OHIO-update anyone??
 

Hey fellow Ohio hunters!!! Just wanted 2 check on everyones season so far...as for myself-last weekend i got busted by 4 doe. And thats pretty much it!! I' m hunting in geauga county right down the street from ladue reservoir. Thats the only time i' ve been out...hopefully this weekend!! Good Luck!!

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I hunt in SE. OH. and was rained out on opening morning, it turned into a beautiful afternoon and I decided to hunt the same tree that I harvested my buck out of last year on Nov-2nd but didnt see a deer. I decided to hunt the same tree the next morning and as soon as it got light out I was surrounded by turkeys, at 7:30AM I had a 1.5 year old 6-pt walk directly under my stand, at 9:15 Am I harvested a nice 9-pt at 3 yards and he walked 15 yards after the shot before falling. I have hunted that tree a total of 6 mornings or eve' s and have harvested 2 bucks and passed up 5 others. Here is a pic. Good Luck, Pike.
http://members.fishingworks.com/Huntingpa/viewPhoto.cfm?photo_id=71583&username=Huntingpa&us er_id=43547

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Been out a 8 times and have only had shots at does and little bucks...I' m trying to remain patient and stay out of my best stands till Nov. but its getting hard...The bucks are doing a fair amount of rubbing and scraping but I think alot of the big bucks are moving after dark...Have heard of some big ones getting taken though...Good luck everyone...

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I hunt in Clark county and have been out twice due to work. I got busted by two does that slipped in behind me when drawing on another doe in front of me. That sucked lol. Other than that I' m hoping to get more time to go soon and real soon. Good luck to you all.

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I have only been out one time. Hope to get out when the rain lets up. If I can get out of work. I work for myself so I see very little trouble as long as the livestock let me. To wet to pik corn & cut brush & trees. At least for a couple days.;)

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I posted this on the bowhunting forum last week. I got him Oct the 18th at 9:22 AM in Trumbull county.

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Nice! Neat looking buck.

Saw 6 turkeys and no deer in Belmont this evening. Lots of sign though.

Good luck to all

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I hunt in Hocking County near Laurelville. Last Friday night (10/24), I watched a nice 8 pointer follow a doe across a ridge. On Sat. Morning, I had 2 does around my stand for about 15 minutes. They took turns rubbing their foreheads and faces on an overhanging branch over a scrape. They both began getting a little antsy and looked back into the woods in the direction that they had come from. Soon I caught sight of a deer body sneaking along the trail the does had used. I caught the glint of an antler but couldn' t really see how big he was. He worked a scrape and thrashed a couple saplings. Suddenly he moved closer to the does. I could see then that he was a brute. He grunted at the does and paused in one of my shooting lanes. I took the shot with my Lightning Strike crossbow. He never knew what hit him and he only traveled 40 yards before falling. I figure that he will probably gross in the 130-140 range (11 pointer). According to the chest girth chart that I have, his live weight is estimated to have been 250 lbs (chest girth 44" ). Man what a buck!! It seems like the rut is kicking in early this year. I found lots of scrapes and saw 2 nice bucks already with does. I' ll try to post a picture as soon as I soon as I can get the film developed.

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I finally got the picture back!!

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AWESOME buck Hutch!

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Hey Boys.....Check this out!!
Goto the Ohio DNR web site for the story.

XENIA HUNTER BAGS TROPHY BUCK
ON OPENING DAY OF ARCHERY SEASON
May be the second-largest non-typical whitetail
taken by a crossbow hunter in Ohio.

http://www.ohiodnr.com/news/oct03/1022bigbuck.htm

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was out this morning. grunted bleated rattled 2 bucks in. cold snap had them all fired up today. hope tommorow is the same.

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I got back from hunting in Harrison Co OH ( Deersville area) yesterday afternoon. Unfortunatley for me while I was there hunting OH had near record high temperatures. What deer movement there was occurred in the late evenings and early mornings in the dark.
As I left on Thursday morning (5:30am) the temperature was 48 degrees and the predicted high was to be 49. With the second full moon of the fall coming up in a few days and the dropp in temps, I was there one week to early.
VC is still hunting the area and Im sure will get into some action.
Still a fine trip.
I have several months of Deer hunting left here in WI and plenty of Elk meat in the freezer so I have nothing to complain about.

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Hey guys,
I got a nice 6 pointer this AM (11-9-03). He weight was 180 to 190 lbs.
Can' t upload picture....it tell me pic is too large. How can I get it on here if it' s to large??

Any one else get one yet??

Good Luck,
Curtis

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Congrats Curtis! When I posted my picture above, I got the same message. I just kept cropping it until it was small enough to fit. I hunted all weekend in Hocking County. What an unbelievable time!! I saw 4 different bucks (2 were bruisers) and 5 does. They were all showing various stages of the rut from scraping/seeking to the chase phase. I can' t remember when I have ever seen the woods so alive with rutting activity.....must be the very cold weather.

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I got it .....Thanks Buckeye Hutch

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Theres alot of monsters coming out of ohio this year!

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Took a nice 8-point on Oct. 31 with a crossbow. He ran less than 20 yards.