Hunting Diary

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  Iowa Muzzleloader

  As a 46 year old boy from Illinois, I’m not quite sure why it took me this long to chase Iowa whitetails…especially since I can see Iowa from my back deck.  The excitement started earlier in the year when a friend and I got word that we had been selected to hunt deer during the late muzzleloader season. Our first trip to the Cianciarulo farm in southwest Iowa began in mid-December. … read more »

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  River bottoms to alfalfa fields!

    Every year in September I plan a trip out west to hunt elk, mule deer or antelope. This year I am headed to eastern Montana with fellow Posse member David Wozniak to hunt those river bottom whitetails..  We are hunting with Powder river outfitters and let me tell you they have the animals!!!  It didn't take long for me to fall in love with the Cottonwood lined river bottoms that… read more »

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  My Unicorn

  Every year I find myself longing to hunt out west. When I got the call from Ralph and Vicki about a New Mexico elk hunt with Top Notch Outfitters I was pumped. I would be joined by a fellow Posse member and respected hunter Damian Riffle. After a 10 hour drive to Missouri I picked him up in Amarillo and headed in to see Brian Newell and to hunt my dream animal. I have hunted elk for 15 years on… read more »

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  Tall Brow Ten

  Beginning in mid-October, my fiancée David and I began getting trail camera pictures of a really good 10 point.  We immediately recognized him as a buck we had pictures of and had passed last season as a 3 ½ year old.  Though his rack was the same basic shape as the previous year, he had added about 15” of antler.  In addition, his brow tines had absolutely blown… read more »

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  Choice ground blind pays off again

  Oct. 19 2012 was a stormy wet day, back home in northern IL., not a day that you wanted to do much outside if you did not have to. I had just returned from hunting in Adams Co. IL. It had been hot down there and deer were not moving very much earlier that week. I checked my trail cameras that day and had another picture of one of my target bucks “Whitey”. This front was just what we needed.… read more »

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  October New Moon!

  After years of hard work and trial and error, I've finally stumbled onto a pattern that has been successful for me. I have been fortunate enough to harvest a mature whitetail buck in Ohio for the past 5 years on this theory which happens within a small window leading up and shortly after to the October New Moon.   Last year it happened to be on Sept 30th which was 2 days after the Sept. New… read more »