Wild turkeys were extirpated in Ohio by 1904 and were reintroduced in the 1950s by the ODNR Division of Wildlife. That’s down from 2,168 bagged during the 2016 fall hunting season. Hunters harvested 1,053 wild turkeys during Ohio’s 2017 fall wild turkey season, open in 67 counties including 11 open for the autumn hunting opportunity for the first time. Here’s a list of all white-tailed deer checked by hunters during the weeklong 2017 deer-gun hunting season. Past year’s harvest summaries and weekly updated harvest reports can be found at /deerharvest. 6-9 and archery season remains open through Sunday, Feb. Hunters checked 72,814 white-tailed deer during Ohio’s 2017 weeklong deer-gun hunting season, up from 66,758 deer over last year’s one-week firearms season. The fields and woods I used to drive with by deer hunting friends are now housing sub-divisions - albeit still overrun with “urbanized” deer - resulting in that annual group of gun week hunters drifting apart. Realizing that it takes a team effort to make a deer drive work is cause for group celebration and yes, we used to celebrate.Īs the recent gun week waned I found myself wondering where I might join a party of hunters for one final push. And when such a joint efforts results in a deer falling to a participant, it’s a credit to everyone involved. I first learned to hunt deer on drives, and still miss the camaraderie a “push” brings to party of hunters, whether successful or not. I’m sorry to hear that deer drives are waning as a gun week tactic. In addition to more whitetail hunters being “tagged out” by the time gun season arrives, more firearms hunters are taking advantage of the range and accuracy of in-line muzzleloaders and rifles that shoot straight-walled cartridges, and less dependent upon drives to push deer into slug range when firearms may be used. He added that not only is hunter participation overall down during deer gun week, but people aren’t organizing drives like they used to. More deer are harvested before the gun season that ever before.” “Deer hunter habits have changed considerably with advent of highly effective, easy-to-use archery gear.
Mike Tonkovich, the Ohio Division of Wildlife’s (ODOW) deer program specialist as my guest on the “Buckeye Sportsman” radio show recently. “Drives are not as popular as they were even as recently as a decade ago,” said Dr. Having taken bucks with archery gear earlier in the fall during the past several seasons, it has been several years since I was in the field for the firearms opportunity. That’s when, traditionally, hunters often light up forest and field with gunfire as they organize drives to push deer from the places the whitetails have sought refuge since the barrage began earlier in the week. The woods were relatively quiet in my hunting areas during deer gun week last month, especially during the final weekend.
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