If early deer season returns are any indication, this year’s deer gun hunt the week following Thanksgiving should go off with a bang.
Quite literally, it seems. Gun season for deer in Ohio will run from Nov. 30 through Dec. 6 with another weekend of gun hunting available Dec. 19-20. At the time of this writing on Oct. 21, Ohio’s bowhunters had already killed more than 22,000 whitetails, says Clint McCoy, the ODNR Division of Wildlife’s deer program administrator.
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