Anybody else count gunshots?
 

In my little "unpressured" area......I counted 19, this morning. 21, last morning sit.

How many shots do you usually hear in a morning sit, this time of year? I got out of my stand at 9:15.

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Sitting here in the house I have heard I would guess 12-15 relatively close shots this morning. I just got back in a couple minutes ago, my step dad was hunting behind my house this morning and he shot a 1.5 y/o 5 pointer. I heard two more semi close shots while dragging his deer back to his truck for him as well.

Our first gun season ends tomorrow, well second gun season if you count theyouth gun season.
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Yeah, NE Ohio has been kinda slow this year. The rain and the wind have kept em at bay a little bit.

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Every morning of the gun opener (Saturdays) here in Wiwhile on my stand I do count up until aboutnoon.
I hunt public company timberland and this year my count was right about 68 shots.
I wish I would of counted on Sunday also because it sure seemed a lot more then years past.
I assume this being the bow forum you were bow hunting while gun deer season was going on?

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Yeah. I don't gun hunt (nothing against it).....and I always find it interesting to see how many shots I hear. If I can hear them....they're likely hunting the same deer I am.

Am I still hunting "unpressured" deer.....??;)

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Tell him Congrats!!!

No I do not, I am too busy hunting;)or jumping deer:eek:

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I don't count total shots in a day, but I will count consecutive shots. Always makes me laugh to myself when I hear someone shoot, then a second later I hear 3 or 4 more quick ones. I can't think of anything where I live where it would take 4 or 5 shots from a 12 or 20 ga to kill it.

Paul

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I would say pressured, coming from other area's and would come to your area maybe as a safe haven.
But they would be more on heightened alert then they would be without the gun hunters. Also depends how
much they been pressured during bow season from other properties. But chances are from this point to the end of the season yes you are hunting pressured deer.

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Ditto. I hunt open farm country and I see deer cover the better part of a mile in minutes as though its no big deal. If you hunt open country and can hear the shots clearly you can probably bet that whatever deer just got shot has probably been in your neck of the woods.

As far as counting shots....I usually try not to count. WhenI'm sitting and staring at anarea that might as well be a nuclear test range because it is apparently devoid of all life (especially deer) I find that I don't like to listen to the sounds of other people's success.

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LOL, 11....:D

It's so funny....we were talking about "stopping deer" (BigJ's thread), the last couple of days....and I stated I'd only had a couple deer in my short hunting life run by. I had one run by, right underneath me, in the dark, this morning.

Only other sighting was a spike buck that hung around for about 10-15 minutes. That was worth the price of admission, though.;)

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Openeing morning a heard ALOT but i think most of them were from the jack a$$es that go up and shoot like mad men to scare the deer off......

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I usually county opening morning, but lose count about 1 hour into it. Then I just find myself making sure my head is behind the tree I'm sitting in [:-]. The first week is pretty brutal around here. After that it calms down A LOT, but the damage is already done. The colder and nastier the weather get, the less and less the hunters hit the woods and the deer are just starting to creep out during daylight hours again.

Curious to know what the difference in your area is between what you heard today as compared to your opening day of gun.

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I usually hear 10-15 every time out , starting October 1.[:@]

The poaching is ridiculous around here.

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Probably not that much. I counted 21 shots the ML opener. I don't recall counting for the rifle opener. I think Brknarrow(Frank) was here that day....and I don't recall it being anything our of the ordinary.

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I have counted in the past while rifle hunting the first morning, but the past couple seasons I havn't been out so I couldn't say. I know that 3 years ago or so, it wasn't uncommon to hear around 100 shots an hour. Alot of this was comming from the SGL's near my property and were usually groups of 4 to 5 shots taken rapidly by a hunter at a running deer. The funny part was listening to when the first shots rang out, I have sat there in near total darkness waiting for the sun to come up and have heard the shots ring out. The only way that I could see this possible is from guys pulling up to their parking spots and keeping the lights on in their trucks, hoping out and shooting deer that were literally in their headlights.

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One shot = dead deer.. Two shot= maybe but when I hear five shotgun blasts in 30 seconds I know the guy is shooting at tails and missing. Thats when you end up with three leggedor gut shot deerrunning around. Very sad!!

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Maybe they're all coming from Gods Great Acre.

The difference here is it is an all out shooting spree with mass numbers of hunters in the woods the first week (first 2 days especially). After that first week it is pretty quiet except for the spattering of diehards on weekends. Speaking of which..... clothes are dry, kids are at b-ball practice and I'm off to the woods [8D].

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I'm right behind you. I'll be in a tree by 2:30.

Good luck. Doe hunting, here.

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Thanks, I will be sure to. He shot a yearling doe back there on Wednesday as well, she was on the small size, dressed out at 80 pounds. That yearling buck he shottoday I would put at 120 pounds dressed.

My brother is sitting back there now...

Everyone hunts behind the house but me.... I have yet to hunt my own land [8D]

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I'm with ya!

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This season me and my son only made it out on opening day of firearm, he was trying to whack another Doe and i was just along for the show. I think we counted around 20-25, i dont remember, but it was an all time low. its a good way to pass the time, fun for the youngins!!

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I counted 6 this morning, around here, things take a serious dive in December. Opening weekend was a lot quieter also this year.

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This morning I counted 6 in the hour me and my family were at a Xmas tree farm cutting down a tree. My group "bagged" 4 trees.

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No, its the 2nd gun weekend here(no bowhunting allowed) and I don't wanna know how many shots are fired. I will go out Monday and see if I find any dead deer. The last two years I've found young 8 pt. bucks the day after........either they couldn't find the deer or shot at anything moving[:@]. I am guessing the second answer.

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And just how did you manage to count more than 10???