MO Hunting Season Thread 2016

[Bodork]

You are the man Kenny! Congratulations!

[dnovo]

Nice buck Kenny.
I haven't kept up with this thread for a while, but thought I'd add a couple things.
First off I finally killed a turkey with my bow. First ever!!  This was a couple weeks back. I have a ladderstand I placed this year tucked back into a cedar and this was the first time I sat it.

Now yesterday I came flying home with not much time and grabbed my bow to hit the woods for that last evening before the guns came out. I went to this same stand where I got the turkey. It would be the 3rd time I've been in it all season. I didn't change my clothes, just went as I was dressed for work. Plaid flannel shirt, brown pants, work boots. About 20 minutes before dark I was hearing something off to my left and kept thinking it was this squirrel I had seen a little bit earlier. No, here is this big doe right there about 7-8 yds. She was really scoping things out plus she was down wind but the wind was blowing pretty good and I think it was going over her head. she finally came out past me a little and I hit her a touch high, but in the spine. Had to get down to put a finishing arrow in her as I couldn't get one through the brush.


I was pretty happy as this was my first shot at a deer all season. She was a big doe and I think she is the one that has been busting me for a couple years.

[TRAP]

Way to go guys.

I'm working a CWD sampling station in Randolph County this weekend. You wouldn't think there would be any deer left after a weekend of firearms season. It's Absurd the number of bucks that get taken.

Good Luck the second half.

[TIM B]

Atta'boy Kenny!  
Atta'boy Dan!  Nice turkey and doe!!
Tim

[kennym]

Great job Dan! Turkeys are hard to do without a blind...

Trap, I was at the CWD sampling station yesterday, amazing number of bucks there, didn't see a doe. wonder how the next couple seasons will turn out....

[tracker1]

Good job Kenny

[JakeD]

Nice job on the turkey and doe!  

I really despise gun season.  And it's not because of weapon choice, I could care less about that.  It's because of all these clowns that come out of the woodwork and the way that they act.  Gun season antics just really gets under my skin.  I guess I"m getting old and grumpy.

[kennym]

Lol Jake, just wait til you really get old and grumpy! You think even less of em....

[JakeD]

Originally posted by kennym:
Lol Jake, just wait til you really get old and grumpy! You think even less of em....

Haha.  I just wish people had more respect for both others and the animals that they hunt.  I feel like it's pretty sad the way that a lot of younger people are growing up learning how to "hunt".

[kennym]

I agree 100%, Jake...

[TIM B]

I agree too Jake....you smart fer a young man lol
Tim

[fireman_3311]

Congrats Kenny!!!  Everyone else as well!!!

[JakeD]

Good morning all! I'm set up waiting on a mature cruiser this morning. Then again, aren't we all. This has been a rough year as far as mature buck sightings go for me. I've really had a tough time seeing much of anything. Hopefully it will change soon. I'm doing everything I can think of to find them.

[Jakeemt]

Ditto brother have had a tough year for hunting so far.

[TIM B]

Stay after them jake....
Tim

[kennym]

Yesterday while at work I saw more bucks on the move than any day so far. Folks I talked to said deer everywhere.  Think the rut is a little later this year....

[rainman]

Nice buck Kenny.

[TRAP]

Agreed Jake, I would deem it a big joke....but there's nothing funny about it.

[JakeD]

Soooo.....I heard that a neighbor of some of my family killed a 6 pointer.  No big deal, even though I wouldn't shoot it.  Congrats for him.  But then I heard that another guys son shot a 6 pointer on that guys land.  Hmmm....something seems fishy with that.  Well, I did some digging and found out that the neighbor tagged the 6 pointer that his buddy's son killed.  And that was the kids first deer.  How sad is that?  From the word go, that's what this kid is being taught.  They completely stole the experience from this kid.  He'll never be able to relive that hunt to friends and family because it wasn't his deer any longer.  Pretty pathetic.  And now this is what this kid is going to think is okay.  Just makes me shake my head.

[Shadowhnter]

How some people sleep at night, amazes me....