Similar  here S-10...... 2 mature bucks 3 am and 1 am..........small 6 point 1 pm........
 
Climbed in by 6am today-----25 degrees-----
Holy crap there are walking all around me...hurry up sun !!
OH dam leaves falling everywhere.......
I watched 3 doe for an hour after sun-up..
NO sniffers following........Stupid bucks !!!!
watched 7 turkey
 
That Is All

In tree at 6:10......yotes howling at 6:15
I hear tip toeing by 6:30
Shadow at 40 feet and closing in.
Rocks his head and see rack....
goes behind tree at 25 feet.
comes out other side seems to be a nice buck, looks to be legal.
stays close for 10 minutes.
starts to leave, give him a bleat, he stays for 5 more, then disappears......
light breaks, he's no where to be seen.
tried a rattle run
never comes back--------------------stupid buck
 
Gotta make night vision scopes legal for cross bows........
 

7:05 I watch a buck make a scrape mock fight a sappling,then walk in at 15 yards broadside, walk by then return and walk by at  at 12 yards only trouble could have been the world's smallest 8 pts in the whole state of Ohio. I gaveave him a pass,he looked like he belonged in Potter county 40 years ago. There not all big in Ohio.lol

Sounds like the old Baker climber. I destroyed mine when it came out from under me and I came crashing down on top of it. Didn't do me any good either. AAAHHH the good old days.

Yeah buddy, thems was the days.  We didn't need no stinking safety harnesses neither back when, "the going got tough, the tough got going"!!  Not like that now days, what with special harnesses and even safety let down devices on the market.  Heck.......  I wouldn't even use a rope for safety, using them climbers,  if I was less than 25 inches up a tree.
 
Just funnin of course, I would never do more than 20 inches off the ground but, that's just me. I happen to run across mine while I was looking for something else which, I didn't find.  Got to thinking how it might make a nice portable tree seat.  Danged if it don't, also serves as a "tree stump" what with, to stand on and get a better look see.
 
Even better, when I strapped that thing to a tree and I sat down, it became a time machine.  It just don't get no better then that.
 
Good luck to all and "Hunt Safely".
 
Color me...........  gone!!
 

Still struggling to see deer this year. Nothing on the ground yet. Can't even scrape up a doe. 

Ya ever go up in one of those 2 piece climbers and have the whole bottom fall all the way to the freaking ground while you were up there hanging onto the top part for dear life.
Then- of course-   ya gotta hug the tree and slip down.
Sounds easy---try it.
 
From then on you will tie to two together- Believe me.
 

dpms
Still struggling to see deer this year. Nothing on the ground yet. Can't even scrape up a doe. 

Gosh DPMS that's the the last type of report I expected to hear from you.

Have been wondering what might be up as, we've heard little from your corner of the hunting grounds.

Glad to hear your out and about.

Dropped a doe with the crossbow yesterday afternoon around 4. First deer I've killed in 20+ years. Gave up rifle hunting many years ago, and its only my 2nd year archery hunting. Put one through the heart at 15 yds, and she went about 20 more before crashing. Felt good to put a nice shot on her, and gave me a huge confidence boost.

Deer around me have been a lot more active in the past week. Seen 5 small buck including a huge 6 pt chasing a doe through on Monday. Starting too get good now. Got a few bigger ones on camera on another property that I'm gonna concentrate on now.

Good luck to all.

Glad your back in the game- congrats

OoooooooooK  I understand but.......................,  I'm still celebratin anyway!
 
 

BeenThereDoneThat.
Gosh DPMS that's the the last type of report I expected to hear from you.

Have been wondering what might be up as, we've heard little from your corner of the hunting grounds.

Glad to hear your out and about.

I have been out and about. Probably, 14-15 sits and very little to show for it. Saw a three point and maybe 5-6 does in all of those sits. 
 
Took a walk yesterday in one of my better areas which I don't like to do this time of the year to have a look around. I saw very little sign. Few rubs, no scrapes. 

HOT mature doe came in 7am. squatted and pee-pee-ed in my mock scrape. small 3 point came in at 7:15. & watched the nice 8pt at 100 yards looking for the doe at the same time...

5:30 pm I'm getin cozy in my ground blind;  5:45 pm I hear crunch, crunch..............., crunch.  Okay I'm just kidding but, a y-buck pops out of the corn field and hits a tree branch overhanging the the UN-planted space between the field and trees.  That tree branch is exactly 20 yd.s from the blind and the reason I set up where I did.   The buck was straight out of the corn and went immediately to the branch where he sniffed around then went to the ground with his nose.  Didn't do any pawing as in, making a scrape and made no attempt to leave his scent before he walked into the woods where he meandered around for quite some time.  Try as I might, I couldn't find a third point on either of his antlers so, it was frustrationville at it's best.  6:05 pm; crunch, crunch................okay, okay  but, for real I see a dark figure moving from the corn field, this time about 50 yd.s out and coming at me staying tight to the edge of the corn.  As luck would have it, the deer saw the blind and stopped, moved out into the clearing, where I could see horns before he disappeared into the trees leaving me wondering if he is a shooter.  
 
The first guy never payed any attention to the blind but, made no real attempt at marking the turf and the second guy seemed much too leery of his surroundings and from what I could see, neither deer was sporting the swollen neck of  a buck bitten by the love bug.
 
A last ditch effort on my part, hoping the two would see each other and maybe a chase leading back to my area would ensue..... failed!
 
 
6:25 pm crunch, crunch..............., crunch as, I made my way back to my house still dealing with frustrationville.
 
But hey, things are looking up and I'll be at it again tomorrow come rain or shine!
 
Respectfully submitted;
 
BTDT

Been hunting up north in 2f marenvielle, still really slow up here. Gonna be pheasant hunting thurs fri sat then back up here on Sunday for the week... They are starting but just not there yet. Small bucks running during night.