Back from Ohio

[GrnMtnTradNut]

I am back other than the bow accident all went good. We took 1 buck, my uncle got a 140" 3yr old 9pt on public land with his wheelie bow. My friends dad shot a 127" 4yr old 6pt on public land also. I do not know how many bucks we saw total. I personally saw 44 different bucks in 9 days. I passed on numerous young bucks in side 25 yds. A few of those were Pope and Young 2yr olds including a beautiful 130" 10 pt who will look awesome if he makes it another year and 9 different 8-10 pts in the 115" to 125" range I wanted a big mature buck. I had a few close calls, like the 5yr old 8pt at noon who would have grossed close to 150" if not for a broken left G3 who was under 20yds for 10 minutes and would not give me a open broadside shot so I let him leave, and the 165" 12pt stud with a hot doe who came by twice at 22 yds with no shot cause of the rose bushes, another 145" 10 pt that would only skirt my comfort zone after I rattled him in and then only to give  me a quartering to me shot at 18yds before leaving. The last evening I saw a true monster at 4pm. Hecame out of a clear cut trailing a hot doe, I gave him every trick and call I had, but could not pull him or the doe closer than 50yds. With a 300lb. plus body and 180-185" of perfect 10pt rack on top he was in peak condition and I figured him to be 6 or 7yrs old he was awesome. After he went on and it got dark I climbed down to head for home thanking god for being able to see such a awesome animal, and having a fun and safe trip with my uncle and dad. I will be back in 50 weeks to do it all over again. I will add that we hunted public land and private land, both were equally as good. Chris

[Izzy]

Wow! Sounds like an awesome trip.When you see bucks like that it makes it easy to block out buck fever on these 80"ers back in the eastern woodlands.Glad your riser survived.That bow will be as good as new after Bill and Tracy get done with it.

[bowmofo]

Are you sure you were in Ohio  

[vermonster13]

Welcome back Chris. Now how's my Habu doing? lol

[Panzer II]

Where abouts in S.E Ohio were you hunting

[GrnMtnTradNut]

Dave the Habu is great I will bring it to you tomrrow, I took great care of it. We were hunting public and private lans in S.E. Ohio in Vinton, Meigs, Athens, and Galia counties the hunting was great but you have to be careful of were you hunt we try to stay away from private lands with lots of shotgun hunting and public lands with easy access,my uncles 185lb. buck took us 3 hours to get out, the more rugged the country the more we like it, not alot of people want to go the extra mile, and we look for places that are hard for the local shotgun and smokepole hunters to drive.

[longbowben]

Sounds like your hooked on ohio,sounds like you had a great hunt also.  

[BEN]

Sounds like there may be still a few left around for us locals!