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Way to go! Talk about sticking with it. Doubt you'll ever forget that long haul and how it all paid off in the end. Awesome animal and example.

Gundog, congrats to your son! That is awesome. Quite an accomplishment to both him and his coach. Way to go.

I was blessed to drop my first mature buck on October 11th. I shot him at 4:50 in the afternoon as he was working a scrape -on the ground in my ghillie suit. Here were the factors that helped: (1) Being flexible in my tactics. My immune system went crazy this year from poison ivy. I literally...

IowaBowHunter1983, I never knew Grant Wood did a self-portrait in a ghillie suit.

Wanted to get your opinions on late season hunting for the big boys. I've had a very difficult time even seeing bucks in late archery season after shotgun season- so this year I'm going to try to concentrate on a few important locations under the right circumstances. (1) There is a deep ditch...

This is my first mature buck. Shot a 8 yards from the ground in my ghillie suit.

One of my sets involves a stand I have set up on a drainage with a narrow line of trees on one side of it. There is a strip of CRP on either side of the drainage which the deer use as travel corridors.There are distinct trails that they use located 20-25 yards from my stand. Sometimes the...

A few more details guys. I've got several areas now that I'm now sure of being within 100 yards or so from their beds. For the most part I can get in undetected to my stands. I don't want to get in any tighter for fear of them detecting me the way the cover is situated. I've got some trail cam...

I'd like to get your input on where you've found buck beds in open farm country. The area I hunt has rolling hills in some areas, with a few small woodlots scattered in various places, along with several drainages (with limited cover) and some CRP. It's almost impossible to get into the...

I'm trying to get a better bead on travel patterns of bucks during the time they're really cruising around before lock down so I can really focus my efforts on funnels more efficiently. At times I've seen lots of bucks, but not close enough to get a shot. The property I hunt is wide open hilly...

My early archery season here in Iowa has been slower than normal for me as far as normal whitetail activity and sightings. I live quite a ways from where I normally hunt so for the most part I've had to rely on trail cams to monitor normal deer movement instead of glassing in the evenings...

I wanted to wish a Happy Thanksgiving to all of you and your families today. Here in the States we have been really blessed with wonderful hunting opportunities and the amount of wild game we have to enjoy. My family and I lived in the country of Ukraine as missionaries for 11 years soon after...

When you guys are hunting during the rut, have you ever tried to stalk a buck that you see holed up with a doe. Either seeing them as you head to your stand, seeing them while in your stand and getting down and going after them. Or seeing them as you're driving, trying to contact the land owner...

I normally walk to my stand in my gillie suit especially when I'm using CRP as cover. As I was doing that last Saturday I walked within 10 feet of a shooter buck with a doe. He jumped up but the doe stayed bedded. He ran a short distance and stopped, waiting for her. I think he smelled me but I...

Saw lots of bucks and rut action yesterday for the first time this year. Great time to be in a tree stand. Then.. I hear this loud ruckus going on behind me at about 60-70 yards as the light was fading. At first I thought it was a buck running around with a doe, but when I turned around I could...

SW Iowa, The switch was flipped yesterday. Was out for an afternoon hunt. Saw 5 or 6 bucks all either with does, looking for or trailing does. Before then my hunting buddy and I had been out hunting 5 times and hadn't seen a buck- was very strange.

Stand is on the east side of the river about 30 yards from the edge. Basically grass for that 30 yards until it reaches a fence line and a strip of timber where my stand is located.

I'm trying to decide the best entry to get into a stand and wondered how a river and standing corn will affect the wind. I've never entered a stand through standing corn so I was wondering if you just plan on the wind blowing the same direction but with much less velocity or does the wind tend...

The most mature bucks I'm finding on trail cams have been located very close to good water sources. I'm in a dry area where numbers of water sources are drying up. Do you guys find that the big boys bed right next to reliable water sources as long as there is suitable security cover and human...

Quick question for you guys. Have you guys ever had a buck stop at the sound of calling, who has turned in that direction but who stands there looking for confirmation of the deer that made the sounds in the first place. Have you tried anything to help convince them that there really is a deer...