{"id":162918,"date":"2023-02-09T04:34:05","date_gmt":"2023-02-09T09:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=162918"},"modified":"2023-02-09T04:35:13","modified_gmt":"2023-02-09T09:35:13","slug":"ohio-deer-harvest-up-in-2022-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2023\/02\/09\/ohio-deer-harvest-up-in-2022-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Ohio deer harvest up in 2022-2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>COLUMBUS &#8212; Ohio\u2019s 2022-23 white-tailed deer hunting season concluded Sunday, February 5, with 210,977 deer checked, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) Division of Wildlife. The final total represents all deer harvested during archery, gun, muzzleloader, and youth hunting seasons since September 10, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOhio is consistently one of the nation\u2019s best states for deer hunting, and this season reaffirmed that status,\u201d said Division of Wildlife Chief Kendra Wecker. \u201cOhio hunters have enjoyed a long season with many chances to get afield. This is the first time since 2012-13 that the number of deer taken surpassed 200,000.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Ohio\u2019s statewide deer harvest, by year:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"350\" height=\"417\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/buck-standing-near-tree-with-foreground-grasses_sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-162919\"\/><figcaption>Deer harvest totals were up for the most recent hunting season. <em>ODNR photo<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>2022-23: 210,977<br>2021-22: 196,988<br>3-year average (2019-2021): 193,058<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Ohio\u2019s 2022-23 statewide deer harvest, by individual season:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Archery: 99,742<br>Weeklong and two-day gun seasons: 87,095<br>Four-day muzzleloader season: 13,617<br>Two-day youth season: 9,515<br>Controlled firearm hunts: 1,008<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Top 10 counties for 2022-23 deer harvest:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Coshocton (7,590). Last season, Coshocton County also led the state with 7,144 deer checked.<br>Tuscarawas (7,028)<br>Muskingum (5,982)<br>Ashtabula (5,592)<br>Knox (5,477)<br>Licking (5,467)<br>Holmes (5,183)<br>Guernsey (5,073)<br>Carroll (4,866)<br>Trumbull (4,251)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Most popular hunting implements:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Crossbow: 71,701 (34%)<br>Straight-walled cartridge rifle: 56,437 (26%)<br>Shotgun: 36,398 (17%)<br>Vertical Bow: 28,041 (13%)<br>Muzzleloader: 17,854 (9%)<br>Handgun: 546 (1%)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Deer harvest, by type:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bucks: 86,645; 41% of the total<br>Does: 101,141; 48%<br>Button bucks: 19,851; 9%<br>Bucks with shed antlers and bucks with antlers less than 3 inches: 3,340; 2%<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Submitted information COLUMBUS &#8212; Ohio\u2019s 2022-23 white-tailed deer hunting season concluded Sunday, February 5, with 210,977 deer checked, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) Division of Wildlife. The final total represents all deer harvested during archery, gun, muzzleloader, and youth hunting seasons since September 10, 2022. \u201cOhio is consistently one of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-04 09:11:39","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162918"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":162930,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162918\/revisions\/162930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}