Opening Day - How'd You Do?

[flyfshn]

Hunted on my uncles property in Montgomery County. Saturday morning we saw a 4 pointer and 6 doe....too far to shoot. My cousin's husband got a 6 pt at 6:30am. Sunday morning about 8am, we saw 6 doe coming in towards us when my cousin came driving thru the field, stopped and walked down to our stands. He got a nice 8 pointer and said there was a huge 11 pointer behind him, but did not notice him until after he shot the 8 pt. My son was excited about the 11pt so we decided to stay on that tract of land and hunt the rest of the day. I took a 150 yd shot at a doe, missed and spooked up some deer towards my son. Told him on the 2way that deer were headed his way....2 min later I heard a shot. Asked if he got one....said yes...should I take another? Since it was almost dark and he had 2 bonus tags, told him to fire away...bam...asked if he got it....yep! He shot 2 really nice doe! Had to get the atv, get them out, start the wonderful job of gutting them and bringing them home to process. We were up until 1am!! The weather was really warm and windy all day, but they were definitely moving. May have been other hunters stirring them up. Not sure they are in rut since the my cousin say the 2 bucks together....unless the 11pt was chasing the 8pt off. My son spoke to a couple of friends on the way home one got an 8pt near Cherryville, Mo, another got an 8pt somewhere north of Lake of the Ozarks and a guy I work with got an 8pt on a farm towards KC , but that was the only deer he saw. My neighbor hunted outside of Monroe City, MO and his brother in law stuck a 6pt on Friday with his bow, but they did not see a deer the rest of the weekend. Some guys hunting on the adjoining property got 3 doe. Its all about being in the right place at the right time = LUCK!

[Samkam1]

Too hot to hunt!

Went to Beaver instead and got in on the top water striper action.

Going to hunt this week when it cools off.

SK

[jdmidwest]

It was a great weekend around here, heavy frost Sat. morning and t-shirts Sun. afternoon. I hunted the farm we own in Wayne county with my father and great uncle. We sit around drinking coffee while we watched 4 feed in the field behind the house. We went our separate ways and my 85 y/o uncle killed a little doe. Dad killed a 5 pt buck at 3:00 in the field behind the house. I saw 30 does and fawns Sat. Sun., I had the farm to myself and I patterned a nice buck. At 2:30 he fell to a well placed 6mm bullet standing at the same tree where I took my buck last year. Sunday, I saw the same amt of does and fawns, but held out for this one. All deer were feeding in open fields on grass all thru the day, both days. Rough score 123 3/4 8 point.

Back to Ducks now!

[duckydoty]

I hunted in Clark county with my brother and his wife. My brother got a nice 8 pointer and 2 does, his wife got a nice 6 pointer, and I got a small 6 pointer on Saturday. Nothing on Sunday.

duckydoty

[sportshop]

daughter didnt get to hunt sat as she had to work, but she got to hunt sun. and took a really nice 10 pointer, not huge but very pretty rack, having it mounted for her. i then took a doe mon. evening, all in webster county.

[Troutn]

Is has been really slow around were I hunt as well!

[heyiou]

E Taney County. Nice 10 pointer 100 yards away and moving with first 1/2 hour. Shot 3 times missed all 3. was using different ammo, resighted gun at noon, the normal does were out that night. Went hunting Sunday in my shorts and light camo shirt at 5:30 am (crazy), got a doe. Havent seen a thing since.

[retroaction man]

i only catch and release deer :paper

[brittsnbirds]

Hunted Friday (bow) Saturday and Sunday just west of Stockton. Usually see 20 plus does and several bucks. Only saw 4 does zero bucks. Don't think the rut was on yet. The bucks were definitely not chasing the does or the warm weather and WIND was too much.