Ohio Rut?
 

Any other Ohio hunters notice the ruts been a little slow this year? Seen smaller bucks chasing, but haven't seen any bigger bucks. The biggest was that 10 pointer I've mentioned before. He'd probably gross in the 120s. Other than him, I haven't seen anything. Got big bucks, but just haven't seen any. This week, we're supposed to be getting snow and it'll be cold of course. Hopefully that'll get everything going.

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yeah i live in butler county. i hunted 3 times this week and saw no deer last week i saw a lot though. i dont get it..............

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Im up in seneca county , northwest ohio , last weekend i saw a TON of young bucks chasing and called several in. I elected to shoot a mature half rack sunday (in the rain) with no recovery resulting from it.However the 2 boys ive been after have disapeard from sightings and cameras ? The farmer was happy to hear this , i wasnt so excited about it. My buddy shot a small 6 point on thursday on the same property and said that guy didnt even pay him any attention when he tried to stop him at 20 yards - just had his noes to the ground on a mission.
The temps are there now i hope this damn rain moves out. GOOD LUCK

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You make that sound like "no biggy"!:eek:[:'(][:'(][:'(][>:]

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Not sure how to put my original post about it on here - the loss wasnt on purpose and i wasnt happy about it i searched that night then monday morning brought two buddys to help search with no harvest - so yes [&o]that SUCKED it would have been my first buck EVER -[&o][&o]

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I went out today around 2:30 and decided the wind was wrong for one of my stands once i reached it. I decided to trek back another 200-300 yards to my other stand which was risky because anything in the woods wpuld almost certainly wind me (but kinda had no choice at that point) so approx 100 yards from stand (A) i heard a crunch to my right just inside the woods. After a few minutes of standing there i relized there was a buck standing maybe 15 yards upwind of me.I havehad this very deer in range twice in the last 2 days and here he was again on day three.His right side was a mmedium 8 pt. frame hisleft was gone. After meeting with him and even drawing on him yesterday morning idecided if i could get a shot . Ishot him at about 15-18 yards from the groundit was a solid good hit - a bit low just a bit though. He ran out into the field with the doe he was withstill flagging which i usually dont feel great about when i see this. Anyway without writing my next memoir on this post- simply put i feel good about the shot. BUT it then started pooring down rain so i decided after only about 30-40 minutes i had to get on him. I ended up jumping him up about 200 yards from where i shot him and he didnt act like he was terribly hurt there was lots of good blood where he was walking (very dark red with lots of bubbles in it) which im not so sure werent created by all the rain hitting it. After i jumped him i decided to back out and try in the morning. What would i have hit a bit low ? Heart i believe but if that was the case he wouldhave expired regardless in that time IWOULD THINK SO ANYWAY. what would i have hit if the shot was lower than thaty ? the longer i think about it the worse and worse i feel about it (knowing damn well it was a pretty good shot) by the way this is the second deer this year i have been in this situation with and this one especially confirms in my mind that a good shot with my new fangel rage 3 blades is still worthless at 15 yards ~ my muzzys have always blown through deer i think my bow is too slow for em from what ive been gathering from the forums/ my 2 experiences. bowtech tribute 60# gold tip 7595 arrows.. Alright i guess im done venting- any input -GREAT !

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Sounds like a liver shot.

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well im in northwest ohio and i have not seen any signs of rut yet just got back on the 15th from a week in ashland county where the rut was in full swing and the big boys were all over the does but i didnt bag one still waiting for that first deer for the season :(

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Sorry, I didn't mean to come off so hash sounding.But you didn't mention any recovery efforts.

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today was the first day I can firmly attest to seeing does actually being chased and two mature bucks up and moving. the last few days I only saw the little fellas sniffing. I had a nice encounter with a 10pt tonite, got to forty yards away coming in head first, stopped sniffed and headed out behing my stand about 50 yards away. oh well, I will be back at if tomorrow.
Ron

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as other has wrote... ive seen a TON of small bucks chasing but other then that nothing

not even very many does..

the rut is slow in Southeastern Ohio as well

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as in southwest ohio;)

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Me and a couple buddies scouted an area near Steubenville,and found some really good buck sign, and also saw a good 10pt. doggin a doe hard. Hopefully it'll get hotter by the time I get to hunt on wednesday.

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i think the post rut is kickin in now not sure but seems to be slowing down A LOT

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The only bucks I have seen(last few days ) have come in withthere noses to the ground,and I have only seen 1 doe all year..I am still waiting for all this rut action LOL...............

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Hunted this weekend and saw three small bucks, allfeeding, they wouldnt even look in the direction of my grunts. But i did see by far the biggest buck i have ever seen on the hoof, too bad i was driving to my spot. Either a 10 or 12 with matching droptines, it was unbelievable.

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or the rut hasnt kicked in full swing. hunting bad around my parts[:@]:([&:][:o][:-][&o]

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Perhaps some of you are looking for more from the rut than there generally is. Just because it's time for the rut doesn't mean all the smart old bucks go completely stupid. The wisest of the wisest will herd up his does and push them into his lair or some thick nasty spot and sit on them. In all my years of hunting I can honestly say I've only seen one day where the world went stupid with deer activity, and that was in an area with anything but a balanced herd. It was one magical day that went on for hours. I couldn't get out of the stand from all the deer activity going on. The wise old bucks MAY and will do some things he normally wouldn't which may make him more huntable. Just because it's the rut doesn't mean it'll happen. To me, the prerut is great. Bucks will troll looking and may even leave their home range in search of a horny girl. Smart old bucks don't go stupid, they just sometimes let their guard down and stay out of the nasty stuff a little longer and we catch them. After the does are bred he may go back to his trolling again if he's not too warn out. Don't be looking for that magical day just because it's suppose to be the rut. You still have to do your home work and hunt smart. Some of you say you're not even seeing does. Where do you suppose the big boy has them hidden away and is guarding them. I was in Ohio from Nov 5th-9th. We thought the rut was fixing to go full tilt. We saw large bucks trolling in the fields almost everyday at high noon. We saw a coupld bruisers worrying the crap out of what appeared to be the only doe around on 2 occasions, again at midday after we got out of the woods. I say you got lots of courting going on SOMEWHERE if you're seeing no does but little bucks chasing. Screw the moon, it's the time of month and amount of daylight.

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Im not seeing much action here in Medina county. Ive seen some little guys wondering around but not really with there noses down or anything. Big boys havnt showed yet.

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man im just mad. 2 weeks ago and a week ago i saw deer every hunt almost. now this past weekand i saw nothing[:@]