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[crietveld]

Fresh last night

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[BuckWrangler]

Fresh one in a bed next to standing beans yesterday afternoon!

 

[bluedog69]

What part of Iowa? Northern half or souther half?
I am in northern MO. Dying to start looking but hate to
bump bucks out of timber.

 

[newfarmer]

Ive got 2 up here in Northern Iowa, but everything else is still holding solid. Both are just dinks, the big ones all still carrying.

 

[crietveld]

I’m in mahaska county south of Des Moines. 90% of the bucks on camera are still packing. This one was 20 feet from where I feed corn every day


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[BuckWrangler]

What part of Iowa? Northern half or souther half?
I am in northern MO. Dying to start looking but hate to
bump bucks out of timber.

SE Iowa, most bucks are still holding it seems like.

 

[IowaBowHunter1983]

 

[jkratz5]

Damn I would pay someone $1000 if they could find a shed In Indiana right now.

Fun to see it starting

 

[bluedog69]

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Is that good alfalfa? I have thought about trying some of that myself in Jan and Feb to maybe get more sheds on my ground.
Do they eat it much?

 

[IowaBowHunter1983]

Is that good alfalfa? I have thought about trying some of that myself in Jan and Feb to maybe get more sheds on my ground.
Do they eat it much?

Gone thru 15 bales so far. They love it.

 

[theDoorman]

Found these yesterday.

 

[crietveld]

I pulled the card on my corn pile camera saturday after a week soak. 75 percent of the bucks I have coming in shed last week. I picked up 3 yesterday and one on a short walk tonight.

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[Daver]

They don't get any easier.

 

[Daver]

My son is having a good day. This one in bedding cover right next to our best food.

 

[Daver]

In our good turnips. Food is the key!

 

[Daver]

The hits keep coming! My son Mark has found single sides of our 3 biggest survivors. He's on fire out there today. Also in bedding cover close to food.

 

[Daver]

Not the same buck, but his 2 best of the laid next to each other.

 

[crietveld]

Those are some good bucks Daver, especially with the hit from EHD in your area.


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[BuckWrangler]

Got lucky today!!

 

[Daver]

Those are some good bucks Daver, especially with the hit from EHD in your area.


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Yes, we are very pleased to have "something around". Only one of those three was around in any form up until mid-November. And the one that we did recognize was not around very much, FWIW. We had very few pics of him, but we did have some.

So EHD dropped our numbers big time...but there were a couple of other factors too in our opinion. My son shot a 7 year old "bully", really the only shooter we had left, in early November. We really feel like that buck was so bossy that he kept others from hanging out on our place much.

Once he was out of the timber...well, now we start seeing some other good bucks showing up. We also had good food, not great because of the drought, but relatively good for our area this year since everyone was fighting low moisture.

We also didn't gun hunt at all because of low numbers, so we had a pretty favorable setup to get some "move ins", giving us some hope for the next year. All in all, we are in fair shape for next year...and I thought in Oct./Nov. that we were screwed for a couple of years. We'll take it.

Get those bullies DOWN guys. We were already persuaded to get them...but this year has made it even more clear hos important it is to get them.