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Your 2023 small game season

Old 08-31-2023, 09:59 AM
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Default Your 2023 small game season

Its the most wonderful time of the year. Feel free to post your kill pics and or hunt reports here . My season starts Sept 16th . Good luck
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Old 08-31-2023, 06:38 PM
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Ohio squirrel opens Friday.

I'm not sure when I'll get out.

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Old 09-01-2023, 03:36 AM
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Doves open today in PA
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Old 09-01-2023, 04:52 PM
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I used to always hunt the opener. Anymore I don't feel like sweating for squirrel. Wait till it cools off a bit
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Old 09-02-2023, 07:46 AM
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Goose , teal and doves are open . It's gonna be almost 100 degrees this Labor day weekend.
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Old 09-02-2023, 11:55 AM
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I cannot find a chopped corn field to hunt doves in. Hopefully when the farmers start chopping the temp will be lower.
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Old 09-19-2023, 05:57 PM
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I killed almost 10 squirrels so far, some blacks , some grays, a red (pine) , couple chipmunks lol , missed a fox. Most of them came from the same tree. Anybody else kill anything yet ? I'm expecting peak colors first weekend in October. Feels great to be out huntin again . Decent acorn crop, shagbark hickory very spotty .
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Old 09-20-2023, 06:08 AM
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Got one yesterday.



Dropped into a creek. Had to use a long stick to get it out

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Old 09-20-2023, 09:21 AM
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Hey Jake, are there many hickory and white oaks where you hunt ??? Is it flat terrain or hilly ?
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Old 09-20-2023, 11:40 AM
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Originally Posted by john1984
Hey Jake, are there many hickory and white oaks where you hunt ??? Is it flat terrain or hilly ?
Where I live it's totally flat.

No hickory just oaks. There are hickory just not anywhere I go currently.

My best squirrel woods was about twenty acres of hickory that got logged out about ten years ago. Was always a good place for deer and squirrel.
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