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November 1-7
Day 3
Back to the same stand as yesterday. Weather was breezy and cool. I slipped into my stand long before daylight and waited to see what came by today? An hour later I saw my first buck and it was the same 2.5 year old eight point I've been seeing. He walked right under my stand and disappeared. Thirty minutes later the other small buck came by and headed to the west. I stayed in the stand until 11:30. No more deer were seen. Ellis texted me and said we were going to swap stands for the afternoon hunt. I would be hunting the stand that I sat on the afternoon of the first day.
I climbed back into my Day 1 stand where I could see hundreds of yards. I watched one doe feed out into the brassicas and 30 minutes before sundown I watched one of those young 8 points crusing the CRP. It was a slow afternoon and that topped off a pretty slow day. I think I'm going to try a different farm for tomorrow.
We are hunting with Straight Arrow Outfitters owned by Steve Hanson. You need to draw a Zone 5 tag to hunt with Steve so start building those points! Southeast Iowa is considered by many as the top trophy deer destination in the country.
Our hunt takes place in Southeast Iowa. The habitat is a mix of food plots, river bottoms, and large agricultural fields. Prime Iowa Whitetail habitat. No baiting, we are focused on crops and rutting areas.
