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November 2009

	November 29 - Rod Owen Animal: 139" Whitetail Location: Illinois Weapon: PSE Omen After hunting 7days the first week of November with no sign of the rut, and virtually no deer movement I didnt know what the last few days of the month would bring?What I did know was the farmer... View
	November 27 - Lee Novotny Animal: 144" Whitetail Location: Kansas Weapon: PSE Dream Season GX Kansas started out brutal this year. Eric and I spent ten days in the first two weeks of November battling warm weather. There wasn�t a lack of encounters during this trip. We had bucks running all... View
	November 25 - Eric Bothun Animal: 184" Whitetail Location: Kansas Weapon: PSE Bow Well our first trip to Kansas earlier in November left us with unfilled tags. We had a lot of great and close encounters, passed on some deer we probably shouldn�t have passed on but I just... View
	November 23 - Jeff Lindsey Animal: 132" 4 1/2 Year Old Whitetail Location: Iowa Weapon: PSE X-Force GX It seems I have spoken with many of my buddies all over America the last couple of weeks about the sport we love and the one question they all seem to bring up is �What happened to the rut?!?!�... View
	November 23 - Joe Gizdic Animal: 147 3/8" 6 1/2 Year Old Whitetail Location: Kansas Weapon: PSE Dream Season GX After a long grueling season in Illinois, I decided to get some hunting in for myself and grabbed fellow outfitter and fill in cameraman Ed Presley and pointed the truck west toward Kansas on... View
	November 21 - Adam Comstock Animal: 156 7/8" Whitetail Location: Missouri Weapon: Thompson Center 25.06 Wow, that�s how it begins, I missed another big deer. I was without a camera man so I went out and tried to film myself. If you think putting down a kill with a hunter and a camera man is tuff try... View
	November 21 - Bobby Goodine Animal: 130" Whitetail Location: Illinois Weapon: Thompson Center Triumph Muzzleloader Growing up in Georgia you are always hunting but very seldom are you hunting giant bucks. I decided to apply for a few tags in the midwest to increase my odds or harvesting a big buck. I have... View
	November 21 - John O'Dell Sr. Animal: 8 Point Whitetail Location: Illinois Weapon: Thompson Center Pro Hunter Muzzleloader Well this hunt has been a long time coming. After many tries and lots of bad luck my dad who will be 65 years old in February FINALLY harvested his first buck! View
	November 21 - Julie Lucas Animal: 150" 10 Point Whitetail Location: Illinois Weapon: Thompson Center Endevour .50 Caliber Muzzleloader As many loyal Drury Outdoors fans know, my son Chris and I have been hunting and filming together for many years, my daughter Julie has always been a very avid turkey hunter, and the last few... View
	November 21 - Kyle Grover Animal: 158" 10 Point Whitetail Location: Wisconsin Weapon: Thompson Center Pro Hunter .50 Caliber Opening gun season Kyle and I hit the woods. Father and son and we were extremely excited. We had several sightings of nice 4 and 5 year olds on this property. We decided to play it safe on opening... View
	November 21 - Larry Steward Animal: 143" Whitetail Location: Illinois Weapon: Thompson Center Pro Hunter Encore .50 Cal Well, with all the luck being on my side this year Dad has not been able to pull the trigger on the Tru Fire release yet. So heading into our firearms season I told him I would film him until... View
	November 20 - Joe Eugster Animal: 162" Whitetail Location: Wisconsin Weapon: PSE Bow Madness I have never been skunked so many times in a long time! Its been a hard season for me. Early November and standing corn everywhere, warm temperatures, and a full moon to boot. View
	November 20 - Joe Shults Animal: 133" 11 Point 4 1/2 Year Old Whitetail Location: Illinois Weapon: Thompson Center Encore .50 Caliber Well with Coon Dog finally closing the deal with a nice 4 1/2 year old 8 pt. with only 45 minutes of light left it was time to changes gears and lay down the PSE'S and pick up the ole Thompson... View
	November 20 - Steve "Coon Dog" Coon Animal: 130" 9 Point Whitetail Location: Illinois Weapon: Thompson Center Omega .50 Cal Wow we are on a roll now, opening day of gun season found us in a ground blind over looking a Bio-Logic food plot that Joe and I planted in September. Joe was up to bat and I was behind the camera.... View
	November 20 - Tanya Playle Animal: 6 1/2 Year Old Mature Whitetail Location: Missouri Weapon: Thompson Center Encore .308 Zach and I have hunted hard all fall. It was our plan during the November Missouri rifle season to pass everything except really nice deer. We were wanting at least one of us to have a tag when the... View
	November 19 - Steve "Coon Dog" Coon Animal: 135" 8 Point 4 1/2 Year Old Whitetail Location: Illinois Weapon: PSE Super Short X-Force How can the best big buck movement that you have ever seen in the deer woods come to such an end after seven days. Well it did, after Joe was able to harvest his bow kill on Nov 5th I was up to bat... View
	November 18 - D.J. Schilly Animal: 143" Whitetail Location: Missouri Weapon: Thompson Center .308 This hunt all started when Terry Drury donated a hunt on his farm to a benefit for the late Kevin Bahr. I ended up being the lucky recipient who bought the hunt. I asked Terry when I should come up... View
	November 17 - Mark Drury Animal: 174 6/8" Whitetail Location: Missouri Weapon: Thompson Center Icon .243 As most of our viewers know, the lion share of my hunting over the past few years has been done in the great state of Iowa. A couple of years ago I purchased a property in Northeast Missouri. There... View
	November 16 - Gary Levox Animal: 10 Point Whitetail Location: Missouri Weapon: Thompson Center Icon .243 Good friend Darrell Daigre was a mutual friend of Gary and mine and told me that Gary had seen the shows before. I about dropped over when Darrel informed me that Gary even knew who we were! View
	November 15 - Jacob Eugster Animal: 146" Mature Whitetail Buck Location: Wisconsin Weapon: PSE X-Force Super Short This is an exciting year for me. My son Jacob is now twelve and ready to legally start bow hunting in Wisconsin. He got his new X Force SS bow this spring and practiced a lot. Jacob even entered a... View
	November 15 - Jared Lurk Animal: 175 1/8" 5 1/2 Year Old Main Frame 10pt Whitetail Location: Iowa Weapon: PSE Dream Season X-Force The story with this animal actually started 9/26/08 at 5:55pm...a brand new "shooter" appeared on my reconyx camera. That particular camera had been running everyday since July 15th and I thought... View
	November 15 - Jerry Wilson Animal: 178" Whitetail Location: Missouri Weapon: Thompson Center Encore .270 It seems like every November I find myself setting behind the computer writing a journal entry for my dad, Jerry Wilson. They say that shooting your age in golf is an amazing feat. I would say that... View
	November 15 - Rod Wilson Animal: 153" Whitetail Location: Missouri Weapon: Thompson Center Contender .30 Caliber The Sunday evening of opening weekend Missouri gun season was about the most miserable time I have spent in a tree stand. My filming partner Keith, who has been on quite a roll this year as you can... View
	November 15 - Terry Drury Animal: 150" Whitetail Location: Missouri Weapon: Thompson Center Pro Hunter Slug Gun Nothing gets us more excited than a cold front pushing in, especially when we can switch out our PSE bow for a firearm. Having a little fire power in your hands seems to even up the game a little! View
	November 14 - Joe Shults Animal: 130" Point Whitetail Location: Missouri Weapon: Thompson Center Pro Hunter .50 calibur muzzleloader Coon Dog and I packed up and headed to Northern Missouri for the opening day of gun season. It was going to be my first hunt in the Show Me State! Last season I got to film Coon Dog take his buck... View
	November 14 - Keith Kuehn Animal: 170 3/8" Whitetail Location: Missouri Weapon: Gun I could not help but be fired up as the anticipation of the Missouri gun season had given way to the eve of opening day. As we headed to North Missouri my only distress was determining where I... View
	November 14 - Kyle Lamore & JJ Kolesar Animal: 128" 5 Year Old 9 Point & 135" 8 Point Whitetail Location: Illinois Weapon: PSE X-Force Dream Season GX & PSE Bow Madness XL Kyle and I like to call ourselves �Grinders�. The reason being is that we feel we work as hard as anyone, if not harder, to try to get opportunities at mature whitetails and often times those... View
	November 13 - Zach Playle Animal: 120" 4 1/2 Year Old Whitetail Location: Missouri Weapon: PSE X-Force Super Short NI I had an early out from school so Grandpa and I went hunting. This outing was really to scout an area of the farm we hadn't hunted much this fall.This is the same area where I shot my first gun... View
	November 12 - Rick Vigue Animal: 143" Whitetail Location: Maine Weapon: Rifle Better late then never. It�s all about timing. November 11th, I called Darrell to coordinate the next day�s hunt. He couldn�t go early due to car pooling to school issues, so we agreed to meet at... View
	November 12 - Rod Owen Animal: 175 6/8" 11 Point Whitetail Location: Kansas Weapon: PSE Omen UF When a doe runs by your stand with her mouth wide open and her tongue hanging out, it's a pretty good indication that things are heating up. I could hear her coming from over 100 yards away as I... View
	November 11 - Dave Kramer Animal: 150 4/8" Whitetail Location: Iowa Weapon: PSE Dream Season UF The hunt for this buck began over one year ago when he showed up on my Reconyx camera in early fall. Based on body and antler size I estimated him at 4-1/2 to 5-1/2 years old. Although I spent a... View
	November 11 - Terry Drury Animal: 147" Whitetail Location: Illinois Weapon: PSE X-Force Well, after tagging out in Missouri we decided to head to Illinois and see if we could connect with a giant from the Land of Lincoln. It was the beginning of November and we thought the bucks would... View
	November 10 - Chris Comstock Animal: 125" Whitetail Location: Missouri Weapon: PSE Dream Season Bow Wouldn�t you know it, early November brought warm temperatures and I had a big deer on my hit list and it was a deer I named the Big 160! I had so many Reconyx photos of that deer it was driving me... View
	November 9 - Bric Steward Animal: 140" 10 Point Whitetail Location: Illinois Weapon: PSE Omen "WOW, look at this dudes tine length!" was the first thing I said when I got the reconyx pics sent to me from my buddy Max off my camera. I sat there for a moment as i studied his fuzzy growing... View
	November 8 - Jeff Propst Animal: 139 4/8" 11 Point Mature Whitetail Location: Missouri Weapon: PSE Dream Season UF Well this rut has to go down as one of the slowest for us that I can remember, Chris and I have been grinding away at for several days and with very little sightings other than a few small bucks.... View
	November 8 - JJ Kolesar Animal: Coyote Location: Illinois Weapon: Bow Madness XL Well, Kyle and I spend infinite hours preparing for the season with food plots, trail cams, treestands, and of course, shooting our targets. We do this so we can make it count when the moment... View
	November 7 - Dan Thurston & Ingrid Shacklett Animal: 132" 6 1/2 Year Old Whitetail & Management Buck Location: Texas Weapon: PSE X-Force GX & PSE TAC-15 Crossbow November could not arrive any faster! My cameraman and compadre, Billy Goode, and I loaded up the truck and hit the road heading south to the Lone Star State. Our destination: my friend Al... View
	November 7 - Louie Payne Animal: 148" Whitetail Location: Iowa Weapon: PSE Dream Season X-Force At the end of the hunt in Georgia I had only one thing on my mind and that was to get to Iowa so we left Meriwether County Georgia about 8:30 on Thursday heading north and we drove and drove and... View
	November 6 - Dave Reisner Animal: 151" 10 Point Whitetail Location: Iowa Weapon: PSE X-Force After my harvest we had a 5 hour drive as we were off to hunt new ground and to meet up with our friends Cole and Cody Winther with Southwest Iowa Outfitters www.southwestiowaoutfitters.com . Due... View
	November 6 - Rick Malik Animal: 137" Whitetail Location: Iowa Weapon: PSE X-Force When you think of giant whitetails, one place comes to mind�.Iowa. After three long years, Gregg and I had finally drawn those coveted Iowa bow tags!! Several years ago, good friends and Drury... View
	November 5 - Britney Edney Animal: 142" Whitetail Location: Nebraska Weapon: PSE X-Force Since Jason and I have got involved with Drury Outdoors we have not been able to truly hunt the magical time of year��.the RUT! Well this year we decided to do something about that! View
	November 5 - Doug Hampton Animal: 143 4/8" 5 Year Old Whitetail Location: Iowa Weapon: PSE Dream Season GX "Do you think I should rattle?" I turned to Tim Young who was running the camera. "Heck yeah, I bet one will show up," Tim said as I turned to grab the horns. We had just hung and climbed into the... View
	November 5 - Jared Lurk Animal: 4 1/2 Year Old Whitetail Location: Iowa Weapon: PSE Dream Season X-Force Story Coming Soon! View
	November 5 - Joe Shults Animal: 140" 4 1/2 Year Old Whitetail Location: Illinois Weapon: PSE Dream Season X-Force On November the 5th with a southeast wind and the temperature on the rise we were headed to the old reliable fence row set. With coming so close on so many occasions we where hoping maybe this... View
	November 5 - Rick Vigue Animal: 145" Whitetail Location: Illinois Weapon: PSE X-Force The highs and lows of hunting. Darrell and I headed to Illinois for the 2nd year in a row, hoping to knock down a mid-western monster. After hearing from our good friend Mike Rave that there was... View
	November 4 - Adam Wainwright Animal: 7 Point Mature Whitetail Location: Georgia Weapon: PSE Bow Madness XL November was here and Louie and I were headed south. Yes, believe it or not we were going to Georgia for the rut! Even though we both had tags for Illinois and Louie had an Iowa tag we were on our... View
	November 4 - Chris Propst Animal: 125" 9 Point Whitetail Location: Missouri Weapon: PSE Bow Madness So far this year, the pre rut, and first few days of November have been very slow for us in Missouri. With the combination of the full moon, farmers working in the fields, and rainy days, deer... View
	November 4 - David Lindsey Animal: 9 Year Old Whitetail Location: Iowa Weapon: PSE X-Force GX The last two weeks of October was warm and mature deer movement was very slow on our farm . We had lots of encounters with two and three year olds rattling them up left and right. I had several m... View
	November 4 - Jenny Wainwright Animal: 12 Point 3 1/2 Year Old Whitetail (1st Deer Harvest) Location: Georgia Weapon: Gun When Adam Wainwright asked Lance and I to go to Georgia on a hunting trip to Davis Love III�s property on November 1 I thought both of us had absolutely lost our minds, what going south for the... View
	November 4 - Tim Woods Animal: 143 1/8" 12 Point Whitetail Location: Ohio Weapon: PSE Dream Season GX Team Ohio: Best described in the words of Forrest Gump, �We go together like peas and carrots�. It�s been two long years since Ben and I really got to hunt together. The first day of season I was... View
	November 3 - John O'Dell Animal: 136" 10 Point Whitetail Location: Iowa Weapon: PSE X-Force Omen UF This hunt started when I was fortunate enough to draw an Iowa non-resident archery tag. When Dave and I picked the dates that we wanted to hunt I realized that I would have to miss Halloween with... View
	November 3 - Tom Ware Animal: 154 5/8" Whitetail Location: Iowa Weapon: PSE X-Force Well, I had to wait 3 years to bow hunt Iowa and it was finally here. I had passed a nice 150 class buck in early October waiting for a monster. Then on the morning of November 2nd we saw a 160ish... View
	November 1 - Keith Kuehn Animal: 179" Whitetail Location: Illinois Weapon: PSE Bow Madness XL November 1st was here and I had not been hunting yet this fall. To say I was anticipating this hunt was an understatement. My hunting partner Rod Wilson and I arrived in Illinois for the evening... View

November 2009

November 29 - Rod Owen

November 27 - Lee Novotny

November 25 - Eric Bothun

November 23 - Jeff Lindsey

November 23 - Joe Gizdic

November 21 - Adam Comstock

November 21 - Bobby Goodine

November 21 - John O'Dell Sr.

November 21 - Julie Lucas

November 21 - Kyle Grover

November 21 - Larry Steward

November 20 - Joe Eugster

November 20 - Joe Shults

November 20 - Steve "Coon Dog" Coon

November 20 - Tanya Playle

November 19 - Steve "Coon Dog" Coon

November 18 - D.J. Schilly

November 17 - Mark Drury

November 16 - Gary Levox

November 15 - Jacob Eugster

November 15 - Jared Lurk

November 15 - Jerry Wilson

November 15 - Rod Wilson

November 15 - Terry Drury

November 14 - Joe Shults

November 14 - Keith Kuehn

November 14 - Kyle Lamore & JJ Kolesar

November 13 - Zach Playle

November 12 - Rick Vigue

November 12 - Rod Owen

November 11 - Dave Kramer

November 11 - Terry Drury

November 10 - Chris Comstock

November 9 - Bric Steward

November 8 - Jeff Propst

November 8 - JJ Kolesar

November 7 - Dan Thurston & Ingrid Shacklett

November 7 - Louie Payne

November 6 - Dave Reisner

November 6 - Rick Malik

November 5 - Britney Edney

November 5 - Doug Hampton

November 5 - Jared Lurk

November 5 - Joe Shults

November 5 - Rick Vigue

November 4 - Adam Wainwright

November 4 - Chris Propst

November 4 - David Lindsey

November 4 - Jenny Wainwright

November 4 - Tim Woods

November 3 - John O'Dell

November 3 - Tom Ware

November 1 - Keith Kuehn