Any luck in Ohio yet?

[pacopperhead]

that buck is awesome!!!!

[longbowben]

Congrats nice buck.  

[leatherneck]

Great looking buck. Congrats!!!  

[Forrest Creature 1]

Fishone thats a dandy buck, good shoot. Congrats  

[pitbull]

 Awesome

[GingivitisKahn]

Nice buck - great job!

 

[Mike Gerardi]

Very Nice!!      

[djanko]

Way to go...what a beauty!!

[Molson]

Nice deer! Congrats!!  

[fishone]

Thanks guys!

[jcp161]

Fantastic!!

[bowmofo]

Nice Job Craig!  

[Three Arrows]

I have been hunting a Jeckyll/Hyde buck this year.  He has a nice rack with one side that would put him in 160's if both sides were the same, but they are not.  One side looks like a rack off a 2 1/2 year old buck.  I saw this buck in 2007 and passed him up.  He made an appearance last evening at 4:20 pm.  I got up late from an afternoon nap and took a shower using my wife's cucumber tea soap...  Very dumb move.  Every deer that moved in my range went downwind and smelled my soap.  Had 17 turkeys feeding under my stand, so concealment was not a problem.  Filson bibs and Gray Wolf gray wool.  This was the first time I got this lazy and consequently, the first time I got scent busted by a deer I had visual contact with.

[buckeye_hunter]

We should have brought home some meat tonight! Tell the story Rob!
 
 

-Charlie

[GingivitisKahn]

Bonked a whistlepig in the head today.  Pic and  details at  http://tradgang.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=1&t=068932&p=15#000222  (15th page of the Daily Hunt thread).

[buckeye_hunter]

Good work Jim! We've been hunting Delaware with lots of deer sightings and quite a few in shooting range......

Oldskool will have to tell about that!

   
-Charlie

[leatherneck]

Oldskool, were waiting???????????  

[GingivitisKahn]

Thanks Charlie.  Haven't hunted Delaware in years - had a great gray owl try to steal my hat there once though.

Come on, Oldskool - spill the beans.  :-D

[buckeye_hunter]

Alright.....so Oldskool told me to post his story since he is on the road today.    

It is a nice brisk afternoon with a fairly consistent wind. Not too much, but just about right for hunting.

We decide to go hunt Delaware Wildlife area where there are some good oaks with HUGE acorns falling. We have seen plently of deer in this location over the last few weeks. Rob decides to go into the spot we have been hunting and I go across the road to some other oaks (turns out to be my mistake).

Where I'm hunting, there is quite a bit of mast on the ground from hickory and oak trees. I thought this would work out well with a pond just behind me. I'm not there 10 minutes when the squirrel brigade starts going crazy! I mean, I am covered up in squirrels. Immediately, I decide to take a shot at a big fox squirrel. Of course, I don't pick a spot and shoot right over him. Now the entire woods are filled up with the sound of barking squirrels. Oh well, it is still a beautiful day in the woods.

Meanwhile, on Rob's side of the road....

Rob is walking into the woods and sees the white flick of a tail so he immediately freezes. While standing there, more deer filter through, but no shot. After they pass, he continues through to his brush blind in the "good" oaks and sits down for the evening. After a short wait the deer filter back into the oaks. There are 8 of them total, a mixture of young bucks and does.

While the deer are feeding, both a doe and a 4 point buck offer up perfect broadside shots at the same time. Are you askng yourself, what would I do? Well here is some more info to help you decide.

The yearling doe is standing with her head behind a tree at 7-8 yards with her vitals WIDE OPEN!    

So next time you see Rob, kick him in the shorts for me!    

-Charlie

[zipper bowss]

Quite a few good storie on this thread.I managed to put another doe in the freezer friday afternoon.Good luck all!
Bill