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With Crabby 2000 - the Ohio Rut
The Digital Log Of A Bowhunt With Dennis Crabtree - by Robert Hoague | Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 | Action Pics at Scrape City | Day 6 | DAY #3, Ohio 2000
Deerhunt In Progress
Morning Hunt (Nov
3, 2000)
Don Beckwith (the Duck) got to the Skyscraper stand extra early and made a large circle with his scent drag in the field by his stand. Shooting light came and a buck trailed the scent drag circle right to the Duck. It was the young 6-point from yesterday. A doe followed the bucks trail and both of them wound up under the stand. The buck went on alert and looked into the brush. A buck, much larger than the 6-point, approached the young buck. The large buck was a bigger mirror image of the young buck. They licked and rubbed each others faces and then ticked their horns and pushed each other around, not a fight, mind you, just buck stuff. . While this was happening the doe left. The big buck moved out in the field and walked in front of the Duck's stand. All three of Don's pins were on the bucks barrel chest. The arrow was a blur and the buck stumbled and ran caddy corner across the small field into the corner of the thicket that borders the field. Don waited 15 minutes and walked to the corner. He saw a gate and a fence and walked to it. The buck was laying on the opposite side of the fence, he had hopped the fence and expired immediately. 
Here's the Duck (Don Beckwith) with his 7-point Ohio buck. (The Duck's wife wanted to see a big picture so, Pat, to see Don and Dennis Crabtree, Click Here.) As Dennis waited for daylight he listened to wild turkeys clucking on their roost near his Blue jay stand. He rattled at the first good shooting light. The turkeys flew down as Dennis heard a deer walking through the leaves. It was a big deer and he stayed in the brush below Dennis for 10 minutes, surveying the area for the buck fight. Then buck moved toward Dennis's shooting hole so Dennis drew and had the pin on it as the buck got in the clear. The buck was an 8-point. Dennis figured him to be a 120 class 2 1/2 year old and decided not to shoot after all. He let down. The buck went to the planted pines and rub urinated his hocks and then licked his penis and his right and left hocks. Then he made a rub on 2-inch pine tree. And disappeared into the planted pines. A doe and a fawn spent 35 minutes in the area. An hour after they left a 5x4 yearling buck came in following the does scent. He went to the rub and smelled the urine the earlier buck had left. And walked into in the pines. I hunted Scrape City again (imagine that!). Mid morning two bucks chased a doe through the area. They were boogying full tilt. We drove to the motel and took off to get the Duck's buck. We made pictures and took the buck to the locker plant. We ate a hurried meal at Wendy's. It was. uh, well ... kinda bland. Afternoon Hunt
After the hunt we went to Dennis's home and Penny fixed us biscuits and gravy, some kind of thick (very tasty) bacon, hash browns, and her very fine apple pie. I ate desert first. So did the Duck. Today was a very busy day. I'm turning in, I've got to get more sleep.. Back To Where You Were At Bowhunting.Net |
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