Got a snowmobile?

Dad says if you go to the farm that might be the only way to get around... (or snowshoes)

Pics from pre-Thanksgiving hunt

www.AkkermanAcres.com/pictures.html

Schedule???

What is everyone's time frame for the January hunt? I have some pheasant hunters that may be coming for Jan 1,2, and 3rd so the house may be warm Sunday. Terri and I will be in Texas for 2 weeks over Christmas and new year's, will probably be back in Nebraska on the 3rd, so you may have to start without me. Everyone should know their way around well enough to survive.
If it is going to be -20, you may want to bring your small heaters to take the edge off the cold in the deer stands. How many are coming for sure? Can you shake Soldier boy and/or chris loose to come along?
If anyone wants more deer, there should be more Clark Co. tags left, and clark co. is only 3 miles to the north.
beerkiller, thanks for the pictures.
The old farmer.

Topher's deer gets shot

Dad said this deer was shot in the food plot just to the south of the house. I'm pretty sure this was the deer that we were chasing in the south slough, the tight rack looks pretty familiar. By the way Toph, it is a 4x5.

Buck strikes back: hunter attacked

http://www.sedaliademocrat.com/news/sedalia_13125___article.html/headache_season.html

Hunting Preview

Well, I had a quick little preview this weekend in Clearwater county Minnesota. The pic above is the spike buck that our visiting Norwegian friend Bijorn-olaf shot. I had ample opportunity to take an identical one on the first morning, but I got greedy and by the time I had changed my mind and decided to shoot it, he was 10 feet away and six feet below me to the wrong side. My hood caught on a dead twig as I moved to aim the 'ol lever gun at it and... SNAP... and that deer was hopping around like a scared jackrabbit. Later that day I shot a button buck with the trusty .270 about two seconds after it showed its vitals out from the trees. It was fun, but strange to hunt deer in trees rather than prairie!

Update from the farm

Old Farmer "We have seen a nice 5X5 a few times, usually around the building site on the east farm. We have a 3X3 and about 3 yearling does that spend almost all their time lying in the north tree strip. After driving past the buck about 5 times in about 2 hours, we finally got him to move when one of the guys shot a pheasant about 1 foot from him."

"I just got a phone call from our renters, we had about 1/2 inch of pure ice during the night, he said you can't even stand or walk on a gravel road, but so far no wind, so the power is still on. On Saturday, I was scheduled to pour new concrete footings around one of the big grain bins that the groundhogs had undermined, but will now have to do it the week you guys are here, can I recruit a couple of volunteers?"

"Looking forward to "watching" you guys hunt, the latest opinion from the state is that if my wife is living in Nebraska and is a legal resident there, and I am still married to her, I can't qualify for a resident license. "The qualifying term that GFP uses is 'domicle', not legal residence" I'm tempted to buy a license, send a photo copy to the Kingsbury County Attorney, and tell him to set a court date, so we can get this thing finally resolved. Oh Yes!, the new county attorney is now the attorney that represented me during my last problem."

Nice camo

Sure it's pink camo, but check out how mean she can be. And she's got the "hunter's orange" on her shoes.

Deer stands are up!

Dad's pheasant hunters helped out this afternoon and they got both stands up. Dad says the view is pretty nice... Bang Bang Bang BANG!

Good samaritan

Check out the new hunting coat and gloves I just got in the mail! Someone truly cares for me.