Southern Indiana Whitetail: Pick up a Bow

Saturday, November 6, 2010

Pick up a Bow

Some discussions that have stemmed from the article below have prompted me to wonder one basic thing about gun hunters.

For those who are so bent on having more time to hunt because they have to work and Thanksgiving travel takes time away from their short firearm season, why not pick up a bow?

Bowhunting allows for a 90 day season. The early season and pre-rut can be a fantastic time to hunt. Hunting in December can also be a blast. Bowhunting is more challenging, but also more up close with the deer, which means more exciting. You rarely shoot a deer before it gets within 30 yards. And it is not that expensive.

You want to gun hunt for 9 days in November... That's great! But give bowhunting a chance. It's addicting.

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Properties

My only property in the Cincinnati area right now is a 50 acre tract on the Great Miami River that I call "The Sanctuary". 50 acres does not sound like much, but the setting of this property is what makes it great. Sitting adjacent to a park, it is protected from hunting pressure and receives deer traffic from the vast amoun of wildlife habitat in the park. The 50 acres is about 1/3 native grass field and 2/3 wooded area and thick burr patch. My first year hunting this property was 2008. Though I filled my tag on Thanksgiving morning on a different property, I saw a good amount of mature buck activity on this property that fall. Having worked hard all summer to get ready for the 2009 season, I was able to arrow a mature buck on Halloween.

The Dream 80 is an 80 acre tract in southern Orange county that is surrounded mostly by Hoosier National Forestry. We started our lease at the beginning of December, 2010. Dad had lusted after this property for many years, so it is now called The Dream 80 and referred to as TD-80. At this point (12/12/2010) we are just beginning to make plans for TD-80. We are beginning to map out sanctuaries and food plots that we will break ground on early in the spring (map seen here http://siwhitetail.blogspot.com/2010/12/preliminary-plans-for-td-80.html). The innitial goal for this property is to make it home to two mature bucks a year. That seems like a realistic goal that will push us to want more out of the property. If this property produces one mature buck (four of us will hunt it with bow only) per year, I will consider it a major success.