Iowa 2009

 Lots of time in the stand pays off.  On almost all my hunts, which typically take place in the rugged mountains, my edge is pushing hard, enduring pain and getting it done in the face of great hardship. On this hunt, for Midwest whitetail there is only so much pushing a guy can do.  To earn my edge my plan was to simply spend as much time in the treestand as I could. As the saying goes, “You can’t kill from the couch.”  Instead of heading back to camp at midday, I opted to stay in the tree from dark to dark, 12 hours a day.

Bill Jackson was filming my hunt for Ralph and Vicki’s Archer’s Choice TV show and luckily he was as committed as I was to achieving our goal…arrowing a bomber Iowa whitetail.

In the end, after passing up a number of marginal, Pope & Young bucks, rattling in a bunch of bucks as well as spending many of idle hours overlooking a sweet looking creek bottom that rutting bucks like to cruise looking for hot does….I earned the chance I’d wait for.

On day four of my hunt, as Bill filmed, I arrowed a big, gnarly-antlered buck at 30 yards on the button. Patience paid off. My first Midwest whitetail and a good one at that.  Look for the hunt to air on Archer’s Choice which run on Outdoor Channel.

Keep hunting hard!!! Cam

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