OHIO Guys please help !!!
 

I live in NC and have a lease in Ohio this year and am trying to decide when to go back. I have been two times so far. Oct 17-19 (not much action) and Nov 9-15 (rut going good but no buck on ground). My question is: does Ohio have a "second rut" in Dec or Jan ? I love bowhunting but am considering going back for the muzzleloading season on Dec 27. Just trying to figure the best odds at killing a nice deer post rut. Thanks for the help in advance.

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I am going to send the entire Muzzleloader season in the woods. My friend harvested this buck last year over food. The rut has cooled down and by the end of the season they are hitting the food. I will try to attach a pic of his buck.
JB

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The so called second rut is really hit or miss. If you can get near a hot doe there can be some great action, but that’s a gamble. The bucks aren’t out looking for does like they do during the normal rut. If you have a good food source to hunt, late season hunting can be the best hunting of the year if the weather is cold. Snow is an enormous help, but I don’t know anyone who can predict that. It’s really what works best for your schedule. Anytime can be good, but anytime could be dead as well. If it was me and I had a food source to hunt, I would pick mid-late January. But, I like hunting in the cold. Not everyone does.

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thanks guys....jb, if you were me and could only hunt a few more days, you think muzzleloading season would be best bet? like i said i love to bowhunt but i want to put a nice buck down and will be just as happy to do it with a muzzleloader. sounds like i may need to bring some corn and wait patiently. the lease had some cut corn fields in nov but i am not sure if they will be disced up by Dec 27 or not.

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I would go during muzzleloader season if you are pressed for time and need to reach out and touch some things. I also dont mind bow hunting in January but I think for you the old smoke pole might be best!

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thanks mahoning....any more advice guys, i can use all the help i can get!!!

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Every place is different. You need to be there to determine when your property comes into it. Sadly if there is one it is at the same time our now "second" weekend gun season is.

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Find a hot food source, thats what im going to be doing.

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My daughter and I had a buck come in to 15 yards last year during the muzzleloader season. He was trailing two does closely. I actually heard him grunt and a few minutes later they came in. Unfortunatly she couldn't get the safety off.

So yeah I think if I had to choose that would be the time because you can reach out with the ML and maybe increase your odds.

Or you can let me go hunt it for you and I'll let you know for next year... LOL


Good luck!

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I would go prerut to get there when more bucks are trolling and looking and not locked up with does. I'd go the first week in Nov or the last in Oct. Bucks are ready, does are not. I'd look at those two weeks and pick the one with the darkest moon. Too early the bucks are still grouped up and you all or nothing. Later they're spreading out and trolling... many more chances of being in the right place. I don't care if it's Ohio or wherever... I prefer that time to hunt. The rut is fantastic if you catch it.... but it can also be really frustrating as all patterns go to hell.

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So now.. the NY dude who always makes a point to point out "what works in one state doesn't work in another".. is giving advice on hunting Ohio.. when he in fact hunts NY.

That's rich.

I'm sorry David.. you're making this too easy lately.[8D]

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Yea like the others siad. Find out what they're eating, thats your best shot. In my opinion, if there is adoe(s) in thearea that wasn't bred earlier, the bucks will be checking around where the does are eating, and the does bedding areas..Where in Ohio?

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Well as he's asking for this year I believe Oct and Nov are out.:)

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Give it a rest Duke. I've hunted Ohio and Indiana 3 of the past 4 years. I've been successful. He ask a question, I've hunted there more than him. I gave him my thoughts. For future reference I've also hunted Georgia, Alabama, Texas, Hawaii, Pa, Maryland, Kentucky, Oklahoma. Give it a rest and get off my case.

Show me where I supposedly said what works in one state won't work in another. You're making stuff up Duke. Give it a rest. Curious... just how old are you anyway?

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And Duke, I have family there that hunt. I got my nephew into bowhunting. We talk Ohio bowhunting and deer 365 a year. I honestly think I have some experience in the state. At the very least with all the states I've hunted and the deer I've taken I feel I should beable to comment on the internet in response to a question without being called The Dude from NY.

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Wow.. you are unreal.

We have been pm-ing during this time (back and forth).. and yet you reply with this.. on the public forum again?

Maybe I should be asking your age?

I love it.. NOT one word of disrespect has come from my fingures either in PM or in the public forum.. but here you are spinning back and forth between the two. Trying ever so hard to "slander" me.. as you put it on the public forum.

I don't do that game Mr Mil. I'm a better man than that.

But hey man.. do as you wish. Pull that age card. Call me the High schooler in front of everyone to read.

Seriously.. really.. c'mon man you're better than that.

Do as you wish.

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High schooler.[8D] Night John Boy. Good Night Mary Ellen.;)