Midwest Monster Kills

Iowa Buck

Name:Mark Linkous
Date of Kill:11/12/2010
Time of Kill: 10:30 am
State:Iowa
County:  linn
Kill Type: Whitetail

Rut was on and I had the choice of 2 bucks and this one showed me a perfect broad side 40 yard shot that I couldn’t pass up. Bowtech Alligience VFT LH @ 70 lbs. with 340 Axis and 100 grain Magnus 2 blade fixed traditional. Double lung heart, went 60 yards then tumbled down hill dead. Better of the 2 bucks…

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Dan's Coyote

Name:Dan Forbes
Age: 36
Date of Kill: 2011
State:Iowa
County:  Iowa
Kill Type: Coyote

We were pushing one of the timbers we hunt when this coyote came running right at me. As soon as the dog turned and started to run across the field I smoked him with a Remington AccuTip.

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Mark's Iowa Buck

Name:Mark Linkous
Date of Kill:11/4/2006
Time of Kill: 3:00 pm
State:Iowa
County:  Van Buren
Kill Type: Whitetail

Bowtech Alligience VFT LH & 340 Axis with American Broadhead Sonic 100 fixed @ 22yards, went 30 yards and crashed. Grunted and rattled into my lair…

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Todd's Buck

Name:Todd Willcome
Age: 30
Date of Kill:11/7/11
Time of Kill:  4:15
State:Wisconsin
County:  Marathon
Location Details:Birnamwood, Wisconsin
Kill Type: Whitetail

It was Monday Morning and i really wanted to be in my treestand because the rut was in full swing in Wisconsin. I wasn’t able to hunt because the farmer whos land I hunt had asked me to help spread manure on his field. As I was driving the tractor on a trail through a patch woods, I happened to see a doe only 20 yards of the tractor trail with a nice tall rack buck at her side. All I could do was stare in awe as they just watched me drive by. Hoping he would stick around I returned to a Stand close to the area where I saw the buck. After passing up two small bucks I decided to use my grunt call. One sequence of grunts and I had a shooter buck come charging out of the swamp! He walked 10 yards in front of me and I let the arrow fly. I didnt get a good look at him but after a short trailing job I found my buck and it just happened to be that buck I had seen that morning while I was on the tractor. He was a massive 7pt with a 16.5 inch spread and dressed out at 200lbs. What an awesome day in the woods!

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Nathan's Buck

Name:Nathan Davis
Age: 32
Date of Kill:11-11-11
Time of Kill:  1:30 p.m
State:Illinois
County:  Bond
Location Details: Private ground
Kill Type: Whitetail

Well guys, I got rained out at work, so I came home. Just so happens, It was my womans birthday. I asked her nicely if I could go out hunting? She said it was fine as long as I killed a big one. So I took advantage of the situation. When it’s rainy and windy I put the stalk down! So I start my stalk face in the wind, kick up 3 doe, as they take off I see big boy turn his head as the doe run by him. So now im in the creep mode. Everytime the wind would start to blow hard, I would take a few steps towards him. I get 20 yards from him and whistle at him, he starts to look around while laying down. So now I start to freak out thinking he’s going to run. I got everything running through my head, so now I got to make it happen. I draw back, say get up, say it again, finally the third time I said it, he stood up giving me a perfect broadside shot. I smoked him! He ran 45 yards and dropped. I instantly called the little woman to tell her the good news. All I can say, is if it’s raining and windy get down wind and go for it. I also want to say thank u Mathews and to Spitfire broadheads for getting the job done. See ya next season big horn!

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Iowa Whitetail

Name:Mark Linkous
Date of Kill:11-11-11
Time of Kill: 16:00
State:Iowa
County:  Linn
Kill Type: Whitetail

Bowkill during archery. Bowtech Alliegience  VFT LH @  70lbs.,   29″ Axis 340 with Magus traditional 2 blade 100 grain.  24 yards quartering away,  double lung heart shot. ~135″ P&Y, roleed down hill, died fast.

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Mark's Buck

Name:Mark Linkous
Date of Kill:10/20/2011
State:Iowa
County:  Linn
Kill Type: Whitetail

Favorite spot hunting early muzzleloader, hiked a good mile back to my spot. carrying my favorite .50 cal muzzleloader with hornady 230 grain .45 hollow point in black sabot with 100 grains of 777 pellet powder. 20 minutes left of legal shooting light a nice 8 point presented himself @125 yards, crosshairs on him an he ran within 30 yards of me and collapsed.

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Regan's Buck

Name:Regan Olson
Age:18
Date of Kill:12/3/11
Time of Kill:4:15
State:  South Dakota
County: clayton
Kill Type: Whitetail/Lady Killers

After watching this buck  chase a doe into a slew and didnt see the pair exit, we assumed the pair bedded down in the rushes. I set up north of the slew and had my sister walk in from the south. She kicked up a small buck with this monster 4 by 5 witha doe he chased in. He exited towards me and stopped 80 yards away where I dropped him. Check out those brow tines!

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Austin's Iowa buck

Name:Austin W
Date of Kill: 11/5/2011
Time of Kill:4:15
State: Iowa
County: clayton
Kill Type: Whitetail

Well me and my brother had been planing a weekend trip and after weeks of it falling through we finaly were going to go. We got up there the night befor talked to the guy we were staying with and got up the next morning and we were headed out got to my tree a litle late. the morning started out real slow saw a decent buck in the distance and rattled in a small buck also so around 11:30 we went and got some lunch. Soon after we headed back out it had got real windy and I was sitting in a diffrent spot then in the morning. where I was sitting it was just way to windy so I got down and moved a couple hundred yards down the hill side. Soon after I moved I seen a buck making a rub I grunted and he didnt hear it due to the wind. So he started to walk away so I rattled and the next thing I know here he comes out of some think brush and was about 35 yards away I waited for the right shot and the next thing I know I was listing to him crash. Went back and met my brother and a friend and went and got him out and had a blast hunting with my brother. Sorry I dont have any field pictures.

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Tommy's Doe

Name:Tommy Ellis
Date of Kill: 11/12/11
Time of Kill:4:00 pm
State: Tennessee
County: Marion
Kill Type: Whitetail

I went to the mountain to try and fill a doe tag or 4 that I had left for our muzzle loader season in Unit A. In Unit L where I live it is 3 does a doe for the entire season but in A it is 9 total. The place I hunt is covered in does and the landowners want some thinned out. I got on stand in the morning but all the deer were in a field with just enough limbs in the way that I didn’t have a shot. That afternoon I found a good spot where I could ground hunt and got set up around 2:00 pm. At 2:48 I heard the first shot and listened to others shoot around me until I finally saw the first doe at about 3:45. I watched her feed toward me and had a spot picked where I wanted to take my shot but she turned about 100 yards away and went into an overgrown field. Less than a minute later I saw another one coming down the same trail. She turned to take the same trail giving me a broadside shot. I hit her with a perfect double lung with my .45, she ran about 30 yards and dropped. I took her to a needy family that lives down the road from me to help fill their freezer.

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