Pew pew 2022
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@StealthHunter32
Congrats on a heck of a doe! Your daughter did a nice job.
Congrats on a heck of a doe! Your daughter did a nice job.
Spencie
Senior Member
Love seeing the young ladies in the woods. Congrats to her @StealthHunter32
Made it home in one piece. My venison is in the freezer. It’s going home with my son when he comes up for Xmas.
Looking forward too the muzzy season!
Looking forward too the muzzy season!
Ohio Gun Hunters Have Successful Week of Deer Hunting
Hunters harvested 71,932 white-tailed deer during the 2022 gun week that concluded on Sunday, Dec. 4, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) Division of Wildlife.
Surprised it wasn’t down, especially with the wind we had that week. Wednesday was brutal with the high winds and Saturday wasn’t much better.
ThatBuckeyeGuy
Active Member
I hunted tusc most of the week on a ridge above 77 where you can hear for a longgg ways. I heard maybe 3-5 shots a day. Sunday the only shots heard were one from me and one from a buddys brother . Maybe a lot of guys are running suppressed 
Congratulations to all the successful deer hunters this season and past gun week!
And Biden won fair and squareOhio Gun Hunters Have Successful Week of Deer Hunting
Hunters harvested 71,932 white-tailed deer during the 2022 gun week that concluded on Sunday, Dec. 4, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) Division of Wildlife.ohiodnr.gov
Man I can't wait for muzzy I am hunting no matter what the doctor says. Lol
A normal harvest coupled with ehd....good luck next couples season...ouch
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Most folks only fill one tag. You cannot base the population model off harvest numbers for this very reason. As was stated earlier, how much effort did the successful hunters put in to get that one deer. If a person is accustomed to seeing ten deer and killing one, if they only encounter five they can still kill one. Net result is the same. The experience is not.
Also surprised the harvest increased given the wide spread EHD. Dominion must have been tallying the count in an Arizona voting precinct.
Using their numbers, we have a perfectly balanced herd also @brock ratcliff . With roughly the same amount of bucks and does being killed. I wonder what the average hunters experience is.
So on the farm there's one 16 acre field that had corn this year in it. The same night they finished running the corn I went out to look at it at dusk, there were over 20 deer in the field.
We have a blind in the one corner of that field and 3 deer were shot out of it during the week and it had someone in it almost every evening.
There were only 2 times we saw groups of more than 3 deer together and both were not on the farm proper but neighboring properties.
We shot 1 button and the rest were does of the 17 taken. Most were young does, no big nanny does either.
We've got the farm hard with 20-30 taken the last 3-4 years between bows and guns.
I still say yes the deer are there and eating the corn and soybeans but once they come down there are "better" places they go to because there were days we just didn't see anything to shoot at.
Family christmas on both days this coming weekend. We or i can only get out saturday am until early afternoon. Looking forward to it though.
ThatBuckeyeGuy
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I'm going to take my grandfather's first shotgun he ever bought out. It's an old pump action H&R he bought for $45 back in the day . It would tickle me pink to kill a doe with it. The shelf lifter and other parts are worn out it's best to be used as a single shot. I've had it to a couple different smiths and they both said unfixable , neither mentioned possibly making any parts so I've been watching GunBroker the past couple years. It's a 16 gauge , I want one to steal parts from but so far in three years I've only seen 2 and one was a 20 gauge and the other a 12 .