Few bucks that survived

Think of what this guy will look like next year, notice still holding on 2-16, he just showed up
Rt Side


Head on


Left side


Wow a solid buck, tips almost cross



A nice 9 point, he will be a good one next fall.



Hes a good 1 as well, maybe only a 7?

Here is a couple pics of the '180' draw. In all I would say this draw is maybe 150 yards long and 50 yards wide. It has CRP around the crop edges and thick nasty, buck brush in the middle. Really the only decent sized tress on on the very tip and where it meets the woods.


Panned back view, it is the draw to the east.



Close up view of it.

Double Main Beam survived gun seasons

So I had some other people gun hunting my property this year, we asked them not to shoot one deer because he was only a 2.5 and had a double main beam on his left side. I saw him a few times bow hunting and when I was filming Brent during the gun season. Those other guys were down there this last weekend for the final weekend of the muzzle-loader season and they passed him 2 times. Here are a few pics of him, can't wait to see what he will turn into next year or the year after!! We had a lot of really good bucks that we know have made it through the year, so next year should be really good, it will be interesting to watch some of them over the next year.

Up Close



Checking out the ladies

Food plots in Nov

Here is what our food plots looked like in Nov. We planted them in early Aug & didn't have any rain til mid-sep, still some of the seeds germinated and those plants grew really tall & big. The other stuff filled in nice when they finally got rain in mid-sep. There are 2 seed mixes in the plots. One mix was winter rye, white clover mix & winter peas (didn't grow at all) & the other mix was PT turnip & groundhog radish mix. In one plot we did just a big square with a small tail this plot was 2/3 rye mix and 1/3 brassica, the other was a small square and then a bunch of lanes that were about 100 yards long creating trails. This worked out well and we watched a buck one night go & check all the lanes to see if there were any deer in them, whereas the square plot when we saw deer to it they would walk up the edge and leave because they could see the whole thing. From now on when at all possible we will break up the plots so the deer have to move more, making killing them easier!! The deer have really eaten the winter rye down on that part and the clover is coming in strong but is really small yet, they will be hammering that in the spring/summer as it grows bigger.

View of square food plot, the right part is brassica's & left is the rye mix which they have hammered, it looks like it was mowed.

View from the stand of food plot with lanes, rt side is winter rye mix, left side it radish/turnip mix.


Big buck coming down one of the lanes checking for does


View down one of the lanes


Ground hog radish


Purple top turnip

Layout of kill

Here is the layout of the kill.

Close in food plot

Here are a couple pics from the video when I was close to killing him in the food plot.

Ross IL 9 Point

I was able to kill this buck on the morning of 11-11-11, it was the 4th encounter we had with him during the week and finally we were able to close the deal. He was a scrapper he had broke off one of his brow tines, G4 and the end of his main beam. Hopefully Brent runs into the buck he tangled with and can put some lead in him!! I also included a trail cam picture of him before he was all broke up.