Memphis is 36 miles from our front gate. It's got to be good hunting around there. Just south of Van Buren county, Iowa.
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yes sir, there are really good deer in the area, i went 3 years in a row on the week of halloween and had warm weather so never connected on anything. they have some really good deer on camera this year, i am going to do my best to get back up there next year.
I didn't hunt yesterday evening. The wind was howling behind the front that came through. This was the same front that created the tornado in Dallas. I did go pull a card from a camera that I put on a scrape about 150 yards behind the house. There is a pretty nice buck checking it. Big bodied deer !!
I will probably hunt this evening if the wind lays down. I might do a hang and hunt in an area on our place that I have never hunted before. We will see what the day brings.
I am in the stand for my first morning hunt of the season.
I am back in the Terrace stand. I have not hunted this stand in several days. 45 degrees. Very light southeast breeze after two days of high winds. I didn't hunt the last two days with the gusty winds. The wind is not perfect for this stand but not that bad.
I didn't expect much out this evening's hunt. The morning sit was real slow. I saw one doe and a buck way across one of the fields near my set.
I worked around the house all day. I planted some winter rye behind the house basically for erosion control and I thought about not going out because it was to late to get to most of my stands. At about 4:45 I decided to go back to the Terrace stand which is only about 300 yards from our house. I grabbed my safety harness and a camo jacket. I got in the stand a little after 5:00.
I had not seen anything until 6:30 when quite possibly the biggest buck I have seen from a stand came out of tall grass to my west and walked toward me on the terrace between the two fields. I got my bow off the hanger and got ready. At one point the buck was at 22-23 yards. Between my stand position and limbs in the way I could not get a shot.
When the buck got past me. I took a couple of pictures. You may be able to see the buck in the first picture on the left side of the terrace and in the second picture past the small Y shaped tree. In the third picture his head is down. I walked an extra 1/2 mile to get out to try not to spook him. He had headed right towards our house and in my path out. I am going to to go thru my pictures but I don't think I have a picture of this buck.
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