hunting ohio
02-18-2006, 08:23 AM
#1
Thread Starter
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: new jersey
Posts: 58
hunting ohio
Well I've been hunting in Illinoise for the last 10yrs and did well.But next year I'm going to try hunting Ohio.I know alot of hunters hunt the south east part of the state(guernsey,muskingum,coshocton,licking)I think I'm going to focus on the south west (highland,warren greene,hamilton)can anyone tell me what kind of terrain it is in the south west? Is it hilly,flat,farmland,hollers.Any info would be appreciated.
02-19-2006, 06:22 AM
#2
Fork Horn
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Springfield, OH
Posts: 364
RE: hunting ohio
South East Ohio is hilly to holler like. As about as close to Tennessee terrain as it gets in Ohio. I wish like hell that I knew someone there that owned some land. There is 6000 acres of public hunting ground in Zanesville that has some hilly terrain and is chalk full of deer but it’s equally as full of hunters. I went there during muzzle loading season with my brother and you could hear shots echoing threw the hills every 5 minutes. Too many hunters for me.
A guy I know from work inherited over 1000 acres from his father and it’s full of deer and Yotes but he is against hunting. Says it bothers him and his wife. Two months ago the Yotes got his beagle. He said he went out in the morning to feed her and the only thing that was left was a carcass secured by a chain. He still won’t let me have fun with them Yotes.
A guy I know from work inherited over 1000 acres from his father and it’s full of deer and Yotes but he is against hunting. Says it bothers him and his wife. Two months ago the Yotes got his beagle. He said he went out in the morning to feed her and the only thing that was left was a carcass secured by a chain. He still won’t let me have fun with them Yotes.
08-05-2007, 06:34 PM
#3
Join Date: Aug 2007
Posts: 1
RE: hunting ohio
Green Pea has it right. I moved up here 2 years ago come December. Made a pact with a neighbor to take me out hunting for signing last years permit on my land. Bought another fella a license as he was to take me hunting. Both these boyz drove deer through my land. All I was told 'word to the wize', lock your dogs up in the house or they will be shot!
Noone has business hunting in anyones 'yard'. Evidently the boyz don't think so around here. Heard this man say 'slugs go stray', as he speaks of another neighbor who was hunting his own land and had a word with these poaching thugs.
Ah, for sure they don't like dogs. One thing to try to intimidate me, another to pose your fist to my forehead or at any point not get out of my grid square as I'm taking my leave. I didn't even call my dogs to get in the truck, but the old dawg was barking, not liking his tone or stance. I do know (raised with nuns for the most part growing up and can adopt 'that look'). Well, 'that look' isn't what that boy was expecting out of a female. Men with tear drop tattoos on their cheek think a person should have the fear of death when he looks at them. As his fist didn't scare me, he turned and said he's gonna kill that dog, and put both hands on her neck. Well, I had to drop him and with the truck door open and nothing for it, I dropped him down atop of me but got him of my dawg. I hit the ground unwinded and ready for bear, "Don't mess with my dawg". Then his brother is pulling him up and away. (It's a city block or more from kitchen to the truck), claims he didn't know anything was going on. Never seen anyone miss a 34 year old man having a tempertantrum chasing down a little old nearly 50 year old woman.
This fella also hunts ginsing. Told another neighbor not to bulldoze to place yet another trailer on his land which buts his own, as he had gotten over $so much last year in ginsing off his and the other neighbor lady. Get's better, he said he'd give the man a percentage of what he sells from poaching off him! That's how they think down here!
He's on maybe 2 acres. I don't think that is enough land for a landowners permit even. Now I don't know much about hunting, but isn't a drivers license required or even a background check?
Heard tell he was caught twice for poaching. Has about 15-20 men to drive deer in this enclosed valley which doesn't abutt his own 2 little acres.
I'm in a prime spot; on the edge of what used to be an apple orchard, many having gone to crab. Briars a pleanty and all that other good stuff which attracts deer. Neighbor let slip other day he found some 'shed' there at the coulee bottom. (small brook running through the valley bottom) - yes he was speaking of my land.
Bought for the view, and stepping out the door is right close to being in the 'wild wood' with a cacaphony of critters churping. Right nice for a city girl who left the city. I've enjoyed my old dawg (and the young dog) get after groundhogs and tried my hand at skinning the poor little critter. Botched that job; botched enough to get a good lung full of that smell, didn't loose my cookies; although soured the bile a bit! I think I've been heard echoing down the hill: 'Get er dead, bring momma the tail'. This old dawg was used to a chain tether and keeps an imaginary tether in a perimiter about me. Independent as all get out, yet an easy read when she's onto a critter; she enjoys the kill, makes sure of the kill and has even toned it down a bit for the young puppy to get the taste of the hunt.
Other day, the old gal got a garden snake (pulled out the baby sac: which I thought was but entrails), the puppy ain't too smart about snakes and a bit too shy. Next they got a groundhog. This time around the puppy wasn't shy (being her second) and played tug a war with the old dog instead of being shook like an extra tail on the critter!
That was from cleaning up what is left of an old wood pile. Last fall found an old witches broom setting on top the pile on the down side of the Harvest Moon. Odd thing, been digging in that pile of scrap wood spring/summer/fall, sure would have seen it before. It takes top rung on the gun rack.
Can't ride the broom, wishful of learning to hunt. Why there is 'that old buck' the locals named and all wanna get. Were I to get that big old buck I'd for sure mount him on my van (as my truck is dead from hitting an oak tree when my back tire was blown out going around a gravel curve ...) - I'd sure drive around with that just to show these poaching thugs. Of course the word is, anyone who gets that buck would go on record after all those extensive tests to make sure it was shot during official hours.
It isn't about the buck, it's about owning land and being run over by lawbreakers and theives. And perhaps that me being a woman and not 'keeping a man' like most of the women do down here. I don't feel any obligation to keep these boyz and turn my back when they are theiving off me either. It's not enjoyable.
I moved to the country as I hit my midlife crisis and I want to enjoy my crisis!
OH, I forgot. This man has a turtle fry every year. Last year him and his brother got into it, and having my dawg one month, these rough type boyz had to wait for me to pull her off the two fighting men. (They tossed over the table I was sitting at). This dawg had his grandbaby fall on her head, eased the child down to the deck before pulling her head out from under and had nothing but kisses. No yipe, growl or defensive moves. Surprised me, and proud for her. Well, one day I bring over a turtle she got. The man wanted it for himself. I told him, no, I'm wishing you'd stuff it, let her have the meat with 'some work' and she'd chew on that shell a good year! The man kept her turtle! That there is a bad man.
They will do a dawg wrong!
Noone has business hunting in anyones 'yard'. Evidently the boyz don't think so around here. Heard this man say 'slugs go stray', as he speaks of another neighbor who was hunting his own land and had a word with these poaching thugs.
Ah, for sure they don't like dogs. One thing to try to intimidate me, another to pose your fist to my forehead or at any point not get out of my grid square as I'm taking my leave. I didn't even call my dogs to get in the truck, but the old dawg was barking, not liking his tone or stance. I do know (raised with nuns for the most part growing up and can adopt 'that look'). Well, 'that look' isn't what that boy was expecting out of a female. Men with tear drop tattoos on their cheek think a person should have the fear of death when he looks at them. As his fist didn't scare me, he turned and said he's gonna kill that dog, and put both hands on her neck. Well, I had to drop him and with the truck door open and nothing for it, I dropped him down atop of me but got him of my dawg. I hit the ground unwinded and ready for bear, "Don't mess with my dawg". Then his brother is pulling him up and away. (It's a city block or more from kitchen to the truck), claims he didn't know anything was going on. Never seen anyone miss a 34 year old man having a tempertantrum chasing down a little old nearly 50 year old woman.
This fella also hunts ginsing. Told another neighbor not to bulldoze to place yet another trailer on his land which buts his own, as he had gotten over $so much last year in ginsing off his and the other neighbor lady. Get's better, he said he'd give the man a percentage of what he sells from poaching off him! That's how they think down here!
He's on maybe 2 acres. I don't think that is enough land for a landowners permit even. Now I don't know much about hunting, but isn't a drivers license required or even a background check?
Heard tell he was caught twice for poaching. Has about 15-20 men to drive deer in this enclosed valley which doesn't abutt his own 2 little acres.
I'm in a prime spot; on the edge of what used to be an apple orchard, many having gone to crab. Briars a pleanty and all that other good stuff which attracts deer. Neighbor let slip other day he found some 'shed' there at the coulee bottom. (small brook running through the valley bottom) - yes he was speaking of my land.
Bought for the view, and stepping out the door is right close to being in the 'wild wood' with a cacaphony of critters churping. Right nice for a city girl who left the city. I've enjoyed my old dawg (and the young dog) get after groundhogs and tried my hand at skinning the poor little critter. Botched that job; botched enough to get a good lung full of that smell, didn't loose my cookies; although soured the bile a bit! I think I've been heard echoing down the hill: 'Get er dead, bring momma the tail'. This old dawg was used to a chain tether and keeps an imaginary tether in a perimiter about me. Independent as all get out, yet an easy read when she's onto a critter; she enjoys the kill, makes sure of the kill and has even toned it down a bit for the young puppy to get the taste of the hunt.
Other day, the old gal got a garden snake (pulled out the baby sac: which I thought was but entrails), the puppy ain't too smart about snakes and a bit too shy. Next they got a groundhog. This time around the puppy wasn't shy (being her second) and played tug a war with the old dog instead of being shook like an extra tail on the critter!
That was from cleaning up what is left of an old wood pile. Last fall found an old witches broom setting on top the pile on the down side of the Harvest Moon. Odd thing, been digging in that pile of scrap wood spring/summer/fall, sure would have seen it before. It takes top rung on the gun rack.
Can't ride the broom, wishful of learning to hunt. Why there is 'that old buck' the locals named and all wanna get. Were I to get that big old buck I'd for sure mount him on my van (as my truck is dead from hitting an oak tree when my back tire was blown out going around a gravel curve ...) - I'd sure drive around with that just to show these poaching thugs. Of course the word is, anyone who gets that buck would go on record after all those extensive tests to make sure it was shot during official hours.
It isn't about the buck, it's about owning land and being run over by lawbreakers and theives. And perhaps that me being a woman and not 'keeping a man' like most of the women do down here. I don't feel any obligation to keep these boyz and turn my back when they are theiving off me either. It's not enjoyable.
I moved to the country as I hit my midlife crisis and I want to enjoy my crisis!
OH, I forgot. This man has a turtle fry every year. Last year him and his brother got into it, and having my dawg one month, these rough type boyz had to wait for me to pull her off the two fighting men. (They tossed over the table I was sitting at). This dawg had his grandbaby fall on her head, eased the child down to the deck before pulling her head out from under and had nothing but kisses. No yipe, growl or defensive moves. Surprised me, and proud for her. Well, one day I bring over a turtle she got. The man wanted it for himself. I told him, no, I'm wishing you'd stuff it, let her have the meat with 'some work' and she'd chew on that shell a good year! The man kept her turtle! That there is a bad man.
They will do a dawg wrong!
08-07-2007, 04:03 PM
#4
Spike
Join Date: Aug 2007
Posts: 5
RE: hunting ohio
Just wanted to let you know 'You've got a friend' in the Zanesville area. We have a cabin that we plan to rent on our farm. It's 10 miles away from Powelson,the area you talked about near Zanesville, and only 3 miles away from Woodbury -20,000acres.(Coshocton County) It's secluded and sleeps 4. We were thinking of asking $100/wk per person which I think is reasonable. (740)828-3968 [email protected] Feel free to write me directlyabout any questions you might have!
08-11-2007, 08:40 PM
#5
Join Date: Aug 2004
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Posts: 49
RE: hunting ohio
I grew up in Ross County (one county east of Highland). Most of SW Ohio is gently rolling to "hilly" The SE portion of the state wasn't bulldozed by the glaciers so it's the only part with "rough" terraine. Lot's of farmland in the counties you mentioned. You can find some real trophy deer in this part of the state but don't be surprised to hear the crack of a poachers rifle too. I couldn't tell you how many times my buddies and I tried to get the game wardens to be a little more proactive in Highland County. I've been in TN for 5 years and hear it's getting better up there now. Before you go, get the phone numbers for the game wardens in whatever county you'll be in and don't be afraid to call them about poachers.
If you're interested in paying a little money for a "guide" or some insider info, shoot me a PM and I'll forward your contact info to a friend of mine in Ross County. One of THE best deer/turkey hunters I've ever met. He may be willing to help you get private land access in Highland or Ross.
If you're interested in paying a little money for a "guide" or some insider info, shoot me a PM and I'll forward your contact info to a friend of mine in Ross County. One of THE best deer/turkey hunters I've ever met. He may be willing to help you get private land access in Highland or Ross.
08-12-2007, 09:00 PM
#6
Join Date: Aug 2007
Posts: 1
RE: hunting ohio
In response to your question about the terrain of southwest Ohio...
...I live in Montgomery County, very near Preble and Darke Counties. The counties you listed include some very flat farm land with woodlots and farm fields. Greene and Warren are great choices as two of the largest deer killed in Ohio recently were taken in those counties. Good Hunting!
...I live in Montgomery County, very near Preble and Darke Counties. The counties you listed include some very flat farm land with woodlots and farm fields. Greene and Warren are great choices as two of the largest deer killed in Ohio recently were taken in those counties. Good Hunting!
08-13-2007, 06:45 AM
#7
Typical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Cambridge Ohio USA
Posts: 744
RE: hunting ohio
It seems Purplebuck is the only one who actually read your question. Everyone else is either trying to sell you something or rambling gibberish. From what I’ve seen of that area, it’s as flat as a pancake with small woodlots scattered throughout very large crop fields. The deer should be fairly patternable, due to the ability to do long range scouting, and the limited amount of travel cover for the deer. The old fencerows and drainage ditched should be ideal funnel areas. They take some very good deer in those areas. The numbers aren’t as great as other places, but that’s likely only due to there being less cover available.
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