iowa rut
11-07-2004, 10:07 AM
#4
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: IL./Iowa Boarder
Posts: 1,621
RE: iowa rut
Last 2 years the rut was getting good starting the 3rd. Looks like it will be better in my area in a few days. Started seeing bucks (small ones) on a regular basis last week. Saw my 1st nice one this am...
11-07-2004, 06:13 PM
#5
Fork Horn
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Iowa
Posts: 470
RE: iowa rut
The IA deer are moving NOW!!! If you are not hunting hard and heavy, you are missing out. We have seen more nice bucks the last three days than we have seen all season. I missed a nice one Sat AM, but even us old hunters get buck fever. I watched him work a scrape 15 yards from my treestand for several minutes. He peed, pawed and raked the ground while I was drawn back waiting for a good shot. Then he stood on his hind legs to work scent on the overhanging limb. My arm was tired and I was shaking. When he finally went down the trail, my arrow was deflected by a small branch. I was a wreck and the buck just walked away. I love hunting. Jim
11-12-2004, 08:10 PM
#7
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: IL./Iowa Boarder
Posts: 1,621
RE: iowa rut
Saw 8 Does this AM & this adult Doe fell to a 3 blade Rocky Mountain Ironhead at 25 yards-she went 25 yds. & I watched her drop. 1 more antlerless tag left. Bucks running, butr just seeing the little ones.
11-12-2004, 10:54 PM
#9
Typical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Whitetail Ridge Iowa
Posts: 949
RE: iowa rut
Things were really going a few days ago, starting to see most of the big boys locked up with does now. Last Sunday, the 7th, I saw 14 bucks and 30+ does.....
Went out to the same stand with my dad tonight and saw 19 does and yearlings in the alfalfa and not one single buck around them.
Went out to the same stand with my dad tonight and saw 19 does and yearlings in the alfalfa and not one single buck around them.
