I've been meaning to get up early one of these fine, chilly mornings and see if the gobbler's are sounding off, good news, I sat out on my back deck this a.m. and sure enough, gobble gobble! They were quite away off in the distance but it was still enough I could hear them distinctly. I've been seeing about forty or so earlier this spring and the last couple of weeks I've been seeing smaller bunches so I think they're splitting up and about ready to get it on. I went for a walk last night and
I finally got the opportunity to go shed hunting on Sunday, so me and my trusty trail buddy Joefish went to the woods to see what we could find. We saw a lot of deer on the hoof, and after walking for about 3 hours I found my second matched pair of antlers. They were still attached to the deer, however, it was dead. I believe it was from natural causes due to the fact that I didn't find any bullets or broadheads by the carcass, but it could have been a hunter kill. I will again attempt to po
Well, before you read this you should know this isn' t a fishing or hunting story. I just got back from a trip to California to see my sister and we we're discussing how I came up with the name Buck Dandy. Buck Dandy originated when Joefish (as known here on OAF) and I started videotaping our outdoor adventures about fifteen years ago. We were trying to come up with some alias's and we chose Buck and Luke, last names came later. Now wherever we go and start talking about fishing and hunting
Okay, you can all relax now, our invasion of S. Mo is over! We came, we saw, we kicked some trout butt! It was a much needed respite from N. Mo as we descended on Taneycomo over the weekend to start the year out with some trout fishing. My Dad, Joefish, and myself were happy to boat several nice trout over two days of fishing at Taney and breaking the winter blues. I'm sure Joefish will post some pics in the future. Went to the pothole both nights with no luck, lost a couple nice rapala's t
Okay, another slow day at the office. I don't know about the rest of you but I am having a banner duck season. My Dad and I have been slamming ducks for the last two weeks. My Dad, at age 75, has been hunting ducks for over 60 years, and is still out there banging away at more ducks than he's seen since the 70's. He's contributing it to three factors; 1) cold weather up north has pushed ducks down earlier this year than previous years, 2) due to all the rain this spring and fall farmers were
As I was reading some of my earlier blogs I realized that I needed to point out that the matched sheds I found last March were the sheds from the buck I killed last week. The difference is truly amazing, I don't know if it was the wet year we had with lots of rain, the food plots of white clover I planted, or the antler restrictions which we are benefiting from, but the buck grew about 40 inches from last year to this year. Maybe it is the result of all three in combination, again I'm not sure
Okay, I've been really busy between work and hunting so I haven't posted much recently. You've read about my elk hunt so no need to recap that. I've been bowhunting as much as possible but with the warm weather and all haven't seen a lot of shooter bucks. Joefish has taken some awesome pics on his trail camera though. I put up some new stands and I have been seeing a couple of really nice bucks on the farm this year. I saw a really nice buck in the headlights a couple weeks ago, debated on
Well, if time flew on that last entry it literally skipped a few months this time. I just got back from CO after a week hunting elk with a bow. If you want to stop reading now you can, I didn't get one. My bro and I went out for the last week of the bow season and gave it the old college try. To make a long story short, the first weekend we had bulls all around us, it was raining and cold and they were bugling like mad. I had five close encounters, within 60 yards, two ragheads and three ni
Well, time sure flies when your having fun.....sorry I haven't posted anything in a couple months....like anyone's actually reading this anyway! Turkey season wasn't to bad this year, my group harvested several nice birds. I bagged a jake, it was my only option. However, we saw a lot of nice tom's just couldn't put any lead in their heads. I've been fishing a little bit, nothing compared to last year though. Caught some nice crappies, some bass and a few channels the weekend before last at
My bro' Joefish, called me Sunday night and told me he had a "log" hooked and was fighting it as we spoke. He said he'd call me back when he got it landed. I watched all of "Good Luck Chuck" went to the store to get some beer, called him and he was still in the process of landing it. My friends and I had to check this out so we grabbed a gaf and headed out to see this monster fish. Before we could get to the lake he called back and said he had landed the big flathead! He had originally esti
Alrighty then, its finally Friday and I'm getting to go home early from work. I've got a fishing trip all set up for tomorrow I just hope the rain and wind hold off long enough for me to wet a line. Haven't decided where we're going yet? My buddy Willie Nelson and I are going to try out his new boat! Since were from up North I'm debating on where to go. He usually defers to my wealth of knowledge in determining which lakes to fish and when. I'm after Walleye! I'd like to run down to fish
Well, I asked for it and here it is, a mucky, muddy, miserable, March! Oh, its not that bad, we've had a few nice days with warm weather and lots of wind. I've been crappie fishin' and shed huntin' and have had better luck shed hunting. So far I'm six sheds in five trips out with one complete set. I've found three sheds which have been small eights. One tall spike and a set which was a 5x4. I fixed my 4 wheeler, had a throttle adjustment cable which was unhooked and had to put it back on,
Went shed hunting on Saturday with my dad, we covered a lot of country but didn't have any luck. Found a bunch of sign, the trails really stand out in the snow. Deer have mostly been concentrating on cut corn fields, as far as I can tell.
Went ice fishing on sunday the 24th, hit three ponds and caught a fish at each, then we hit another one and I cleaned up pretty good. I caught seven or eight bass and two really nice crappies, caught most of them on white hair jig tipped with crappie nibb
The next best thing to shooting a buck is finding matching sheds. Well, had to get out of the house on Monday so me & joefish went shed hunting. It was one cool day, windchill was 10* but guess who found his first set of matching antlers? Yeah, Me! My brother put a pic of them on his blog, Joefish, a decent 5x4 which needs to grow another year. Found them in a CRP field close to a creek on the south side (sunny) where there is a natural wind break and bedding area. They hadn't been the
Is it just me or does everyone else experience the winter blues when the hunting season ends and its to darn cold to get out and do any serious fishing? Here it is the middle of Feb. already and I'm about to go nuts due to inactivity. I don't hunt rabbits, ponds and lakes are frozen over, bucks aren't dropping their sheds yet, its 5* outside and the windchill is -10* and all I seem to be able to do is sit my fat butt in my La-z-boy and watch reruns of my favorite hunting shows. I know, I can
