2012 Hunting Season (8)

January Hunts (8)

2011 Hunting Season (151)

2010 Hunting Season (176)

2009 Hunting Season (180)

2008 Hunting Season (115)

About the Journal

Home > Journal > October 2008

October 2008

October 30 - Mark Drury

Animal: 158 2/8" 9 Point
Location: Iowa
Weapon: PSE X-Force

Wow! What a week this has been! I killed a nice mature buck on Saturday in Illinois, had a great encounter in Missouri on Monday with a real pretty 10pt, and saw a giant I nicknamed Chiquita for...

View

October 25 - Mark Drury

Animal: 8 Point 5 1/2 Year Old Whitetail
Location: Illinois
Weapon: PSE-Dream Season X-Force

This year I had an opportunity to go back where it all began, hunting with Stacey Ward and the gang at Hadley Creek Outfitters. October 18-20, I had a wonderful weekend hunt with Taylor and Kyle...

View

October 19 - Amy Reisner

Animal: 136" 10 Point Whitetail
Location: Iowa
Weapon: Thompson Center Muzzleloader

This was my last day of early season muzzleloader. My husband, Dave, and I had hunted as much as I could during this season, 5 times in all. So I was a little down in the mouth, thinking I was...

View

October 19 - Matt Drury

Animal: 10 Point Mature Whitetail
Location: Missouri
Weapon: PSE Bow Madness

12 years later my journal story continues...yes it has been that long since I've picked up stick and string in the fall deer woods! Well, I guess I was just waiting for that perfect storm so to...

View

October 18 - Britney Edney

Animal: 145" Whitetail
Location: Kentucky
Weapon: Thompson Center Omega

Very rarely do I get a chance to get Jason to stop on our trips back and forth between NC to NE. He always seems to pass the many tourist traps during the ~1000 mile trip but wouldn't you know it...

View

October 17 - Chris Ogle

Animal: 125" 7 Point Whitetail
Location: Kentucky
Weapon: PSE X-Force

Our season is rolling along! After shooting an ancient 11.5 yr. old cow elk in Kentucky on Sunday and Glen laying down a 160� Illinois buck on Wednesday, our good fortune continued on Friday...

View

October 17 - Mike Prochnow & Jeff Grenz

Animal: Coyotes
Location: North Dakota
Weapon: T/C Icon

Korey and I finally had a chance to spend a full day hunting coyotes in North Dakota. This day was filled with many highs and lows including seeing 10 coyotes on 6 different stands including 4...

View

October 15 - Glen Simpson

Animal: 160" Whitetail
Location: Illinois
Weapon: PSE X-Force

Over the past several months Chris and I had made several trips to my lease property in Schuyler county Illinois with the primary mission to set new stand locations and to put out several Reconyx...

View

October 12 - Jessica Ware

Animal: Whitetail Buck
Location: Illinois
Weapon: Thompson Center Muzzleloader

I�m so proud of my daughter Jessica. When I asked her earlier this year if she wanted to go to Hunters Safety Course so she could go hunting this fall, never did I really think she might harvest a...

View

October 9 - Lance Chapman

Animal: 155" Whitetail Deer
Location: Kentucky
Weapon: PSE X-Force

With winds out of the North and cooler temps after the rain the previous day , I decided it would be the perfect chance to hunt the pine set for the first time. This was a set that we had hung the...

View

October 5 - Chris Propst

Animal: 10 Point 3 1/2 Year Old Whitetail
Location: Illinois
Weapon: PSE-Dream Season X-Force

Dad and I had an absolutely awesome hunt from Oct 1 to Oct 5th at Hadley Creek Outfitters for the first leg of our Dream Season hunts for season 6, in Pike County Illinois, all I can say is wow!...

View

October 5 - Deanna Owen

Animal: 3 1/2 Year Old 8 Point Whitetail
Location: Kansas
Weapon: Thompson Center Pro Hunter .50 Caliber

Making the hour and a half trip to our Kansas farm has almost become as routine as a trip to the grocery store. But after you make that trip several times in two weeks, and you still haven't "...

View

October 4 - Carol Graham

Animal: 137" Whitetail
Location: Illinois
Weapon: PSE X-Force

Feeling good after a successful hunt in North Dakota, we climbed into the stand for the afternoon sit here in Illinois. I was lucky already as Joe had given up his turn to hunt and chose to get...

View