Hope everyone had a safe and productive opening day today (for those who rifle hunt)! I know this is a "bowhunting" site, but most bowhunters I know rifle hunt. So, here's to you all. Good luck!
Man, what a perfect day for the second day of gun season here in MO. For the first time this season it's COLD.. amazing. I've been wishing for a day like today all season. Finally it comes, and it's during rifle season... shyte!
I went out yesterday until about noon an didn't see jack. Didn't here a ton of gun shots which is a good thing. It sure was windier in heck. My buddies brother saw 7 single does and not a single buck in tow on any of them. Not sure what's going on here in MO but seems as things have cooled down a bot from week ago.
i had one cross about 10 yards in front of me about 5:45 am( still dark)....sat for 12 hours and finally had 3 more does come in around 5:15 pm, i shot probably the biggest doe i've ever seen...meat in the freezer!!
Saw a buck and doe this morning, gf didnt want to shoot the buck so I shot the doe and MU won the game yesterday so I guess it was ok that I missed opening day. First deer taken off my new land, Im happy.
Grats guys... After talking with several of my friends and family that are avid deer hunters (gun more than bow) it seems we're having a slow year. Maybe too many acorns or something.... My cousins farm usually produces several 140s size deer, but this year they have only killed two bucks.. one a ten with broken tines and a nice six.. neither huge (110-120s). They have a lot of large deer on cams, just not seeing them in field. Glad to hear you guys are putting them on the ground! I can't wait for Wednesday so I can hunt again!
You don't have to wait until Wednesday; you simply have to purchase a firearms permit which allows you to keep on bowhunting ... The nice thing about that is that if you kill a buck on your firearms permit, you've still got the two buck tags left from your archery permit.
