For many, The Novemember Antlerless season is the first time to pick up the gun for big game in Iowa. To me, it’s pretty good practice for the upcoming shotgun season and as good of an excuse as any to head afield. Here are some highlights from my hunting party’s successful venture.
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| Charcoal grey sky, cold temps and wind characterized most of the holiday hunting season in Iowa. |
This weekend weather made it a bit tough to hunt! Friday’s humidity and warm temps, Saturday’s morning rain and then the persistent cold wind all proved formidable conditions. This low pressure and fowl weather had most of the game bedded down this weekend but we saw plenty of deer being pushed around by hunters.
The best natural deer activity was Sunday night as high pressure settled in and the fields filled up with hungry critters. I hope you enjoyed your time afield, we sure did.
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| Success! Antlerless Deer tagged by Bryon Rowland and his 12 ga. Shotgun |
Right now the long-range look at Shotgun 1 is revealing an enormous "cut-off" low pressure. These storm systems are notorious for their unpredictability because of their size and the fact that they do pretty much whatever they want since they are 'cut-off' from the regulating winds of the jet stream. What the heck does that mean to everyday folks and sportsmen? It means you're probably going to be cursing the weather guy for changing the forecast 80 times before next weekend. My best guess (I mean forecast) for the weekend is chilly, windy, possible snow showers. I’ll have better details for that forecast in the next blog.
Thank you Chris for the heads up in the last post about not being able to hunt on Public Land in the Early Antlerless, didn't realize it was private land only. Does this apply to the late season Antlerless in January as well?
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