The first Monday after Thanksgiving in Ohio and Pennsylvania each year means the first day of deer-gun season.
About 420,000 hunters are expected to take to the woods in the Buckeye State alone. Officials believe hunters will bag as many as 125,000 deer during this year's season.
A check-in station in Trumbull County was busy Monday with hunters bringing in their deer.
The Ohio Department of Wildlife said that the yearly harvest is important in controlling the deer population.
"The rise of insurance costs and things like that, you want to try to keep deer, vehicle accidents, and damage to farmers crops and stuff lower," said Allen Lea, of the Ohio Division of Wildlife. "The deer that hunters harvest in Ohio go a good distance toward keeping those numbers down."
Ohio is using deer season as a way to help feed the less fortunate in the state. Last year, hunters donated over 1,000 deer as part of the Farmers and Hunters Feeding the Hungry program.
That venison created 220,00 meals in Ohio.
Deer season lasts for one week in Ohio with a bonus weekend on Dec. 19 and 20.
