Ohio deer hunters are making record weekly laps in the number of animals they are taking.
With only a few exceptions in a handful of west-central counties within the state’s chronic wasting disease surveillance area that included an early two-day gun hunt, the totals are especially remarkable given that the animals were taken by archery tackle.
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