Tomorrow is the opener to Missouri’s Archery Season. Most of the crew will be hitting the woods at home or in Northern MO. Muddy’s are hung, seeds are in the ground, tags are bought and bucks are walking by our Reconyx’s…in daylight! Hopefully they decide to walk by our stands tomorrow. Wishing everyone a safe and successful trip into the MO woods tomorrow. Good luck to all!
Shawn
It has been one long summer. After 3 long months of working on the new house almost every day we finally moved in about 4 weeks ago. It was a lot of work but all worth it in the end. Needless to say I did not get to spend my summers how I usually spend them, running trail cameras and shooting velvet footage. I finally got a couple cameras out about a week ago and low and behold a buck we have been after for the last 2 seasons showed up. We have a lot of history with this buck. I have gotten trial cam pics of him since he was a 2.5 and have found sheds from him the past 3 years. After the busy summer I had it will be great to get in a deer stand doing what I love the most.
Below are a few before and after pics of the new house and of course my MAN cave. I also added a few pictures of bucks Larry and I will be after early season.
Scendero Buck
A buck Larry will be after opening morning
Only 3 days to go……………..
Last night we finally got a west wind that opened up a couple of Nate’s best spots that we haven’t been able to hunt yet this year. Skyler went out with his dad Mike and Shawn went out with his dad Rex. They both saw quite a few deer despite the light rain and high winds and Mike was able to harvest his biggest buck ever with a bow for the second year in a row! Shawn and Rex are still at it and have two more nights to get one. Hopefully the movement is good tonight since we finally have some nice weather!
Mike
Skyler and I headed out last night to the same stand we hunted opening evening hoping to catch up with one of the 4 shooters that Nate has been getting pictures of. It seemed like the deer were moving really well in daylight hours just a few days before season, but once season rolled around they started moving more after dark as more and more bucks started shedding velvet. The first few days of our hunt were good. We saw quite a bit of deer movement, but no mature bucks. On day 4 we were completely rained out as North Dakota received record rainfall. Needless to say, we were really excited to get in the stand after taking a day off. Little did we know this big boy would show up with plenty of shooting light. I made a good shot at 25 yards and he only made it about 100yds. It feels great to get the season started off right in North Dakota! What an amazing place up here. In a total of 5 sits in the stand I have killed the two biggest bucks of my life. I can’t thank Nate and the Flynn family enough for having us up every year. It has quickly become my favorite trip of the year!
Mike
Nate has several years of history with this buck. Talk about a huge jump! Here he is last year (2009)
2010
Opening day is in the books! We saw a few does and fawns and I passed up a nice young 8. Were still getting pictures of a ton of good bucks, just seems like the daylight movement has died off a little. Hopefully it will pick back up with these southerly winds here in the next couple days!
– Mike
Just sitting around the house getting stuff together for the North Dakota hunt. Skyler and I hit the road tomorrow. Just got another update from Nate and things are starting to look even better up there! Gonna be tough to sleep after looking at all these bucks!
Just received word from Nate that the first camera check was a success…several solid mature bucks on the Reconyx cameras! He said there was a lot of daylight movement, but most of the bucks are moving at last light. Hopefully we will be able to pattern them a little better and cut them off on their way to feed in the evenings!
Skyler and I are hitting the road Wednesday and will be hunting the opener on Friday. We will be joined by Skyler’s dad, Shawn, and his dad Rex a few days after the opener. It should be a great trip. Can’t wait to get up there!
– Mike
Got some big boys in KS on the Reconyx coming in good to the BB2!
-Mike
Mike, Skyler and I traveled to Branson, MO to Dr. Grant Woods farm for his annual Field Day. We toured his farm he calls “The Proving Grounds.” We spent most of the day learning how to grow healthy whitetails in harsh conditions. Grant’s entire property is covered in rock and has not had rain in months! Grant purchased his property of 1500 acres eight years ago and claims there were only a couple deer on the property when he purchased it. Now, he has provided a healthy habitat with a large amount of food and has over 20 bucks that are 4 years or older on the property that he has Reconyx pictures of. We all learned a great deal about Whitetails and how to limit the amount of stress on them in order to grow larger racks. We also got to hang out with Larry Kendall, his wife G (owners of Muddy Outdoors) and T.J. from Reconyx. It was a weekend well spent and plan to attend the event next year! Check out Grant’s site @ http://www.growingdeer.tv.
Shawn
Shawn and I finished up one of our foodplots yesterday. The corn came up really good this year and we wanted to plant a late season plot in between the timber and the corn. Last year we went with turnips, but this year we wanted to plant something with a variety of plants so we planed a fall blend from Outfitters Choice. It has a mixture of Forage Soybeans, Crimson Clover, Oats, Apple Forage Turnip and Triticale…..a deadly combination! To top it all off we just got hit with a nice rain. Can’t wait to watch it grow!
-Mike
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