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October 2009

October 31 - Darrell Tudela

Animal: 9 Point Whitetail
Location: Illinois
Weapon: PSE X-Force

After our first two years with Drury getting skunked with putting a decent buck on the ground, it would be an understatement to say we were anxious to �get on the board�. Rick & I drove 1300 miles...

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October 31 - Mark Drury

Animal: 174" 9 Point Whitetail
Location: Iowa
Weapon: PSE Omen

I remember in the fall of 2004, checking the first prototypes of the Wildlife Eye and getting images of a giant nine point that I now estimate to be nine and a half years old. He had a beautiful...

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October 31 - Matt Drury

Animal: 131 7/8" 8 Point Whitetail
Location: Missouri
Weapon: PSE Bow Madness

I�ve been coming up to dad�s farm for the past couple of weekends trying to hit it at just the �right� time on his Northern Missouri farm. It seems like every season the bucks on his place start...

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October 30 - Carol Graham

Animal: 131 1/8" Whitetail
Location: Ohio
Weapon: PSE Dream Season GX

Starting off my whitetail season this year was nothing like prior mid-west seasons I was accustomed to. Having to move back east for family obligations began my need to reinvent this year's season....

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October 30 - Deanna Owen

Animal: 135 6/8" 10 Point Whitetail
Location: Missouri
Weapon: PSE Super Short NI

It was during the summer we were on our way back from Bass Pro Shops and Rodney received a call form Mark Drury. Rodney then got off the phone and told me that he had been selected to hunt as part...

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October 30 - Terry Drury

Animal: 140" Whitetail
Location: Missouri
Weapon: PSE Dream Season X-Force

Rain, wind, fog, and low pressure systems dominated our early season, and slowed deer movement to a crawl. We were beginning to get frustrated because we had expected to see more buck movement by...

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October 28 - Tom Ware

Animal: 150 1/8" Whitetail
Location: Illinois
Weapon: PSE X-Force

Klem and I decided the night of October 27th that we really had to be smart about where we hunted. There has been a ton of rain and not many of the farmers have been able to get their crops out. We...

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October 27 - Tim Woods

Animal: 135 2/8" 11 Point Whitetail
Location: Illinois
Weapon: PSE Dream Season X-Force

This year�s deer season has gotten off to a rough start. I�m trying to stay positive through an array of disappointments. It seems like it�s always something. My trail cameras keep disappearing, I...

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October 26 - Candice Woods

Animal: 144" 9 Point Whitetail
Location: Illinois
Weapon: PSE X-Force

One of the most exciting times of our lives was when Tim and Ben competed in Dream Season Land of the Giants. When we watched the final episode at 6:00 am and found out that Team Ohio had won, I...

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October 24 - Dan Thurston

Animal: 141" Point Whitetail
Location: Kansas
Weapon: PSE X-Force GX

October 24, 2009�a day I will soon not forget. Two days prior, I had asked a good friend of mine, Billy Goode, to run camera for me. The 24th was day three of our hunt, prior to that we had only...

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October 24 - Kyle McClellan

Animal: 152 2/8" Whitetail
Location: Illinois
Weapon: Bow

This is a hunt I will always remember. I arrived at Hadley Creek Outfitters on October 21st trying to bring home my first buck. On October 24th the fourth day of my hunt it all came together.

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October 22 - Rod Owen

Animal: 151 1/8" 14 Point Whitetail
Location: Missouri
Weapon: PSE Omen

I sat at a cross-road in north-east Kansas for over an hour just thinking about the events of the day and I was feeling like I had been punched right in my stomach. You see, I was supposed to be...

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October 19 - Adam Wainwright

Animal: 140" 8 Point Whitetail
Location: Illinois
Weapon: PSE Bow Madness XL

After arriving at Hadley Creek all the teams had high expectations and we could not wait to get up a tree, we saw several deer the next couple of days and then day two Lance was in the tree with...

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October 19 - Ben Rising, Rick Hawkins, Jarod Hawkins

Animal: 5x5 Elk, 5x4 Elk, 148" Mule Deer, 173" Mule Deer
Location: Colorado
Weapon: Gun

Earlier this year I was invited to go with Jarod, his brother Jason and his dad Rick Hawkins on an Elk & Mule deer hunt in Colorado in Oct. I wasn't to thrilled at first because of all the things...

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October 18 - Aaron Lewis

Animal: 135" 11 Point Whitetail
Location: Illinois
Weapon: PSE Dream Season GX

I can�t believe that the first group hunt has come and gone! Wow, what an exciting time to be in the woods especially with good friends Aaron, Ken, all the other celebrities, team members and of...

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October 18 - Tim Sylvia

Animal: 130" 8 Point Whitetail
Location: Illinois
Weapon: PSE Dream Season GX

It was October 16th and it had arrived, the first group hunt of the year for Dream Season Celebrity Season 7! Me, my dad and �The Maine-iac� Tim Sylvia were pumped about the hunt and ready to start...

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October 15 - JJ Kolesar

Animal: Coyote
Location: Illinois
Weapon: PSE Bow Madness XL/Rage 2-Blade

Well, sometimes your goals for a hunt change within seconds. That was the story with this mature male Coyote. We initially spotted the song dog about 200 yards away in a bean field. He was coming...

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October 12 - Louie Payne

Animal: 127" 8 Point Whitetail
Location: Kentucky
Weapon: PSE Omen

I have been getting Reconyx pictures since mid July and I made a hit list of 5 different bucks and they ranged from 125 to 140 and after accepting the responsibility of filming Dream Season...

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October 11 - Amy Reisner

Animal: Whitetail Doe
Location: Iowa
Weapon: PSE X-Force

I had been begging for a bow for about 4 years when my husband, Dave, decided to finally surprise me last Valentine�s Day with my very own PSE X-Force. I know, most women wouldn�t think that was a...

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October 10 - Franky "Bub" Nation

Animal: 3 1/2 Year Old Whitetail
Location: Kentucky
Weapon: .243 Youth Rifle

I�ve been looking forward to taking my nephew�s son hunting since this trip was planned back in the early summer! Little Franky A.K.A �Bub�, is no stranger to the woods as his father has taken him...

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October 10 - Jarod Hawkins

Animal: 10 Point Whitetail
Location: Ohio
Weapon: PSE Bow Madness

I guess this story begins in October 2008. Ben and I were getting pictures of a ten point that looked to be a mature buck. I hunted for the big ten only seeing him a few times and every time he was...

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October 9 - Joe Gizdic

Animal: 150 1/8" Whitetail
Location: Illinois
Weapon: PSE Dream Season GX

Bucks had been moving really well here in IL, at least until the downpours set in. We had 2 days of solid rain and I knew that when the weather broke the bucks would move again. I have several...

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October 8 - Bric Steward

Animal: 5x4 Mule Deer
Location: Nebraska
Weapon: PSE Dream Season GX

Well come the first of October I�m usually getting ready to hunt whitetails, but this year was going to be a little different. I was fired up to head west to hunt Mule Deer instead of climbing a...

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October 8 - Mark Drury

Animal: 163 6/8" 9 Point Whitetail
Location: Iowa
Weapon: PSE Omen

In our book, Giant Whitetails, Terry and I wrote of the first major cold front in October. When it breaks the back of the summer heat it does something to the whitetails likes nothing else. In...

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October 8 - Rachel Gadient

Animal: Doe Whitetail
Location: Iowa
Weapon: Browning Bow

Story Coming Soon!

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October 7 - Doug Hampton

Animal: Boar Hog
Location: Arkansas
Weapon: PSE Dream Season GX

After returning from Kansas on an early season muzzleloader hunt with my wife, it was now time to get to the business of bow hunting in my home state of Arkansas. With my team-mate Rod Owen living...

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October 6 - Jeff Lindsey

Animal: 194 4/8" Whitetail
Location: Iowa
Weapon: PSE Dream Season GX

The story of �Bonecrusher� started 3 years ago when I saw him walk through the field we call the 6 acre as a 2 1/2 year old buck with a couple of inside tines. Last year he showed up as big 4 1/2...

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October 1 - Jacob Eugster, Sam Ripp, John Seid, Joe Eugster

Animal: Geese
Location: Wisconsin
Weapon: Shotgun

We raise a lot of sweet corn on our farm for fresh market sales. When the sweet corn season is over we chop the fields leaving about 12 rows unchopped every 100 yards or so. In these unchopped rows...

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