Campfire Tales

I received a call from my Field Guide (Mark) that our honey hole also known as Cuiver Island had finally been brush hogged. Our last visit to this island ended about a half hour in after fighting the killer mosquitoes and weeds over our heads. My field guide informed me that he had a cancellation for Thursday afternoon if I was available to try Cuiver again. After changing my work schedule we where off to "The Woods" about 3pm. Upon pulling into Dalbo, someone else had our same idea and was already at our spot. So with a slight change of plans we motored up Cuiver and onto the Old Miss.........

Well, It finally happened! Yes, that is right I got my first turkey with a bow!! After 5 missed Easterns, a couple twice and 1 missed Meriam, I finally connected yesterday morning at 7:40 am.

It couldn't have been any more perfect! I was sitting in the Double Bull Blind set up on the Edge of a clover plot in the Golf Course Field. It was my first day out this season, I was not expecting to shoot or even get a shot at anything, I just wanted to see some action.

Well since I wasn't invited to the first annual Bow Hunters weekend, I headed out to my normal hunting ground around 4 in the afternoon October 28th. Weather seemed to be just right, nice sky, no wind, and I had a feeling this was going to be a good night.

Around 5:30, I had a buck circle the ridge heading up the hillside in the valley I normally hunt. As he made his way up the hillside 4 does exploded from the brush, heading out into the field.

November 11th, 2005

Friday morning I decided to switch things up and hunt the river bottom. As the sun rose in front of me, reflecting off the river, a layer of frost covered the woods and winter wheat field to my left. I ne w it was going to be a good morning.

6:25 A.M. The sweet sound of deer walking through frosted leaves came from my left. I looked to see, and at about 50 yds, a good buck was working his way through the thicket. As if I was on camera, I said to myself, "that's a shooter!"

4:15 AM, Saturday November 12th 2005, I roll out of my bunk in the quaint little town of Perry Missouri, and feverishly start searching for my gear. Opening day of Gun season, and to be quite frank, my expectations were pretty grim (no pun intended Brett).

This was my second year hunting in Ralls County. After spending opening night in the cab of my truck last year, we got smart and rented a cabin to make things a little more comfortable this year.....but back to the point.

Walleye '06 the quest for gas!

Well it was a chilly Sunday morning; we met at McDonald's at
8:00am before heading to the St. Louis Bow Hunters 3-D tournament, the first of many this year. The scores from the Tournament were all over the charts. Some of us had good days; some had not so good.....The final scores have yet to be posted. Time will tell.

As humans we tend to let life revolve around work and not enough of what we enjoy. After working 6 days a week for the past month the spring fever was defiantly in full effect. Having only a handful of days spent with a fishing pole in my hand and only one 3-D Archery tourney, I needed some bonding time with Mother Nature. Spring in Missouri involves only one thing, the endless hunt of the invasive Gobbler.....

Last weekend of Deer Season.....(Rifle that is.) Every year we make a trip out of town to celebrate the Jason's birthday. This year we were invited up to Joe's property in Clark County Mo.

As luck might have it, Jason took two does on the second day of the hunt. To see some pics click the Pic.

December 23rd was certainly a beautiful morning to hunt. The 40° degree weather was a nice change of pace form the previous days I had hunted in the mid to low teens. I set up in one of my most successful stands that I had stayed away from for awhile. The wind was perfect coming out of the west. At about quarter to 8:00 I spotted movement 70 yards off on the far ridge. Three mature does were making their way towards my set up. As the lead doe turned on a trail that crossed directly in front of me, my heart began to pound on queue.