tn droptine
Well-Known Member
Well, since moving from TN last year I knew I would miss hunting whitetails. I gave it a go hunting elk in my new home state of Utah, but I tell ya, that is a whole other beast there!
Ended up leasing a farm in Macon Co, Missouri and invited my dad out from Indiana to hunt it with me. Well long story short there ended up being 100 acres of standing corn on my 110 acre lease, so it was a dismal start of the hunt. We hunted hard, but all I saw the first five days were does and a seven point that didn't warrant my tag. Dad had yet to see anything, and was getting frustrated to say the least. Knowing this quite possibly would be our last trip together, I decided to look at other options in the area. I found a website that leased out farms on a daily rate, and saw there was a small parcel not far from the current lease, so after hunting yesterday we drove to it to make sure the corn wasn't still standing on it. Was down so we decided to give it a shot. Paid for a one-day pass on this 40 acre farm because today would be the last day we had before taking dad back to Indiana so he doesn't miss his opening weekend there.
Got set up this morning, just going in blind and going off of aerials. Didn't see anything all morning, so I relocated and started setting up where I decided to hunt this afternoon. Decided to walk the edge of the field and head dad's way when all of the sudden this guy came busting across the field. Shot him on the fly, and he ran into the woods and crashed into the bottom of a deep creek bed that was frozen over.
Craziest thing is before he came running my way across the field he had came up behind my dad by about 30 feet - dad had turned around and scared the buck
Ended up leasing a farm in Macon Co, Missouri and invited my dad out from Indiana to hunt it with me. Well long story short there ended up being 100 acres of standing corn on my 110 acre lease, so it was a dismal start of the hunt. We hunted hard, but all I saw the first five days were does and a seven point that didn't warrant my tag. Dad had yet to see anything, and was getting frustrated to say the least. Knowing this quite possibly would be our last trip together, I decided to look at other options in the area. I found a website that leased out farms on a daily rate, and saw there was a small parcel not far from the current lease, so after hunting yesterday we drove to it to make sure the corn wasn't still standing on it. Was down so we decided to give it a shot. Paid for a one-day pass on this 40 acre farm because today would be the last day we had before taking dad back to Indiana so he doesn't miss his opening weekend there.
Got set up this morning, just going in blind and going off of aerials. Didn't see anything all morning, so I relocated and started setting up where I decided to hunt this afternoon. Decided to walk the edge of the field and head dad's way when all of the sudden this guy came busting across the field. Shot him on the fly, and he ran into the woods and crashed into the bottom of a deep creek bed that was frozen over.
Craziest thing is before he came running my way across the field he had came up behind my dad by about 30 feet - dad had turned around and scared the buck
