There are lots of reasons why hunters come up short during deer season, including time and missed shots.

Ohio hunters checked 87,192 white-tailed deer during the weeklong gun season that concluded Sunday, Dec. 8. Here's a deeper look at the numbers.

There may still be a month or more of deer hunting opportunity still ahead in your state, but the rut is over. Glimpses of a second phase are sporadically apparent across the Midwest, but for the remaining buck,

During the deer gun week, hunters checked 28,606 antlered deer (33% of the total reported) and 58,586 antlerless deer (67%). Antlerless deer includes does and button bucks. Ohio hunters checked 87,192 deer during the weeklong gun season that concluded on Sunday,

There may still be a month or more of deer hunting opportunity still ahead in your state, but the rut is over. Glimpses of a second phase are sporadically apparent across the Midwest, but for the remaining bucks,

Now-retired state wildlife biologist David Moreland is the former chief of the state's Wildlife Division and Deer Study leader and knows now is the time for most of south Louisiana hunters to be in the woods.

Management plans seem to be on track, hunters were safe and programs developed to recruit hunters seems to be working.

Wisconsin's nine-day gun deer hunt is over, but there are still additional harvest opportunities in December and January.

Wisconsin gun hunters harvested nearly 190,000 deer during the gun hunting season, up 5.2% from the year before. Hunters harvested 89,737 antlered deer and 99,835 antlerless during the season, which ran from Nov.

With the 2023-24 legislative session ending Dec. 31, Sunday hunting goes back to the drawing board. If you are successful bagging a deer during gun season, consider sharing some of your venison with the needy.