North Mo
5 year old buck +
This has been our most successful season. It did not start well with our 1 1/2 year old granddaughter catching a 24 hour bug that caused her parents to drive up late and miss opening morning. Then in 24 hour intervals mom, dad and grandma caught the bug and all missed a day of hunting. I somehow escaped the bug. On the afternoon of the second day I heard a shot about 1/2 mile away and 40 minutes later this buck came limping by.
Our daughter was feeling better by the afternoon of the 3rd day so I drove her back to the clover plot that lies deepest in the woods that we hunt very sparingly. Trail camera photos showed a buck in the clover and then 3 minutes later our truck shows up, after another 40 minutes the buck came back and our daughter dropped him.
At the end of the 4th day my wife and daughter had to return home to work. My son in law and I stayed and on the 5th morning he went across the road to his lease and hunted from a pop up blind over a picked bean field. He placed a decoy about 100 yards into the bean field and less than an hour after daylight this buck walked toward the decoy.
On the sixth day my son in law and I installed a 13 ft stovepipe but kept an eye out the windows and saw good bucks twice crossing between the house and woods 200 yard away. That afternoon I called my wife and she decided to use her last vacation day and she drove back up right after work. The next afternoon she shot this buck in the woods right behind the house.
Our son and his wife were also successful at the hunting club they belong to about 12 miles to the west of us. He got his buck with a bow the last week of October and she got hers the 2nd day of gun season.
Our daughter was feeling better by the afternoon of the 3rd day so I drove her back to the clover plot that lies deepest in the woods that we hunt very sparingly. Trail camera photos showed a buck in the clover and then 3 minutes later our truck shows up, after another 40 minutes the buck came back and our daughter dropped him.
At the end of the 4th day my wife and daughter had to return home to work. My son in law and I stayed and on the 5th morning he went across the road to his lease and hunted from a pop up blind over a picked bean field. He placed a decoy about 100 yards into the bean field and less than an hour after daylight this buck walked toward the decoy.
On the sixth day my son in law and I installed a 13 ft stovepipe but kept an eye out the windows and saw good bucks twice crossing between the house and woods 200 yard away. That afternoon I called my wife and she decided to use her last vacation day and she drove back up right after work. The next afternoon she shot this buck in the woods right behind the house.
Our son and his wife were also successful at the hunting club they belong to about 12 miles to the west of us. He got his buck with a bow the last week of October and she got hers the 2nd day of gun season.
