Iowa Early Muzzleloader Season ?

[Leon/Iowa]

I last hunted the early season in 93. The farm I hunted was mostly flooded and the temp was in the 80s. Watched three deer across a corn field for over two hours, that never moved twenty yards. The heat and bugs about drove me crazy. Since then I hunt late season. No bugs out when it is hovering around zero, and the deer are moving. Leon

 

[Six-Gun]

It's definitely at a time when you would want to have a pretty firm grip on patterns to be effective. I have had good luck with early muzzleloader season in Pennsylvania, but it took some stout intel on where the deer wanted to be.

 

[Six-Gun]

Living and deer huniting in Iowa for the last 40+ years, I have taken a zillion bucks with bow and gun. Flintlock,percussion, and shotgun. The average buck here will field dress @ 150lbs . 185lb field dress buck is big and fairly common. 200+lb are giants and the largest I have seen dead was 258 lbs field dressed. That one was beyond huge! Just guessing by the picture I would guess your buck in the 180lb class. Very nice buck and congrats on a nice harvest! Greg

Thank you! That’s good info and thanks for that insight. I had no clue what that buck weighed, I just knew that it sucked
pulling him

 

[1100 Remington Man]

Six-Gun nice deer.

I have narrowed down where I will be hunting this fall. Need to get out and make a nice ground blind.
It has been very wet lately could delay fall harvest which will hurt the hunting as some of the deer just stay in corn fields.