Great Hunt!

While we could have done with a little less standing corn, it was still a great hunt. Really great to see everyone again after missing a few people last year. Hope y'all get a chance to come back once the corn is out and take care of the real harvest!

Talked to dad this afternoon, he got his concrete poured. Thanks for the help there.

Happy Thanksgiving & my new plans

Happy Thanksgiving. I hope everyone is somewhere safe with folks that are near and dear to them. Please drive defensively.

I have to work tomorrow I do my best to get away from Yankton just as early as I can. Unfortunately (actually, fortunately) I had work come in yesterday (after a long dry spell) and we need the money. I will text progress to Pat. If anyone wants to contact me. Cell 605 660-0715, text or voice, or email on the fly at rancher@iw.net. I will be all packed and ready to roll from the house to the farm - I have stuff from opening weekend that needs to be repacked and/or rechecked. I will be driving the pickup and pulling a small trailer with the atv on it; I also have my little blind. As you are deciding who to place where on Saturday AM, just put me where I will do the least harm or be of the most good.

Nostalgia

Kind of fun to look back: Remember the "Hunting Plans" projections he posted on September 15, 2008? Verdy intresting..

Let the bloodshed begin

This is for all you jerks who are already at the farm while i sit here in my office. Jerks.... A friend of mine shot this nice one a couple of weeks ago. If anybody shoots one like this on the farm we have a problem. Good luck all, see you Tuesday.

report from the farm

Just talked to dad. He just pulled into the yard at the farm and is looking at the big buck that he mentioned in his last post. It is sitting in the trees near the road... nice easy shot from the front porch.

He says there isn't any corn picked yet. Sounds like the corn is still too wet.

idiot with a capital I

I am truly an idiot. Life gets away and time passes. I dropped the ball... I anticipated leftover licenses. There are none. I wouldn't be able to make the trip anyway, as I am scheduled to spend the Thanksgiving Holiday with my side of the family. Still... that does not detract from my idiocy.

I wish you all a safe and successful hunt! I hope to make it next year. Let me know if anybody is going for a late season hunt, maybe I could come up during that time.

I truly am an idiot!

Bambi has grown up!

Good news!
I saw Bambi, and he is no longer someone that Deerkiller will be able to shoot. He is too big.
My Illinois hunters had a good time, but unfortunately, did not kill a lot of game. (Topher??) We got a few pheasants, and a few local ducks, but not enough crops harvested to be able to find the birds, even though we know they are out there.
We did see more deer than pheasants, so next week, we should see more pheasants than deer. I was taking guys 1/2 mile east of the house, to walk the food plot and corn East from the deer stand. When we were standing by the fence line, a doe walked out, and started west toward the buildings. A nice little buck(3 or 4 point) came out of the corn, walked right past us with his nose to the ground, and followed the doe. We finally got his attention by yelling at him. When I picked up the guys on the gravel road on the East side, we saw a really nice buck (7pt?) walk out of the corn near the trees on the Kruse land. While we were watching him, the "daddy" also walked out onto the road ahead of us, he was much bigger than the first, his neck was swollen as big as a hereford bull. We couldn't count the rack, but it was really big. They just ran back into the trees when we drove by, and watched us. Should we post someone with a buck tag in those trees? Maybe we can take the chain saw, and open up a better shooting lane in the trees.
Most of the corn will be still standing, so it is going to be tough finding game, but maybe luck will be with us.
My free, found dog is turning out to be a pretty good hunter. He flushed a lot of birds, and ran down a cripple in a bean field that I didn't think anything would be able to catch. He finds and picks up a down bird, but only brings it back a few feet, then drops it, and waits. As well as he retrieves other objects, I hope he will do better over time. His gun shyness seemed to disappear the first time a bird dropped. I have had someone offer to buy him, but decided to let Terri set the purchase price, in order to maintain stability in our marriage.
Very Soon, The old farmer

Pistol Pat are you Ok

Has anyone heard from Pistol Pat. I hear tell that he sold all his guns and hunting gear and joined PETA. Also I heard that he stopped drinking beer for wheat grass Tea.

I've got mine too

I mean this deer, heh!

So after letting two spike bucks walk by me in the first hour of deer opener here I thought I'd better shoot the third one. He ended up having three valid points, but the antlers were all spikey and neat, I'll bring them out to show folks. I had him draggged out of the river bottom, guttted, hanged, and was up having coffee with the landowner by 8:30 a.m. The .45-70 govt. works like a charm in the woods. You should have seen the 6 bald eagles fighting with the crows and magpies on the gut pile 1/2 hour later.

So does this count towards the score?

I've got mine

Today I had to stay home from work with a sick little girl. nothing bad just a cold, but the good thing was our Mailman brought me my S.D. Tag today.

Schedules at this time for Akkerman Deer 2010

Any more specifics on schedules?

Fri Gary is already sheparding out of state pheasant/duck hunters
Sat Nov 21 East River Deer Season opens
Sunday Patrick is in SD. Philip is in MN.
Monday, Nov 23rd Ryan & family will arrive at the farm.
Tuesday Nelson leaves for Akkerman Acres o/a 1601 hours (CST)
Roger arrives Akkerman Acres late afternoon
Wednesday (Team Stonerman goes to buy more tags ;-)
Thursday, Nov 26th
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
Monday, Nov 30

Gary: Is there anything I can do to help you during that period? Is there anything I could bring up that you need, could use or simply want?

Nelson: I would like to help you prepare you rig for the trip and try to arrange my schedule to help you it up at Akkerman Acres - please call me to arrange schedules.

Gary/Pat All: You all must know by now you are welcome to RON at our place if it ends up too far or unsafe to drive the rest of your routes N/S/E or West.

For give me for my many absences and lapses. Out family is under a great deal of stress and I am often not at my best. No near-time positive changes are anticipated. I will be in FL (Mt Dora, Nov 11th thru the 18th)

Roger

Old friends

Hey, Great White Hunter:
I ran into an old friend of yours today, while exercising Rusty out in the street. Stephen Tellatin, retired from the army reserve. His email is: stephen.tellatin@us.army.mil if you want to contact him. He lives about 4 houses south of us. He doesn't hunt too much any more, but was just going out to scout for a black powder stand on the river north of town.
The Illinois group is coming this Saturday, they are planning on waterfowl hunting, as well as pheasant, which is good, as we have lots of water.
Some crop is finally coming out, but no corn yet for a couple of weeks. It would be great if Gene could be picking our corn at thanksgiving, that would stir up a few deer.
later, the old farmer