Deer Hunting
The 2009 Ohio deer archery season opened on 26 September, a long awaited event for northcentral Ohio bow and crossbow hunters. It’s a wonderful time to hunt, with cool, pleasant days, leaves turning into a riot of red and gold, blue skies, and that hint of fox grapes on a gentle wind. But not a […]
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Ohio’s archery season opened on September 26 (2009), but it didn’t mean much to many area bow hunters. Lots went out on opening day, of course, because it’s traditional, and some made a few trips later. But it’s during the rut that bow and crossbow hunters become serious, because deer move then, and the big […]
Continue reading about Bow Hunters:Tactics for Tree Stand Success During Deer Rut
This world is full of things an outdoorsman will never know, and just one of them is how many times a waiting bowhunter will have a trophy buck or even a small doe catch his or her scent and ghost away to safer climes. But I suspect it happens often. Too many archers don’t really […]
Published December 2004 The Ohio statewide primitive weapons season will runs for four days in December (2004), and as always it’s going to be a tough one. Archers have already made a record kill and the opening day of gun season alone accounted for a further 40,000 plus animals. The dumb and the unlucky are […]
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