Iowa here I come! -Swamped Out!- Come on Nov!

[Chad Orde]

Originally posted by Keefer:
 :eek:    Chad did you just pump Diesel fuel in your car and not Gas ?
I hope you weren't to much in a hurry and picked up the wrong pump handle by mistake    :rolleyes:  
Out here most green colored and yellow are for Diesel fuel and Black for gas!
Good luck to you and enjoy your trip.

Lol they where all green their

[Chad Orde]

Originally posted by creekwood:
What part of Iowa are you heading to?

Iowa county close to you!

[Zwickey-Fever]

Best of luck from Monroe County farm land!

[Chad Orde]

The mighty Mississippi way over its banks



One of my best hunting spots completely underwater



A nice healthy Iowa rub



Got my stand hung up in the new piece of public land I've never hunted. Got the tent set up now it's off to bed

[Keefer]

Get up Chad it's time to head out and get to that new stand.
Will be watching to see some pictures of today's hunt. May God Bless your day Chad!  

[Cyclic-Rivers]

Good Luck Chad!

[Chad Orde]

North wind 59 degrees opening day!!! Good luck fellow brothers and sisters of the bow. October is here let's make it the best one yet!!
God Bless you and yours Lord we ask for a safe successful season in your name we pray Amen

[Chad Orde]

Originally posted by Zwickey-Fever:
Best of luck from Monroe County farm land!

I have a Delta on for you Zwickey!!

[Lefty]

Good luck and safe hunting!!

[Keefer]

Chad I like the way you started out the day already Brother! Now go enjoy His Creation and be safe as well.  

[23feetupandhappy]

Well, how'd the morning go?

[dringge]

Originally posted by Chad Orde:
 

Originally posted by creekwood:
What part of Iowa are you heading to?

Iowa county close to you! [/b]

And you are less than an hour south of me.

[Flingblade]

Good luck Chad!  I'll be following along with envy.  Hopefully I'll draw a tag for the whitetail motherland next year!

[Chad Orde]

Well the morning was fun seen 3-4 does and had a light rain for most of the morning. Sat until 10:30 then decided to scout out some new spots since I lost my honey hole. Drove up and down the river bottom I have access through because of the IA DNR. Iowa is a state that does it right it takes tag money and buys more hunting land for American use and maintains it. Found some spots on the map I wanted to walk on and pre hunt for the rut. Here was the first one....



First one was a total bust

[Chad Orde]

Off to the next spot looked awesome 2 hours of walking and back to the truck.
I was wiped after that not allot of sleep up early, back to the campground for a shower and a bite.

[Chad Orde]

Got a shower in felt better went to my last spot wet again so I decided to set up by the field edge out of the water. Headed back to MI late but at least can hunt tonight and tomorrow before back to work. The misqetos where insane you would kick up clouds of them. Also allot of American Giant Misqetos hatched which is rare and takes a big rain or flood up to size of a quarter and super aggressive.  I got what I wanted to get done accomplished kind of get some good spots got it out of the rut. Although I didn't get to walk them all I did find all my access points.  That's it till November for me for Iowa.

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. Truman Capote

 

 

My wife had a large Iowa buck by her last night, a couple of inconvenient cedars kept her from getting a shot.  We don't have the big striped skeeters here, yet.  We have the little head standers,  that come straight in with no dilly dallying.  Today my arms are tired from waving at skeeters.  I was asked, "See any?" I said, "thousands."  "Get any?" "about 40 is all."  "They were bad by me too."  Off he went, but he instantly knew that I was referring to our dominant predator species and we were the prey.  I read that only female mosquitoes bite, I do not know if I have ever seen a male mosquito.

[Chad Orde]

Man wish you all would have got it! The males drink nectar and juices.

Here is male

[Marc B.]

Get a Thermacell, they work.

[Keefer]

Man Chad that thing looks like a flying "Drilling Rig"! How much did it score?   :eek: