Hunting with Northwest Missouri Outfitters, LLC, field producers Jeff Tourville and J.D. Huitt opened up the 2007 season with a bang. Derek Stahlman was originally scheduled to hunt the opening weekend with Northwest Missouri Outfitters, but due to an injury that left him with a cracked vertebrae in his neck, he was unable to hunt. In his place, Jeff and J.D. went up to hunt a farm where owners Dave and Sam had been getting trail cam pictures of several good bucks.

With the morning movement being slow, they decided to hunt a set Derek had hung over the summer in a whitetail clover plot. At about 7:00, Jeff spotted a buck that he immediately knew was a shooter coming directly to their stand through a field of switchgrass. After a few tense minutes, the buck finally offered a broadside shot allowing Jeff to sink his new Rage broadhead directly into the vitals. The buck didn’t go more than 80 yards before falling on film.

The Three Timbers teams are gearing up for the upcoming archery season opener. We are all going to be hunting North Missouri the first weekend. Rick, JD, and Jeff in the Central part and Daniel, Rance, and Casey in the Northwest. We have our eyes on a few bucks that we have trail camera pictures of. We hope to have some more up-close pictures in the following weeks. Enjoy the photos.