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Post by Toby Benoit on Dec 1, 2006 9:24:57 GMT 12.75
I ain't tellin' ya what to do Phil, but you might wanna think about a road trip to Coolville to hunt with Mike and Faith! Sounds to me like they've got plenty up there to go around.
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Post by Paws on Dec 1, 2006 10:35:13 GMT 12.75
Ain't gonna happen! Got too much to do here to get out early in the morning and can't spend more than a couple hours out at a time.
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Post by Paws on Dec 1, 2006 10:42:02 GMT 12.75
Here is "Sonny Buck's" story! Well, he went and did it. Yesterday about 945 am Sunny Buck was in a treestand with Pop (my Dad) and the big doe walks up. He set his site's on her and the ball goes through the 3rd rib and out the off shoulder... Pop only stepped in to finish her off do to the fact that she was only 2 steps from the line and we can not go over there... Weapon used was a copy of the Hawkens .50 cal, .490-190 gr patched round ball with 60 gr of powder... He is in school today and wish I could have been there to hear how this story grows... I may not have been there with him when he got his first deer but I can not think of anyone else that I would like to have seen Sunny Buck with for his first deer, yes even myself. Sunny Buck in Named after Pop and now they share more then just a name. I hope and pray that they have many more seasons togeather. Sunny Buck is 8 and Pop is 65. Frank Steed
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Post by brittonfaith on Dec 1, 2006 10:51:39 GMT 12.75
WAY TO GO!!!!! Congrats!!
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Post by brittonfaith on Dec 1, 2006 10:57:21 GMT 12.75
I think Sonny Buck deserves a post over in the Village Youth Club!! Gotta show the other boys what he accomplished too!
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Post by Paws on Dec 1, 2006 10:59:48 GMT 12.75
Sure does look like OCC group is doing better than the national average! ;D I'm damn proud of all of you! ;D
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Post by brittonfaith on Dec 2, 2006 4:39:43 GMT 12.75
Ain't gonna happen! Got too much to do here to get out early in the morning and can't spend more than a couple hours out at a time. Phil, you want some easy deer without the hassle of waking well before dawn?? On 50 between Athens & Guysville there's a big, flat open field. Don't know who owns it though. For the past couple of weeks there's been a group of about 14 there. Counted as many as 20 one day. They're out there most of the day. Just pull off on the shoulder. They won't move. I got out the other day and shot off a roll of film. (Left the shotgun at the house. ) Bet you could even walk right up close enough that it wouldn't count as shooting from the highway. Would only be about a 30 yd. shot. You could bag 3 or 4 in under 10 minutes!!
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Post by Paws on Dec 2, 2006 5:02:20 GMT 12.75
No thanks. Got drowned this morning. Thought I'd wait out the shower figuring it would do like the past two days. Freakin' poured.
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Post by brittonfaith on Dec 2, 2006 5:17:51 GMT 12.75
Phil, you want some easy deer without the hassle of waking well before dawn?? On 50 between Athens & Guysville there's a big, flat open field. Don't know who owns it though. For the past couple of weeks there's been a group of about 14 there. Counted as many as 20 one day. They're out there most of the day. Just pull off on the shoulder. They won't move. I got out the other day and shot off a roll of film. (Left the shotgun at the house. ) Bet you could even walk right up close enough that it wouldn't count as shooting from the highway. Would only be about a 30 yd. shot. You could bag 3 or 4 in under 10 minutes!! Not that I condone that type of hunting!! I don't (normally). No sport in it. I got poured on too this morning. Oh well, been hooping and hacking with a low grade fever all week. Might as well just finish myself off with pneumonia, too.
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Post by Paws on Dec 2, 2006 8:18:29 GMT 12.75
Now the wind is up. Well, at least I think maybe my clothes are dry now. Temperature dropped by 16 degrees since 0630 and the wind must be hitting gusts of 60 mph or better. Been watching for roof chunks! Got to pick up my terrier in a couple of hours from her visit to the vet; she got fixed! Maybe I can get another hour in the woods before dark.
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Post by Mars on Dec 2, 2006 9:21:39 GMT 12.75
I condone it! Have at them! Somebody has to cull the dumb deer from the herd. Our second season opens Dec.16th but I lost my mini-me hunting partner. Her mid-term grades came out yesterday and she has an "F" in every single class so she's grounded until the report cards come out in Jan.. Maybe longer if she doesn't pull her grades up.
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Post by Paws on Dec 3, 2006 5:27:52 GMT 12.75
In Ohio one may not fire a weapon within fifty feet of a roadway. I'm not sure how far back the right of way goes but I'll bet it is more than 50 feet which would put the hunter on private property and written permission would be needed. Looks like this season is over anyway I hurt my arm yesterday. I'll try to get out again this afternoon then again after Christmas with the bow. I think I'm going to backpack out for a couple of weeks with the bow and see what I can do. I'm so sick of this house I'm ready to burn the damned thing and with her in it!
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Post by brittonfaith on Dec 4, 2006 13:22:27 GMT 12.75
This is getting down right embarrassing! Last five minutes of the last day of regular season our gang bags yet another buck. 6-point was at the clothes line and Mike grabbed his "smoke pole" and KA-BOOM!!!Still have 6 tags left for muzzle loading season.
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Post by Brikatw on Dec 4, 2006 14:57:41 GMT 12.75
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Post by Paws on Dec 5, 2006 2:59:00 GMT 12.75
Terrific guys! Congratulations Mike on the last minute kill too! Now we stilll have ML season, and bows all the way to February basically and Jimmy tells me we have another two day shotgun season this month. I have to check that out. If we do I think I'm going up to number 10 hollow in Wayne National Forest and walk the edge of the woods. Arm has almost stopped hurting. Weirdest thing; could not really find a particular point responsible for the pain but could not grasp, turn it or lift anything wihout it feeling like it was broken. Those are some terrific pictures there Brian!
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Post by brittonfaith on Dec 5, 2006 3:12:56 GMT 12.75
Yep. 2-day shotgun hunt is 16th & 17th. I heard they did this because wqrking guys could only get 1 day off during the full-week season.
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Post by Paws on Dec 5, 2006 3:17:08 GMT 12.75
Now we're talkin' I just might be forced to backpack out on this one up to my cousin's place.
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Post by Toby Benoit on Dec 5, 2006 7:12:43 GMT 12.75
I had a great weekend in camp this weekend!
No deer killed out of eight of us, but three guys managed to get a hog each. Also got three guys tresspassing and had them arrested. They had jumped the fence with a catch dog and had already caught one hog and had it tied when they were caught.
It was good to be near a campfire Saturday night, smelling that pine and oak burning. I came home and slept here at the house, but I had a good time hunting.
I was the only one who saw a buck and the land we were on only allows us to take six points or better and it was a seven inch spike.
I had put out some Scrape-Mate doe in heat and the little joker came in from down wind snorting and blowing with his nose in the wind. He hung around Saturday morning for fifteen minutes before leaving. Saturday afternoon, my little brother joined me and when we got to the ground blind, that sucker had been trampled flat and my gear bag was about fifteen yards away!
We got things squared away and settled in by three. At three-thitry, I hit the doe bleat and immediately heard running off to our right and that same spike came running in and strutted back and forth around the blind until four-fifteen! Forty-five minutes with that thing as close as four yards at times. He was a cute little guy, strutting around with his little neck all swollen. I told Dave, my brother, that if he charges the tent to trample it again, to grab him and we'll hog tie him! ;D
Saw a couple of twenty or so pound pigs yesterday, but that was it. A good time though!
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Post by Brikatw on Dec 6, 2006 15:03:08 GMT 12.75
Ain't nuthin' wrong with a 20 lbs hog. A little fire, alot of coals and a spit. He's toast, literally. They are great to eat that size but you gotta go easy on how many you take. A couple a year would carry us well around here.
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Post by brittonfaith on Dec 7, 2006 8:42:19 GMT 12.75
Mike's brother Tom's 8-pt that scored out at 150.
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