This was the first season that I had hunted a new farm that we bought in February. Not knowing the ground very well, the first thing I did was plant multiple plots of Imperial Clover and Winter-Greens.
The drawing power of both these products has always been awesome, I started getting all sorts of shooter bucks on my Reconyx Cameras, three of which were well over the 170-inch mark. On Nov. 8 everything was right and we decided to hunt in a real skinny draw that the deer use to get from the food sources to bedding cover. I knew that this was getting aggressive but it was time. We got in 1.5 hours early and waited for daylight. At the first crack of light I looked down the edge of the draw and saw the BIG 6x6 coming, I stopped him at 40 yards and released my arrow. I was fortunate to have killed a Booner.
Dec. 13 rolled around and it was the opening day for the second gun season in Iowa. I typically don’t hunt the late muzzleloader season but the weather was perfect and the deer were pounding my Winter-Greens food plots, so I decided to get a tag. On the fourth day of the season we were hunting the top end of the ditch that I killed my Booner during bow season in. (400 yards away) This big boy that we were very familiar with popped out 45 mins before dark and was heading down to the Winter-Greens. I got a great 80 yard shot at him and the rest is history. This was hands down the best season I have ever had, harvesting two 180-inch class whitetails and capturing both on film. I give a lot of the credit to the drawing power that I had from planting Imperial Whitetail Clover and Winter-Greens on my farm. Thanks Whitetail Institute.
