Hunting Washington Forum
Big Game Hunting => Deer Hunting => Topic started by: Magnum_Willys on December 27, 2009, 08:31:08 PM
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4 of us got back from Iowa last week. We took 3 nice bucks and 3 does. The 12 ga. Mossberg shotguns with rifled barrels, scope and Winchester XP3 saboted slugs worked great. Two of the bucks were taken over 180 yards. We had a chance at the local "Legend" when it popped out of a ditch right in front of the pickup and my brother got out and snapped a shot off and got a piece of it but we couldn't recover it. Two days later nearby landowners finished it off - 18 total points. I did nail a respectable whitetail at 50 yards after my brother jumped it out of a ravine. Great trip.
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congrats and nice whitetail
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still a great buck, congrats to you guys glad the deer that got wounded got finished off. to bad it was wounded for 2 days but part of hunting
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Nice buck. What part of Iowa?
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very nice buck sir :)
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Thats a wall hanger, congrats.
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you got a nice one, did you happen to get a pic of the one that got away? congrats & thanks for sharing
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Congrats on th nice buck.
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We were near Atlantic - a little over an hour east of Omaha. No pics yet of the one that got away - hoping the lucky hunters post up somewhere. The landowner we were with went back the next morning to look for blood - the buck jumped up right in front of him but he hadn't gotten his gun out of the truck yet. In Iowa you can't road hunt - guns must be secured in a case on the roads, seat belts on, no walkie talkies or cb's allowed, no mesh or camo orange, no quartering or boning animal in the field, must tag them before gutting, have to call in harvest report within 24 hours. Lotta rules there. My buddy hitched a mile ride back to our truck and in that time got in trouble for not having his shotgun in a case and the farmer who picked him up got in trouble for not having orange on while "hunting" and not having his seatbelt on - this is on a gravel farm road. Whew !
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That's a great looking buck! No pics of the "legend"?
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Nice buck, I would love to get a whitetail like that one day. Congratulations!
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We were near Atlantic - a little over an hour east of Omaha. No pics yet of the one that got away - hoping the lucky hunters post up somewhere. The landowner we were with went back the next morning to look for blood - the buck jumped up right in front of him but he hadn't gotten his gun out of the truck yet. In Iowa you can't road hunt - guns must be secured in a case on the roads, seat belts on, no walkie talkies or cb's allowed, no mesh or camo orange, no quartering or boning animal in the field, must tag them before gutting, have to call in harvest report within 24 hours. Lotta rules there. My buddy hitched a mile ride back to our truck and in that time got in trouble for not having his shotgun in a case and the farmer who picked him up got in trouble for not having orange on while "hunting" and not having his seatbelt on - this is on a gravel farm road. Whew !
Some krazy rules there
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That's a beaut.....Congrats
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Awsome whitey :drool: Congrats! :tup:
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Nothing wrong with that one. How much bigger was the monster one. I would of been happy with the one you shot. :chuckle:
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tongue and pic fixed
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Yea, looks a lot better without the tongue hanging out - guess thats why you never see taxidermists mounting them with the Michael Jordan look. haha Thx.
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First thing I always do after I check that he's dead is cut out the tounge (so I don't get the Michael Jordan look... :chuckle: )
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Nice buck J! I was to excited with my first bull this year to remember to put the tongue back in. I got a lot of crap from some of my buddies about that :P
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Congrats Nice Buck! Land of the Giants!
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Great looking Whitetail!
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Thanks. Had two hours to get my son and I packed, turn rental truck in, and try to find a way to mail heads home. Got a big rubbermaid tub at walmart and darn if they the heads wouldn't quite fit - then I read about $5000 fine for bringing heads into WA from Nebraska where we were flying from though its an Iowa buck - decided to call the first taxidermist I could get ahold of and ask them to pick the heads up at the Motel as we flew out. Whew! Now researching whitetail forms online - looks like many are much smaller noses / faces than this one. The Joe Meder forms are based on large Iowa deer so decided to specify this if possible - semi-upright with a turn. My son went with a full sneak. I was only 2 hours from Meder's place - if I had known I would have had him pick it up. Surprised this buck is towards the upper end of the mount sizes. Can't carry antlers on United anymore. Did bring 3 walmart coolers of meat back on the plane. Glad I used a double gun case - counts as one bag.
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.p.s. Michelle - I caped a buddys elk this season that he was going to turn in to you and he heard back from you it was too short - I made sure to go way back on my buck ! haha Thanks !
