After I killed my buck all I had left was a doe tag, I continued to hunt, and like Seth, saw more bucks than does. The last day when we walked out to the spot that Nate had showed us I wanted to say to Seth, you Want me to walk a mile and a half with a doe tag in my pocket? Come again? Of course I didnt, be use I knew the answer, and also know he would have been right there with me it had been the other way around. When I first saw that last buck I was excited because I knew it was heading right to Seth. I told him it was a good deer, then told him it was 130+, when he told me he could see it I became more excited. 40 minutes later I about peed my pants when he walked up and over the ridge right into me, eye level, 20 yards away and blew out before I even knew he was there!
That pretty much ended our hunt, and while as Seth said we didn't see a lot of deer we saw mostly bucks, and 6 of those were pretty good ones, 2 of those being book deer. For a public land hunt, sight unseen seeing that number of decent bucks is doing ok.
We just can't wait 17 years before we do it again! Thanks again Seth, I can't ask for a better partner to share a camp with.
David
Topic: Ohio Public Land Bowhunt (Read 1034 times)
