Opening Day - Where will you be?
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Mao
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Plan to do the annual bow drives with friends then try to get my daughter a shot at a buck in the evening. Four different bucks have been showing in daylight. Biggest in the 120's. All shooters for her. I will take my bow for doe and coyote patrol. Two big yotes have been showing around the bait pile almost daily as well.
Ill be 15' closer to God, hoping he sends a meat wagon by (horns/no horns-does not matter) as the freezer is getting low. As soon as it breaks 60*, Im getting up and cutting firewood.
I have a dozen or so stands to choose from. I may hit 1 of the ones I havent scouted much. just a longshot if winds aint what i want
TripleA88
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Alphamax10
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I've got a morning spot and an evening spot, two different farms and two totally different approaches..... One farm is all stand hunting the afternoon farm is all off the ground.... Back too basics there....
Joel
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Found this about 30 yards from my stand today while cutting some last minute shooting lanes.
One more week!
One more week!
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Hogmister13
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I don't live too far from there if you need a hand dragging or something. I've never really done much over there, seems busy to me. I've got a buddy that lives right there that always get pics of some real nice bucks.
I used to live down that way . Caesars would be low on my list . Given the choice hueston woods in preble cty or Tranquility in Adams county would be a better option depending on where your driving from .
Yeah, I hunted there a few times but saw more hunters than deer. Can't walk too far into a hunting zone cuz you eventually get to close to the loop road or another access point on the other side. Hikers,dog walkers,bird watchers and impatient hunters aplenty at all the state parks around Cincy from my experiences. I've hunted Caesars Creek,Hueston Woods,Paint Creek,Indian Creek(Fayetteville) and scouted East Fork and Stonelick and all were crowded IMO, but that was back in the mid to late 90's and early 2000's.
I took my family up to Deer Creek over Spring Break for a weekend getaway and did some shed hunting and saw some promising areas but don't know if it gets hammered during hunting season or not.
I was hunting in Hueston Woods one time and was in my climber from noon till 4 o'clock thinking things are going to start getting good during this early November evening. When I caught movement up the drainage bottom about 100 yards away and thought, "it's going to get exciting any minute!", thinking a buck was pushing that doe I saw looking back over her shoulder. Then she wheeled and came flatout hauling ass right towards me running thru one of my shooting lands at about 30 MPH! I was stood up with my bow in hand and release ready to draw looking back up the hollow looking for what made her run into the next county. When low and behold some big heavy set dude wearing hunter orange toting a walking stick. He proceeds to tromp his way towards me and stop to pause every so often looking around. Once he is standing right in my shooting lane where the doe came busting thru I whistled and he nearly shit himself looking all around trying to find me. I had to wave at him for him to locate me but once he did he made his way to about 20 yards and starts talking in normal voice asking me if I saw those deer he kicked up. I whispered back, "there was just one and she flew by me like her ass was in fire!" He says, well I'm sorry you didn't get a shot. I don't think he got the message that I didn't like it that he was talking to loud. Anyway I asked him whT are you doing walking around the woods during hunting season with just a stick. He said he just dropped 4 buddies with crossbows off along the road spacing them 50 yards or so apart. Then he drove down to the lodge parking lot and was doing a slow push back toward them. Needless to say, after he left I sat there till dark and didn't hear or see shit! When I packed my stuff up and left I never went back because of shit like that!
IMO, state parks are nice but not big enough to support the amount of hunters wanting to hunt there. It's nice they have some areas posted off limits to hunting to give a place for deer to find refuge but they aren't dumb, first sign of hunters they're in them during daylight hours and come out of them after dark. Lol Park employees have told me this as well. You can kill a mature deer in these parks but it won't be easy!
Good luck up there at CC but I hope you have better luck than I did!
If I were gonna travel to Ohio and hunt for a mature deer I'd take 2 weeks off and go camping and hunting at the Wayne National! It huge and less interference of other hunters I'd imagine.
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Hogmister13
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I appreciate it, just called a buddy of mine today and his aunt owns a few acres in Warren County and she is gonna let us hunt. We are heading up there in a couple weeks to scout and we are gonna knock on a few doors as well, maybe we can get some decent private land to hunt. Thanks or the input guys . Good luck.
Hogmister13
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I was going to go back to Shawnee where I killed that big 11 last year but they have logged where I hunt there, suppose to be clear cutting the hell out of that place I hear.
One of my first times out hunting was at Heuston woods. We got all set up, still dark. See a flashlight making its way towards us, so I flashed a light to let them know someone was already there. Later in the morning, a small fork horn comes through, me and my BIL watch him for a bit then we here a crossbow go off. The guy that came in earlier had circled around and was 50 yards from us. Ive never gone back. Too many hunters, not enough deer.