Any Missouri slobberknockers yet?
 

Hi guys!

Just wondering if anyone's seeing the chase activity I've been seeing? Saw a 6 point chase a doe across the feild below my house about 3 days ago. My buddy lives inside the city limits and the sheriff's department had to come out to his next-door neighbor's house and shoot a spike that had wandered in and got hung up in the chainlink fence. Then this evening, a guy I work with dropped by with I'd guess a 130+ 10 point. Used "the can' to draw him straight into his stand.....it's heating up!

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A buddy from the Macon area emailed me lastnight that it was heating up in Macon and Shelby counties. I live in KY now, but I'm from Chariton County and hunt there every year. Glad to hear it's getting hot!

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Hello Im from washington county and I hunt all over Missouri And the deer is really getting hot here and we have a acorn crop like i've never seen before its going to be a good year for the deer :)

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Haven't been out much, just came back from the in-laws in Southern IL, a kid from Alabama killed a NICE 10 pt. Probably score around 120-125 They said the bucks been doing lips curls and chasing down there too. I hope to get out next weekend one evening. Might try some grunting nad rattling.

UPDATE!
 

Hi all!

Went out this morning and got into my stand in a fencerow about 30 minutes before first light. I decided to try some code blue doe in estrous on a drag rag. Made a nice jaunt out in the feild and returned to my stand and hund it up about 15 yards away. Around 7:00 a.m. I see a buck come out to the corner of my property, headed to the gravel road and the cow pasture beyond. It was nice and quiet so I tried a grunt at him. Stopped dead in his tracks and stared my direction. Another grunt and here he comes at a quick trot. After a few minutes he's standing about 30 yardsa decent 7 or 8 point, roughly 100", but I have no shooting lane that direction. A couple more soft grunts, and instead of coming on in, he starts to turn away. I'm puzzled and though he would stop everytime I grunted, he wouldn't trun back to me. He just kept working away from me. I keep thinking "What happened?".......I catch a glimpse of movement to my right, and I see what the problem is. A really nice 9 or 10 point walking directly at the samller buck. REALLY nice! Problem is, he's about 55 yards out when he crosses my lane...way to far...and he just keeps pursuing the smaller buck. Across the feild, over the fence, down the fence row and gone. Never saw either the rest of the day. I'd guess, just from the quick looks I got at the bigger buck, he'd at least make the P&Y minimum maybe bigger. I'll be back out there in the morning......looks like it's ON!......
Good luck guys!

GH

Bucks 2; GH 0
 

Forgot my rattle bag this morning, but about 8:00 a.m. had a real nice 8 point come cruising up the fencerow I'm hunting. Got to full draw and guessed him about 25 yards......he was 18[:'(] Shot right over his back....to make matters worse, my daughters were at the house getting ready to leave for school and afterI missed him he strolled up about 50 yards from our bay window...and posed for about 5 minutes! My 6 year old is adamant she would have nailed him, lol! I was disappointed thatI missed, but he didn't have clue what was going on, so maybe in the morning....

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Looks like things are heatingup in the Missori woods. Just a reminder to all you other bow hunters. This weekend is youth rifle season in MO, make sure you have that blaze orange on if you hunt. I intend on guiding my son to the nice 10 pointer I saw last week, at least thats the plan at the moment.

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Grasshopper...what part of Missouri are you in ..?????

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Pony

I'm in the southeastern part, just north and westof the bootheel. Poplar Bluff, MO.Wednesday morning, I had a nice 8 or 9 point cut across my pasture about 75 yards out. I grunted at him several times and got him to stop, but he was in a hurry to get somewhere....the only buck I saw that day. Been working since then. The youth season starts this morning and I wishI could be in the woods. The other hunters tend to push a lotta deer during these two days.;)

Good luck all!


GH

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my son and I were trying to do some pushing of our own.....deer 0 us 0
we didn't see a thing......although they are few and far between in row crop land here near Sikeston.....we hunt Stoddard county and some in Mississippi...didn't see a deer all day .......those cotton module haulers are running a mile a minute....guess we'll try a different place in the am .....got shot down for an evening hunt.....have to attend a Hospital fund raiser.......(dang-it).....good luck in Bluff.......

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Us 0 ...Deer..still alive and browsing...........

Well , day 2 of the youth season proved unfruitful as well. After a slow morning ( 2 does) we saw nothing else all day ...wind was ours, sun good...no scent issues...just probably hunting the wrong neck of the woods. (what woods) fencerows and slews.... Hope yall did better than we did....quite a downer after food plots, tracks by the hundreds...white clover browed to the ground...sign...etc etc...we went am before darktill bout 9:30 or 10 ....and back out about 2:30 until dark.....the only thing i think really knowed us down...those damn cotton module haulers and combines cutting late beans all day long , sunup , and they are probably still running right now...deer are certainly not gonna be normal under those conditions. Plus it is SO dry hear...we had a great setup near a wooded levee close to a streambed, where an old bridge funnels deer to cross the old gravel road and then go back into the levee cover on the other side...stilll ...nothing.......it was SO quiet out there two weeks ago....well...hope someoneknocked one down somewhere

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Pony

I'm currently on the midnight leg of my swing shift...hunting's a little difficult right now lol. This morining on my way home, I spotted a spike standing in the middle of the gravel road just west of my property..been watching him all summer. The little booger's neck was swelling a bit. Got down to my house and in the neighbor's cow pasture just south of the gravel, I sawthe 8 point I missed tuesday. About 20 yards ahead of him was a lone mature doe. Things are heating up and should be about right for the Gun season in a couple weeks. Sorry to hear you all struck out. I don't know if you're familiar with it or not, butaround PB and a little north is Mark Twain National forest...it's actually pretty good hunting, especially compared tothe bootheel area. You might wanna checkit out. Also, I could probably put you onto some decent huntingon the Corps of engineer's ground surrounding Wappapello lake. You may have to walk a bit farther, but it's usually worth it.P.M. me if I can help.


GH

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Thanks for the info...we're gonna try and check out the area this weekend.....hope mr no shoulders stay in their holes......hate snakes...and I hear it's supposed to be pushing 75 to 80 this weekend.....

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I hunt in Gasconade outside the Hermann area and I've seen more does this year than any other. It is a point restriction area so the spikes have to walk around there. I've hunted every saturday since Sept 15 bow opener and I think this is the largest acorn crop I've ever seen. The deer are in the woods now and are getting ready to rut. I sure hope the weather gets colder its going to be in the 70s this weekend![:@]

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Went to the area around Wapapello yesterday ....lots of sign , great habitat...and a pleasant surprise, not alot of folks out.....it was warm, 70+ degrees.....and we literally saw nothing....great open fields for viewing, crops still in fields...but no luck for us........maybe I am not holding my head right......??? Will give it a go again next weekend....thanks for the info......hog hunting there should be great in the winter as well...

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Great!

The weather's been a little rough for deer movement. If I had to bet, I'd say the deer are sticking more to the hardwoods right now. Last time I was up there, the acorn crop was phenomenal. I'd get away from the fields in the early mornings and key on draws that lead to and from the river, or the river corridor itself. Rememeber, the farther in you go, the less people you're gonna see!


Good luck!

GH

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No question the acorn drop is one of the best I have ever seen.....we were impressed by the layout in that tract.....great for observation and a few really good looking rub lines we follwed into the hills......just did not have enough time....to sit and wait to see what we would see...maybe next time.......rifles are sighted in , just waiting on the calender now....

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3 days to go.......:D


Good luck Pony...hope you all get a monster!

I fully expect some harvest photos when you get some time!


GH

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I killed a mainframe 8 point with 2 extra kicker points on 10/22. Gross score is about 120. On Sunday (11/6) afternoon I had a 10 point directly under my tree and today as I tried to pull my bow up the tree an 8 point busted out of the brush where he had bedded down 20 yds away.

Lots of sign in the woods this year. The problem is trying to find a primary feeding area with the acorns so deep that you practically have to wade through them. I've just been focusing on heavily used trails and natural funnels.

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Harrison County Missouri - just south of Iowa border along I-35. Not seeing a darn thing worth metioning. Some does, but no shooter bucks. No bucks at all actually.

But I've got faith. Sooner or later something will show up.

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I am not biologist...but I am betting the rut starts the day AFTER gun season is over......it was 75 degrees here yesterday ....said it was gonna hit 33 last night...made it to 41......today 70...tomorrow 75......seems the deer bed down most of the day.....the sky is clear the moon is bright....almost everything is happening while we sleep.....Missouri needs to extend the modern gun season......just like ducks....by the time they get here....the season is over.....

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My Dad and I hunt in Callaway County(central MO) and saw 2 good size bucks and2 does youth weekend, but none of them offered shots. Opening rifle weekend we saw 2 yearlings Sunday evening that were too small to shoot. I had to go home for school on Mondayand when I got home from schoolmy dad (who is still hunting because he got to take off work) calls and says he got the biggest buck hes ever seen after only being in his stand for about an hour[:@]

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Well the bucks seem to have disappeared in my neck of the woods. I shot a yearling first thing saturday morning. I saw a total of 8 deer saturday, all does and fawns. Passed on a spike sunday morning...then managed to contract the flu.[:@]I knew I should have shot him!;)


Anyway, the good news is: my wife was able to take her first deer Saturday morning. It was nice 140 pound doe. She made a great 150 yard shot right through the shoulders! To top it off, my little sister took a doe about the same size, at the same time. They were both hunting out of the same blind in our pasture. All in all, it's been a great season so far!

GH

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Took this one on Saturday in the middle of the day. He was chasing a doe through one of the CRP fields.

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Great looking deer DBB......glad someone is having a productive time....I am hoping this severe weather change will make something move Weds or Thursday morning.....going from 74 to 26 degrees in 36 hours....well....I do have my hopes up ....

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Well Im in Dent couty Mo, and it was pretty slow up until the week before rifle season, but I hunted all week and saw deer every time I sat a stand, and one great shooter chased a doe right under my stand but wouldnt stop for me, I was at full draw with the pin on his shoulder, but as much as I tried, he wouldnt stop, he just trotted by and right under me never changed pace, and I wouldnt shoot him moving, I even yelled at him, after everything else failed to stop him, he never even heard me. Id say he would go in the 130s to maybe 140, a great looking 10. But on the rifle opener, I managed to take a 12 pointer, not huge, but I wasnt going to let him walk either, he flipped over backwards and broke his g-3 off his left beam, but it can be fixed. He was down in a deep valley with lots of white oaks in it, I passed a few others right before he came through, After last rifle season, and this bow season, I was happy to get him. I also found out my neighbor took a huge buck an Monday, and Ill get a picture from him and post it, I saw the pics and it truly is a monster. Sorry about the quality of the pic of my buck, its all I have right now.

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Well took some time off from the Army to hunt for about 18 days on my farm in Mercer county. I was seeing plenty of deer activity from 2 Nov until about 8 nov then it slowed down until the second day of the gun opener. I harvested 2 doe's with my Bow and 2 with my rifle. i was on a doe mission this year. I messed up on a 140 class 10 pointer. I trailed him for three hours on the third day of rifle season but bad weather erased the blood.I felt sick so I decided to not shoot another buck and just claim the lost one as my buck for the year. I'm really into QDM these days and want the heard to be in balance thus why I shot 4 does this year. I saw a total of 21 bucks of which 15 where 8 points or better, but only 3 of those 8's or better were considered shooters on my farm (130 or bigger) the antler ristriction is really working. Sorry for the long post.