Codey Redd was staked out on the ground last December when he encountered a giant 18-point buck he'd been chasing for the better part of four deer seasons. Though he'd captured trail cam photos over ...

Ohio’s deer season, which began in leafy September, ended with the Feb. 2 close of archery hunting. A series of successful firearms seasons came and went along the way. By most measures, whitetail ...

It’s easy to think that the grass is greener somewhere other than Ohio. We can’t spot an elk up a mountain in Ohio. Or land a giant tarpon after a short boat ride. But when it comes to whitetail deer, ...

Robert Flannery had never seen the giant Ohio buck he shot Nov. 4 until that afternoon, when he got a notification from one of his cellular trail cams. Flannery, 52, owns the property where he hunts ...

While the season deer count in four typically productive southeastern counties was down Nov. 25 by several thousand from a ...

What it’s meant to restrain remains biologically unrestrainable, but Ohio's Deer Surveillance Area (DSA) apparently will expand. The trigger is chronic wasting disease (CWD), a deer-killing malady.

Something suggested recently, though without noticeable harm, merits a closer look after the Ohio Division of Wildlife reported results through the first six weekends of the bow season. The fact that ...

Chronic Wasting Disease infected more than 20 deer in Ohio this past hunting season. Ohio deer are testing positive for Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD), a neurological disease that is always fatal to ...

Ohio's 2024-25 deer season saw its fourth-highest ever deer count at 238,137, with a record-high hunter success rate of 46.2%. Despite high hunter success rates, the deer herd continues to grow, ...