If you are a resident landowner, you do not need to buy the license or the tags. You make your own tag and attach it to the deer with your name and address along with location and time of kill. That used to hold true for non-resident landowners like myself but that changed this year. Here's the language from the ODNR DOW web site:
"License Exemptions
Certain categories of persons are exempted from buying various licenses, permits, and/or stamps.
1.Ohio resident landowners, spouses, and their children - Are not required to have a hunting license, fur taker permit, either-sex deer permit, antlerless deer permit, spring or fall turkey permit, or Ohio Wetlands Habitat Stamp when they are hunting or trapping on land they own.
2.Nonresident landowners - A nonresident landowner, and the spouse and children living with the landowner, may hunt on that property without a license, either-sex deer permit, antlerless deer permit, spring or fall turkey permit, Ohio Wetlands Habitat Stamp or fur taker permit, IF the nonresidents home state allows residents of Ohio owning property in the nonresidents home state, and the spouse and children living with the Ohio property owner, to hunt without a license, either-sex deer permit, antlerless deer permit, spring or fall turkey permit, Ohio Wetlands Habitat Stamp, or fur taker permit.
3.A member of a limited liability company or partnership is a landowner - Provided the member is an Ohio resident and the limited liability company or limited liability partnership consists of three or fewer individual members or partners, or beneficiary or trustee of a trust that has three or fewer trustees or beneficiaries.
4.Tenants and their children on land on which they reside and from which they derive the majority (more than 50 percent of their income from agricultural production on that land) - Are not required to have a hunting license, fur taker permit, either-sex deer permit, antlerless deer permit, spring or fall turkey permit, or Ohio Wetlands Habitat Stamp when they are hunting or trapping on land where they reside.
5.Ohio resident landowners’ grandchildren who are under 18 years old - Are not required to have a hunting license or an Ohio Wetlands Habitat Stamp while hunting on their grandparent’s land. All other licenses and permits are required.
6.Ohio residents who are holders of veteran’s license plates displaying the international wheelchair symbol - Must apply in writing for a free hunting license, fur taker permit, either-sex deer permit, spring or fall turkey permit, and an Ohio Wetland Habitat Stamp. Applications are available at wildohio.com.
7.Certain permanently disabled veterans who are Ohio residents - Must apply in writing for a free hunting license, fur taker permit, either-sex deer permit, turkey permit, and Ohio Wetlands Habitat Stamp. Applications are available at wildohio.com.
8.Ohio residents who are former prisoners of war - Must apply in writing for a free hunting license, fur taker permit, and Ohio Wetland Habitat Stamp. All other licenses and permits are required. Applications are available at wildohio.com.
9.Members of the U.S. Armed Forces on active duty, while on leave or furlough - Are not required to purchase a hunting license, Ohio Wetlands Habitat Stamp, or fur taker permit. All other licenses and permits are required.
Members of the U.S. Armed Forces on active duty stationed in Ohio, but NOT on leave or furlough are required to purchase a resident Ohio hunting license and other applicable permits before hunting deer, turkey, or hunting/trapping furbearers and an Ohio Wetlands Habitat Stamp for waterfowl before hunting any migratory waterfowl."
-Brian
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