Ohio's 2005 Deer Season off to a Great Start

[Taxi Mike]

Can you believe a deer like this can still be found in a state with 531 deer ranches, (555 game ranches,)

and with 144,000 crossbow hunters?????
Ohio's 2005 Deer Season off to a Great Start

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During the first morning of Ohio’s 2005 deer archery season, Mike Rex of Athens, killed a buck that may score in the top 25 of Ohio’s Buckeye Big Buck Club.
The Ohio Buckeye Big Buck Club has recorded more than one-half of all its top 20 entries for both typical and non-typical deer during the last 10 years. Sixty percent of the non-typical and 57 percent of the record typical bucks have been taken since 1994.
Ohio is gaining fame as a trophy buck state. The famous 39-point Beatty Buck was taken in Greene County in the fall of 2000. With a rack score of 304 6/8, it stands as the world's largest non-typical white-tailed deer ever taken by an archer. A white-tailed deer killed last fall in Warren County, known as the Jerman buck, became an Ohio record with a score of 201 1/8. These two bucks and many other trophy bucks have focused national attention from the hunting community on the Buckeye state.
"Ohio has a well-earned reputation as a top state for trophy deer," said Steven A. Gray, chief of the ODNR Division of Wildlife.
"Our deer management program is designed to manage for trophy-sized bucks while controlling the state population through hunting of deer."
The Athens County buck has 17 scorable points and was green-scored in the mid to high 220-inch range (non-typical). Mike is a past president of the Buckeye Big Buck Club and this will be his eighth entry in the trophy deer-scoring club.

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Amazing isn't it....contrary to what Jim Strader has been preaching on his show, Ohio has gone back ahead of Ky. since the last book has been published. The main reason is that they now allow Sunday hunting(since 2002). This is more evidence that oppurtunity will continue to expand in spite of a liberal crossbow season. folks in Ohio love the crossbow season, and so does their DNR.

[skin_dog1]

BS aside, thats a great deer! I can't get over the brow tines. The left one looks like it's 14"! They are indeed a state to be reckoned with, regardless of their game laws. I'd say all the outfitters in IL have pushed the big deer into OH! (WBBP, thats for you man!)

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Skinner, what BS are you referring too???? Nothing posted above your post is anything but the turth. When it's true, it's not BS.

[skin_dog1]

Skinner, what BS are you referring too???? Nothing posted above your post is anything but the turth. When it's true, it's not BS.Come on, this one was put here to draw a comment on crossbows, I'm reffering to that BS! Maybe I'll scrounge the net for a big one killed in KS or IA where they aren't allowed. Awesome deer and looks to have been harvested with a verticle bow though. Maybe when KY passes them for the entire season next year we'll have one of these behind every bush. I know crossbows and deer farms are the reason OH is producing the bigones!

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No relevance to big deer in Ks. or Ia., but there is to Ohio. Ohio doesn't produce big deer because of crossbows, but it hasn't hurt their chances any, that's for sure. Expanded Sunday hunting has help a lot since 2002. You can't argue that Ohio continues to produce even with a liberal crossbow season. Find fault with that, and then you can claim that this thread is BS.

[Taxi Mike]

Wildlife issues focus of Farm Bureau forum

Published on 09/09/2005

http://www.ofbf.org/ofbweb/ofbwebengine.nsf/$LookupFilesType/sportsmen.jpg/$File/sportsmen.jpgStimpert emphasizes the importance for farmer and wildlife groups to engage in constructive dialogue. Farmers, hunters and wildlife officials met Friday at the Buckeye Game Farm in Fairfield County for the Ohio Farm Bureau Sportsmen Leaders Forum.

The purpose of the meeting, in its 9th year, is to enhance communication between farmer and wildlife groups.

"I think wildlife issues are rising on the radar screen as far as farmers are concerned today," said Keith Stimpert, OFBF vice president of government affairs.
During the meeting participants heard information regarding Ohio's deer and geese populations, ATV issues and conservation programs included in the Farm Bill.
DOW officials expected hunters to harvest 200,000 to 225,000 deer in Ohio this year and said the Canada goose population in the state is at 100,000. The division's target population level is 60,000.

(Read more about the meeting in the September 26 edition of Buckeye Farm News.)

OFBF hosts wildlife forum
Published on 09/26/2005

http://www.ofbf.org/resource/92605_pg2_a.jpg/$file/92605_pg2_a.jpg Farmers, hunters and wildlife officials met to discuss wildlife management, ATV issues and the 2007 Farm Bill during the 9th annual Farm Bureau Sportsmen Leaders Forum.

"Hunting and fishing is a big business in Ohio," Steve Gray, chief of the Ohio Division of Wildlife, said of the $1 billion industry. When you include all wildlife recreation, that figure increases to $3 billion, he said.
The Division of Wildlife expects hunters to take 200,000 to 225,000 deer this season. However, farmers who have had their crops decimated by deer expressed concern that not enough is being done to control the animal's population.

Dave Risley, wildlife management administrator for the Division of Wildlife, said the agency wants to work with farmers to allow them to kill deer that feed on their crops.
"We are never going to throw up a road block for a farmer trying to solve a legitimate problem," he said.

Risley said the state's Canada geese population is at 100,000, well above the target level of 60,000. He said controlling urban geese is the biggest challenge because they are beyond the reach of hunters and predators.


"(Agriculture is) clearly in everyone's site, despite the fact that we're barely on the radar screen as far as federal expenditures go," Stimpert said.
The Division of Wildlife plans to form a coalition of agriculture and wildlife groups to address the conservation title in the Farm Bill.
"There's going to be some conflicting ideas on where we want the conservation title to go, but I'm sure we're going to reach a consensus on a lot of things," said Luke Miller, who is heading up the coalition for the division.
Stimpert emphasized the importance of the meeting, saying that he expects wildlife issues to have more of an impact on farmers in the future.
"I think we're all looking for a state where we're working together to build a better environment for hunters and a better environment for farmers," he said.


Caption: Division of Wildlife Chief Steve Gray gives OFBF Vice President of Government Affairs a few tips during an archery demonstration.

[Taxi Mike]

Kansas models conservation strategy
By Gale Norton
Special to The Wichita Eagle

Dating back to Teddy Roosevelt, the conservation of our nation's natural heritage has been a partnership between the American people and their government. This is why the Bush administration is making what we call the "four C's" -- consultation, cooperation and communication, all in the service of conservation -- the cornerstone of our efforts to conserve our wildlife and its habitat for future generations of Americans to cherish and enjoy.

If you were going to try to find a place where the four C's are already working, Kansas would be a good place to start. Working hand in hand with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Kansas Livestock Association, the Kansas Farm Bureau and the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks have developed innovative programs that have tapped into the biggest conservation resource we have -- the people who live on, work on and, yes, love the land.