"It was 11 degrees as the sun emerged on the horizon. A thick frost blanketed the foxtail and turned the bent over brome a silvery white. The CRP field behind the stand looked like a picture and the timbered valley lay frozen in silence in front of the stand. Suddenly, the quiet was shattered. A wide, old, 8 pt carelessly crashed through the brush after a doe, cutting diagonally across the trails and plowing through some of the thickest multiflora rose bushes. He slid to a stop broadside at 8 yards from the base of a Hackberry tree where I stood at full draw 15 feet above. He wasn't the one I was after, but here was an opportunity at a mature Iowa Whitetail." - Nov. 18th 2008.
That is from my journal and a testament to productive hunting with November high pressure. Good news for hunters, that is exactly the weather pattern settling in for the next few days here in Iowa! A compact storm system will completely miss the state Wednesday, sliding to the south, and making room for a high pressure in the Midwest. As a result we will all enjoy, light winds and relatively clear skies, especiall Thursday. Mornings will be cold, crisp and frosty, and afternoons will be cool but pleasant. Deer have been flooding the fields at night and lingering well into the morning hours. I'd find a food source, some bedding and hunt in-between. Might want to buckle down for the ride; the weather will be quiet, but the hunting shouldn't be!
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