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November 2010

November 30 - Doug Hampton

Animal: 175 5/8" Whitetail
Location: Kansas
Weapon: PSE BOW MADNESS

The story begins in the summer of 2009, when we secured the lease on a new piece of ground in Kansas. To our surprise the first time we checked our Reconyx cameras we had several shooters. Which...

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November 29 - Jarrod Cain

Animal: 10 Point Whitetail
Location: Ohio
Weapon: Crossbow

My dad got me a compound bow this fall and I have been practing with it alot. But I am not quite comfortable with shooting a deer with it yet. But I really wanted to take a deer with a bow this...

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November 29 - Tom Ware

Animal: 143 6/8" Whitetail
Location: Iowa
Weapon: PSE X-Force

Well, I feel like it's becoming work now climbing out of bed every morning at 5am to go sit in a cold tree. Then I reminded myself that I do this for a hobby and I'm supposed to love it and I...

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November 29 - Zach Cain

Animal: 9 Point Whitetail
Location: Ohio
Weapon: 12 Gauge Slug Gun

Well my story starts back on July 13th of this year. I was in an accident and got my right arm caught in a conveyor belt. It tore up my arm pretty bad, but I was lucky in 2 ways. 1)I still had my...

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November 27 - Bart Goins

Animal: 133 1/8" Whitetail
Location: Alabama
Weapon: PSE Dream Season EVO

All true hunters know that hunting can bring a rollercoaster ride of emotions �. Especially bow hunters. Within the last few days I have went from the lowest of lows to the highest of highs.

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November 26 - Amy Reisner

Animal: 125" Whitetail
Location: Iowa
Weapon: PSE X-Force Super Short

Hunting almost every weekend since the beginning of October was beginning to take its toll on Dave and I and our family. Our two little boys were beginning to think of their grandparents as their...

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November 26 - Jeff Lindsey

Animal: 127 5/8" Whitetail
Location: Georgia
Weapon: Thompson Center Pro Hunter .280

A day after eating too much turkey, it was pretty warm but we decided to head to our favorite stand in the Georgia pine trees that we call �The Main Event�. There was a front rolling in and this...

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November 26 - Lee Novotny

Animal: 192 4/8" Whitetail
Location: Kansas
Weapon: PSE X-Force GX

KANSAS KANSAS KANSAS. I think I am in love with Kansas. The past few years I have hunted with Booty in Kansas watching him harvest spectacular bucks. I knew my time had to com�eventually. During my...

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November 22 - Ben Rising

Animal: 139 4/8" Whitetail
Location: Iowa
Weapon: PSE

Well the year so far has been a real challenge in many ways as far as bad luck and no time to hunt. Our outfitting clients have been very successful but in order for that to happen my time must be...

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November 21 - Ernie DeSantis

Animal: 8 Point Whitetail
Location: Southern Michigan
Weapon: PSE Dream Season EVO

It was one of those high-pressure mornings, except it wasn�t the kind Terry always talks about�

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November 21 - Lance Chapman

Animal: 154" Whitetail
Location: Kansas
Weapon: PSE Dream Season X-Force

With gun season going on in Kentucky , Robin and I decided to head out west to Kansas for some bowhunting. Louie had been out here in late October and into the first week of November but had seen...

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November 20 - Zach Playle

Animal: 133 4/8" 5 1/2 Year Old Whitetail
Location: Missouri
Weapon: Thompson Center Encore .308

Our 2010 season has been tough to say the least. We haven't been seeing mature bucks and weren't knowing what to think. Opening week-end of gun season rolled around and we finally saw a couple of...

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November 19 - Aaron Dent (John William's Son In Law)

Animal: 8 Point 5 1/2 Year Old Whitetail
Location: Missouri
Weapon: Thompson Center Encore .308

I have hunted with my son-in-law, Aaron Dent for the past 15 years. It has been hit and miss the past 4 or 5 years because he is active duty Army. He was stationed in Ft Lewis, Washington and that...

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November 19 - Jim Thome

Animal: 180" Whitetail
Location: Illinois
Weapon: Shotgun

Over the past few years it has become a yearly tradition for me, shotgun season at Lodge Two Five. Well this year was no different, Jim called me a few weeks ago to set up the dates and he also...

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November 19 - Rod Wilson

Animal: 180 5/8" Whitetail
Location: Illinois
Weapon: Thompson Center Dream Season Omega Muzzleloader

It was 4:30pm on the first weekend of Illinois gun season and the deer gods had blessed me with a southeast wind, just what I needed to crawl into a very familiar stand. Out into the cut cornfield...

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November 18 - Steve Filley

Animal: 120" Whitetail
Location: Missouri
Weapon: Thompson Center Dream Season Omega Muzzleloader

It was November 18th and what a beautiful night for sweet redemption. Let�s rewind the pages back to October 3rd, when I asked my buddy Jeremy Borges if he would mind filming for me, as Chuck was...

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November 17 - Jeff Lindsey

Animal: 151 4/8" whitetail
Location: Iowa
Weapon: PSE AXE

I guess like the old saying goes �when it rains-it pours� refers to my Iowa deer season. After shooting my first Iowa buck on the 13th, I took a few days off, filmed Lil� Jon some and gave my body...

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November 17 - Tim Sylvia

Animal: 168" Whitetail
Location: Iowa
Weapon: PSE X-Force Vendetta

After missing this buck last season with my smoke pole and my buddy had missed his dad two years before that...we decided to name this deer "Click Jr". Named after his dad that was Click.

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November 16 - Jason Bowers

Animal: 127" 5 Year Old Whitetail
Location: Texas
Weapon: PSE Dream Season EVO

After 1,400 miles and twenty-two hours of driving, which I done the majority of, and after filming Matt harvest his second south Texas whitetail in two years, it was finally my turn. I hadn�t had a...

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November 16 - Joe Foster

Animal: 122" Mature Whitetail
Location: Missouri
Weapon: Thompson Center Encore .260

I guess this story began this past spring when a friend of Marks, Greg Glessanger, bought some land next to Mark's Missouri farm. Mark and myself helped set up and take care of Greg's farms since...

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November 15 - Jeff Propst

Animal: 152 3/8" Whitetail
Location: Iowa
Weapon: PSE Axe

The 2010 season has been a tough one, Chris and I had been hunting really hard for about 2 weeks and the action was very hit and miss in both Mo and Iowa. I had been fortunate to draw an Iowa...

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November 15 - John O'Dell

Animal: 135" Whitetail
Location: Iowa
Weapon: PSE Omen

Well it was one year later and Dave and I found ourselves headed to hunt with our good friends Cole and Cody Winther of South West Iowa Outfitters www.southwestiowaoutfitters.com . Cole and Cody...

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November 15 - Matt Bullins

Animal: 136" Whitetail
Location: Texas
Weapon: PSE Dream Season EVO

Finally, November 13th had arrived and our bags were packed for our journey to south Texas. Leaving Galax, Virginia at 3:30 pm, driving continually through eight states for twenty-two hours, 1,400...

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November 14 - Craig Morgan

Animal: 158" 6 Year Old Whitetail
Location: Missouri
Weapon: Rifle

Through the years, I�ve come to learn of the many different bucks we�ve hunting only through the lens of a Wildlife Eye or Reconyx camera. Terry and I live and die by a perimeter style of hunting...

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November 14 - Lee Novotny

Animal: 131 7/8" Whitetail
Location: Minnesota
Weapon: PSE X-Force GX

I did not have a lot of time to hunt Minnesota this year. Early season was a bit slow for me and with work responsibilities wasn�t able to get into the tree stand as much as I would have liked....

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November 14 - Terry Drury

Animal: 150" Whitetail
Location: Missouri

The Missouri firearms season is finally upon us. After much anticipation and a long archery season we were finally trading in the archery tackle for a firearm. Opening day started off kind of slow...

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November 14 - Tom Ware

Animal: 151 3/8" 8 Point Whitetail
Location: Missouri
Weapon: Thompson Center Venture 30.06

You gotta love switching from bow to rifle. Makes you feel like your cheating but I couldn�t pass up the Missouri rifle season on my farm in Sullivan County. Too many shooters on my farm this year!...

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November 13 - Jeff Lindsey

Animal: 139 4/8" 5 Year Old Whitetail
Location: Iowa
Weapon: PSE Axe

I�m not sure if it was the crazy midwest weather, the lack of a November rut or me just being in an old fashioned slump. I had just been unlucky since the calendar had turned to Slovember. I had a...

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November 13 - Matt Drury

Animal: 131 7/8" 4 Year Old Whitetail
Location: Missouri
Weapon: Thompson Center

Well�seems like that old saying "the apple doesn't fall far from the tree" reared it's head at me again! I've literally heard it my whole life, but I've never been so happy to have those words ring...

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November 13 - Rod Owen

Animal: 143 2/8" Whitetail
Location: Kansas
Weapon: PSE Omen

After the year, we had last year for Dream Season Celebrity I kind of thought when the season started off we were going to have all bad luck. Two of our best farms in Kansas had loggers cutting...

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November 13 - Troy Dawson

Animal: 164" Whitetail
Location: Kansas
Weapon: PSE X-Force

Who would have thought, a hand me down X-FORCE given to me from Mark Drury would end up in the hands of Prairie Oak�s owner Troy Dawson. Troy is my cousin and had never harvested a deer with a bow....

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November 12 - Ken Barteau

Animal: 127" Whitetail
Location: Illinois
Weapon: PSE Omen

With Joe�s buck tagged and in the cooler it was time to move on to Ken�s Hadley adventure. Ken arrived in Pike at the lodge on the afternoon of 1 November with high hopes of downing one of those...

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November 11 - Adam Frank

Animal: 140 5/8" Whitetail
Location: Iowa
Weapon: PSE Axe

We are fresh off our first kill and things are looking good. Then Mother Nature throws us a knuckle ball and a SE wind. Sitting a stand called the Missing Peg in the morning and normally a stand...

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November 11 - Eric Bothun

Animal: 151 4/8" Whitetail
Location: Iowa
Weapon: PSE Omen

Story Coming Soon!

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November 11 - Jacob Eugster

Animal: 130 1/4" Whitetail
Location: Wisconsin
Weapon: PSE X-Force Super Short

We have been hunting hard these last two weeks trying to get some arrows flying. But we have had no luck. We have seen many doe and some big bucks at a distance but none in shooting range.

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November 9 - Greg Glesinger

Animal: 147 2/8" Whitetail
Location: Iowa
Weapon: PSE

It has been one of the slowest starts to November that I can recall. Being November the 3rd and everyone in camp fired up for the Rut, there wasn�t much to get fired up about. The information we...

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November 9 - John Frank

Animal: 167 5/8" Whitetail
Location: Iowa
Weapon: PSE

The hunt always starts the night before, checking the wind direction and choosing a stand. We know our best chance to kill a giant mature whitetail was going to be a stand called Poison Patch. But...

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November 8 - Justin Lurk

Animal: 156 2/8" 6 1/2 yr old Iowa Whitetail
Location: Iowa
Weapon: PSE X-Force

Jared and I worked all summer putting in our food plots, hanging sets, trimming stands, putting up Reconyx game cameras and then transitioned them to the scrapes in early October. We hunted several...

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November 8 - Matt Drury

Animal: 125" 4 Year Old Whitetail
Location: Missouri
Weapon: PSE Bow Madness

Well about 17-20 days later�.I finally got my bow buck on the ground for the year! After all those morning and evening sits the biggest surprise was how quickly it was over this morning�.by 6:39...

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November 7 - Dave Reisner

Animal: 135" Whitetail
Location: Iowa
Weapon: PSE Omen

This year was the year that I was supposed to get my wife her first buck with a bow. We�ll after a few trips afield with my wife I needed some quality time behind the bow and that�s exactly where...

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November 6 - Adam Kuehn

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

After becoming a Drury Outdoors Team Member I knew I had to step it up this year and try my hardest to get a buck on the ground with my bow, but I knew that it wouldnt be an easy task.

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November 6 - Bart Goins

Animal: 149 6/8" Whitetail
Location: Kansas
Weapon: PSE Dream Season EVO

Fifteen days ago big brother and I left out for our long Midwest road trip. We had the truck loaded and we were ready to get out of the south! First stop is Hadley Creek Outfitters for the group...

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November 6 - Lance Chapman

Animal: 130" Whitetail
Location: Illinois
Weapon: PSE Dream Season X-Force

After hunting Kentucky hard since the last week of October and into early November and seeing very little rut activity , I was glad to receive a phone call from a friend of mine in southern...

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November 6 - Terry Drury

Animal: 170" Whitetail
Location: Iowa
Weapon: PSE Dream Season X-Force

The morning of November 6th was a great day to be bow hunting in the great state of Iowa. Mark had been very persistent about us climbing into a particular set that he had hung earlier this year....

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November 4 - Terry Drury

Animal: 135" 9 Point 4 1/2 Year Old Whitetail
Location: Missouri
Weapon: PSE Dream Season X-Force

It all started the Morning of November the 4th. It was a cold, crisp, clear morning and Ryan and I barreled deep into the timber hoping to catch a mature buck heading back to bed after a long night...

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November 2 - Jon Dittmer

Animal: 144" Whitetail
Location: Missouri
Weapon: PSE Dream Season EVO

November 2nd, is a day I will never forget. I had my dad, Mark, behind the camera. It�s cold. We have a northeast wind and the best Big Game tree stand site I have ever set. It�s perfectly placed...

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November 1 - Dan Thurston

Animal: 194" Whitetail
Location: Kansas
Weapon: PSE Bow Madness XL

It all started this past summer when my cousin, Troy Dawson, contacted me about starting a new hunting destination in South East Kansas. My wife and I jumped at the chance to help so we drove to...

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November 1 - Steve " Coon Dog " Coon

Animal: 9 Pt. Whitetail
Location: Illinois
Weapon: PSE Axe 7

November 1st is a new week for Joe and I. We've been hunting a week and boy did we loose the first battle. So today, I was up to bat and decided to hunt a site we call "Poison". The wind was...

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