Archive for the ‘A Trilogy - 3 Methods of Pursuit’ Category
26December2009
Missouri Deer Hunting Season Coming to a Close
Posted by Darrell under: Whitetail Deer.
………. Well, I haven’t done a very good job of keeping the blog updated this season. My apologies!
Unfortunately, I didn’t spend as much time in the woods this season as I wanted to. But, the time I did spend was certainly “quality” time. I did harvest several deer and have lots of venison in the […]
31October2009
Missouri 2009 Youth Deer Season - Caleb Gets His Deer
Posted by Darrell under: Whitetail Deer.
Today was the first day of the two day Youth Only Missouri firearms deer season. Caleb, 14, had been looking forward to today for months.
We started the morning in a double deer stand in an area where I have been seeing a nice 8 point buck. The buck came by at a little over 100 […]
25September2009
Missouri 2009 Archery Season - Opening Week
Posted by Darrell under: Whitetail Deer; Private Ranch - Missouri.
Missouri archery season opened on September 15, 2009. I hunted the opening week pretty hard. The deer were quite elusive and I was unable to pattern them. I ended up seeing only about a dozen deer or so during the week. This was about 100 deer short of what I’m used to!
There were 5 of us […]
17June2009
Arkansas Spearfishing 2009 Season Has Opened With a Bang!
Posted by Darrell under: SPEARFISH HUNTING!.
Arkansas Spearfishing season opened on June 15, 2009. It was a Monday and there were fewer people on the lake then usual. My friends Jeff, Zack, Billy, and Mike met me in Bull Shoals, Arkansas on Sunday the 14th. Jeff, Zack and I did some dives Sunday to determine where the fish were holding and […]
30May2009
Missouri Spring Turkey Season Results
Posted by Darrell under: Turkey.
Assuming I did my math right, the total 2009 Spring Turkey harvest was 44,712 birds. That is 41,829 during the 3 week Spring season and 2,883 during the Spring Youth season.
Of those totals, I’m happy to admit that one of those birds taken during the Youth season was by my son Caleb. Unfortunately, Caleb […]
18April2009
A Fun Day Hunting Pheasants and Chukar at Flying Feathers
Posted by Darrell under: Gun; Guides - Tips, Ideas, & Info.
Back in mid March, our friends Thad and Michelle came up from Texas for a visit. We started planning some fun stuff to do. We had all heard about Flying Feathers and so Jeff called them to see if they were still booking hunts. We caught them right at the end of the season and […]
8April2009
Caleb Bags His First Turkey During the 2009 Missouri Youth Spring Turkey Season
Posted by Darrell under: Turkey.
Saturday – April 4, 2009 was a special day for my son, Caleb. It was the opening morning of the Youth Spring Turkey Season. We woke up early and went to meet our friends Jeff, Todd, and Todd’s seven year old son – Gavin. This would be Gavin’s first hunt (of any kind) and he […]
6February2009
Caleb Takes His First Pig…..
Posted by Darrell under: Archery.
I’m a little late at writing this post, but I thought I’d share the excitement of Caleb’s first pig hunt. Caleb (who is just barely a teen and who I still think about as being just a little kid) took this pig with his BOW from about 20 yards.
Caleb, my son, just started hunting with […]
19December2008
Congrats Thad and Jeff on your Texas Bucks!
Posted by Darrell under: Whitetail Deer.
Thad and Jeff (my good friends) both took nice bucks over the Thanksgiving holiday. They were hunting near Austin, Texas where Thad lives. This was Jeff’s first buck and his first archery deer! Thad is a relatively new hunter, but he has become a hunting machine. Congrats guys!
Boy, I wish I could have been there with […]
17December2008
My Iowa Bucks Pictures - 2008
Posted by Darrell under: Whitetail Deer.
Ok, for those of you asking - here are the Iowa bucks from this year. I hope to post a couple more pics from my friend Chris soon…..
This is buck #1. He is a monstrous deer, well past his prime. He weighed a ton and we guessed him to be in excess of 7 years […]






