Rhino

Been slow here in MS lately and warm for this time of year too. Not much daylight movement. Haven't caught the double droptine buck on cams again yet either. The rut here should start cranking up real soon though. Anyone else still hunting?

Congratulations...nice buck!

Yep sounds like it is William. For what it's worth though...It's my understanding that a messed up rack on one side that's not due to an injury may not occur on the same side annually...or at all. From an injury...yes...naturally...no. A buck with non-typical points can change from year to year too.

Congrats on the doe. Bummer to spend that many hours hunting and see so few deer. Heard the wolves have hammered them up there. Glad I don't have that to worry about...yet.

WTG Emma...you too Tim! Great job! Congratulations!

Overall it's been slow here in MS too but bucks are making a lot of sign. My luck is still holding out though. 1st hunt I made for the MS gun season was only ~25 minutes long. This buck made it a short hunt. That was the only deer killed on our club last week through the Thanksgiving holidays. My next 3 hunts after that I didn't see any deer at all. Warmed up a lot the end of last week here though.

A BIG congratulations to your son Joe. You taught him well! My luck is still running strong this year. Made my 1st hunt of the gun season in MS the afternoon of Nov. 20th. Checked one trail cam on my way to the stand (explain later). This stand is on top of a ridge by a steep drop off. The bottom below it is a cane thicket. Only 20 minutes into my hunt I saw movement in the cane. Glassed this buck for a few minutes before I could size him up. Then a few more minutes looking for a clear shot. He went less than 5 yards. Gross score is 134.5" So far I'm having a banner year. I hadn't been able to check any cams for over a month. Been in Missouri. Now...the trail cam I checked on my way to the stand was ~1/8 of a mile from where I was hunting. The 1st buck to show up on this cam was the double droptine buck I caught in velvet this summer. Here's one of the new hard antler pics. The 2nd buck to show up on that same cam was the 9 point I've got in my hands. Time to focus my attention on hunting the double droptine buck now. Right now I have 5 cams around the area where I think he's spending some of his time. We'll see if my luck holds out.

Congratulations Tim! Way to hang in there! Hope your daughter bags one too.

Playing catch up at home now after being gone so much in Missouri since 10/25. Gun season opens here in MS tomorrow. I might go to the MS club tomorrow and run my trail cams and move some.

Thanks Joe! Good luck to your son...and to you too!

Thanks guys...bagging that big, wide 8 on Nov. 1st made it easier to pass this 8. If I hadn't, this one would have taken a dirt nap.

After taking my big 8 on 11/1, I was on the sidelines in MO until the gun season opener on 11/10. After making making a short trip home I arrived back in MO the afternoon of 11/9. My buddy was still there bowhunting. Although he hunted several areas most of his attention was in a area where we'd had a real nice typical 10 on cams. That afternoon he saw him again. Never got inside 70 yards. Needless to say, he was headed there on 10/10 for the opener of the MO gun season. Opening morning it was 13 degrees with a breeze so I wasn't going to sit in a tree. I chose to hunt an area where I'd seen a 14 point that I also had on cams from ground level using my short pop out turkey blind and chair. I set up inside the edge of a fresh cut corn field ~300 yards N of the S end and ~250 yards S of the N end. The field is less then 100 yards wide. Saw a nice 8 point opening morning along with several small bucks, a few does and lots of fawns. Left the blind there and went back that afternoon. My buddy had seen the big 10 but couldn't get a shot off with him in high gear behind a doe. I saw more of the same including the same nice 8 I passed that morning except a lot closer for a a few pics this time. Here's 2 of them. About 3:45 though I heard a shot from my buddy's direction. Neither one of us are hunting where we had a cell phone signal. That evening when I arrived he is all smiles with his big 10 point. I was thrilled for him. He'd had terrible luck so far this year. The plan was (as usual) get daylight pics the next day after my morning hunt. With a perfect wind...back to the same spot. I figured it was just a matter of time before either one of the 2 shooter bucks I was after in that area would show up behind a doe. The morning started out pretty slow compared to the 1st morning. I'd see a few small bucks early and a lot of fawns but not much else. About 8:45 a doe appears close to one of my bow stands ~140 yards NW of me. She eases in and the buck we'd just referred to as the 14 point appears behind her. He turns broadside and starts working a lick branch. I got that! Lower the boom on him and he runs into the cut corn field falling ~10 yards from our farm road through it. My kind of tacking and drag! I head back to camp to get my buddy. 1st words out of his mouth..."you must have killed...you're back too early". I tell him the story then we go get mine. We've been hunting together for ~30 years now and this is the 1st time we'd ever had the opportunity get pics together of trophy bucks. His 10 point gross scores 155 3/8"...my 13 point scores 156 7/8". The 14th point (a short kicker point) was partly broken off with 3/4" left so 13 points score. It was a GREAT deer season for me in Missouri this year! Tagged out there now...time to hunt the MS home turf.

Thanks Pat! OK teammates...I entered the 13 point for the upgrade, including extra pics of NT kicker points over 1". I'm tagged out in MO but still have my home turf to hunt in MS. No chance of getting a deer with more points than 13 in MS though.

Team 4 Rhino Upgrade - 13 point Buck Note...the 2nd NT kicker point on his right side was less than 1 inch. The NT point by his left brow tine is over 4". If you need a picture of it, I can take one.

Congratulations to Catrina! Hate to hear the yotes got to him 1st. Bummer! I'm sure you can get another cape for the mount.

Here's couple of pics of me and my buddy with our bucks. Mine gross scored 156.875"...my buddy's gross scored 155.375. I still have to take pics of the NT points over an inch for entry and cape him out today.

I will have an upgrade posted soon. Shot the 14 point this morning. 13 points over 1"...broke off the end of one of his kickers. It's this buck that Don liked the best from velvet picks. Scores 157" I'm tagged out on bucks in Missouri now. Great season here!!!

Congratulations Joe! Strange your rut isn't cranked up good yet. It's going strong in Missouri right now. Headed back tomorrow and hunting through next Thursday . Spending the night at my son's house in Memphis, TN tonight. Makes for only a 6 1/2 hour drive from here rather than 9 1/2 from home. I have the 30-378 Wby Mag with me...just in case. Going to bowhunt from the start when the gun season opens Saturday but may break out the big gun if I don't have my 2nd buck by Tuesday. BTW...going for more points on the 2nd buck. Hope to catch the 14 point making a mistake.

Just got home for a short time to catch up on bills, etc. Heading back to MO Friday since I can start trying to fill my 2nd MO buck tag Saturday. A guest of my buddy's killed an 11 point on my hit list. He scored 163 2/8" gross. I'll post a picture later. Got to unpack and regroup. Thanks Pat!

BTW...yesterday afternoon my young buddy (35 now but known him since he was 14) was hunting one of my ladders on the S end of a fresh cut corn field. He saw 3 shooters...2 went close to a hang-n stand we have in the timber there off the field. They stayed in the cover. He's headed to that hang-on stand this afternoon. One of them was the 14 point you liked Don (4 NT points) I posted velvet pics of. The other was a big 10 point. Hot rut action is on here right now. I bet I'll be in a recovery group later today. Another older buddy is headed to the N end where the other big frame buck was seen. Hope to share kill pics soon!

Cool and entertaining hunt Don. The morning of 11/1 I videoed two 8 points with my iPhone X. One was nose down cold trailing. The other was just cruising. Never tried to post a video. Quality of my iPhone 7 plus was too poor to zoom. The iPhone X is pretty good up to ~50% zoom.

I'll be relaxing around the camp in MO and playing guide for a guest or 2 coming in here tonight. Since I bagged a big 8 point 2 days ago (post in Bowhunting Forum), I'll be guide and scout here until I go home Tuesday. Then I'll drive back next Friday for the gun season opener on Nov. 10th.

OK teammates...I entered him for the contest and posted the hunt in the bowhunting forum.

I arrived back in MO to kick off my late Oct. through early November hunt on October 26th. The first 2 days were spent watching young bucks, does and fawns. The 4th afternoon, was great hunting just inside the edge of a standing corn field. Around 4:40 I see 2 gobblers coming (we get 2 archery turkey tags with our archery license). The perfect storm...they step behind a big oak on the edge of the field giving me a chance to draw undetected. The 1st gobbler steps out at 20 yards...takes 3 steps, then gets spooky and starts easing into the standing corn. Wide open shot at the vitals in his back...arrow hits home...he goes 40 yards...still in view of the stand in the standing corn. My kind of recovery. My buddy hit one of hit one of his main target bucks that afternoon so we spent a lot of time that night searching...no luck...same next morning except we did find more blood. Called in Tracker John...he made 2 loops through and both times lost the trail a bit past the last blood. My buddy was sick! With all that going on I took 1 pic of him on the skinning shed table. On to deer hunting. During my hunts on Oct. 30th and 31st it was easy to tell the bucks were starting to chase but no mature bucks in on the action yet. During the middle of the day on the 30th I was checking a trail cam and caught this buck for the 1st time. Hummm...I had recently moved a camera to a scrape in an area SE of there. During past years bucks in that SE area would occasionally show up here. the new cam set was by a ladder stand I had ~25 yards E of the SW corner of a big standing corn field. With the wind being perfect for that stand Thursday afternoon (Nov. 1st), I decided to hunt that stand and check the cam there. The stand offers shots both in the field and trails cutting around the corner of it. The 1st deer to appear is a doe at 3:35. At 4:30, I hear footsteps off my left shoulder. I turn my head and this big 8 is walking right at me. Can't move. At ~30 yards he turns toward his left heading toward a trail going into the corner of the field. A short pause at that trail at 30 yards (angling toward me) then he eases toward the field. Open shot in the timber at 24 yards...i got that...arrow released...hits home...double lung! Alright!!! He trots about 50 yards and stops...I can easily see him in the timber. He stands there for a couple of minutes then beds down right there. I took this pic from the stand. He tried to get up 4 or 5 times but couldn't do it. Finally after watching him for 20 minutes, he quits moving. I waited another 30 minutes before getting down to check him out and take this pic. The was a bit of celebration there too! Yesterday morning I scored him and took this pic...he gross scores and even 150". After checking the trail cam pics from the cam at the kill stand, turns out he was a regular there. Showed up 2 afternoons between 5:00 and 5:30 on 2 out of the past 4 days before I hunted the stand. I'll be on the sidelines in MO until Nov. 10th...opening day of the MO gun season.

Team 4 Rhino 8 point