LATE SEASON ACTION
LATE SEASON ACTION
Well both shotgun seasons 
have now closed and it's time to concentrate on late season bowhunting. Food sources are a key target area to find a whitetail worthy of using your tag. Now is the time to sit back and enjoy those food plots. Remember the blood, sweat and gears from last spring and late summer when you were turning up the dirt and spreading seed? Now is when it all pays off. The deer should calm down from the gun seasons and begin a feeding pattern on the late season food sources. The bucks will be feeding and also keeping their noses keen for the scent of the occasional hot doe. Just this past week, several reports of multiple bucks chasing hot does have come through the Midwest Whitetail Ohio office. In fact, this week's.jpg)
show features a buck taken by Kyle Blackman, which by the way was his first buck with a bow. Kyle's buck came in to a food source searching for a hot doe. After bumping several of the ladies around the field, Kyle's buck finally made a fatal mistake and came within bow range. Midwest Whitetail Ohio Pro Staffer, B.A. Starr captured all the action. You can see the hunt unfold on "Show 18 - Merry Christmas." We will continue to keep the cameras rolling and look forward sharing all of the Midwest Whitetail Ohio action with you. Thank you for your support and we want to wish you a very MERRY CHRISTMAS!
have now closed and it's time to concentrate on late season bowhunting. Food sources are a key target area to find a whitetail worthy of using your tag. Now is the time to sit back and enjoy those food plots. Remember the blood, sweat and gears from last spring and late summer when you were turning up the dirt and spreading seed? Now is when it all pays off. The deer should calm down from the gun seasons and begin a feeding pattern on the late season food sources. The bucks will be feeding and also keeping their noses keen for the scent of the occasional hot doe. Just this past week, several reports of multiple bucks chasing hot does have come through the Midwest Whitetail Ohio office. In fact, this week's show features a buck taken by Kyle Blackman, which by the way was his first buck with a bow. Kyle's buck came in to a food source searching for a hot doe. After bumping several of the ladies around the field, Kyle's buck finally made a fatal mistake and came within bow range. Midwest Whitetail Ohio Pro Staffer, B.A. Starr captured all the action. You can see the hunt unfold on "Show 18 - Merry Christmas." We will continue to keep the cameras rolling and look forward sharing all of the Midwest Whitetail Ohio action with you. Thank you for your support and we want to wish you a very MERRY CHRISTMAS!
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KANSAS GIANT
A hunting trip to Kansas 
has become an annual event for the Bryant family. Jeff Bryant, his wife Nicole and his Dad, Greg Bryant have enjoyed the December trip for several years now and we've been blessed to follow their adventures here at Midwest Whitetail Ohio. They have taken several outstanding bucks over the years and this season was no different. With Greg behind the camera, Jeff was able to put another giant buck on the ground. It's always fun to go over-the-shoulder with this deer hunting Christian family.
has become an annual event for the Bryant family. Jeff Bryant, his wife Nicole and his Dad, Greg Bryant have enjoyed the December trip for several years now and we've been blessed to follow their adventures here at Midwest Whitetail Ohio. They have taken several outstanding bucks over the years and this season was no different. With Greg behind the camera, Jeff was able to put another giant buck on the ground. It's always fun to go over-the-shoulder with this deer hunting Christian family.
You can see all of the action from their latest adventure on this week's show........SHOW 17 - KANSAS PLAYGROUND!
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PRO STAFF UPDATES
....December 19, 2011
DUSTIN & DERIK NIPPERT - Southeast
Derik and I have been having
a really tough season this year, with me having my personal worst up to this point. The first gun season Derik started a new job so he didn't get to hunt til the weekend. We ended up harvesting a few does on Sunday to wrap up the gun season on a good note. Not having seen any shooter bucks we were looking forward to the second gun season. We were getting some pics of good bucks so we were pretty optimistic. Finally getting some colder weather wasn't going to hurt matters either. Our Frigid Forage food plots were getting hit but this cold snap definitely had deer hitting them harder. Sunday night found us in a in a ground blind overlooking a Big n Beasty Plot. Long story short this big 8 point, "King", walks in behind us and I missed him at 90 yards. So to this point I have missed 2 does and now this awesome buck. So to say I am looking for redemption would be an understatement. We are seeing new deer show up on our plots and we still have time before they start dropping their antlers so we're keeping our fingers crossed. We want to wish everybody a Merry Christmas and hope everyone stays safe and finishes the year on a good note. Good luck and be safe.
JASON & TED HUNTSMAN
Dad hunted a couple times this week and had some action. One evening, he saw several bucks chasing a hot doe but none of them were within range or big enough for him. I hunted one day of the second gun season and saw several does as well as a few small bucks but nothing mature. The deer are really hammering the Frigid Forage Big 'n Beasty plots right now. I actually watched them walk through a standing field of corn to get to the turnips. Dad set up a new blind on a new farm and we're excited about late season. Nearly all of my biggest bucks have been taken after gun season so we're keeping our fingers crossed and the trail cams running! We'll be concentrating on the food sources. That's the plan that has worked in the past and we're going to stick with it.
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PRO STAFF UPDATES ....December 14, 2011
TRAVIS VANHOOSE - Central
Boy the hunting season has gotten harder and harder for me here in Central Ohio. We have had so much rain/bad weather when I have planned on hunting. The first two days of gun season was bad. Tj did manage to get a nice doe. We seen lots of deer, and seen some smaller bucks. But that nice buck never did show up. Monday and Tuesday me and Tj sat in the blind a combined 18hrs. Most of that time it rained and was windy. I did see one really nice but the Saturday of gun season but was not able to get the buck. This buck was on a farm over towards Pickaway County that I hunt. I'm gonna try to sneak back over there this coming weekend and see if I can't see this buck again. Still no big bucks on the camera. I'm hoping for some snow soon so I can see where the deer are at and try to get after a big one late season. Good luck to the rest of you guys that are in the same boat as me and Tj.
JASON & TED HUNTSMAN - Southeast
Dad and I did not hunt this week. As much as we both wanted to, we both had to catch up on some much needed work. Dad did put a new blind up and my nephews have been monitoring the the trail cams. For the first year in a long time, we all still have a buck tag. We're going to hit it hard late season. Hopefully, the bucks will hold onto those antlers for a while. It seems really early, but I filmed a buck during gun season that had already shed his antlers. He looked and acted healthy so I really don't know what the deal was. I've seen bucks shed by the first of December but only a few times over the years and typically it was caused by an injury or an unhealthy deer. Oh well, we're going to be out there this weekend and hunting hard. We'll see what happens!
PRO STAFF UPDATES .....December 7, 2011
MICHAEL EWING & EDDIE PENNINGTON - Central
Ohio's week long gun season was a week of ups and downs for us, but most of it was down. We spent almost four whole days in the Muddy stands. Monday we sat in the rain the entire day without seeing a deer. Friday was the same thing minus the rain. Saturday was a different story, deer were everywhere and we had 30 plus encounters during the day. One of those was a doe in estrus, I think she had every 1 1/2 year old buck on the property chasing her. The unfortunate part is there were no mature bucks. Sunday was another slow day, we only saw one deer. It was also a bad week for our camera, we had some problems with it and today I packed it up and sent it out to be repaired. I hope that we can have it back in time for the next gun season but we will to wait and see about that.
JASON & TED HUNTSMAN - Southeast
Well, gun season wasn't what we were hoping it would be. The areas we hunt receive a ton of pressure and we just didn't see the deer. It's that simple. We saw a few small bucks and a few does but nothing really worth talking about. We hunted all week and didn't see a shooter. We are going to get the trail cameras back out and see what we can find as well as bowhunt the food plots in the evenings and hope for the best. That's all we can do at this point. It's been a frustrating year to say the least but we're not giving up yet.
NATE LITTLE - Southeast
Since I already tagged a buck, I concentrated on finding a good deer for my son Easton. We definitely saw deer but just not the right one. Easton actually passed on a few young bucks and I was surprised to see him make management decisions like that at such a young age. We're going to try to find a good buck coming into a food source and see if we can't fill Easton's tag .
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PRO STAFF UPDATES .....November 30, 2011
Dwayne Burnette, Willie Bryant & Ronny Dalton
We've had a good past few weeks
of hunting. It seems like things are slowing down some. So me and my wife went out this past Friday she took a nice 10 with some trash around the bases what a surprise! I filmed this deer back on Oct.27th while Willie was hunting. We had two nice 10's that came into the fridge Forge food plot that night.
Willie had a shot at one of the 10's but it just didn't work out. We had a road trip to Illinois a few weeks ago and Willie redeemed himself with a nice 8 pointer. Myself , Well lets just say the 10 pointer I shot in Illinois has a hair cut.
While we were in Illinois we received a text that Willie's 8 pointer that he shot on Oct.29th that we call '' Hook'' and thought we lost was found so that was a relief . So the post Rut is here in Virginia so where just hunting food and does hoping to see a buck feeding or maybe seeing a hot doe coming in late.
JEFF & JUSTIN MULLINS - Southeast
Gun season starts this week 
and again I will be in Michigan for some more Fanuc robot training. The new job is really cutting into my hunting time this year but ya gotta do what ya gotta do. We had "Big Ben" within 80 yards last weekend but we couldn't get him to come down the hill. We took some time out to move our stands to get us closer to the "edge" that he was traveling down. He is staying on the edge of open timber and a honeysuckle and green-brier thicket. "Ben" also showed up on the trail camera the other night so at least for now he's still around.
MICHAEL EWING & EDDIE PENNINGTON - Southeast
It was a very wet start to gun season but that did not stop us from setting in the stand all day. The only thing we learned from yesterday is that we a crazy. We did not see a single deer all day! We hope it was the rain that kept the deer from moving and are hoping that the weather is good this weekend so the deer will be up on their feet. We are going to hit it hard again this weekend and hope our luck changes.
ADAM MOORE & JON MORBITZER - Central
Well it's been a tough few weeks of hunting for Jon and I. During the rut we were having some great encounters with some really good bucks. But everything we did to try and get a big boy on the ground they seemed to always be one step ahead of us. Last friday evening we had another great buck in sight but he held tight to the sanctuary and never came in. But it was exciting to still see him on the move with plenty of day light. But on the bright side later that evening Jon shot a good mature doe getting some meat for the freezer and letting the Hoyt do some work. Gun season has been a soggy one but we're still out trying to get Jon a big old Ohio buck on the ground. Well I hope everyone is having a good season so far. Look for Jon's doe hunt in the next few weeks here on Midwest Whitetail Ohio. By the way has anybody ever heard the name Urban Meyer!
JASON & TED HUNTSMAN - Southeast
Last week Dad and I bowhunted hard. I did not see a mature buck at all. I saw several does/fawns as well as a ton of young bucks but nothing that I wanted to use my tag on. The does, for the most part, were back to a normal feeding pattern and were back with their fawns. The bucks were also feeding but always took time to harass the does a bit and work every scrape they could find. My nephew, Colten Strauss, had a close call with a good buck but things just didn't work out. We will be gun hunting every day this week so hopefully one of us can get a mature buck in the scope.
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