...the deepest, most permanent features of all great moments outside are the names, faces, descriptions, and emotions. The antlers on the wall...well, they're just bones affixed to boards. But what they represent, however, is flesh and blood - fathers and sons, friends spending time with friends and the the seasons of life when the people we love were still with us. These old antlers on the wall...well, take a seat, my friend, and I'll tell you all about them." -Rev. Zeke Pipher
Definitely down in my neck of the woods, the last 3 years I have seen less and less deer.
Couldn't agree more. Just in my travels I have noticed that the deer are just not around in the normal places.
I have strong opinions about God, Guns, Guitars and Harley Davidsons, I can remain open minded about everything else.
Member of Pope & Young, and Buckeye Big Buck Club.
Member of the Bloody Blazers, 2011-2012 team challenge winners.
well out of about 25 good archery hunetrs I know in my area, not a one tagged a buck this archery season, granted many passed on smaller bucks, but normally a few tag out
as I am still a firm believer that deer numbers cannot be based on large usints or county wide surveys
as it to me is just simple, where there is GOOD food and cover, there is lots of deer, places with poor food and cover, there are few if any anymore
where I hunt is a prime example
go one mile in any direction of me, and you will be hard pressed to find a deer, yet I have tons, BUT I plant lots of good food
and the rest of the land about me is mature forest with little or no browse, due to deer ate all they could reach, no one is doing any timbering, and as such, there is no real food, and no real reason for a deer to be there
like they build it and they will come, no truer words in whiteltail deer , if you have land to build a food plot on, do that and you will have deer, maybe not huge bucks, but yoyu will have deer yr after yr(as long as you don't go kil,l happy there that is)
in my unit they lowered doe tags by 10,000, thats a huge drop in amount of tags, based on how few sighting there are on public lands, where again, nothing is being done to improve habitat for deer
on private lands and farms, the farmers are in kill mode trying to reduce numbers in same unit, due to severe crop damage
I know a few farmers that refuse to even plant in some places due to so many deer, they cannot make any money planting a crop there!
yet again, they dropped amount of tags in same unit based on surveys of mostly public land hunters?
der numbers are sure donw in places but also super high in others, making me say again, units and county hunting zones need to be smaller in size to get better more accurate data!
At my land I have not taken a deer yet seen very few and only a few small bucks.
I normally take a doe by now and the week I take off in November I get a buck very few seen.
Sad DNR allows poaching now with the new check in..
I want to die like my father, peacefully in his sleep, not screaming and terrified, like his passengers.
Why are the total numbers so much lower than the archery numbers?
Like in Adams County. Archery season antlered kill was down .14% and antlerless down 4.12%. But when you add gun/muzzleloader numbers in, those percentages rise to 30% and 20%.
The numbers used in the calculations are from the first 60 days of the 2012 and 2013 seasons. Were there more "gun days" during the first 60 days last year?
Yes, 5 days of gun season were included in the 2012 numbers.
"...the deepest, most permanent features of all great moments outside are the names, faces, descriptions, and emotions. The antlers on the wall...well, they're just bones affixed to boards. But what they represent, however, is flesh and blood - fathers and sons, friends spending time with friends and the the seasons of life when the people we love were still with us. These old antlers on the wall...well, take a seat, my friend, and I'll tell you all about them." -Rev. Zeke Pipher
I find it strange that now the #'s are about the same as last year, after being down , and first day gun was down, also most people I talked to have seen less deer during all seasons, gun included, ?
well according to the lastest numbers the difference is now only 5 %, so things settled in I guess??
http://www.dnr.state.oh.us/Home/News...un-Season.aspx
I'm thinkin it's some pencil whippin on deer kill numbers myself.
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