The '08 Version

[bowhunter1023]

We need to get to thinking on this so we can get a good bit of smack talking going on before the season gets here. I liked the idea of random teams, but what if we allow teams that are predetermined to enter as well? Can we have a $5 entry per team this year and use it to buy prizes? What about bonus points for yotes killed on a deer hunt? Just some thoughts I had today...

[wallydog1]

Probibly has to be random to not stack the deck.It surprized me on how many teams were really in contact with the team over the coarse of the contest.I got pretty lucky with who got picked on my team.

[XX78]

Randomly selected teams with no money exchange is the easiest for the owner of this site. Minimal input, maximal output

[epe]

How do you get entered in this? I missed out last year....

[countyroad]

Keep it simple.

[ohiosam]

We need to get to thinking on this so we can get a good bit of smack talking going on before the season gets here. I liked the idea of random teams, but what if we allow teams that are predetermined to enter as well? Can we have a $5 entry per team this year and use it to buy prizes? What about bonus points for yotes killed on a deer hunt? Just some thoughts I had today...

OK, but I want Mike Rex on my team:)

[Gunners]

Hi all ! I would love to keep the same team as last for the reason of trying to better were we finished, we were middle of the pack and I enjoyed getting to know the team members. But new teams you get to meet new people as well. My thought last year was to have the hunters split this year by who got a buck would be team captains, hunters who shot multiple does go in the first round and continue down to make the four man teams. I would also try to split hunters in areas who hunt Area "C" not to be on the same team. Not that its unfair advantage they just get more opportinity to be in the woods due to having more tags to fill. Does any of that make sence?

[bowhunter1023]

No way to keep multiple Zone C guys off of one team. The better part of the guys that participated last year are either from, or hunt, in Zone C.

I would say keeping multiple Zone A guys off of a team makes more sense because there are less of them and the have the harder go at it in hunting grounds and deer numbers..

[Azzy]

Thanks for shootin' me a deer last year, Jesse. :bowdown:

[TheCream]

We need to get to thinking on this so we can get a good bit of smack talking going on before the season gets here. I liked the idea of random teams, but what if we allow teams that are predetermined to enter as well? Can we have a $5 entry per team this year and use it to buy prizes? What about bonus points for yotes killed on a deer hunt? Just some thoughts I had today...

Light day at work? :D

I like the coyote idea, but I'd say cap it at like no more than 3 coyotes per person. And I agree, I like the random teams. And the trash talking is ALWAYS fun. :mischeif:

[deerhunt45]

Some good ideas, and not so good ones :whistle:

Let's toss it around for a bit. I'm in and will help organize again this season if Ed's game. He got the ball rolling last year and I think he has some good ideas this year.

We have been discussing another contest running at the same time as this one. If we can put it together, and I use the words "if we" rather loosely...Ed did most the work last season and this is his idea for this year...it may or may not happen. This will be another "for fun" contest run concurrently to the 2008 OS contest. That's all I can say for now.

I personally don't think prizes or predetermined i.e. stacked teams are necessary. This a "for fun" contest, I'd vote to keep it that way. It was fun for me last season even though I didn't make a harvest for my team. Ed and I put a lot of time into managing last season's contest. We heard very few complaints. Can you imagine how much more time (more disputes) if prizes were offered? I'm commenting on what I think will work here. If someone should choose to organize something else, I got no qualms with that. I'm just not going to try and run it. jmo and I know they vary ;)

One idea I had was that the top 5 teams from 2007 would be broken up and put back into the draft pool and randomly drawn with what surely will be new and more names this season. The rest of the teams would have the option to stay intact. Those who don't stay 100% intact (i.e. all four members return and sign up) would get their names put back into the draft pool. These folks would still have the chance through the random draw to get on a team with a teamate from last year. Just a couple thoughts I had.

epe, keep an eye out for a new thread as a sticky in this sub forum. You can read back through this and the related threads and see how we did things last season.

45 :coolgleamA:

[epe]

Will do.. Figures I would get my biggets buck the year before i get in the contest.. :rolleyes:

[bowhunter4evr]

well im in again this yr. now if i could just get me some teammates this yr! LOL my mates know who they are

[TheCream]

It would be really cool to have teams by like August or somewhere through there so we can share cam pictures and stuff like that with teammates before season starts. :mischeif:

[jackalope]

I like it the way it was last year. Getting to know the guys and the anticipation of their success was better than a team where you already know everyone. The drawing was the best part…

[bowtech_buster]

i agree that it should be a lottery again or atleast a random draw

[Cal923]

I'd like to join this year also. I joined the sight in November last year already had my rut buck down. Been reading all the threads on the contest you all had looked like tons of fun. Been counting down the days till the 27th can't wait. Thanx

[bowhunter1023]

From the looks of it, the best thing to do is run it like we did last year. I know Ed is a busy man, and so is Charlie. If you fellers need some help doing something, I'll do my part. Any chance we can get the sign-ups started soon?

[CritterGitter]

The season is 3 months away? Go fishing, practice shooting and blah, blah, blah......it starts to annoy me this time of year to actually try to think about hunting, because it's still to far away which just frustrates me! :irked:

Kyle

[bowhunter1023]

You are such a grump for a young guy! I can't imagine you as an elderly man :yikes:

[CritterGitter]

You are such a grump for a young guy! I can't imagine you as an elderly man :yikes:

I'm only grumpy when young whipper snappers like you are gettin on ma nerves. :cheeky-smiley-022:


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Kyle

[Yeley0437]

haha lol funny stuff right there . But seriously bowhunter1023 ill let you be on my team if your nice to me hahaha :hide:

[deerhunt45]

My goal is to get the signup started in August to allow for teams to settle in. It's good to see the continued interest from the 2007 contest. It was a lot of fun...that's the view from here...

[Peppy]

I had a great time last season. Looking forward to doing it again. We came up a couple of points short, but it was fun follwing everyone's hunt and talking smack that it didn't much matter.

Besides, the winning team cheated. :biggrin: (Just kidding of course)

Hanging and cutting my last stands and placing my cameras this weekend.

[geezer II]

How about a hunt on Bowhunter 1023's farm - have a drawing and each team gets one day ta have at the DUCE :)

[bowhunter1023]

How about a hunt on Bowhunter 1023's farm - have a drawing and each team gets one day ta have at the DUCE :)

From the looks of it, I may not even get to... :(

[ohioarcher]

I really enjoyed the contest last year, count me in again!

[Kaiser878]

I'm game! LEt me know when and what I gotta do!

[Yeley0437]

lets get this thing going i'm ready

[Francis]

I want to join this year. I will get some deer :P I call 1023

[Yeley0437]

dang jesse i guess everybody wants you!! what they fail to relize is you can't seal the deal!! anyone can go out to a game farm and set up a trail cam!!! hahaha j/k :yikes: hows that for smack!


But seriously sorry guys bowhunter1023 and uncle odie have already been assigned to a team with me!! o ya mrex is on are team to!!

[jackalope]

dang jesse i guess everybody wants you!! what they fail to relize is you can't seal the deal!! anyone can go out to a game farm and set up a trail cam!!! hahaha j/k :yikes: hows that for smack!


But seriously sorry guys bowhunter1023 and uncle odie have already been assigned to a team with me!! o ya mrex is on are team to!!


I see how it is Yeley.. Abandon the old team mates.... , :nono: I wonder if Odie and Jesse are going to hold out for you to show up a week late for team check in, like we did last year.. I had to keep the mods from replacing you on the team.. I kept telling them you would be back to check in, but I had no clue where you went... Then,, oh i was elk hunting, sorry I diapered for 3 weeks.

How's that for smack talking.... :cheeky-smiley-022: :biggrin:

[Yeley0437]

:( sorry jackalope i forgot about you. you know if are other team mates would have gotten there share we would of won! :cheeky-smiley-022: countryroad :cheeky-smiley-022: lol j/k. ill tell you what lets do same teams as last year and team nuff said will kick everybodys arse!!! :D

[Yeley0437]

I wonder if Odie and Jesse are going to hold out for you to show up a week late for team check in, like we did last year.. I had to keep the mods from replacing you on the team.. I kept telling them you would be back to check in, but I had no clue where you went... Then,, oh i was elk hunting, sorry I diapered for 3 weeks.

How's that for smack talking.... :cheeky-smiley-022: :biggrin:


lol ill be elk/moose hunting this year agian so don't replace me please!!!! :D by the way thanx jackalope for not replacing me!! you know you needed me!!! :whistle:

[jackalope]

lol ill be elk/moose hunting this year agian so don't replace me please!!!! :D by the way thanx jackalope for not replacing me!! you know you needed me!!! :whistle:


We didn't do too bad considering you and I were the only ones to kill scoreable deer, and we still placed 4th.. Countryroad killed a nice buck but it was in gun season. If we could have got the other 2 guys to chip in we had a good shot at first.. Hell first place won with only 2 8pt bucks and 5 does.

[Francis]

I want 1023 so we can name our team Tag Soup :D i got the signature made :bouncy:;)

[lung buster]

Last year was alot of fun, I look forward to this years contest.:coolgleamA:

[XX78]

Francis,

Just remember this is a hunting contest and not a trail cam contest.

[Francis]

Francis,

Just remember this is a hunting contest and not a trail cam contest.
Either way I lose. :biggrin:

[Flippin 416]

I am ready for the 2008 version....just tell me when and where to sign up. The 2007 contest was a great idea and allot of fun for sure!!!

[5Cent]

I don't know what all the craze about 1023 is? I know he's hunting a nice buck and all but he hasn't been able to capitalize on him. He visits this forum and other outdoor forums very reguarly (does he have a job?) and gives great information and subjects to discuss, but has anyone met him in person?

Personally, you can have him. I am a zone A guy, and I will do my part to help my team win this year! Lets get this thing started:biggrin:

[OhioHunter88]

Francis,

Just remember this is a hunting contest and not a trail cam contest.

:whistle: :yikes: Best Smack Talking Yet, and very much the truth;) :p :D :bouncy:

[WRS77]

I'm in for this year, missed out on it last year not again this year, looking forward to it

[HeartLunger]

I don't know what all the craze about 1023 is? I know he's hunting a nice buck and all but he hasn't been able to capitalize on him. He visits this forum and other outdoor forums very reguarly (does he have a job?) and gives great information and subjects to discuss, but has anyone met him in person?

Personally, you can have him. I am a zone A guy, and I will do my part to help my team win this year! Lets get this thing started:biggrin:

I hope this is some smack talking in good fun.

I have met him, and he is a super nice guy. He's knowledgeable, and it's apparent by several of his posts on here that one of his priorities is passing along the sport of archery to others that have not been introduced to it yet. He is a passionate guy and serious about the sport of hunting. Does it matter if he has a job and is it your business?

[wallydog1]

should be another fun year with all the intrest in the contest already.I hope to be on another team with every one on it Active in the contest thru out the season like last year.That alone put us on top and made it Fun ;)

[buckster]

I think the team that won last year should be together agin.

[bowhunter1023]

I hope this is some smack talking in good fun.

LOL! Da gone HL... I knows we are buddies!!! Thanks for the kind words. But old Mr. 5Cent couldn't pull my arrows on his best day. He has always been a few side-to-side deductions from being all the way there! Hell, I've killed more deer in one day with my balistic tipped crossbow bolts than he has in his whole life!!!

Now how is that for smacking talking?!?

In all actuality, I can credit 5Cent with having a big part in creating the monster that is today. We spent a ton of hours fishing, driving around looking for deer, and dreaming up schemes for getting rich in the business while drinking a few Busch Lights. Even attempted to kill turkeys, deer, squirrels, yotes, and Predator in Zeleski with this guy. Them were the days...

[Yeley0437]

lets get this thing started already at least get a sign up going................................:irked:

[deerhunt45]

I look for sign up for the 2008 contest to start the 1st and last the entire month of August. Folks will then have the entire month of September to swap stratagies pictures and trash talk.

Thanks for being patient :)

[ap0317ah]

I joined OS too late last year to enter the contest. I will not be missing out this year.
May the best teem win.:mischeif:
:biggrin: :biggrin: :D
Tom

[teambringit33]

good deal i had a lot of fun last season. Looking forward to this season as well

[5Cent]

I hope this is some smack talking in good fun.

I have met him, and he is a super nice guy. He's knowledgeable, and it's apparent by several of his posts on here that one of his priorities is passing along the sport of archery to others that have not been introduced to it yet. He is a passionate guy and serious about the sport of hunting. Does it matter if he has a job and is it your business?

Just some good fun here HL:bouncy: And he better have a job, he's getting hitched soon:yikes:

LOL! Da gone HL... I knows we are buddies!!! Thanks for the kind words. But old Mr. 5Cent couldn't pull my arrows on his best day. He has always been a few side-to-side deductions from being all the way there! Hell, I've killed more deer in one day with my balistic tipped crossbow bolts than he has in his whole life!!!

Now how is that for smacking talking?!?

In all actuality, I can credit 5Cent with having a big part in creating the monster that is today. We spent a ton of hours fishing, driving around looking for deer, and dreaming up schemes for getting rich in the business while drinking a few Busch Lights. Even attempted to kill turkeys, deer, squirrels, yotes, and Predator in Zeleski with this guy. Them were the days...

OH NO YOU DIDN'T!! "Side-to-side deductions" always means the arrows are in the vitals my man, it's your "up-to-down" ones that concern me:cheeky-smiley-022:

Ha ha, Zeleski..."Where we served to protect the game to it's fullest as we never brought anything home except memories":dizzy:

[dsconnell]

I would be happy to be on someones team.. Not sure what I will contribute but I would say my odds are pretty good to get a goodun..

[wallydog1]

Everyone that signs up will be on a Team.The nice part about this OS contest it is a team Effort and with the point system ,the team does not have to tag Trophy Bucks.The effort of the team is what counts.looks like there will be alot more that will be signing up this year.

[uncle odie]

i am ready

[bowtech_buster]

can i be on your team uncle odie please please:idea:

[Yeley0437]

can i be on your team uncle odie please please:idea:

me to me to please!!!! :coolgleamA:

[uncle odie]

can i be on your team uncle odie please please:idea:

me to me to please!!!! :coolgleamA:


yep and yep

[benehunter]

This contest thing sounds like a lot of fun. I'd love to be part of it.

[BillK]

Just my two cents...

Looking forward to this deer season. The way things are going, it looks like I'll have plenty of vacation time to spend hunting this year.

[BuckSlayer]

I wonder if anyone will want to be on my team?

[bowtech_buster]

I wonder if anyone will want to be on my team?

i have an idea me you uncle odie and yeley sounds like a good one to me:p

[Francis]

I wonder if anyone will want to be on my team?

I do I do. The question is does anyone want me? ;) I'm feeling good about this year.

[uncle odie]

I do I do. The question is does anyone want me? ;) I'm feeling good about this year.

sure,be glad to have you on my team if it works out that way Francis.i like the enthusiasm you young pups have.BTW,where is Middlefield??

[uncle odie]

i have an idea me you uncle odie and yeley sounds like a good one to me:p

:cool:

[BuckSlayer]

i have an idea me you uncle odie and yeley sounds like a good one to me:p

Looks like I already have my team, just add francis in there :p

[OhioHunter88]

I wonder if anyone will want to be on my team?
If we could choose, I would take you, or pretty much anyone besides Jesse.hah

[BuckSlayer]

I have a feeling Jesse will be killing a nice buck this year.

[bowtech_buster]

If we could choose, I would take you, or pretty much anyone besides Jesse.hah

:yeahthat: hahahahahaha

[Francis]

In Geauga County. I am gonna be hunting Athens,Logan well..if it all goes planned.

[Peppy]

Just as a reminder, the only four member team to score on three bucks last year were Buckslayer, TheCream and myself on the Rack Reapers. We didn't win, but just thought I'd point that out. :D

Had all four members of our team participated in the "game", who knows what might have happenned.

[OhioHunter88]

was wondering if it was possible to get a slight rule change, that members of the team must check in periodically throughout the season. I belive once the sign ups were done, many contestant just dissapered.

[Francis]

was wondering if it was possible to get a slight rule change, that members of the team must check in periodically throughout the season. I belive once the sign ups were done, many contestant just dissapered.

Agreed

[bowhunter1023]

If we could choose, I would take you, or pretty much anyone besides Jesse.hah

When you turn 18 in ten years, we're cage fighting!


I have a feeling Jesse will be killing a nice buck this year.

Thanks dude! I have that feeling too. I have seen so many bucks this summer it just feels like I got some karma built up...

[Francis]

When you turn 18 in ten years, we're cage fighting!

That stuff is awsome my cousin had a fight two days ago...nocked the kid out in 6 sec

[wallydog1]

Just as a reminder, the only four member team to score on three bucks last year were Buckslayer, TheCream and myself on the Rack Reapers. We didn't win, but just thought I'd point that out. :D

Had all four members of our team participated in the "game", who knows what might have happenned.

You guy's Did Awesome.Your right about every one on the team needs to be Active.Why get on a team and not finish to the end :confused:

[Peppy]

I'm not sure what the best method may be to make sure those who sign up actually participate throughout the entire season.

I know I had a great time. Not only the challenge, but also seeing what everyone else was doing also. It made for a fun way to experience deer season through many other people's eyes, not just my own.

[Francis]

I think its another way to maybe be come better friends with fellow hunters.

[OhioHunter88]

[QUOTE=bowhunter1023;256660]When you turn 18 in ten years, we're cage fighting![QUOTE]



hah. I would say that I would have to start liftin but im sure I have nothing to worry about:yikes: :bouncy: :mischeif:

[Yeley0437]

:whistle: :whistle: :whistle: :whistle: :idea: :idea: :idea: lets get this thing going!!!! :rant: :cheeky-smiley-022: :D

[teambringit33]

I am looking forward to this year's contest as well. I hope I am on a team that likes to check in as well and just talk "shop" so to speak.

[coonskinner]

well im in again this yr. now if i could just get me some teammates this yr! LOL my mates know who they are

hey bowhntr...youre on the deer camp (wn)...team...:D

[coonskinner]

I'm only grumpy when young whipper snappers like you are gettin on ma nerves. :cheeky-smiley-022:


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Kyle

hi geeze...lookin for some hotdogs...:D

[davies2097]

what exactly is this contest? I'm confused...let me know what its all about!

[deerhunt45]

what exactly is this contest? I'm confused...let me know what its all about!

Please visit this thread! http://www.ohiosportsman.com/forum/showthread.php?t=16844

The 2008 contest will be basically the same rules with a couple minor changes and most likely more teams :)

The 2008 Ohiosportsman.com Deer Hunting Team Contest sub-forum should be up and running soon. We'll run the contest from there, signup thread will be first thread. Hopefully that happens this week!

Thanks for your patience guys and gals :D

[Yeley0437]

:woohoo1:

[wallydog1]

Man I did not think we were ever getting this thing going :cheeky-smiley-022: ;)

[deerhunt45]

Man I did not think we were ever getting this thing going :cheeky-smiley-022: ;)

I've been too busy...you ? :cheeky-smiley-022: ;) :D

[wallydog1]

I've been too busy...you ? :cheeky-smiley-022: ;) :D

Your are the man 45,Thank you ;)

[5Cent]

:yeahthat:

And you can still have B***H1023

[Woodland]

Man, It has been a very busy Spring & Summer for me. I'm glad I logged on just to see what's been happening. I would hate to miss this after almost missing it last year. It definately added a nice twist to last years hunting. Now you guys got me thinking about hunting I got to get out my bow, trailcam, get the treestands ready. Now I won't be able to concentrate on anything else.