Iowa Deer - Day 5 - Chris Gets A Buck In The Cornfield

18 December 2007

Iowa Deer - Day 5 - Chris Gets A Buck In The Cornfield

Posted by Darrell under: Hunting Stories .

Chris, Dana and I hunted together again. The day, like all the previous ones consisted of lots of drives. The weather was bitterly cold and it was windy. We saw fewer deer and the ones we saw were really getting smart. They broke in different places and ran different directions then they had been running earlier in the season. This made them harder to block for because you just couldn’t predict where they’d run.

Chris got his deer today. He took a nice 8 point buck. It had a really wide rack, although it wasn’t too tall. The deer weighed around 230 lbs and it took all three of us to throw it into the back of Chris’s truck. Chris was both excited and disappointed. He was excited because he’d just taken a nice deer, and disappointed that it wasn’t the wall hanger of a lifetime.

Speaking of the deer of a lifetime, we all saw him today. We saw several nice big ‘once in a lifetime’ bucks during the season. However, this was the deer of my dreams. It was a huge ten point with incredible mass, the rack was 8-10” wider than the ears on each side and really tall. Even without the 16” drop tine it was sporting it was a deer of a lifetime. Add in the drop tine and you have the deer of many hunter’s dreams.

Maybe someone in Chris’s family will take him during the second season hunt? The farm we saw him on has produced incredible drop tines each of the last several years. If I lived in Iowa (and had permission), I’d have a hard time not hunting that farm every single day of archery season. I can only hope that I’ll be invited to hunt on that farm again at some point in the future. Seeing a deer like that is an amazing experience and I’ll never forget that deer !

Our Iowa deer hunt was a huge success. Dana, Chris, and I all took nice bucks. I’ll be taking meat home. All told we ended up seeing 188 deer of which 54 were bucks. I saw several once in a lifetime deer. Hopefully, I’ll get another chance at one. I’m pretty sure I won’t be turning down any deer hunting invitations to Iowa.