Horrible Luck This Season, please help!!
 

So far this season, I have been out a total of 15-17 times. I first hunted on November 1st. and I hunted this morning as it was the first day of gun season here in Ohio. Without counting today, I have seen 1 doe and 1 buck. Thats an entire month with only 2 deer sightings. I passed on the doe, and the buck never came within bow range. This morning I saw 3 doe which came in but left quickly, and one last doe that came sprinting past me (probably got pushed by hunters on nearby farms). I hunt in an area on my uncle's farm where myself and another guy have killed many deer. The other guy shot an 8 point in the area that I hunt on the only weekend morning in November that I didn't go hunting, if I would have went out, it would have been my deer. There are TONS of deer in those woods. Including a 10 point, 7 point, 6 point, and 4 point that we know about, and who knows what else. WHY CAN'T I SEEM TO FIND ANY OF THESE DEER!!! THIS IS TERRIBLE AND SO DISCOURAGING, please help haha

RE: Horrible Luck This Season, please help!!
 

Same here man. just gotta keep on hunting.

RE: Horrible Luck This Season, please help!!
 

Sounds like you have the same problem as me, I seen quite a few deer during bow season but ever since gun season I havent seen nothing till tonight, about 5:30 2 does came out on the power lines where I was sitting.

RE: Horrible Luck This Season, please help!!
 

Persistance, it will eventually pay off.

RE: Horrible Luck This Season, please help!!
 

Same here brother...... The 4 day firearm season starts here in IL on Thurs, and I've only seen 1 deer since Oct. 1st!!!! It'll be a lovely 17F to startthe second seasonhere in Central IL on openig day. the colder the better though.....right?

RE: Horrible Luck This Season, please help!!
 

you are doing better than me. 15 sits one doe sighting and she stuck around for a whole 15 seconds before another hunter came walking through the woods and scared her off......darn public land....oh ya and the last time I went out, someone had cut the chain and stolen the ladder of my brothers ladder stand.

RE: Horrible Luck This Season, please help!!
 

thats why its called hunti not killin. keep going it can only get better.

RE: Horrible Luck This Season, please help!!
 

know all about it. hunter everyday all day for the week and a half long muzzle loader and rifle season. and nothing!!!

RE: Horrible Luck This Season, please help!!
 

Sorry to here all that! Heard the same from guys around here. I guess a positive way to look at it is the less you see now, the more bigger ones you'll see next year. Keep huntin though and maybe you'll score big.

RE: Horrible Luck This Season, please help!!
 

keep trying don't give up

RE: Horrible Luck This Season, please help!!
 

Just keep at it!

RE: Horrible Luck This Season, please help!!
 

I haven't shot a buck in over 15 years, so I know what a dry spell is all about. My time will come, until then I'll continue to take my share of does. One good thing about shooting does is it makes you a good cook. If you cant brag about the horns, you can brag about the meal.

Wise man once said "Don't pass up on the first day, what you would shoot on the last"