The Massey

Picked up a Walmart bag full of acorns at a rest area outside of Lamoni, IA. There were at least 4 different types of white oaks and a couple reds. One of the white’s in particular, was absolutely loaded and the acorns were weeks behind all of the other trees. I have a buddy going up there to hunt in a month or so, I’m going to ask him to pick up some of these then.
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Set up the two blinds on Saturday and pretty much have everything ready to hunt now. Barring any unforeseen issues with getting a last spray on the alfalfa that is... The local ag company manager said they’d take care of it this week and I haven’t heard anything yet. Cool season grasses are coming on strong. I REALLY don’t want to get the tractor back over there to spray when they can get it done in less than 15 minutes, their headquarters is only 4 miles from the Massey, so I’m hoping he’s good on his word. He’s a great guy, but I’m just paranoid. Not all of the field looks like this, this is one of the rougher spots.
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The bean strip experiment is still going well. I didn’t want to walk any further south, most of the planting is much taller than this. They’re even putting some pods on.
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This is one of the high school tree acorns we dropped this past spring. There are a few rogue field mice that are beginning to figure out how to get in the tubes, and have clipped a couple trees. That hasn’t been a problem to this point. So, we’re gonna pull the tubes on growing trees after season. I’ll paint and screen them then.
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One last pic, the big 9 from last year is now the big 11. He’s still around. Last year he seemed to disappear around the 3rd week of October. I hope he sticks around this year. The neighbor sent me a pic of him about a month ago.
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Got a nice doe shot last night at a friend’s place. I had a shot earlier in the evening at another doe and clipped her across the backstraps when she ducked the shot. You’d think I would have learned by now to aim lower on a perfectly calm evening. But even if I had, I’m afraid I would have still just spined her and potentially ruined at least one backstrap. She had her head down when I shot and she was at 21 yards, she dropped a LONG ways before the arrow got to her. I watched her for about 5 minutes after the shot. At first I was hoping I slipped beneath the spine, but I didn’t, she didn’t bleed. She didn’t even appear hurt and went to munching on beans very quickly after the 4 does settled down. Last year I shot a doe out of the same stand and a few days later shot a nice buck, hoping for the same this year. Only it might be a while longer, I’m not planning to even get into a tree again until after Halloween.
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You guys have a Regional meet this weekend. Looks like your men's team has a good chance, ladies will have to run well. Good luck!
 
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Brand new spot, first time sit. I’ve been excited about this stand since I put it up in August. The area is known for good deer. I hadn’t been in the stand 30 minutes and I decided to rattle. Last year’s buck came to me in a string about an hour and a half after I got him to stand up out of his bed. I was hoping to have something similar happen, so I blind rattled and only 10 minute later he came in slow looking for what caused the commotion. I got about a minute of video of him and almost decided to pass, not because I didn’t want to shoot, but I wasn’t ready to be done. Kansas is a one buck state. He then gave me a perfect slightly quartering away shot at 14 yards and I said your nuts if you pass this buck! I think he’s my best ever. Now it’s time to help our daughter get her first archery deer!
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