Ohio Pre-Rut Bow Hunting: 8-Point Success in Knox
Ohio Pre-Rut Bow Hunting: 8-Point Success in Knox. Bow hunter shares his first hunt of the 2026 season in Knox County, Ohio during the pre-rut peak. Watch the full encounter with an 8-pointer and learn what { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "Organization", "@id": "https://greyhive.com#organization", "name": "Greyhive", "url": "https://greyhive.com", "description": "Greyhive is a censorship-resistant video platform for the firearms, 2A, hunting, and outdoor industries — where creators build, review, and monetize unfiltered content.", "logo": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://greyhive.com/static/uploads/images/ae198483-01c9-44b4-a16a-03f516ceaf66.svg", "width": 512, "height": 512 }, "sameAs": [ "https://x.com/greyhive", "https://www.instagram.com/greyhive/", "https://www.youtube.com/@Greyhive", "https://www.linkedin.com/company/greyhive/" ] }, { "@type": "WebSite", "@id": "https://greyhive.com#website", "url": "https://greyhive.com", "name": "Greyhive", "description": "Greyhive is a censorship-resistant video platform for the firearms, 2A, hunting, and outdoor industries — where creators build, review, and monetize unfiltered content.", "publisher": { "@id": "https://greyhive.com#organization" } }, { "@type": "Person", "@id": "https://greyhive.com/c/nontypnito_channel#person", "name": "AP2020 Outdoors", "url": "https://greyhive.com/c/nontypnito_channel", "description": "AP2020 Outdoors is a Greyhive creator producing original 2A, firearms, hunting, and outdoor content.", "image": "https://greyhive.com/lazy-static/avatars/fdc542ca-5021-498d-82f3-3599d940a8b6.png" }, { "@type": "Article", "@id": "https://greyhive.com/blog/ohio-preseason-bow-hunting-8-point-november#article", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://greyhive.com#website" }, "mainEntityOfPage": { "@id": "https://greyhive.com/blog/ohio-preseason-bow-hunting-8-point-november" }, "url": "https://greyhive.com/blog/ohio-preseason-bow-hunting-8-point-november", "headline": "Ohio Pre-Rut Bow Hunting: 8-Point Success in Knox", "name": "Ohio Pre-Rut Bow Hunting: 8-Point Success in Knox", "description": "Bow hunter shares his first hunt of the 2026 season in Knox County, Ohio during the pre-rut peak. Watch the full encounter with an 8-pointer and learn what", "articleSection": "Hunting", "articleBody": "Ohio pre-rut bow hunting pays off in early November, and the Greyhive video \"Bow Hunting Ohio Deer The Pre Rut 2026\" is a clean example of why. Nito from AP2020 Outdoors filmed his first bow sit of the 2026 season on Tuesday, November 3, 2026, in Knox County, Ohio — and before his bow was even off the ground, a giant eight-pointer walked through the yard he was hunting over. That first sit ended without an arrow fired. The follow-up sits produced a miss on what Nito called a \"monster nine-pointer,\" then a filled tag on a mature eight-point at roughly 28 to 30 yards. Three encounters with shooter bucks inside the first week of November, on one small Knox County property, is the pre-rut doing exactly what the pre-rut does. At 64 years old and hunting since he was about 15, Nito has close to five decades of Ohio seasons behind him. His read on the week is worth more than the kill shot: bucks are moving daylight hours, they are moving unpredictably, and the hunter who stays in the tree after a bad morning is the one who ends up dragging one out. Key Takeaways Nito from AP2020 Outdoors hunted Knox County, Ohio on November 3, 2026 — his first bow sit of the season — and had a mature eight-pointer in the yard before his bow was pulled up the tree. The buck crossed the road in front of his truck heading west, then reappeared at the stand and drifted off to the southeast …