Muzzleloader
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From: Zbone
05-Jan-23
You guys ready for muzzleloader?...8^)
From: CAS_HNTR
05-Jan-23
I am ready - to shoot one with my muzzleloader. Is that what you meant?
From: mattandersen
06-Jan-23
I'll be out Saturday afternoon
From: Pat Lefemine
08-Jan-23
Lots of shots heard around me. Kinda surprised since I heard no shots during 2nd rifle.
From: Zbone
08-Jan-23
Yeah, muzzleloader used to be pretty big in my area, we used to do organized drives back in the day, even killed a few... I remember one day one year we had a blast, one guy ran out of speed loads... We laughed as guys missed and trying to load for another shot...8^) Great memories...
From: Zbone
11-Jan-23
Pat - Since muzzleloader just ended, got update on mature bucks survival?
From: Pat Lefemine
13-Jan-23
All my 4+ bucks survived. Waiting for them to calm down and start moving in daylight. All my neighbors have packed it in but it was crazy how many shots I heard around me. Last year I heard 2, this year 30. I can’t believe none of mature didn’t get killed but they sure are freaked out! Completely nocturnal.
From: Pat Lefemine
13-Jan-23
All my 4+ bucks survived. Waiting for them to calm down and start moving in daylight. All my neighbors have packed it in but it was crazy how many shots I heard around me. Last year I heard 2, this year 30. I can’t believe none of mature didn’t get killed but they sure are freaked out! Completely nocturnal.
From: Boris
13-Jan-23
Read a report that Ohio muzzleloader season they took 13000 Statewide.
From: goyt
14-Jan-23
Yesterday I did my first trip to scout new locations based on what I experienced this season. One of my Amish neighbors was filling his feeders. I also saw that someone was hunting there on 1/2/23. With a bunch of kids, they have a lot of landowner tags and will bait and hunt their 11 acres right up to the last day. Also, another neighbor was down at their 13-acre property. The beauty of baiting.
From: Zbone
14-Jan-23
Zbone's Link
https://ohiodnr.gov/discover-and-learn/safety-conservation/about-ODNR/news/ohio-hunters-harvest-13617-deer-in-january-muzzleloader-season
"Hunters checked 13,617 white-tailed deer during Ohio’s muzzleloader season that concluded on Tuesday, Jan. 10"
"During the 2023 muzzleloader season, hunters took 3,154 bucks (23% of deer taken), 8,421 does (62%), and 1,532 button bucks (11%). Bucks that shed their antlers and bucks with antlers less than 3 inches in length accounted for 510 deer, or 4% of the total harvest."
