Incredible two days of big bucks

[maineac]

Thanks for taking me along.

[archenemy]

Love the detail and excitement of the story.  Thanks for sharing and good huntin'.

[limbow]

Thanks for sharing---Ahhh the East wind, still trying to figure out how to hunt that! It typically means I sleep in in the morning  

[Steve O]

Sorry for the delay gents.  These were coming in from the Godfather late, late last night.  Santa comes to our house early, so we had to get our gifts ready for the kids too and we've just gone thru all the excitement of Christmas morning.  Tomorrow is a day full of family commitments, so today is the fun day!

Uncle Barry, you may be the kindest, most thoughtful brother out there.  Who else would pattern a burly buck like Hurley all season to leave him for his brother   :D  

The famous "empty ladder stand" picture:


 

[Steve O]

Here is a photo from 2007 of the 5x4:


 


And  THIS photo from August shows why someone could slightly, possibly, may be in their right mind to pass up a buck like that one above:


 

[Tdog]

Good Luck Gene, If you get Hurley are you gonna let Barry keep the mount at his house? That would be funny...

[JoeM]

Good read. Thanks for sharing.  Merry Christmas  Joe

[Steve O]

And now we have "Chester".  For some reason, I think this is the one Gene wants.  Out of all the great bucks he's seen this year, he talks about Chester the most.  I think he'd take him over Hurley!


Chester in November:
 


Chester "posing" for Gene Tuesday:
 


My favorite; this really adds life to the story Gene tells of what seems to be his favorite stand this year:
 


Now, enough looking!  After Christmas it is going to get cold and these big boys might start dropping their headgear.  Time to let the string drop and send the Woodsman on the way!

[Gene Hall]

Nothing BUT east winds here in Northcentral Iowa.  Saw 15 racked bucks on Tuesday night.  3 good 'uns and 6 up and comers.
A couple of does took a pounding that night.
  Merry Christmas!
  Gene Hall

[Ken Taylor]

"Hearing" stories like that is one of the rare times I almost feel I live too far north! Thanks for sharing.

[Owlgrowler]

THANKS!!

[hayslope]

You guys are in whitetail Mecca!  Love the stories.

Merry Christmas and the best of the new year to you and your families.

[Gatekeeper]

Looks like you had a great hunt Gene! Thanks for sharing, we love reading about your adventures.

How often do you shoot does in your area?

Merry Christmas!

[black velvet]

Nice story, Thanks for sharing.

[John Havard]

Hey Gene, thanks for sharing your stories with us.  I hope you come back online and report on which one you killed.  Best of luck!

[bow loving man]

Great story Gene, thanks for taking us on the journey...

[Steve O]

I accidentally put this one in with Chester...close but bad angle and another great buck doesn't know how lucky he is!
 

[Bryan pinick]

Thanks for sharing with us, you write a great story.

[Dave Bulla]

Thanks for the story Gene!  And thanks for the pictures Steve.

I'm thinking you're gonna have a couple days of southeast winds coming up right now.  I saw the radar loop today talking about the coming snow storm and it was all out of the southeast.  As the arctic temps come down and the storm moves east, we might get more east/northeast winds from the counter clockwise rotation.  Hope it all works out!!!

[fishone]

Gene, thanks so much for the story. I sure would like to hear more. Merry Christmas to everyone!

Craig