Dead heads and sheds? | Ohio Sportsman - Your Ohio Hunting and Fishing . . . I had an interesting conversation recently with a couple avid shed hunters and one of them pointed out that dead heads or antlers attached to dead deer can sometimes lay out in the field for months or even years untouched by squirrels and rodents while shed antlers seem to get chewed up
When do you start your shed hunting | Ohio Sportsman - Your Ohio . . . Deer usually have dropped their antlers by the end of March I'd say I've had luck finding sheds on trails between bedding and feeding areas Thats been my personal luck Along fence rows and anywhere a deer must jump are said to be good places
New potential state record typical - Ohio Sportsman The antlers must be even larger in person I'm not hating at all, but I agree with some comments that this buck doesn't look like the new state record in this picture It sure does look like the buck of a lifetime and a real nice scoring rack, but I'm looking at my personal picture of the Kontras buck from the night it was arrowed and Bill's buck looks a LOT bigger I do know pictures can
Deer Hunting Columbus - Ohio Sportsman Antlered deer are deer with antlers 3 inches or longer in length; antlerless deer include deer without antlers and deer with antlers less than 3 inches in length The antlerless deer permits are valid statewide during the archery season between September 27 and November 30 while using a longbow or crossbow
2012 outlook | Ohio Sportsman - Your Ohio Hunting and Fishing Resource With snow, you can also spot the main trails to and from the bedding areas, so walk those trails when the snow melts Obviously, deer may spend 10 hours sleeping in beds, so slightly better chance antlers dropped when they were bedded than wandering miles thru the woods
Archery target as a decoy? - Ohio Sportsman Has anyone every tried using their archery target as a decoy? I have a smaller one (I think its a Delta River Bottom Buck) that has removable antlers, so it could be used as a buck or doe decoy I keep it in the yard for practice during bow season It's got some foam missing from years of