Recent content by smokepole244

Congrats on a couple of dandy bucks.

Bought a CVA Wolf for my Grandson last year. Easy to use and easy to clean. Killed his 1st whitetail with it. Came with a Konus scope and case. Seems to be a quality gun, and we have no complaints.

The 1st edition Iowa Trophy Deer record book printed in 1993, has a top shot gun typical of 200 2/8 shot in 1964 by Harold Dickman, and a 197 6/8 typical as the top archery deer shot in 1962 by Lloyd Goad. Sounds like a great deer and congrats on your trophy. There are several giant deer in that...

Was there today. The drought didn't seem to have a negative effect on antler growth in Iowa. Not sure of the number , but there seemed to be more B&C caliber deer than the last 2 years.

Awesome buck! Are you having it scored at the Classic, or before you go?

Congrats! That's a giant!

That's a dandy. Congrats! :way:

Is there a picture of it on here? There's been some big ones shot, not sure which one we're talking about.

For convenience, the bag or box. But you can't beat the sound of a heavy set of real antlers.

249 5/8, 146 2/8, 139 7/8, all with a muzzleloader. Biggest bow kill is 137. Have never kept track of hours hunted, but have 4 days a week off, so I have the opportunity to hunt quite a bit.

It could be the same deer. A set of sheds to a deer I shot 2 years ago, were found a good 5 miles from where it was shot.

GREAT!!! Read on KCRG website, Branstad was involved in a car, deer accident. He'll probably have to rethink the reduction of doe tags. It's way to dangerous for the Gov. to be driving around.

So you're shed hunting on public ground and you find a dead buck. You take the head, throw it in the back of the truck and go home. You just broke the law. You need approval and a tag from your CO to possess that head. My point is, there are a lot of rules and regulations. Do we only complain...

Shot the deer of a lifetime in 2010 with my muzzleloader, netted 244 6/8.

To be in the contest it can be there as late as 11a.m. Sun. morning. I believe the judging is at 3 or 3:30. You also can have it scored without being in the contest but it sounds like they will score the deer in the contest first.