Ohio's Youth Season Helping Ohio’s youth firearm deer-hunting season was a success again this year with 15,000 youths heading afield, bagging a record 8,722 deer, reports the Toledo Blade. The annual youth season has clearly helped grow youth hunting ranks annually in the state, the Ohio Division of Wildlife said, with numbers rising from 34,459 in 2002 to 39,491 in 2003 and 41,562 in 2004. The division has also taken an active role in the Families Afield effort. Ohio bill HB 296, which will create an apprentice hunting license in the state, has passed the Ohio House Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee and is headed to the House floor for a vote.