Ohio youth draw hunt
10-14-2022, 12:26 PM
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Ohio youth draw hunt
Taking Jayden on a special youth draw gun hunt tomorrow.
Anything is legal. Would be nice to leave with a buck and a doe. But I'll settle for a great day in the woods as well.
Last year on a different draw hunt he got a dandy 8 point and a doe.
Hopefully I'll update tomorrow with some pictures!
Only his second season hunting. He's still a brown it's down guy. But there are some monsters in this particular place.... So we could get lucky!
-Jake
Anything is legal. Would be nice to leave with a buck and a doe. But I'll settle for a great day in the woods as well.
Last year on a different draw hunt he got a dandy 8 point and a doe.
Hopefully I'll update tomorrow with some pictures!
Only his second season hunting. He's still a brown it's down guy. But there are some monsters in this particular place.... So we could get lucky!
-Jake
10-15-2022, 01:06 PM
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Rough day, but it ended well! Got up at 4:30 to leave and the vehicle wouldn't start. Quickly loaded things into my other truck and got over to the hunt about 20 minutes later than I was hoping.
Hiked in nearly a mile to a spot I had located on the map, that looked good and I figured nobody else would be there. Of course there was somebody there. So I went to my number two spot which was another 500 yd further out.
Around 8:30 I pointed out a doe that was sneaking along the wood line between the swamp that we were sitting on in the open woods. Surprisingly he whispered I'm going to wait for a buck. So we watch that doe pass when it got up wind of us it flagged its tail and took off running into the swamp.
Around 10:00 we were both tired of sitting so we decided to get up and try still hunting. This is hard to do with a youth hunter who's not used to shooting deer off hand or moving but we've been practicing in the squirrel woods and figured that I would give it a try.
Around noon I found a nice elevated stump that he could sit on that got him up with a good view over the woods in front of us. We ate our lunch and watch for deer. I was sitting at the base of the stump and about one o clock I noticed that he was nodding off so I stood up beside him.
At 1:11 I saw two bucks coming through the woods towards us. I told him to let them keep coming because they were coming right at us. They closed the distance and he raised his rifle but they were still moving pretty quickly. I whispered that I would try to stop one of the bucks and to be ready. At about 25 yards I made a doe bleat sound and the lead buck stopped. Jayden made a great shot and the deer went about 40 yards and dropped.
Second nice buck in a row. Thanks to the Ohio youth special hunts.
It was a long drag out.
-Jake
Hiked in nearly a mile to a spot I had located on the map, that looked good and I figured nobody else would be there. Of course there was somebody there. So I went to my number two spot which was another 500 yd further out.
Around 8:30 I pointed out a doe that was sneaking along the wood line between the swamp that we were sitting on in the open woods. Surprisingly he whispered I'm going to wait for a buck. So we watch that doe pass when it got up wind of us it flagged its tail and took off running into the swamp.
Around 10:00 we were both tired of sitting so we decided to get up and try still hunting. This is hard to do with a youth hunter who's not used to shooting deer off hand or moving but we've been practicing in the squirrel woods and figured that I would give it a try.
Around noon I found a nice elevated stump that he could sit on that got him up with a good view over the woods in front of us. We ate our lunch and watch for deer. I was sitting at the base of the stump and about one o clock I noticed that he was nodding off so I stood up beside him.
At 1:11 I saw two bucks coming through the woods towards us. I told him to let them keep coming because they were coming right at us. They closed the distance and he raised his rifle but they were still moving pretty quickly. I whispered that I would try to stop one of the bucks and to be ready. At about 25 yards I made a doe bleat sound and the lead buck stopped. Jayden made a great shot and the deer went about 40 yards and dropped.
Second nice buck in a row. Thanks to the Ohio youth special hunts.
It was a long drag out.
-Jake
10-15-2022, 06:22 PM
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Originally Posted by SportsmanNH
A Big High Five and Congrats to Jayden ! Now he is going to think this hunting thing is easy after that type of success 2 years in a row ! 
But several long wet cold days without any horns seen lol.
These special youth draw hunts really are a great thing.
-Jake
