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Saturday, June 13, 2009

Planning a Father-Son Iowa Bowhunt Show/Hide This Report

It won't be long and I'll find out, hopefully just verify, that my
dad drew his Iowa bow tag this year. My brother and I have applied
for him the past couple years, knowing it wasn't something he'd do on
his own but if/when he drew a tag he'd "probably" find a way to get
excited and go. Well, I scouted a good spot this spring for him. I'll
be muzzleloader hunting it this winter, but I'm taking a week to
bring my dad out there this November for a week to get first crack
and bowhunt it. I'm really looking forward to this trip with my dad
and will hopefully film him taking his best buck ever. It's been
several years since my dad and I went on a hunting trip together and
I'm vowing to make more time for that despite my fanatical approach
to hunting (versus my dad's laid back approach).

This is a farm that's on the small side. It'll be a good one for our
upcoming Farm Country video that's in the works. Most of us don't
have the luxury of 600+ acre farms, but we all know the great
potential in Iowa. I don't plan on running my dad all over the
country, which is why a rut hunt where the bucks are on the move and
my dad can hunt fewer spots should be great. I'll post more in the
coming months as we find out if he draws and then go scout some
summer velvet bucks.

# posted by Jarrod Erdody @ 9:33 AM

Fawns a Droppin' Show/Hide This Report

My brother John found these two little ones just off his yard the
other day.

# posted by Jarrod Erdody @ 9:25 AM

Sunday, May 17, 2009

Scott Scores on His 1st Turkey Show/Hide This Report

My hunting buddy Dave asked me to call and film for his Bro-in-law, Scott... Worked hard for almost 15 minutes today!

We were running and gunning and covered a 200 yard farm in 15 minutes trying to provoke a gobble. We stopped in a little clear area in the woods near a field where I have seen Toms the last couple evenings.... I called from a standing position with Dave and Scott standing behind me and plenty of trees if we got a gobble... I yelped loud with a box call several times to shock a gobble and got nothing... All the sudden Dave whispers "don't move he is coming right at us... I am like "where" he says 2:00 so I just move my eyes and the tom is walking fast right at us from 60 yards closing the gap in a wide open mature woods.
I whispered as soon as he gets behind the tree when I drop you guys drop... We all dropped as the bird went behind a tree at about 50 yards.

Scott is a 1st time turkey hunter and was really nervous. When we dropped we had a slight dip to hide in behind a small downed tree with no back drop.We just waited with no turkey showing after a minute or so... I slipped out a light yelp and got a gobble... I waited about 15 seconds and hit a yelp again and he hammered back from 40 yards and went into strut and now I could see him again. As soon as he fully came into view he spotted us trying to hide behind the "branch".

He putted and I told Scott to shoot. He said "I don't have a shot" and the bird turned and started to look flighty so I said just rise up and shoot him. Bam. Dropped him in his tracks. He was very excited and I was very happy to be there for his 1st bird, 1st hunt ever. He will never forget... Especially with footage to show off of his hunt.

# posted by Dan @ 8:23 AM

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Dome Scores a Tom on his Son's First Hunt Show/Hide This Report

Ya'll may recall my friend Dan Desrosiers (aka Dome) from his giant
208" booner he killed a couple years ago (highlighted in our Hill
Country Video too!). Well, Dan shared a cool story this morning of
his son Ben's first turkey hunt yesterday evening. Ben will be 4
years old this November and accompanied Dome to the woods on
Michigan's turkey opener. Thirty minutes into the hunt, Dome had
called two nice toms in but they hung up. An excited Ben kept
whispering, "Shoot em Dad!" but Dome knew they were just out of
range. He started getting aggressive with a diaphragm call and got a
gobbler in the woods behind him to respond. This brought the two toms
in on a string and Dome blasted the bigger of the two at 20 yards.
Ben urged his daddy to "shoot the other one!" but Dome held off. It
was a short but sweet turkey season for Dan and his son, one they'll
always remember. It will take many more hunts to convince Ben that
turkey hunting isn't always that easy.

# posted by Jarrod Erdody @ 2:10 PM

Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Backyard Burn Almost Gets Away! Show/Hide This Report

This is usually the type of story I expect from Infalt.... I was
burning some garbage Saturday while doing some spring cleaning in the
yard and a gust of wind threw some flames into my switchgrass.
Fortunately, the east wind blew it towards my yard and woods instead
of out into the field so it died down at the transition and I got it
out with the water hose before the firemen had to lend a hand. It
doesn't look that bad in the picture but the flames were higher than
that small pine tree! I was very fortunate it didn't end up worse
than it did.

# posted by Jarrod Erdody @ 8:39 AM