WARNING: BIGGER MEMORY CARD NEEDED!

After what seems like a lifetime, I finally had time last weekend to get out with 200 pounds of corn and a few bottles of the Monster Raxx Whitetail Magnet to see what kind of deer, or more importantly how many, I have on a new farm to hunt this year. I set out 3 trail cameras in areas I thought could be high traffic into a few established food plots along with the corn and Magnet.

The cameras were out for a total of 6 days. And between the 3, I had over 5,000 pictures. Needless to say I was at a loss for words, and it's still even hard for me to believe myself. I have tried every mineral, every attractant, every "must have" that you can buy. I always thought I had good results. This weekend I learned the difference between "good results" and GREAT results! The deer simply could not leave the Whitetail Magnet alone. The same deer would stay for 30 to 45 minutes with their nose buried in the corn, only to come up and lick their lips clean before diving back in. Doe would run other doe away from the pile, I was getting pictures of the same bucks coming in even at high noon, only to return at 1:30, 4:30, and all hours of the night. The Whitetails on that farm definitely have a new addiction!!!

In all my years of hunting and trying products, I have never witnessed the results that I am seeing with Monster Raxx. Now, I have to sit down and sift through 5,000+ pictures and weed out the doe from the bucks to establish a brand new Hit List!

It's TV Time!

Just wrapped up shooting three new Monster Raxx commercials this morning. Look for the new spots this fall on Midwest Whitetail TV. Had a great time with the Lester boys and pro-staffer Jody Reinen. Here are some of the pics:

Monster Raxx co-founders Tom & Keith Lester

Goofin' around getting Tom mic'd up!

On the set...and action!

Got to plug the latest Monster Raxx product:

Anytime Acorns!

Pro-staffer Jody Reinen in front of the lens.

Feeling the pressures to be prepared.

Besides my regular job paying the bills I have been working hard to get all of the hunny do's completed prior to the Opener of our IA deer season. On top of that I have been trying to squeeze time top set this years deer stands. I usually put out any where from 12-15+ different stand cites to hunt any and all winds, weather conditions and or if I see a target deer in a particular area I will be ready to go. This year has been extremely hectic. I am way behind on all preparations for the season opener. It has been a very, very wet year here in IA. So wet it is looking like I will not be able to plant my fall food plots as planned. I have yet to begin to hang stands. I have a tower blind I am hoping to have completed in time for my sons youth season as well. We have a long way to go to get the remainder of our wood cut for the winter, however I am optimistic I will get it all done and turn in to hunt mode come Oct. 1! Trail cameras are finally picking up some nice bruisers in the fields, mineral sites are being obliterated, and the water on the DesMoins River where I live is finally receding. I know it will all come together in time. You see, this year it is the rain, last year it was surgery on my foot that put me behind the ball, the year before that I had surgery on my shoulder that laid me up for a few months where I could not even shoot my bow let alone hang stands and cut wood. Every year I feel the same pressures to get all my preparations done for hunting season. No, I am no rookie to feeling the pressures to get everything accomplished prior to bow opener, it is really the norm. That is what I need to keep telling my self. Besides hunting the Deer heaven of IA, I have an Ill gun hunt planned (which I still need to go and hang stands over there as well), a Dove hunt in Ill and if all goes well a trip to WI to gun hunt deer at my cabin nestled in the BIG woods.
If you are like me you have busy schedules full of family obligations, work that never seems to end, preparations that still need to be completed and everything else that comes up in between. My only thought is, “its really no different than last year, once season comes I’ll be ready if I just keep plugging away”.
With that, now its off to the state fair to watch my daughter perform her presentation in a 4-H competition. Guess this means no cutting wood tonight either, but I know I will be ready come bow season one way or another. :)