I received a pretty ecstatic voicemail from my brother, John, Monday night. It went something like: “Yeeeaaaaahhhhhhaaaaawwwwww!!!! Slob down in Iowa!!!” and a few other proclamations of his excitement. Just his 3rd morning into his 10 day trip to Iowa from his home in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, John shot his biggest buck to date, a nine pointer that should gross close to 140.
John was hunting public land in northeast Iowa. He researched this area over the summer, ordering plat books and topos of the area. He printed out aerials off Terraserver and went in mobile and independent. His walk was 1.3 miles from his truck to where he hunted. Each sit he saw at least 3 different bucks. On the third morning when this bruiser came grunting in behind a doe, one look was all it took for John to know the buck would easily make his Pope & Young minimum he’d set for himself.
The buck had a dressed weight of 200lbs (the next day), 10″ G2’s, 9″ G3’s, 21.5″ outside spread.
Big congratulations bro!!