2024 Deer Season Ohio. During the 2024 muzzleloader season, hunters took 3,327 antlered deer (26% of deer taken), 7,797 does (62%), 1,284 button bucks (10%), and 304 (2%) bucks. Waterfowl hunting is allowed during the youth deer gun season, deer gun season, and deer muzzleloader season.
Hunters may combine individual county harvests to reach the statewide limit. The deer’s appetite for residents’.