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Post by Toby Benoit on Nov 19, 2012 9:55:58 GMT 12.75
Gotta start getting out a little. I need some outdoors time to clear my mind. Going to take it easy and go slow, Doc says take it easy, but I have a golf cart with a game pole to take the load if I get one.
I'll keep ya posted!
Anybody else doing any good???
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Post by eaglenest on Nov 19, 2012 11:19:35 GMT 12.75
It is youth weekend hunting here. I saw on FB out near where Phil's Aunt Eloise lives a 32 point buck was hit by an auto.....no damage to his head and the rack was outstanding. He would be a tough hunk of meat, wouldn't he?
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Post by Toby Benoit on Nov 19, 2012 12:39:38 GMT 12.75
He'd be just right for the pressure cooker!!!
Maybe I need to get a hold of Aunt Louise and see if I can hunt around there; he's bound to have some mighty impressive offspring still in the woods!
Just talked with Brian (Brikatw) and he and his boy Matt are in Indiana. He was selected to go on a hunt through one of the veterans groups and they put 'em up in a nice little bed & breakfast and come and bring them out to their stands and such. He's hunting a private farm with turnips and corn seperated by small woodlots. So far he's killed a 200lb doe and his boy killed a 160" 8pt that weighed 250+.
He's got till Tuesday morning to get his buck...
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Post by brittonfaith on Nov 19, 2012 13:30:00 GMT 12.75
Mike's nephew got an 11-point over in Noble Co. this evening. Saw a huge 12- or 14-pt on a dead run cross the road right in front of us about half way between Oak Hill and Thurman around noon today. Maybe 5 miles from Aunt Eloise's place. About 400 ft past where he crossed was some fella on a cell phone pulled into a hay field. I'm guessing the kid he had taken hunting had shot at it and was trying to track it. Also several small does along US35. Rut is just starting around here. Got another week or so before our gun season begins. Just youth and archery for now. Other than the deer I mentioned, ain't seen nothing or even signs of anything other than what I've seen in the back of other's trucks. Nothing even coming to our feeders now except tree rats.
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Post by eaglenest on Nov 19, 2012 13:44:46 GMT 12.75
The 32 pointer was hit near Jackson on US 35. So, it is probably closer to Faith and Mike than Eloise. And it is the State of Ohio's record.
Yes, I bet that he has offsprings. There have been 2-14 point bucks killed just out the road from me and there are more big boys around here.
I saw 2 does with five fawns with them. I stopped and made sure that I was counting correctly. I was right. The guy that hunts here on the farm has this good sized Momma and her 3 little ones on his tree cameras. And he is the one that told me there are more good sized bucks around here.
Good Luck Toby..I have a doe in the freezer that the one that hunts here got for me. I like the younger does better that the Bucks. He got this one with a a bow and a 14 point Buck. He did have one more that he can get with the bow.
He has all the meat cutting equipment as his Dad was a meat cutter and the burger is so good. So are the steaks!!
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Post by Toby Benoit on Nov 19, 2012 14:21:53 GMT 12.75
Tree rats are a blessing, Faith! I LOVE a mess of squirrel, fried up n served with home fried, cornbread, n iced tea!!! Mmmmm Mmmmm! Get yer .22 and get to work! ;D Tomorrow I have a work-date with Trish to try to organize the cookbook proposal for our publisher, so mayber Tuesday evening I can take a short walk out behind dad's and see what's moving down in the oak bottoms. Also Trish got a bow and is learning how to use it so she can hunt hogs with me, lol...gonna take her after T-giving probably.
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Post by Paws on Nov 19, 2012 23:23:59 GMT 12.75
Tree rats are a blessing, Faith! I LOVE a mess of squirrel, fried up n served with home fried, cornbread, n iced tea!!! Mmmmm Mmmmm! Get yer .22 and get to work! ;D Tomorrow I have a work-date with Trish to try to organize the cookbook proposal for our publisher, so mayber Tuesday evening I can take a short walk out behind dad's and see what's moving down in the oak bottoms. Also Trish got a bow and is learning how to use it so she can hunt hogs with me, lol...gonna take her after T-giving probably. Come on up the college campus is full of greys. Bring your air rifle.
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Post by Paws on Nov 19, 2012 23:25:25 GMT 12.75
The 32 pointer was hit near Jackson on US 35. So, it is probably closer to Faith and Mike than Eloise. And it is the State of Ohio's record. Yes, I bet that he has offsprings. There have been 2-14 point bucks killed just out the road from me and there are more big boys around here. I saw 2 does with five fawns with them. I stopped and made sure that I was counting correctly. I was right. The guy that hunts here on the farm has this good sized Momma and her 3 little ones on his tree cameras. And he is the one that told me there are more good sized bucks around here. Good Luck Toby..I have a doe in the freezer that the one that hunts here got for me. I like the younger does better that the Bucks. He got this one with a a bow and a 14 point Buck. He did have one more that he can get with the bow. He has all the meat cutting equipment as his Dad was a meat cutter and the burger is so good. So are the steaks!! This picture is from a couple of years ago.
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Post by brittonfaith on Nov 20, 2012 6:09:28 GMT 12.75
Y'know Phil, once I got to looking at this pic I think you are right. Ohio discontinued the metal tags when they went to online check-in. At first I thought what I saw on the right beam was a metal tag, but pretty sure it's a twine tied to something out of view to hold the head up. BUT even if this was a new road kill, highway patrol or DNR would have been called so the driver could file an accident report for their insurance and one of the new permanent paper tags should have been attached, unless ODOT of DNR took possession of it. That made me wonder if that 'thing' on the ground on the right of the deer's body was a paper tag in a ziploc. If so, it's suppose to be attached to the antler or ear. This sure looks like a hunt camp picture to me. So that leads me to think it was either poached or taken somewhere other than Ohio. AND for being a road kill at 65-75 mph there sure ain't a lot of damage to that carcass! So far nothing in the Jackson newspaper and no local eyewitness accounts.
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Post by brittonfaith on Nov 20, 2012 6:47:27 GMT 12.75
YEP!! I tracked him down! Found this pic as well as several pics of the mount. This is the fabled "Amish Buck". His pics been circulating since at least '06 and according to legend, was taken by an Amish boy with a long bow. Taken in either Ohio, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, or Indiana.
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Post by Toby Benoit on Nov 20, 2012 17:42:37 GMT 12.75
Oh, THAT buck? I kilt him wiff my Red Ryder BB gun back on '98. Ricocheted off a grape vine an' hit him in the eye blindng him on the left side. When he spun around, he ran smack into a pine tree and broke his neck. Yup; I'd show ya the rack, but I cut it up for shirt buttons, knife handles, and powder measuers.
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Post by Paws on Nov 20, 2012 23:45:40 GMT 12.75
Did ye eat him or was he too tough?
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Post by Toby Benoit on Nov 21, 2012 7:27:55 GMT 12.75
I made a beeeg sammich!!!
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Post by Toby Benoit on Nov 25, 2012 14:53:28 GMT 12.75
With a mending paw and dr's orders to not be moving around I figured I prolly ought to forget about bowhunting for a few more weeks, so I knocked the cobwebs off of my rifle and took it to the range.
first three shots I could cover with a quarter from a sandbag rest. Next four shouts I can easily cover with the palm of my hand, shooting offhand.
Yup, I reckon it's still ready to hunt, lol.
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Post by Paws on Nov 26, 2012 1:18:06 GMT 12.75
Sounds pretty good. You got it scoped or using iron peepers?
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Post by Toby Benoit on Nov 26, 2012 12:48:45 GMT 12.75
Scoped at a hunnert yards. It's ready to rock! Took the golf cart out back of dads and stashed it behind some palmettos and I walked about a hunnert yards down to a stand of oak n hickery trees and sat down n waited.
Shoulda carried the .410 instead; all I seen was a couple squirrels a cottontail and mess of quail. Pretty, pretty evening outside!!!
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Post by brittonfaith on Nov 26, 2012 13:56:33 GMT 12.75
Took a little drive back the ridge tonight. Oh brudder!! Ten campers with about 125 hunters within 3/4 miles of our door. Saw about anther 10 tent/lean-to camps. Mike decided since he ain't got a snowball's chance in hell of getting anything as a landowner with all the noise and scent the urban-ites are putting off, he'd better get his license and deer permit. Stood in line for almost two hours, but he's legal to hunt 90% of the county without permission. He took the two bottles of doe-in-heat that I bought him and dumped them and a few apples on and around a big oak tree behind the house. So damned tempted to put a big orange sign at the end of our driveway asking for venison donations since I've kept their herd fed all year long.
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Post by Toby Benoit on Nov 26, 2012 16:25:36 GMT 12.75
I'd put that sign up! Can't hurt and you might be surprised! ;D
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Post by Paws on Nov 26, 2012 16:29:53 GMT 12.75
Cousin Jim Darnell got him one. Cost him $12,000.00 in what used to be his motorcycle. Got a little rash and bruising on his leg.
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Post by Toby Benoit on Nov 26, 2012 16:43:13 GMT 12.75
Traded a motorcycle for a whitetail... Woof! Lucky he didn't break his neck! Hope the bike was insured!
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