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Rut activity is starting to pick up in NE Ohio. Still nowhere near peak, but bucks are trailing does and fighting around here.
Ohio’ s rut usually peaks around mid Nov. If you look at Ohio big buck records, most were taken within a few days of Nov.15th.
I’m seeing deer up and moving in daytime, especially with the colder rainy weather. Today is in low 40′ s and drizzling off and on. Exactly the type of day I have taken almost all of the big bucks I ever got.
Unfortunately, I’m stuck wrenching on cars today.
One is ready to roll, the other is now my winter project because a piston hit a spark plug, which means I’ll be pulling the engine and taking it apart. It’s an inline 6 cylinder out of a Jeep Grand Cherokee that has less than 90 thousand on transmission, and front hubs were just done. Frame is solid, body is in great shape- no rust.
That makes it worth fixing to me. I’m sure it’s worth it to my son in law too- because its his Jeep.
He has use of company vehicle until mid Nov. That’s when snowplow contracts start, he works with me in winter and we get a company truck that stays here.
That saves me from having to rebuild an engine during the best part of deer season.
That would suck since I bought license and tags Sep. 29th the day before archery season opened. Now I can get out and hunt starting tomorrow.
Which is what I’ll be doing every day until about Nov. 20th.
Then a week after that- it’s Ohio’s gun season- Nov. 27th- Dec. 3rd.
Then we have an extra weekend gun season-12/16-12/17, then muzzleloader Jan 6th-9th.
Archery season is open until Feb. 4th 2018.
Hopefully, I’ll be tagged out and not hunting deer with a bow in Jan/ first few days of Feb.
Starvin Larry 