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For the 10th stop of The Hunting Public\u2019s Deer Tour<\/a>, Ted Zangerle and Jake Huebschman hit Iowa public land for the early muzzleloader season. Since Zangerle already harvested his muzzleloader buck<\/a>, he was looking to fill his archery tag while Huebschman set up nearby with his smokepole. With a cold front in full effect, the big bucks were on their feet during daylight hours.<\/p>\n

The crew was headed back into the area where Zangerle had harvested his muzzleloader buck<\/a> just three days prior, but with the amount of buck sign<\/a> in the area, they knew there would be plenty more shooters roaming around.<\/p>\n

Good Bedding Areas Are Surprisingly Resilient\u00a0<\/h2>\n

Would you hunt the same area just days after harvesting a big buck there? If your answer is no, it might be time to consider changing your perspective on prime bedding areas. The spot where Zangerle and Huebschman headed into on the morning of October 19th had ideal bedding habitat where the crew had killed a buck just 72 hours prior.\u00a0<\/p>\n

With cell cameras deployed in the area, the crew had watched and waited for a buck to daylight after the commotion, and sure enough, on October 18th, they captured a buck hitting a scrape in daylight. That\u2019s where Zangerle and cameraman Keith Robinson chose to set up the next day.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Huebschman, along with cameramen Hayden Krimmer and Greg Clements, set up nearby, within a few hundred yards of where Zangerle had killed a deer just days before. Huebschman was confident in the decision to go back into the same bedding area, knowing there were plenty of big bucks to go around.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThrough the trail cameras, we knew there were still four or five mature bucks in the area,\u201d says Huebschman.<\/p>\n

One of the mature bucks the crew had on a trail camera in the area. The Hunting Public<\/i><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Huebschman set up that morning to observe a bedding area that bumped right up to a small river system. As first light came and went without much action, Huebschman settled in and began glassing the other side of the river. To his surprise, he got eyes on a bruiser of a buck as it slowly worked through the hardwoods and bedded down. It was within range of his muzzleloader, but it is illegal to shoot across navigable waterways in Iowa.<\/p>\n

With Zangerle hunting nearby, Huebschman got in touch with him to get his hands on his packable hip-waders<\/a>. Since the buck had bedded down within eyesight, Huebschman didn\u2019t want to take his eyes off the buck in case it decided to change beds. Zangerle hadn\u2019t had much action that morning while hunting over the fresh scrape, so he snuck over to Huebschman to pass off the waders.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, the river was too deep for the hip waders, so Huebschman had to back out and find a different point of access. While he and Krimmer set off, Zangerle, Robinson, and Clements all settled in on a small ridge just above the river bottom to keep eyes on Huebschman\u2019s target buck.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Even with all of this commotion, about an hour after Huebschman had left, Zangerle caught movement just to his left along the river bottom. To his surprise, a big buck was headed in their direction. After 20-minutes, the buck walked up the ridge, right toward the crew that was hidden in a thick patch of cover on the ground.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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