I'm not looking for best kill% dates. What I am wondering is what part of the season is your persons favorite time. Openning day/week. Pre-rut, Full rut, post-rut etc. I know alot of hunting shows always boast rut is when to truely get to buisness. But a couple things are steering me away from that sort of.

1. Yes mosters make mistakes and get taken. Or you get to pick from possably many more bucks. But to me its like well, shooting fish in a barrel rather than fishing for them.

2. Last year Gun season in Mo started smack dab in full rut. This year I believe theres a decent gap still bow only. But every gun owner in the surround 3 states figured more bullets fired more points. My boy and i counted no kidding, after I tagged 8 pt 5 mins after openning season and went back out, 7 shots by 1 gun. pause (reload) and 4 more shots. Found out it was a local cattle guys relation........ never hit anything. The whole gun season you hear nothing but gunshots everywhere. Spooked and looking for females I think will be a touchy time around here. So I'll grab the 12 and head to a small patch of wood way back in a field that I don't think ANYONE but me will walk to.


3. I have hopes that closer to openning it will be a bit more of a challenge to stick a buck when he's not all excited looking for love. Still testing the waters not skinnydip bellyfloping in the neighbors pool trying impress the girl next door.

4. And after when what little snow we get will offer its own surprises I hope. I have great area to hunt, secluded, full of beds, acords water etc. You name it its good it pretty much I believe. Other than a 64 in wide screen.

Just looking for some personal opinions.



Bow hunting more for challenge to me than just a drop a deer. Thats what the guns for when I have the 1 that got away story from the bow.