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Noble County Monster

bowhunter1023

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Reports are 18 points and 205" worth of slunger whitetail!



Noble has seen a massive impact from oil and gas since 2011 and a lot of people wonder how that will impact the deer. My buddy who works for Antero, one of the biggest players in Noble, knows of at least 4 deer that are in the 170 range that were killed along the new edge habitat created by pipelines and well locations. Those areas become huge food plots as most operators reseed with wildlife favorable mixes. Not sure if this deer had that benefit, but it very likely.

Congrats to Gunnar Petry on a monster Ohio whitetail!
 
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giles

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Anyone else starting to get worried about the future of hunting in Ohio? Sorry if this derails this thread a little, but I'm getting a little nervous.

Another great buck on the ground!
 

bowhunter1023

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Anyone else starting to get worried about the future of hunting in Ohio? Sorry if this derails this thread a little, but I'm getting a little nervous.

Another great buck on the ground!
It's not going to change much IMO. Mike Beatty helped shine the spotlight and it's only grown brighter. This year will just be icing on the cake. The whitetail world already knows we're a destination state for big whitetails.
 

Bigslam51

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Congrats to him! I was just in noble county yesterday and found this. uploadfromtaptalk1446471612937.jpg
 

bowhunter1023

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This is a great read that goes right along with what Jesse was saying:
http://ocj.com/2015/08/confessions-of-a-former-tree-hugger/

Good read!

In 2011, I purchased nearly a mile of transmission pipeline right of way from a gentleman in Wetzel County, WV. He owned closed to 400 acres and was trying to manage the deer herd in a way most of us here in Ohio would recognize, but in a way that made him an outsider in his own home town. When I first showed up with the proposed route, he was apprehensive about the impact of a 5K foot long, 100' wide swath being cut through his property. I worked with him to lay out the route so as to not disturb the majority of his mature oaks, taking advantage of popular stands and invasive brush species. He took less than the going rate in exchange for getting some access roads cut in while we were there with equipment. I closed the deal and returned a year later to see how the regrowth looked. In places that were nothing but briars, autumn olive and yellow popular, there now stood nearly knee high clover. He'd taken advantage of the ridge tops and planted corn and beans. The improved access allowed him to build new shooting houses. Last year I stopped to see him again and ask how things were going. He told me the best thing he ever did was allow us to installed that pipeline. He was now holding more deer and seeing bigger bucks. His words: "You planted me an 11 acre clover food plot and created 2 miles of edge. It's been amazing the positive impact it had."

Noble County is seeing a lot of this and I truly believe my industry is having more than just an economic impact on one of the poorest counties in Ohio, it is also creating a new whitetail hot spot.
 

at1010

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well I own a farm in Noble and I have seen the gas/oil increase.

I haven't seen the big bucks tho! WOW what giant that is!