Come on Ohio.....

Fishing, hunting........you don't have to give your secrets............

no hunting for me dont like dressing them and the wife said no way am i hangin a deer so she can see it but i have 6 in my back lot and tree rats black and fox seen a white one  3weeks ago but have not seen it yet lots of doe

I'm in NE Ohio by Pymatuning creek, hold on to your hats !!! The bucks are chasing hard right now. I was out tonite and had two bucks (one mature) chasing hard from 4:45pm til dark....

The deer have been very sluggish. Probably because of the warm weather. Hopefully with colder temps comming it will get them going moving good. Had lots of action this morning but once it started heating up they quit. Only thing I needed was sun tan lotion........

thats a complete A@# hole.. i shot my buck and my neighbors had no problem.. i live in Ashtabula

ORIGINAL: griffon

Well...  wish I had better news.  I shot an absolute monster 10 point (probably net between 150 and 160).  My arrow caught a twig two feet in front of the lungs and deflected the arrow back into the liver.  Still a fatal hit and I let the deer go for 4 hours before resuming the track.  The deer crossed onto another landowner's property.  He happened to be outside, so I stopped to ask him if I could track the deer onto his property.  I let him know that the deer was bleeding profusely and likely was laying dead in the ravine behind his barn.  He asked me to wait a moment, and promptly came back with a pistol tucked into the front of his pants.  He then informed me that he did not like hunters or what we stand for and that I should be leaving his property immediately.  For the last three days, the crows, ravens, vultures and coyotes have been all over the area right behind his barn.  No doubt he knew the deer was there and was a complete anti hunter.  There was nothing I could do about it.  I watched the property through binoculars for the next couple of days on and off and there didn't seem like a second when he wasn't out patrolling his property, likely hoping to catch me slipping in to claim the animal.  Next time... I might handle it a little differently.  Silence and darkness can be our friends.

 
Almost sounds like my neighbor down the road. Maybe try calling the game warden. Maybe he could talk some sense into the guy........not to mention, they have jurisdiction to go just about anywhere.

ORIGINAL: gooseman

ORIGINAL: griffon

Well...  wish I had better news.  I shot an absolute monster 10 point (probably net between 150 and 160).  My arrow caught a twig two feet in front of the lungs and deflected the arrow back into the liver.  Still a fatal hit and I let the deer go for 4 hours before resuming the track.  The deer crossed onto another landowner's property.  He happened to be outside, so I stopped to ask him if I could track the deer onto his property.  I let him know that the deer was bleeding profusely and likely was laying dead in the ravine behind his barn.  He asked me to wait a moment, and promptly came back with a pistol tucked into the front of his pants.  He then informed me that he did not like hunters or what we stand for and that I should be leaving his property immediately.  For the last three days, the crows, ravens, vultures and coyotes have been all over the area right behind his barn.  No doubt he knew the deer was there and was a complete anti hunter.  There was nothing I could do about it.  I watched the property through binoculars for the next couple of days on and off and there didn't seem like a second when he wasn't out patrolling his property, likely hoping to catch me slipping in to claim the animal.  Next time... I might handle it a little differently.  Silence and darkness can be our friends.

Almost sounds like my neighbor down the road. Maybe try calling the game warden. Maybe he could talk some sense into the guy........not to mention, they have jurisdiction to go just about anywhere.

In PA that will work.  In OH, they will not even show up unless it is the landowner filing the grievance.  In which case, the hunter is likely the one that will end up on the short end of the stick.  Technically, by crossing onto his property and asking permission to track the deer... I was trespassing and could have been cited for such.  Oh well... live and learn. 

I had this happen to a neighbor last year.  To summarize, the landowner won 46 million dollars a decade ago and now let's no one hunt.  My neighbor (who's Dad pays her $4000 annually to use her land to plant corn) shot the huge buck and it went onto to her property by a few yards.  He called his Dad, dad called the landowner.  She came down and said no.  Dad called the PGC.  Warden came down asked if the land owner wanted the deer.  She said no, so the warden took it.  Understanding the situation and knowing the landowner, I would have walked my****over there and dragged that deer back over the line.  Fine me, call me a criminal, but they should have known she was going to say no.
 
Me too, had this happen last year with the buck I shot, except I know the landowner but never asked actual permission.   I didn't ask, just took a few steps onto their property, pulled the deer over the line and gutted it.   It couldn't have been more than 5 yards.  It wasn't their actual house but their cabin.   In an area where the deer was inside the property at a longer distance, and I didn't know the landowner, I would have asked too.
 
You did the right thing Griffon in terms of respect, but got **** on.  That's a shame.
 
 

ORIGINAL: thedrake

That's too bad Griffon. I hate to admit it, but I would have walked over the property line and got the deer that night.

My property is posted, but if someone shot one and had the deer go over the property line, i'd not only allow that person to look for the deer, i'd help them find it and drag it out.

 
Amen ........I would do the same. Nothing worse that losing a deer. Nothing worse then losing a deer because of some ****hole !

Thanks for the kind words gentlemen.  Under normal circumstances, I may have gone to look for the buck as well.  That said, when gun play comes into the arena you need to ask yourself if a deer is worth your life.  Is it worth deserting family for an animal? 
 
That said, I redeemed myself this weekend.  While turkey hunting on Saturday in Pittsburgh, I saw several bucks chasing does and one buck that was seriously injured (didn't know if it had been to a car or archer at the time).  After evaluating his behavior, I contacted a buddy who was having his 50th birthday.  I told him that I had a buck for him (he had not filled his tag and this was a big boy).  I explained the situation and he was still willing to attempt to harvest the buck.  It rained on Saturday, so stalking was an option.  We went where I had seen the buck last and jumped him up.  He stopped at 20 yards and my buddy was able to get an arrow into him (even though it was a neck shot).  The deer was hurt bad, but had his stamina and now the chase was on.  Two arrows later (one good, one not...) the buck piled up into a swollen creek and we retrieved him.  He had indeed been shot in the right front shoulder.  I do not think he would have lived, the wound was effecting him pretty seriously.  The buck turned out to be a main frame 10 point with a couple of 1 inch stickers, making him a 12.  This was by far his biggest buck and probably the best birthday gift he could have gotten.  Now I can sleep a little better... 

Tell him happy birthday and good job to both of you on not giving up !!!!

Hi All!! I'm not from Ohio but my son and I maybe looking to Bow Hunt next year!! Any help would be GREAT!!! 

i cant rember can you use muzzle in reg gun we had a guy using a 50 the other day and he did't tag it right away or at all but dressed it out the guys seen him dressin with no tag mmmm we also have a guy inthe back who forgot to plug and is using a 10 and not a 410 ???? burger on inpact

i used to hunt with a 50 cal muzzle in north ridgeville till they banned it so now its just crossbows

just talked to my buddy in ashtabula county.  he deer hunts the farm that i turkey hunt on.  he and another buddy counted almost 150 turkeys in two flocks there during the shotgun season.  think i may have a good spring.  said not as many deer hunters again this year.