It,s probably a hunting family on their own land. It is not uncommon for many family members to get together in the mid west and hunt. I strickley bow hunt but my family all get together here in kansas and hunt each year. On opening day they usually come home with 8 to 15 deer with the majority being bucks. As long as the deer are all taged and killed legally I say fill up them trailers!

That area of the state holds the largest population of deer in Iowa, and has the highest amount of record bucks of any county in Iowa. There is alot of timber there, mostly on the 500+ ft hills along the mississippi.

There are alot of farm familys that group hunt and I have seen some of the deer they shoot. The groups that are serious about it take alot of does and do not shoot anything typ under 150"

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Jack

Sadly they ruined a oppurtunity for many others!!

Can anybody post normal-size versions of those photos?

Jimbo,
There are larger pictures on these sites.
Jack

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Iowadeer

Looks like one great season for a group of hunters to me!

If they were all hanging from a buck pole with a group of hunters standing in front I'm sure everyone would be saying "wow great season". I'd guess that they have them in the trailer for transport to the meat locker or cutting room and someone in their group thought that the big ol' mass of antlers in the back of that trailer looked like a good pic.

I saw that pic and it reminded me of this one sent to me by a farmer friend in North East Iowa from this year.



I know the story about this one ... it was from opening day of shotgun first seaon this year. He has a picture like this form every opening day of shotgun for as many years back as I can count. I saw that picture before going to hunt this farm and thought there would have to be a very negative effect to taking that many bucks. The truth is there isn't. If they shot 3 times as many bucks opening day they would have been fine. The family owns and hunts over 10,000 acres spread out over 2 towns. While bow hunting there we saw multiple mature deer each day and every hot doe in the area had more than 1 racked buck chasing her. They do shoot a lot of does over the course of the season, but the deer herd is very large. As farmers they lose tons of crops every year to deer. Almost all pictures like these are from guys that drive deer, and any buck with a really trophy rack has probably figured out a way to slip the net. Though they do shoot some really big deer by my NorthEast standards.

It is pretty funny to watch people come on here and judge this group of people for hunting legally on their own land for all we know.

Ok your sitting in your stand witha legal tag one of these deer walk by and your saying your going to ask"I wonder what the other guys have shot?" I don't think I'll shoot because the other guys already have taken some nice bucks.

Some of the responses on this thread are killing me.

Kinda looks like a photo shop picture to me btw.