City Limits Deer!

[mrjbigfoot]

Pulled off the road on the way home from work to take some pictures of 11 deer that were out in a small field, inside the city limits of Columbus, Ohio. The one buck should be pretty nice next year.







There's 11 deer in this picture

[PLB]

Very neat! Awesome pics

[PASwamper]

Wow, that buck must have some excellent genetics! Looks VERY young to me.

[mrjbigfoot]

Wow, that buck must have some excellent genetics! Looks VERY young to me.

I'd agree, looks like he may only be a 2 & 1/2 yr old, maybe 3 & 1/2 but we see a lot of 2 & 1/2 yr olds with 9 or 10 points in areas with good food.

[DevinJD2007]

Nice pics thanks for sharing.

[BackWoodsHunter]

Any chance you can get on their to look for sheds? I have permission to search for sheds, practice calling (turkeys/geese) and hike on plenty of farms in the city limits here in WI. The landowners that I know don't hunt the land but often there's some snot who thinks he owns the place with permission to hunt them and getting actual hunting permission is near impossible. Best of luck but that buck will be a beauty...imagine if he makes it to 4 1/2....SLOB

[Spysar]

Cool pics Biggie.

[Wrinkleneck]

Cool pictures!! Love to see that boy in a couple more years.

[mrjbigfoot]

Any chance you can get on their to look for sheds? I have permission to search for sheds, practice calling (turkeys/geese) and hike on plenty of farms in the city limits here in WI. The landowners that I know don't hunt the land but often there's some snot who thinks he owns the place with permission to hunt them and getting actual hunting permission is near impossible. Best of luck but that buck will be a beauty...imagine if he makes it to 4 1/2....SLOB

Technically, he should die of old age because there's no hunting allowed in the city limits of Columbus. I'm not a big shed hunter, always just seem to be to busy with work & kids to make it out there.. The area these deer are in is only a few miles away from township farmland where hunting is legal so depending on how far bucks wander during rut, they could get harvested but I'd bet there's poaching going on to.

[Brandon]

Is that right?? What about Steve Esker, the guy who has killed 3 - 200"+ bucks by hunting in the Columbus City limits? His brother and a few buddys whack 180's like its nothing, and he gives those deer away. ALL suburban hunting.

http://www.fieldandstream.com/photos/ga ... 1001372837

Read the caption on pick # 5. Im sure youve heard of this guy living down the road from him??

Columbus is a gold mine of untold porportions in my eyes....

[DMiller6868]

Is that right?? What about Steve Esker, the guy who has killed 3 - 200"+ bucks by hunting in the Columbus City limits? His brother and a few buddys whack 180's like its nothing, and he gives those deer away. ALL suburban hunting.

http://www.fieldandstream.com/photos/ga ... 1001372837

Read the caption on pick # 5. Im sure youve heard of this guy living down the road from him??

Columbus is a gold mine of untold porportions in my eyes....

Actually Esker's bucks are all killed on a small tract by a metro park in Pickerington. A town just east of the city. If you notice Esker admits to shooting the buck over a pile of apples. He does this to draw the bucks off the metro parks property (where they're protected) and onto his small slice of heaven. This and genetics is partly the reason they shoot so many big deer around this area every year.

I hunt all around Columbus but it's difficult to get permission to hunt on some of these city tracts where it's legal. Most of the big deer are living in woodlots behind subdivisions and such which makes poaching very difficult and allows the deer to grow old and big. It's fun to get permission to shed hunt them but it's also disappointing knowing you'll never have a chance at killing him...

[76chevy]

nice buck!

[Brandon]

Is that right?? What about Steve Esker, the guy who has killed 3 - 200"+ bucks by hunting in the Columbus City limits? His brother and a few buddys whack 180's like its nothing, and he gives those deer away. ALL suburban hunting.

http://www.fieldandstream.com/photos/ga ... 1001372837

Read the caption on pick # 5. Im sure youve heard of this guy living down the road from him??

Columbus is a gold mine of untold porportions in my eyes....

Actually Esker's bucks are all killed on a small tract by a metro park in Pickerington. A town just east of the city. If you notice Esker admits to shooting the buck over a pile of apples. He does this to draw the bucks off the metro parks property (where they're protected) and onto his small slice of heaven. This and genetics is partly the reason they shoot so many big deer around this area every year.

I hunt all around Columbus but it's difficult to get permission to hunt on some of these city tracts where it's legal. Most of the big deer are living in woodlots behind subdivisions and such which makes poaching very difficult and allows the deer to grow old and big. It's fun to get permission to shed hunt them but it's also disappointing knowing you'll never have a chance at killing him...

While I dont doubt you, every single article about any of his bucks, or all of his bucks specifically says in 1 place or another "inside columbus city limits." I also know he/they have a few other spots than just 1. Heres another that says the same thing... http://www.fieldandstream.com/photos/ga ... elicopter-
Theres a way to hunt in the City, and they found it.

[mrjbigfoot]

There are a lot of other suburb cities in and around the city of Columbus and many of them do allow bow hunting. I actually inquired with the city of Columbus Police Dept about the potential to bow hunt on some land that is owned by the city that has a bunch of deer on it and I was informed that the law is no hunting, including bow hunting. But after reading the caption and description on picture number 5, it does sound a lot like this property but this property is no where near Pickerington.

[DMiller6868]

Is that right?? What about Steve Esker, the guy who has killed 3 - 200"+ bucks by hunting in the Columbus City limits? His brother and a few buddys whack 180's like its nothing, and he gives those deer away. ALL suburban hunting.

http://www.fieldandstream.com/photos/ga ... 1001372837

Read the caption on pick # 5. Im sure youve heard of this guy living down the road from him??

Columbus is a gold mine of untold porportions in my eyes....

Actually Esker's bucks are all killed on a small tract by a metro park in Pickerington. A town just east of the city. If you notice Esker admits to shooting the buck over a pile of apples. He does this to draw the bucks off the metro parks property (where they're protected) and onto his small slice of heaven. This and genetics is partly the reason they shoot so many big deer around this area every year.

I hunt all around Columbus but it's difficult to get permission to hunt on some of these city tracts where it's legal. Most of the big deer are living in woodlots behind subdivisions and such which makes poaching very difficult and allows the deer to grow old and big. It's fun to get permission to shed hunt them but it's also disappointing knowing you'll never have a chance at killing him...

While I dont doubt you, every single article about any of his bucks, or all of his bucks specifically says in 1 place or another "inside columbus city limits." I also know he/they have a few other spots than just 1. Heres another that says the same thing... http://www.fieldandstream.com/photos/ga ... elicopter-
Theres a way to hunt in the City, and they found it.

Yeah they've certainly figured it out. I'm not impressed though shooting big deer over a pile of apples. While it is legal, it just doesn't impress me as much as other guys who don't bait. Adam Hays is imo a better hunter who also knocks down big deer around the Columbus area (although I haven't heard from him this year).