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The first hunters have arrived from Texas. They are pumped because it is 87 today but Monday is sposed to be 70 for high and 45 Tues AM!!
I don't have any cams up on lease after the hunts begin, but have one behind the house, this is the kind of deer that are here after the great rains we had this summer!! FAT ! :biglaugh:
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Updates coming....
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Looking forward to the hunters chiming in of their adventures....
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Whatchin this thread for sure :thumbsup:
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Good luck to all. Will be watching this one as well.
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Several deer have been seen, including a few bucks. Guys are having a blast, even tho its kinda hot.
Weather is about to change , they should have a good week ahead, lows in 40s and low 50s and high around 70. Acorns are just starting to drop, maybe the cooler weather will bring it on!! :bigsmyl:
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Can't wait to start seeing some pics and hearing some stories from you all!
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Wind is in nw, so the new crossroad stand will be in use tonite.
Helped the guys locate a spot to gillies hunt too, hopin,hopin!!
The stand where Curt shot the doe last year is raining acorns around it , so it should be good too. :thumbsup:
I'm going out behind d the house in a bit to see of I can see fat boy. :biglaugh:
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Good buck seen late yesterday at Crossroads stand, new stand hung today in another good spot.
Weather is great now, if the deer go by the playbook, should have some news soon!! :bigsmyl:
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Last nite a swing and a miss from the old tractor, sitting between the front tire and the blade.
Today I didn't get over to visit due to company but texts said 5 bucks seen today!! :goldtooth: :archer2:
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I know that tractor....
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that's awesome! Ready to see some pictures!
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Almost, 2 bucks missed this am. One from ground jumped string. Other from stand where Guru shot his doe last year, was pretty close and shot over him. Easily done on both. Deer are moving well , saw bucks 2 of 3 days this week on the way to work. Loving me some cool weather!!! :bigsmyl:
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First hunt is done, one of the guys' wife had emergency surgery. They left a day early, had a lot of fun, and no animals were harmed in the first week. :)
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Got home from the kennym lease today. Needless to say we had an awesome time! While all of us have been shooting longbows for years, none of us are seasoned deer hunters so we are really learning on the fly.
Started out hot in the 80's and 90's so the deer weren't moving much but it gave us some time to get reacquainted with the lease. This year has soy beans on both tracts and the undergrowth is much denser than last year.
Almost every time we neared the old tractor we bumped deer or turkey so we decided to set up a ground blind there. Here is a pic of me in the blind. We added some more brush in the front after this picture. Just a little cramped but shootable out front and over the blade to the left. I sat in the blind the next morning...
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Looking forward to heading your way next week Kenny! Our season opens tomorrow, so will get a hunt or two here before we leave. Hope the cool weather and deer movement continues there. Have you seen anymore of fat boy?
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Y'all don't need to be trying to pick on fat boy! I got a reserved meeting with him in December!
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Good luck to all your hunters, Kenny!
Bisch
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I need to back up a bit. I forgot I spent the afternoon in the blind the day we made it. Hoping to catch a turkey walking by or a deer looking for a mid afternoon snack. There is a nice white oak at the end of the tree row that is starting to drop a few acorns.
Sat down at about 1:30. Was plenty warm. By about 2:30 the sun had dropped down far enough that the cab of the tractor had me in full shade. A welcome relief.
Nothing moving except the squirrels that never sit still and a myriad of insects. Watched the grasshoppers, spiders and ants on their daily routine. The mosquitoes were more annoying than hungry and thank goodness none of us got into the chiggers.
Used my phone to help pass the time texting the others, checking e-mails and and adjusting my fantasy football roster.
Maybe not my smartest move...
Thanked God for the opportunity to spend time in this place. Watched the woods go to sleep and listened as the birds finished their songs while the crickets started theirs. Every evening the coyotes performed their choir of locating each other. Always felt like we were surrounded.
One thing I love about this place is the clarity of the stars. The milky way is an awesome sight that I took for granted as a kid but rarely see because of all the light pollution.
Looking forward to the morning as a cool front is approaching,
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Great having you here Mike!!
Ol fat boy is around, but not moving much in daytime. Have seen him once.
My niece from SC was here and wanted to go bow hunting so we ghillies up and sat a couple hours. Saw bobcat with 2 near grown kittens, a buck and a doe. Not bad for first time out!!
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Good luck to all your hunters Kennym! Keep 'em safe!
I'm gonna get down there one day! Lol
Kenny
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Thanks guys! Mike needs to wear faded Allis Chalmers orange camo next time. :D
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What a trip we had! The lease has had lots of rain and the beans are tall! This make for some interesting hunting this year! And as always it was great to see Kenny and spend some time with him. My first two sits on stand were on my favorite place, the N farm. Although they were uneventful ,I just figured the deer were moving late due to the heat. But I had great hopes with the impending cool front headed our way! Kenny had placed a new stand in an area called the cross roads, Mike and David had scouted it out and from the sounds of it I knew I wanted to take my newly built double shelved bow and sit awhile....
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Ol fat boy? Thought yinzs was talken about ol Kenny for a second.. :)
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The other one Roy, this one is out more in daytime.... :laughing:
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Got to the blind around 6:00 and watched as the world woke up around me. Nothing moving and as usual after about 1-1/2 hours of sitting boredom consumes me. So I get back on my phone and check texts from the others hoping to hear of some action. Check my e-mail and making the usual rounds in my cyber life when a noise and movement to my left brings me back to the woods. My reaction was to move my head to check the movement and I alerted a spike buck that was mere feet from the tractor blade to my left. He eyed me over for a moment then proceeded towards the oak tree all the while looking back to try to detect movement from my blind. I didn't have an arrow nocked so I slowly placed one on my string. As I lifted my bow into shooting position he decided he'd had enough and ran back down the lane to my left. I leaned out over the blade to see where he was headed and saw a bigger buck follow his lead. Maybe I need to leave technology back in the city and get in tune with where I am. Here is a pic of him as he ran off. Yes, I had my phone in my hand.
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Well I checked with Mike and David and. Neither one was going to the crossroads that evening so I grabbed my newly built double shelf bow, "Double Duty" and I headed to the Crossroads stand! I parked the 4 wheeler a good ways from the top of the hill that leads down into the crossroads area and began my quiet walk in.... As I turned north to go towards the stand, I stopped and just soaked in the evening.... the air was cooler, the smells of moisture and cedar were in the air ..."this going to be a good evening", I told myself.
I got to the stand and climbed up and hooked in. What a view.... a 70 yard lane to my left surrounded by woods both North and South. Directly in front of me, was a dirt path at about 15 yards and then the woods were pretty thick across the path to the north and east. The wind was blowing from the NW.... almost right in my face.... I liked that.... I sat and enjoyed the evening as the light slowly faded on this little draw of paradise. Then I heard it... a twig snapped to my left ....
I sat real still as I fixed my gaze on a deer slowly coming out of the woods to my left into the lane which was grown over with tall weeds and such. As I looked I slowly reached to my right for an arrow in my quiver and waited for her to put her head down in the weeds so I could nock it on the RH side of my new bow.....
That worked like a charm now if she would just come within my 20 yard shooting range I'd have a chance to let "DD" do her job...She moved over to a tree 15 yards from my stand and began to eat some leaves off of it . " Lets just see how close she'll get...." I was ready.... I'd been practicing shooting RH even though I'm legally blind in my right eye and have to use my left one to pick a spot with...
Then it happened....she twitched her ears while still munching on that tree and I saw them! She was really a He!!!! 4" inch antlers stuck up between his ears... About the time he started making his way closer to me , 10 yards.... then 7 yards... then 6 yards.... he put his head down in the grass to eat and I slowly lifted my bow into position to shoot.... tensioned the string, picked the spot, took a couple deep breaths....
Today is your lucky day young buck.... I decided to let him walk.... as bad as I wanted to kill a deer with my new bow, this was not the one!
So I just eased the bow down and let him eventually drift back into the woods off my left shoulder....
The sun was starting to move to the horizon and I just knew the next hour would be quite eventful.... I wasn't wrong....
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tap,tap,tap :D
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Sorry guys, Sunday is workday for me... where was I? Oh yes the sun was just hitting the horizon and I heard it.... putt putt ... could it be? I slowly, very slowly moved my gaze over my left shoulder where little spike had exited and I verified what I had heard... Turkeys.... they were walking right up the path where that little spike had been. If they just kept coming north I'd have them at 10 yards, the big tree I was in kept me from taking a much longer shot than that over my left shoulder. They kept it up... putt putt... it wasnt an alert just a hey I'm going this way kinda thing....
right as I thought they'd keep coming north they bowed out of sight right behind the big tree I was in... dang first the spike now the turkeys.... there was still time to hunt left... I hoped it would finish well....
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I watched the sun finally drop below the horizon... I had 30 minutes left of legal shooting light. As I sat listening to the sounds of the dusk that were upon me, I heard an animal take what sounded like a deep breath. Light was fading and night shadows were turning trees and bushes into imaginable deer.... I looked straight to the north where I heard that breath and I saw a glimmer of moonlight flash off what appeared to be an antler.... 22 yards to the north in the woods next to a fairly good sized cedar tree, I could make out a nice size set of antlers rubbing a small tree next to the cedar... it was that dusk light where my vision gets hazy and I have to shift my gaze and verify what I was seeing! Sure enough a throat patch, a set of eyes and a nice set of antlers! He was giving that tree fits.... he was outside my range by a little bit and as I watched I knew time was flying by.... I left DD in my lap and just enjoyed the show. I made the decision to sit til complete dark so as to not advertise my presence. I admit it was a little disappointing that neither the bigger buck or the turkeys presented a shot but I was thrilled to have had the chance to sit and watch a dang good show of nature! This would not be my last time in this stand....
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Deer seen, bucks passed up, all is well!
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Deer seen, bucks passed up, all is well!
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I'm loving the stories thus far....
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Meanwhile David had been in the gap 2 stand the entire hunt. He had spent last year in the same area alternating time in a pop up blind and the stand. Seems whenever he was in the blind the deer were by the stand. When he was in the stand, deer were mere feet from his blind.
He expressed interest in seeing some new ground so after the morning hunt we met by the tractor and I showed him the original gap stand, the new north stand and the cross road stand. His first choice for the evening hunt was the tractor blind and since he had helped me pick it out and construct it I reluctantly gave it up. I was ready to do some wandering anyway and wanted to check a few big oaks I had found last year by some nice trails to see if they were dropping acorns. Found the trees but they had no acorns so I retreated back near a trail where I had seen several rubs and a few scrapes. No deer to be seen by me that evening but David saw a few just out of range.
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I love that place. After going the last two years, it will be hard not to go this year. Good luck, all. Chad
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The next morning I just couldn't decide where to go. David wanted the tractor blind so I just decided to sit the gap stand. Nothing moving in sight for me but David saw several does and the spike again but just out of range.
When I left the gap stand I walked the tree line towards the creek and found a clearing in the woods where Kenny had been blazing a trail with his skid loader earlier in the year. Looked like a good spot for a portable stand that Kenny said we could use. A few good trails cris crossed and the clearing made for good shooting lanes.
After lunch we went to the spot and picked out a tree for the stand. The portable ladder strapped to a tree four sections high then the stand itself was strapped to the tree. This was not an easy task for a first timer who is not crazy about heights! We dubbed it the pucker stand because it tends to make your rump pucker to help hold on.
I was sitting the stand that evening when we all got a text from David at the tractor blind "OK I got him...think it was a good shot! I'm shaking so bad 19 yards"
Now I'm not gonna lie. I was a little jealous at that moment because I have been shooting a longbow for over 20 years, although I only hunt once or twice a year tops, and David was on maybe his third year with a longbow and he gets one first-from the blind I hunted first! Just wasn't fair! As I sat in the stand I came to my senses and realized it wasn't all about me and I became anxious to help trail the deer he had shot and share his joy. I also prayed that if and when it was my turn I would make a clean shot. I did have a doe and a small fawn pass directly under my stand that evening but they turned too far to my right for me to draw my bow and take a shot. Felt pretty good to hang a stand and have deer pass under me the first time out!
We went to help David and unfortunately found his arrow about 10 yards past the spot he thought he had hit the deer. Looked to be a clean miss. No hair or blood on the arrow.
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Originally posted by Cyclic-Rivers:
I know that tractor....
I'm the one that parked it there...
You're welcome :goldtooth:
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Gotta be a story behind that Terry? Why there?
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Originally posted by Terry Green:
Originally posted by Cyclic-Rivers:
I know that tractor....
I'm the one that parked it there...
You're welcome :goldtooth: [/b]
Gee Terry, It kinda looks like you broke it there :laughing:
Only time near it, I was monsooned outta there. We picked up Gatekeeper on the way out, almost couldn't get out of the field as it tuned to deep slime in seconds. Tom was soaked head to toe.
Good times for sure. Definitely a week I will never forget. Thanks again Terry, you were responsible for that.
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Charlie dropped by today ,then back to his other honey hole for the night, said he will be back tomorrow.
Saw 2 bucks at the crossroads stand this AM. Had to go sit it in the morning hours, and it didn't dissapoint!! :bigsmyl:
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Just joking guys :biglaugh:
I have threatened to hunt there myself many times...especially when that oak on the corner is raining....grocery bag in the funnel.
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Are you gonna make it Terry? Got deer with your name on em..... :D
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Kenny, do you have a story to tell?
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Nah, not yet........
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Posted this on the other thread but , a good friend told me if I go a chance, he could use another doe, so I got one for him this morning.
No, I can't just go get one, just got lucky today.
Passed 2 bucks earlier, and another doe after , she was edgy because she smelled blood and I like to shoot deer that have no idea I'm on the planet. And some fawns too.
Walnut stand 20 yds north of rock crossing on north lease.
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Well, Charlie texted me earlier that he saw some deer and turkeys, but were a bit too far. Haven't heard anything since, so........
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Craig here...back on TG after many moons. I've been meaning to write this post all week...A quick summary of the Kenny MO hunt. This was our third year at Kenny's. This year we hunted the 2nd week in Oct. The temps were slightly on the warm side, but I'm guessing that's typical of Oct weather patterns these days. We did have a frosty morning in the 30s.(note to self.."bring cold weather gloves even when the forecast would suggest otherwise"). Having said that the foliage was still a healthy green and there was little sign of fall. As usual the hunting at Kenny's was great and plenty of deer were seen. With the exception of one evening hunt, I saw deer every time I went out. I saw a couple of nice bucks and had an encounter with a small 8pt that didn't go my way. Towards the end of the week I started to see more rutting activity (small bucks moving and fresh scrapes). I would guess the big boys are going to start showing up soon. We left MO with no deer and good memories. There is nothing better than getting away from daily life and getting to focus on hunting and the real world. Many thanks to Kenny for putting together a top notch hunt and the effort he puts into making it happen.
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Thank you Craig for the kind word. Was great seeing you guys again. Hope Macs shoulder is better!
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Thank you again Kenny! We did have a great hunt and Craig is so right...just being out there was great even if I couldn't pull the bow for the last few days. :(
It was very different hunting mid-October vs. the mid-December hunts the first two years, but the deer were more active than I expected with the warm temps.
The issue with the shoulder appears to be related to the cervical spine surgery I had a few years back. Have an appointment with a neuro doc for evaluation in a couple of weeks. Hope my bow season is not over for the year?
Good luck to all the other KennyM hunters this season!
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Thank you Mac! Hope you get the shoulder fixed up to hunt. Hate it gave you trouble while on an out of state hunt!
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Just finished up the one act play schedule...now to region....wish I was there now....but would have to be back Thursday.....get em Charlie!!!
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Originally posted by Cyclic-Rivers:
Only time near it, I was monsooned outta there. We picked up Gatekeeper on the way out, almost couldn't get out of the field as it tuned to deep slime in seconds. Tom was soaked head to toe.
Good times for sure. Definitely a week I will never forget. Thanks again Terry, you were responsible for that. [/QB]
I remember that day
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Last bunch (2 hunters)before the guns pop arrived this morn, they sat tonite and both saw bucks, one on the ground and other (guy, not buck) in a tree stand.
In fact same stand I took the doe from awhile back, the walnut stand.
2 more days at work and the games begin for me!!
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Both hunters saw bucks today and we had a swing and a miss. String caught on armguard(or sleeve)and missed clean!
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Buck down!! Doc from ID shot a big body 7 pt this AM.
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YES!!!!!
David
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without pictures, it didn't happen.
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I don't like pics in truck beds, and it was in a game bag too. I'll see if they took any but doubt it. They stopped by when taking to locker to cool it out.
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good deal...
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Very cool to hear that some of the big guys are up walking around!
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I truly hate that I missed this hunt again. :(
It's a great hunt at a great price!!!