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Harvest dates of your mature bucks, please.

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MN Slick

PMA Member
I'd love to hear the dates you shot your mature deer in Iowa over the years. I've really started paying attention to the harvest dates people post after my 2003 Iowa campaign where the bucks were locked down with does much of the week I was there. In 2003 and 2004 it seems a lot of good bucks were taken up to about 11/9 then there was a lull until around 11/13 when the deer were cruising again. Of course I'm only looking at 2 years and relatively few kill dates. How does this theory compare you your experiences?

The dates of my mature Iowa kills are: 11/12, 11/9, and 11/5.
 
Here are some of mine ...

11/5/98 PM hunt - 5 1/2 year old

10/16/99 PM hunt - 5 1/2 year old

11/1/00 AM hunt - 3 1/2 year old

11/9/01 PM hunt - 5 1/2 + year old

10/27/02 PM hunt - 6 1/2 year old

10/11/03 AM hunt - 5 1/2 year old

11/30/03 AM hunt - 4 1/2 + year old

11/9/04 AM hunt - 4 1/2 year old
 
Here are mine.

11-25-2001 PM hunt- 5 1/2 year old

12-05-2003 PM hunt- 4 1/2 to 5 1/2 year old

01-05-2004 PM hunt- 3 1/2 year old

11-01-2004 PM hunt- 4 1/2 to 5 1/2 year old
 
11/25/98 pm hunt

11/23/03 am hunt

12/9/03 pm hunt

12/24/04 pm hunt

Then a few more I can't remember
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12/8/01 AM hunt
12/6/03 AM hunt
12/18/04 AM hunt
The rest are all Dec and I have no records of dates. All but two where AM hunts. I am trying to move toward those October and November dates.
 
11/4/01 PM hunt 3 1/2 135" warm, south wind.
11/2/02 PM hunt 5 1/2 155" cool, windy, NW wind.
11/?/03 Whiff
11/6/04 PM hunt 3 1/2 135" seasonal, SW wind.
 
10/21/04 - 3 1/2 year old -PM hunt (with 2 does)

11/11/04 - 3 1/2 year old -AM hunt (alone cruising)

11/21/04 - 3 1/2 year old (brother also killed a 3 1/2 year old this day) -PM hunt for both (both deer alone)

12/04/04 - 5 1/2 or 6 1/2 year old -PM hunt (alone feeding)

11/08/02 - 3 1/2 year old -AM hunt (hot on a doe)

11/19/02 - 4 1/2 year old -AM hunt (alone cruising)

11/21/01 - 5 1/2 year old (brother also killed 3 1/2 year old this day) -AM hunt and PM hunt respectively (mine was chasing 2 does)

11/18/99 - 3 1/2 year old -AM hunt (hot on a doe)
 
Not sure about 3 rifle kills actually, all sometime in late November. I do remember my best 2 bucks though. First pic is a 205" muzzleloader buck from )ctober 17th 2001, 2nd pic is this years 201" muzzleloader buck from October 2nd. Can you tell why October is by far my favorite month to hunt?
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11/20 - 10:15 a.m.
Two other mature bucks that I know of were harvested on the same weekend one in the morning and the other in the evening. Bucks were fired up all over the place that weekend.
 
11-12-98, PM hunt - 4.5
10-31-99, PM hunt - 3.5
11-11-00, PM hunt - 4.5 or 5.5
11-28-01, PM hunt - 3.5
11-03-02, PM hunt - 3.5
11-13-04, PM hunt - 5.5 or 6.5
 
11/14/00 4 1/2 bow
12/7/00 10 1/2 + shtgn
1/7/01 4 1/2 muzz
11/16/01 5 1/2 bow
11/31/02 3 1/2 bow
10/27/03 4 1/2 bow
11/29/04 4 1/2 bow
12/17/04 5 1/2 shtgn

Also this year in the area I hunt I have 3 friends that killed marure bucks on Nov 7. 04 this year. They now call that date d-day.
 
Nov. 1st afternoon hunt 2004

Bowhunted Iowa in 2004, got in Albia the night of Oct. 30, set my stand on Halloween morning. Seen 6 does Halloween night, did'nt hunt Nov. 1st morning cause of steady rain, went out in the afternoon and killed a 16 point. Just had him offically scored at 165 6/8 non-typical, or he was 139 typical. Im entering him as a Non-typical though. Not huge but a real nice buck.

I love Iowa
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And hope to return soon.
 
11-05-04 9;30 am bow

10-18-04 5:00 pm muzz

Didn't have the opportunity at any mature deer the three previous years and took does only.
 
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