Midwest Monster Kills

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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Roy's Buck

Name:Roy Janiro
Age:50
Date of Kill: 12/3/2011
Time of Kill:8:15am
State: Tennessee
County: Williamson
Kill Type: Whitetail

Saw this deer early in archery season. Rattled him in, but could not get a shot. Hunted him hard through muzzleloader in drenching rains. Had him broadside at 30 yards and muzzleloader didn’t fire - powder got wet! Continued to put in time and hunted him by tracking the late season does. Finally got him in rifle.

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Zak's Buck

Name:Zak Price
Age:15
Date of Kill: 12/03/11
Time of Kill:1:20
State: Iowa
County: Wapello
Location Details: private ground
Kill Type: Whitetail

Me and my dad were sitting against a tree, we were watching a bunch of deer. We took off on a dead run after a buck and two does, my dad stopped and told me to get down, i looked over and there he was. A doe jumped the fence about 75 yards away, then the buck followed hot on her trail, and i shot and hit him in the heart. My dad spent an hour looking for blood but he’s colorblind. Me and my step mom were sitting on top of a gobnob and my dad came back and said he was down.

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Cody's Buck

Name:Cody G
Age: 19
Date of Kill: 10-21-2011
Time of Kill:7:25am
State:Kentucky
County: Boyle
Location Details: Knobs
Kill Type: Whitetail

Actually got trail cam pictures of this buck 2 years in a row. Shot him last year on Halloween weekend, but I pushed a bad shot when he was quartering to me. But after trail camera pictures of him this year I hung a new stand and was fortunate enough to kill him just as it was breaking day. Biggest deer I’ve ever taken and first deer I’ve taken with a bow. He green scored 156 and weighed in at just over 215lbs.

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Name: Rusty Carpenter (MMK Prostaff)
Age:51
Date of Kill: 11-18-11
Time of Kill: 4:30pm
State: Iowa
County:scott
Kill Type: Whitetail

I have been hunting hard from sep.10 on.I saw a couple of good bucks early season but know shots.Starting holloween I started putting more time in my stand than sleep waiting for the one.Up to this point I have seen little to no rutting activity so when this 9 came over the hill I knew I was going to try an take this buck.He was about 30 yards out coming down the bluff behind he.I thought he was headed strait for the numerous ester bombs I had out.He was moving at a pritty good pace and started to turn the wrong way so I grunted at him and I think he went faster.At this point I was up and ready so I came to full draw put my pin on the sweet spot and let it go.It happened so fast I didn’t even know if it was a hit.Darkness was not far away so I got down packed up my climber and all my gear and walked back to the truck.When I got back the first thing I saw was blood and I only had to track him about 50to60 yards.I still have two more buck tags so I cant wait untill my next hunt.                           BY FILTHY-RED

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Rusty's Iowa Doe

Name: Rusty Carpenter (MMK Prostaff)
Age:51
Date of Kill: 11-13-11
Time of Kill: 9:00am
State: Iowa
County:scott
Kill Type: Whitetail

This is just one of three does that I have taken this season.I past on a couple of does opening weekened because they had baby’s with them.I didn’t see another doe for weeks.What a shock.So when I saw this big doe coming right down the trail strait at me I was excited.I came to full draw put my pin on the sweet spot and let it go.I watched her drop about 30 yards away.It was a great hunt and I cant wait until the next one.                                                                                                                             BY FILTHY-RED

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