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Wife and I drew a special hunt in a waterfowl preserve here in Ohio. 

​​​​​​We were assigned a unit that was 1.7 miles by 3 miles. But we had a specific parking area we had to use. I spent a while looking at maps and drove around the unit several times. Lots of water and swamps everywhere. 

On the map I found a likely funnel area .8 miles from the truck. Being that this was a rifle hunt at the peak of the rut I had high hopes.

We walked in and sat down in our funnel at 0615. At 0700 we moved about 25 yards so that we could see better. 

At 0750 I hit the grunt call three times and about a minute later a 6 point came right in to 25 yards. My wife made a good shot and the buck spun and disappeared into the brush. I didn't hear it crash but based on what I saw I thought she had made a good hit with the .350 Legend. I told her we would wait until 0830 before we went to track.  Good thing we waited. 

At 0820 I saw a nice buck step out at 55 yards. Drilled him with the .45-70 and he flipped over backwards. 

We trailed hers about forty yards and found it. 

A cool hunt. Her first buck and first Ohio deer. My biggest buck. Cool to double up with her.  We had everything back to the truck by noon. 

I wish she had shot the bigger one. But for her first buck we were taking whatever came out. And I'm happy to take him. First buck for me since 2019. ( youth hunters have taken three bucks with me the last three years though)

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-Jake
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Very nice!

What's not to like.

Mighty fine!

GWB

Well done

Congratulations

That’s pretty cool - ya done well on your homework too!

Holy geezum!! What a good couple hours! That’s awesome…congrats and great job to you and Mrs. Bocajnala!

Gotta admit, at first I was wondering how hunting waterfowl during the rut with a rifle was going to go! LOL. 😎 Beautiful bucks.

We saw all sorts of waterfowl flying over too. Very noisy morning and cool to see the variety flying over.

-Jake

It's hard going in blind. But I was pretty confident the funnel I was on would be productive.

High spot of woods in between allot of swamps. I figured bucks should be cruising through it

It was all rubbed and scraped up as well.

So the computer scouting paid off. Not the way I prefer to do it, but when you're not allowed in until your hunt date that's what works.

-Jake

Awesome

That's getting it done right there.

Very nice! How’s the back after the double drag?

That's awesome. Congratulations!

I'm still relatively young and strong, although carrying an extra 30lbs isn't helping me any lol. It didn't feel as good as it would have ten years ago though.

And I have a feeling that another ten years will have me thinking twice about going that far lol. By then my boys will be 15&20 though so that'll help!

-Jake

The deer weighed 170 and 110 dressed.

-Jake

That's a great one two punch right there. Congrats. I especially liked the family photo.

That’s just awesome

Now that's a nice outcome. Congrats!

Good looking bucks you both got.

Congrats!

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Congrats! There certainly have been a lot of bucks running around this past week.