6 December 2008
Iowa 2008 Deer Season - Day 1
Posted by Darrell under: Whitetail Deer .
Saturday December 6, 2008
Today was first day of Iowa shotgun deer season. We awoke at 5:00 am to temperatures hovering around freezing and a NW wind of 20 to 30 mph. The temperature seemed to drop throughout the day and the wind never stopped. Needless to say, I spent a lot of time shivering today!
I was hunting with Dana, Chris, Mike, and Andy. Dana is my friend from Missouri and Chris and Mike are his Iowa relatives (and my friends, too). We were in the field from before daylight until dark. All told we saw 53 different deer, of which 11 were bucks. We did 11 hunts and the following are the tallies from those hunts:
Grandma’s Timber
1 Buck (shooter), 3 Doe
Snapp Ditch
4 Doe
Snapp West
Nothing
Ranch Timber
2 Buck
5 Doe
Dana’s Buck
Henry
Nothing
Wright
10 Doe
Pig Farm
Nothing
Ranch West
8 Doe
Ranch
4 Doe
Danker
6 Bucks (3 shooters)
7 Doe
Snapp
2 Buck (1 shooter)
5 Doe
53 Total Deer. 11 Bucks. 1 DEAD DEER.
The only deer taken by our group today was taken by Dana. He was in the exact same spot where he killed his buck last year. The buck he killed today had a large body but not much of a rack. In fact, he was deformed and Dana said he took him because he needed to be harvested for the sake of the gene pool. Regardless, we have meat for the freezer!
I saw 4 nice shooter bucks today, but didn’t ever have a shot. I could have taken a couple shots but decided that I’d wait for a shot I was more confident about. The deer hunting was a little different today than it was last year. Most of the deer, while moving, were not on a full out dead run. The deer that Dana shot actually died like it was supposed to without running an extra mile or two. In fact, I’d say the deer, overall, were much calmer.
Don’t have any pictures today, but hopefully I’ll have some pictures from a big one tomorrow.
4 Comments so far...
Matt Says:
8 December 2008 at 2:43 pm.
Sounds like a good day. We got in the stand around 5am and just watched about a dozen walk all around us, it was to early for shooting. We got 4 by 8:30, 1 8 point, 2 6 point, and 1 button buck. Also found a dead doe that had been shot by a different party that must have wondered into our area. DNR gave us an extra tag for her. Great web site, have fun and be safe.
Thanks,
Matt
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