We arrived in Ohio around noon today. It stayed around 40 degrees all day and it was breezy. We saw a few good bucks that were out cruising while we were on the road.
When we arrived in our camping spot it was really disheartening to learn that a buddy of mine that I brought to this place a few years ago and introduced to a few local people was staying across the road at one of the local’s houses. It wouldn’t have stung so bad if he was alone. Instead, he had 8 people including himself.
Here we are ten hours from home with a bunch of people from our hometown across the road. The state is very large and there are many other towns to hunt in. I don’t understand why people have to be unethical in a sense in return to places that they never would have known about if they hadn’t been brought there by someone else. It all boils doin to ethics and the way you were brought up.
We were able to sneak into the woods for a few hours before dark. For the week I will be hunting with dad, Doug Vaughn and Brett Dufour.
Dad saw a big 8-pointer tonight but it was traveling in the opposite direction from him while searching for some does. He also saw some big rubs in the area that he hunted.
Brett and I didn’t see anything other than a few scrapes here and there. Doug saw a couple of does.
It appears that there is going to be a lot of non-residents in the area this year besides the 8 guys from my hometown. We saw two vehicles full of guys from South Carolina as well as a few vehicles with plates from Michigan, Georgia, Florida and New Jersey.
Eight years ago we very rarely saw a non-resident. Now, everyone thinks they can go to Ohio and shoot a huge buck without doing any work. It’s sad because they end up killing year and a half old bucks or 2 1/2 year old bucks which in the long term will destroy the deer herd in the state. Hunting TV has created this monster and I anticipate it will only get worse.