tkohlhorst,

Good luck. Two worst times of the year, I feel, are the week before the season and the week after. Antlerless Archery opens by me this Saturday. I have been pacing like a caged lion. Regular Archery opens the 29th. Make sure you post some pictures.

Alex

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yup can’t come fast enough for me. this is my 36th year bow hunting and I think I am more excited about it than ever before!!

Wow, I must be the square peg trying to go in the round hole. Unless something changes I could care less when the season opens. I’ve been in OH for three years and the only land I have to hunt is the 3 acres behind my house. I’ve checked with all the local land owners and can’t find another place to hunt. Public land is between 3-4 hours away and some of the roughest I’ve ever tried to hunt. You just about need to be a mountain goat to hunt there.

The better half is working in South TX for the next few months. I will most likely fly down for a week. If so I have plans to visit Dr. Ed while there. Might even ship one of my bows down ahead of time and try to poke a pig while visiting.

Troy

I don’t know Troy. Your 3 acres are exactly 3 acres more than I have. 🙁 I was VERY lucky to happen across a farmer than allows hunting (mainly out of need to control crop damage). Keep at it, it’s all you can do. Good luck in TX. I have to plan a pig hunt there one day. Sounds like a blast.

Alex

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Yeah, I used to get all worked up like that:D Now I wait until the the weather cools down and the skeeters get scarce.

I understand the land thing, so far I have a 45 acre plot I’ll be sharing with anther hunter that the landowner says does not hunt much and is not a bow hunter. So probably won’t see him until muzzleloader starts. Then I called another friend who has let me go on his land which has a couple hundred acres in various plots but he regretfully informed me he has leased the plot I wanted to go on. I know the guys he leased it to but I’m not sure yet if they will let in on it. Anyway on the upside he is planning to lease across the road and so much as offered it to me as soon as he works out the details with his uncle. It backs up to hundreds of acres of public land so I am excited about that proposal. And while there are tons of game lands near me you have to find places others won’t walk to if you don’t want to hunt too close to other hunters. I’m excited but maybe not quite as much as the younger guys.

Good luck to you this weekend. Wisconsin season opens Saturday as well. Unfortunately, my daughter is in a cast and on crutches so she’ll miss out on opening weekend. On the upside, this will be my wife’s first season as a bowhunter. Hopefully a deer or turkey offers her a shot and gets to punch her first tag. We’ll be hunting our property north of Madison while some friends of mine hunt a buddy’s land an hour west of us. With any luck, there will be a deer or six hanging on the game pole by Sunday evening.

Yes, I’m getting rabid too. Can’t wait, can’t wait! I’ve trained hard this summer and really feel like my bow is an extension of my arm. My season starts monday the 17th. I’ll be out tuesday morning. The creek on my land dried up this summer and there’s been almost no deer sign so I’m starting on a 200 +/- acre parcel a little north of here with plenty of water. Picked up a full set of woodland BDU’s at the army surplus store last week for 40 bucks! Four days to go…

-Ben

tkohlhorst wrote: [quote=Troy Breeding]Wow, I must be the square peg trying to go in the round hole. Unless something changes I could care less when the season opens. I’ve been in OH for three years and the only land I have to hunt is the 3 acres behind my house. I’ve checked with all the local land owners and can’t find another place to hunt. Public land is between 3-4 hours away and some of the roughest I’ve ever tried to hunt. You just about need to be a mountain goat to hunt there.

The better half is working in South TX for the next few months. I will most likely fly down for a week. If so I have plans to visit Dr. Ed while there. Might even ship one of my bows down ahead of time and try to poke a pig while visiting.

Troy

I am originally from Sidney, Troy so you live in my old neck of the woods…I can’t say that I have ever hunted in Ohio but check out around Kiser Lake I know there is state land over there that you should be able to hunt. The only other places that I could tell you are there in Southern Ohio. There has to be public land thou around some of the lakes around the shelby county area. Look at Indian Lake too.

When I first moved up to Minnesota it was hard for me to find land until I got a hold of the plat books…now I know where I can hunt ….hope this helps you out some

If there is anything around Kiser lake I can’t find it. Kiser Lake is only 7 miles down the road.

Since moving here I’ve found that the least amount of time I spend in the woods behind the house the better off I am. The first year here I hunted quite a bit behind the house and found that it turned the deer to only moving thru at night.

Lastyear I only hunted when the rut was in and then I picked my days with care. Saw several nice young bucks and several doe. I’ll do the same thing again this year. Maybe I’ll get lucky and have one come into bow range.

Lastyear I didn’t set my ladder stand until right before time to hunt. Guess that strange thing in the woods had alot to do with the deer changing their normal travel route. This year my stand is already in place and I’ve seen deer standing right under it.

Troy

Another opening weekend is in the rear view mirror. I made my best guesses with regard to treestands, put my wife in what I thought would be the most productive one, and took something else out of the way for myself. I saw squirrels, birds, and not much else. My wife, however, made a perfect 22-yard broadside shot on her first deer ever this morning — in one lung, out the other, arrow in the dirt (full disclosure: she hunts with a compound).

Hopefully my daughter gets out of her cast soon and fills her first tag as well.

Wesbrock,

Wow! Congrats to your wife! It’s an intense feeling!