Ohio hnting & fishing

[Star1pup]

Anyone here who hunts and fishes in Ohio? I'm in what they call the Northeast section. In DOW division 3.

[Toad_Sticker]

NW ohio here.
I hunt my own 29 acres so I don't have to buy a tag ;D
TS

[Star1pup]

I hunt my own 67 acres, but I always bought a tag until I hit 66. Now it's a freebie, but I have had a license since I was 7 years old. Didn't need fishing license until I was 16.

[Star1pup]

I saw one big fox squirrel this morning. He was on the ground and the underbrush is so thick there was no way to get a shot. I wish the leaves would drop off even if I do have to rake them. :)

[Toad_Sticker]

this wet cool weather is making the skeeters awful! >:(
I went out sunday night and couldn't sit cause they were like a cloud around my head.
I did sneek up on a coon tho.
TS

[Star1pup]

I've been hunting from a ground blind and seeing several deer. I have been watching for the right doe for our freezer and I have passed up shots that I'll kick myself for later.

Saw one buck, but he had a small rack and I'd rather put a doe in the freezer and wait for a bigger buck later.

Due to a bum knee this year and arthritis I've been using the crossbow.

[Penny_Plinker]

If a buck has a dinky rack but a big body, it can often dominate larger racked bucks and get at the does and pass on inferior antler genes. So it's better to cull that sort.

Penny

[Star1pup]

Okay, Penny. If he shows up tomorrow, he's going to be a nice roast and some jerky. ;) I really need to get my deer during archery season as I always have to go to PA with a friend of mine and the deer up there are scarce to none. I miss the first couple days of Ohio gun season and waste them in PA. I need a buddy with a camp in WV. I think you guys have plenty of deer down there.

What I'll really miss about hunting PA is that Ohio is a shotgun only state and I like to use my rifle once in a awhile.

You have a safe & successful season, Lady.

[Penny_Plinker]

We used to live in PA, plus our good friend lives there. She said the big orchards got permits to kill deer for damage control and they killed and killed and had big piles of them just laying going to waste. Plus, if i'm not mistaken, PA was trying to manage for the big bucks and they ended up letting them kill off too many does.

Bummer for you OH guys about the shotgun only...but being able to use a crossbow would be great, too.

Best of luck to you too, Starpup!

Penny

[Toad_Sticker]

I had a nice small buck about 40 yards while I was loading my furnace this morning.......He didn't know I was there until I clapped my hands.
TS

[Star1pup]

Hi Penny. Yes, PA really messed up their deer herd. They almost had a rebellion over how it was handled and I understand Dr. Alt, the guy behind the management even got death threats. That's pretty extreme over deer hunting, but deer hunting is a very old tradition in the Keystone state. I doubt I'll spend $101 to hunt there next year when we have a very healthy deer herd in Ohio.

Saw nothing this morning, but I'll be out this afternoon. They're here. It's just being in the right place when they come through.

[Star1pup]

I took Penny's advice and he's a nice, fat 6-point. That's the end of my Ohio buck season, but I'll hunt a couple days in PA and still have an Ohio doe tag.

I learned one good lesson today: Don't drink a big cup of tea just before you go to sit 3 hours in a hunting blind. ;D

[clawhammerdan]

Hunt my own 15 acres near Cambridge. Two miles south of Ohio's third largest inland lake: Seneca Lake

[HPshooter]

I know this post is kind of aged, but I wanted to add a few comments.

I'm in SW Ohio, but I'm from WVa. *I used to go "back home" to hunt deer because I got to use a "real gun" (a .308 ). *I quit doing that for several reasons.

The deer in Ohio are corn and soybean fed rather than the mast they eat so much of in appalachia. *This means that Ohio/Indiana deer taste MUCH better. * :)

I'm very sure that the last deer I brought back from WV was not the last deer I shot in WV. *And the one the butchers gave me tasted like it had been gut shot. * *:P It's also at that point that I gave up on commercial butchers and began hanging, curing and butchering my own animals. *

It just cost too much to go hunting deer out of state. :-[

Regarding only being allowed to hunt with shotguns in Ohio. *That is not technically the 100% truth. *You can also hunt with pistols of adequate caliber and barrel lenght. *I'll put my 14" .44 magnum T/C Contender up against a shotgun slug gun any day. *You can also hunt with black-powder rifles - a nice in-line with a scope during gun season and a vintage-style side-hammer during "primative" gun season. * 8)

[johnjmw]

clawhammerdan
Your place is not too far from mine! I have 80 down in Monroe county. I only hunt on my place and a couple of next door neighbors of mine. This way we can keep an eye on each others properties.

[lostinthewoods]

South west Ohio here. I only have an acre here and hope to be able to hunt some of the surrounding corn fields next year. I've been saying that for about 20 years now. :-/



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