This record does not carry a regulation the state has. kind: map — description: PAGE 7. The "2026-27 COUNTY BAG LIMIT MAP" - a map of all 88 Ohio counties, measured at 26.8% of the page, together with the five colour swatches of the 2026-27 BAG LIMITS panel that key it. **THE FIVE COUNTY BAG LIMIT ROWS PUBLISHED FROM THIS PAGE SAY WHAT EACH CLASS OF COUNTY ALLOWS AND THIS COMPILATION DOES NOT SAY WHICH CLASS ANY COUNTY IS IN.** That assignment exists in the map's colouring and nowhere else on the page: the county names are drawn as vector outlines, not text, so neither pypdf nor pdfplumber sees one of them - both read this page as the same 36 lines and 1,594 characters, in which no county name from the map appears, and the divergence check is therefore blind to the omission too. Worse than the Kentucky and Florida cases in one respect: TWO DEER COUNTY is printed twice with DIFFERENT rules - the dark blue class adds "No more than one deer may be antlerless" and the light blue class does not - so even a hunter who knew their county was a two-deer county could not tell from these rows which of the two applies.
This record does not carry a regulation the state has. kind: cross-references — description: PAGE 11, named by page 6 and not read here. The pointer beneath the season tables reads "See page 11 for more information about the DSA.", published above as a hunt_note. Page 11 is headed "DISEASE SURVEILLANCE AREA (DSA)" and carries deer regulation these rows do not: a MANDATORY SAMPLING requirement for deer harvested inside the DSA on named dates, and DEER CARCASS REGULATIONS restricting which parts may be moved out of a disease surveillance area. A hunter who may lawfully take a deer under the DSA rows published here is subject to requirements this compilation does not carry.
huntregs is not the law and is not an official edition of any state’s regulations: no state agency writes, reviews, publishes or approves it, and where a page here differs from the agency document it cites, the agency document is the regulation and this page is wrong.
It is an editorial compilation of state agency regulation documents: every row is carried verbatim out of one named document, cited by title, identified by the sha256 of the exact bytes we read, and printed beside the source lines it was read from.
What we do carry
rows verbatim — no row is summarised, and every field the source row carried is rendered, including the ones we have no column for;
each record’s own declaration of what it does not contain, printed in full and unedited, above the rows rather than under them;
our own withdrawals — dated, with the reason as written, and the state’s rows gone from every route while the withdrawal stands.
What we do not carry
the law itself. Every state page links the agency’s own document; that is the thing to read.
declared gaps. Where a record says regulation exists that it does not carry, that regulation is not here — it is named, in the record’s words, and it is still missing.
zone, unit or boundary geometry. The compilation holds no maps and this app draws none; several records declare that as a gap themselves.
shooting hours. Clock, sunrise and sunset text is shown exactly as written — nothing here computes a sunrise, a sunset or a timezone.
legal advice, or any judgement about whether a particular hunt is lawful for you.
every state. Some have no record in this compilation at all and some are withheld by the verification ledger today; which is which is measured on the index page each time it is loaded, not listed here.
Error direction — If this record is wrong, it is most likely wrong toward saying you MAY do something you may not.
That is the direction that ends in a citation, or in a hunter on ground the state has closed. Read the signals below before you use any row on this page.
Derived by rule from this record's own declared gaps, its own integrity fields and its own rows. It is not a score and there is no confidence number: the counts below count signals, nothing more.
2 over-permissive · 1 undeterminable · 0 under-permissive · 3 declared gap(s), 2 of which the record says carry regulation · 29 row(s) scanned
2 signal(s), most dangerous first. The evidence lines below are the rule's own excerpts, cut at 220 characters; every gap is printed in full and verbatim under what this record does not carry.
overOVER: the gap names a restriction, requirement, closure or supersession the record does not carry [limit_or_quota='BAG LIMIT']; a row read without it is broader than the regulation
known_gaps[1]: PAGE 7. The "2026-27 COUNTY BAG LIMIT MAP" - a map of all 88 Ohio counties, measured at 26.8% of the page, together with the five colour swatches of the 2026-27 BAG LIMITS panel that key it. **THE FIVE COUNTY BAG LIMIT …
overOVER: the gap names a restriction, requirement, closure or supersession the record does not carry [obligation='MANDATOR', restriction='restrict', tag_check_report='MANDATORY SAMPLING', disease_or_bait='CARCASS']; a row read without it is broader than the regulation
known_gaps[2]: PAGE 11, named by page 6 and not read here. The pointer beneath the season tables reads "See page 11 for more information about the DSA.", published above as a hunt_note. Page 11 is headed "DISEASE SURVEILLANCE AREA (DS…
what this rule cannot see
It reads this record's OWN prose. A restriction nobody declared is invisible to it — and an undeclared restriction is what takes a state offline.
It takes each gap's carries_regulation flag at face value. A gap mis-declared as non-regulatory is a silent miss.
It cannot weigh. One missing county list and fourteen missing pages of special-permit hunts each score once. There is no severity here, and that is why no score is shown.
It classifies a whole gap, never a row. A gap that qualifies four rows and a gap that qualifies all of them read identically.
Across the published records the record-level answer is almost always over. That is a statement about how regulation is written — what is missing from a compilation is usually a restriction — not a ranking of states.
Record integrity
Current through — the document this record was read from, and nothing later than it:
2026-27 Ohio Hunting and Trapping Regulations, pp.6-7
The document is those bytes. A URL is a name; if the publisher replaces the file behind it, this hash stops matching and the mismatch is the finding.
We fetched it on 2026-08-08. That is our retrieval date, not a publication date. This record carries no date on which its publisher issued, adopted, amended or last revised that document, so this page states none. Any effective, issue or adoption date the document states of itself is inside the citation above, in the publisher’s own words — nothing here lifts it out or restates it as a fact of ours.
The publisher is named inside that citation, in the publisher’s own words. This record carries no publisher field of its own, so nothing here names one separately.
The record states its own regulation year as 2026. That is the record’s field, not a currency claim: a record may state a year older than the day we fetched it, and where it does, it says so here.
Do not take our word for it. The document every row on this page was read out of is one tap away, and checking us against it is exactly what the citation, the sha256 and the source lines under each row are for.
If that document says something this page does not, the document is the regulation and this page is wrong. The copy we read is the one whose sha256 is above; if the publisher has replaced the file since 2026-08-08, yours will not match ours, and that difference is the thing worth knowing.
What this record does not carry
derived Ohio declares 3 gaps, of which 2 are regulation this compilation does not carry.
2 gap(s) the record says carry regulation
These are regulation that exists and is not in here. They are printed in full, in the record's own words.
map
PAGE 7. The "2026-27 COUNTY BAG LIMIT MAP" - a map of all 88 Ohio counties, measured at 26.8% of the page, together with the five colour swatches of the 2026-27 BAG LIMITS panel that key it. **THE FIVE COUNTY BAG LIMIT ROWS PUBLISHED FROM THIS PAGE SAY WHAT EACH CLASS OF COUNTY ALLOWS AND THIS COMPILATION DOES NOT SAY WHICH CLASS ANY COUNTY IS IN.** That assignment exists in the map's colouring and nowhere else on the page: the county names are drawn as vector outlines, not text, so neither pypdf nor pdfplumber sees one of them - both read this page as the same 36 lines and 1,594 characters, in which no county name from the map appears, and the divergence check is therefore blind to the omission too. Worse than the Kentucky and Florida cases in one respect: TWO DEER COUNTY is printed twice with DIFFERENT rules - the dark blue class adds "No more than one deer may be antlerless" and the light blue class does not - so even a hunter who knew their county was a two-deer county could not tell from these rows which of the two applies.
derived family: map
Who does have it
Not us. Ohio’s agency publishes the document this record was read from, and that document — not this page — is where the material above has to be chased:
Where the description above names some other document, register, office or telephone number, that naming is the record’s own and is printed in full above. Nothing here has followed it up for you, and nothing here has re-typed it.
cross-references
PAGE 11, named by page 6 and not read here. The pointer beneath the season tables reads "See page 11 for more information about the DSA.", published above as a hunt_note. Page 11 is headed "DISEASE SURVEILLANCE AREA (DSA)" and carries deer regulation these rows do not: a MANDATORY SAMPLING requirement for deer harvested inside the DSA on named dates, and DEER CARCASS REGULATIONS restricting which parts may be moved out of a disease surveillance area. A hunter who may lawfully take a deer under the DSA rows published here is subject to requirements this compilation does not carry.
derived family: cross-reference
Who does have it
Not us. Ohio’s agency publishes the document this record was read from, and that document — not this page — is where the material above has to be chased:
Where the description above names some other document, register, office or telephone number, that naming is the record’s own and is printed in full above. Nothing here has followed it up for you, and nothing here has re-typed it.
1 further gap(s) the record says carry no regulation
declared by the record, which states these carry no regulation. They are published because the reason a thing was not read is part of the evidence.
photograph
PAGE 6. A photograph captioned "MORROW COUNTY", measured at 7.6% of the page. Editorial illustration; it states no regulation and nothing is lost by not reading it.
derived family: photograph/graphic/advertisement
Coverage
100.0% of pypdf text lines across booklet pages 6 and 7
derived: this percentage is over the units named above, on the pages this record cites. It is not a percentage of the state's regulation. The gaps above are what a full percentage would have to count and cannot.
2 page(s) cited
6
7
1 library repair(s)
line: 27; was: A ndreoff,; now: Andreoff,; basis: pdfplumber reads this as one word
No more than two antlerless deer may be taken from all public hunting areas per license year. A list of public hunting areas is available at wildohio.gov. Authorized Division of Wildlife controlled hunts; Andreoff, Big Island, Delaware, Killdeer Plains, Lake La Su An, Lawrence Woods, and Wyandot wildlife areas are exempt.
In addition to a valid Ohio hunting license, hunters are required to purchase an either-sex deer permit or a deer management permit to hunt deer in Ohio, unless exempt.
The deer management permit is valid statewide from Sept. 26, 2026 to Feb. 7, 2027. In the disease surveillance area, the deer management permit is valid from Sept. 12, 2026 to Feb. 7, 2027.
The either-sex deer permit may be used to hunt an antlered or antlerless deer. This permit may be used during any of the deer hunting seasons and controlled hunts.
Deer management permits may only be used to take antlerless deer. The permits are valid on both private and public land, and during authorized controlled deer hunts, throughout the deer season.
DSA area and boundaries - where the page sends you
page
6
placement
[OBSERVED] printed as one bulleted line directly beneath the DSA season table and above the HUNTING HOURS and DEER PERMITS headings; it is inside no prose section.
points_at
p.7, cited by this extraction - the DSA boundary is published here as a definition row and the county bag limits as limit rows; and p.11, which is NOT read by this extraction - see known_gaps.
value
See page 7 for specific DSA area and boundaries. See page 11 for more information about the DSA.
counties shaded dark blue on the 2026-27 COUNTY BAG LIMIT MAP on this page
scope_basis
[OBSERVED] the colour swatch printed on this panel. [NOT PUBLISHED] which counties bear that shade - the county-to-limit assignment exists on the map in colour alone and is declared as a known gap, not guessed from pixels.
swatch
[OBSERVED] dark blue
topic
2026-27 BAG LIMITS
value
A hunter may harvest no more than two deer in a two-deer county during the 2026-27 season. No more than one deer may be antlerless. A hunter may use two either-sex permits or one either-sex permit and one deer management permit.
counties shaded light blue on the 2026-27 COUNTY BAG LIMIT MAP on this page
scope_basis
[OBSERVED] the colour swatch printed on this panel. [NOT PUBLISHED] which counties bear that shade - the county-to-limit assignment exists on the map in colour alone and is declared as a known gap, not guessed from pixels.
swatch
[OBSERVED] light blue
topic
2026-27 BAG LIMITS
value
A hunter may harvest no more than two deer in a two-deer county during the 2026-27 season. A hunter may use two either-sex permits, two deer management permits, or one of each.
counties shaded green on the 2026-27 COUNTY BAG LIMIT MAP on this page
scope_basis
[OBSERVED] the colour swatch printed on this panel. [NOT PUBLISHED] which counties bear that shade - the county-to-limit assignment exists on the map in colour alone and is declared as a known gap, not guessed from pixels.
swatch
[OBSERVED] green
topic
2026-27 BAG LIMITS
value
A hunter may harvest no more than three deer in a three-deer county during the 2026-27 season. A hunter may use three either-sex permits, three deer management permits, or any combination.
counties shaded orange on the 2026-27 COUNTY BAG LIMIT MAP on this page
scope_basis
[OBSERVED] the colour swatch printed on this panel. [NOT PUBLISHED] which counties bear that shade - the county-to-limit assignment exists on the map in colour alone and is declared as a known gap, not guessed from pixels.
swatch
[OBSERVED] orange
topic
2026-27 BAG LIMITS
value
A hunter may harvest no more than four deer in a four-deer county during the 2026-27 season. A hunter may use four either-sex permits, four deer management permits, or any combination.
the Disease Surveillance Area (DSA), whose boundary is published as the definition row from this page
scope_basis
[OBSERVED] the panel's own label reads SIX DEER DSA ONLY. This is the six-deer figure page 6 prints unscoped as "Statewide limit is six deer".
swatch
[OBSERVED] dark maroon
topic
2026-27 BAG LIMITS
value
A hunter may harvest no more than six deer in the Disease Surveillance Area (DSA) during the 2026-27 season. A hunter may use six either-sex permits, six deer management permits, or any combination.
[OBSERVED p.7] The 2026-27 BAG LIMITS panel labels the six-deer figure "SIX DEER DSA ONLY" and sets the limit everywhere else per county: no more than two deer in a two-deer county, three in a three-deer county, four in a four-deer county. [INFERRED] read with this page's own "Hunters may combine individual county harvests to reach the statewide limit", six is the statewide aggregate ceiling, and outside the DSA the number that binds in any single county is two, three or four. Those county limits are published as limit rows from p.7; WHICH class a given county is in is on the county bag limit map in colour only and is declared as a known gap.
scope
all seven white-tailed deer seasons listed on p.6
scope_basis
[INFERRED] single merged cell under the STATEWIDE LIMIT column header, spanning the seasons table
value
Only one may be antlered. Statewide limit is six deer. Hunters may combine individual county harvests to reach the statewide limit.
the DSA Archery and DSA Early Gun seasons published from p.6, and the SIX DEER DSA ONLY limit published from p.7
scope_basis
[OBSERVED] p.6 prints "See page 7 for specific DSA area and boundaries." directly beneath the DSA season table, and this is the only DSA boundary text on p.7.
value
DSA: All of Allen, Hardin, Marion and Wyandot counties; Bucyrus, Dallas, Holmes, and Tod townships in Crawford County; Marlboro, Troy, and Oxford townships in Delaware County; Westfield Township in Morrow County; Delaware, Madison, and Van Buren townships in Hancock County; and Claibourne and Jackson townships in Union County.
