Outdoornews January 6, 2021 (Photo courtesy of Bob “Greenie” Grewell) Columbus — The final gun hunt of the 2020-2021 deer season – muzzleloader – fizzled a little, but the overall deer harvest numbers remain on pace for an above average season, Ohio’s management authorities say. Ohio’s white-tailed deer hunters completed the 2021 muzzleloader season with 9,708 deer checked from Saturday, Jan. 2 to Tuesday, Jan. 5, according to the Ohio DNR (ODNR) Division of Wildlife. Over the last three years, an average of 12,695 deer were taken during the same four-day period. During the weeklong and extra weekend of deer-gun season, 86,853 deer were checked by Ohio hunters. In total, 102,672 deer were harvested with a gun, including muzzleloaders, during the 2020-2021 gun hunting seasons. Over the last three years, hunters harvested an average of 90,722 deer during the three gun hunting seasons.