Greetings Hunters . . Work has taken me to some of the best whitetail ground in the US . . . the I 70 of corridor Central Ohio, and I was fortunate to have an associate who who owned land in the immediate area in Muskingum County. I am the only one hunting the land during bow season and a couple others show for opening day of gun season. Attached are photos of last years buck and the mount. I had seen the buck several times and missed a shot with my crossbow in the second week of November. He was taken the 3-4th day of shotgun season when he started to move into a staging area, 20 minutes after the three does that he was layed up with had already gone to feed. He was downed with a 90-100 yard shot from an 870 Express with a rifled barrel and 2 3/4 Remington load. He disappeared into the silent woods and never moved after the shot until I moved on him as darkness descended. He jumped from where he fell and ambled down ridge, obviously shot hard. I fired off another shot, but assumed asuuming I had probably missed on the running shot. The next morning (probably 12-14hrs later) we tracked him about 70 yards and saw him laying, in what i thought was his death bed. He jumped up, was shot again, stumbled to his knees and took another round: three shots in the lungs and another in his arse . . one tough whitetail. Hisrackis not exceptionally large but nearly perfecty symetrical. Typical for this area.
I have 5 fixed hanging stands in place on the nearly 100 acre woodlot. Two are placed in staging areas on the perimeter of the property where the deer enter adjacent pasture, two are placed over looking thick growth gullies where I have found the bucks like to bed, the last is in a funnel into another woodlot. Probably won't go into the woods until mid October after the frost takes some of the leaves . . . . Will report back to the board with this years encounters. Good luck to all.
rwcrash
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