Red Bluff Lodge

Take a look at these!

This November has certainly lived up to its billing. Just look at what our hunters have been lucky enough to harvest:

Wayne Urps (SC) got this nice buck on the morning of November 6th. It had a spread of 17 inches and weighed almost 170 pounds. Here's another view of this great 7 point:

Two nights later, on November 8th, our good friend Jack Morgan (SC) scored with this non-typical buck:

This 9-point had a 17 1/2 inch spread. It would probably have been a 10-point or more, but one of its beams was nontypical, and had some neat kickers instead. As you can see, Jack was so excited that his head caught on fire!

How's this for an introduction to hunting? John Cella got this great duo on the evening on the evening of November 8th. The 7-point buck had a spread of 15.25" and the hog weighed in at 150 pounds. Nice first couple of shots with a hunting rifle, huh?

Our great friend from Joisey here proudly shows off his best buck ever; he took this shot on the morning of November 9th. It was a nice 8-point that had a 16.25 inch spread and weighed 149 pounds. Way to go!

The Bucks of November...

Since deer season started this year on August 15th, we have harvested 225 deer. Of those, 158 were bucks and 25 of those bucks were 8 points or better. We've also harvested over 60 hogs during this same 3-month period.

The rut continues to be hot here at Red Bluff, and we've had some great buck action this month. A few were posted on the last post; here are few of the rest:

Chris Roberts, shown here with his father, Keith, got his first deer on the evening of November 2nd. It was a nice 6 point, and a great shot.

The next morning, Keith took his turn with this 14" 8-point. Pretty good one-two punch for the Roberts, huh?

That same morning, Mr. D scored this nice 12" 10 pt. that weighed in at 150 pounds.

A great smile, for a great buck! Rich McCandless got this really nice 8-point on November 3rd. That morning, Rich harvested a 4-point, so this was a big day for him! This 8-point, which had some marvelous symmetry and detail on its rack, had a 16" spread and weighed just over 150#. Good job!

Another shot of this great buck with the whol Florida gang; Rich, Bud and Bobby. We always enjoy it when these guys come for a hunt. Whose turn will it be next year?....

The next morning, November the 4th, David Alexander got this buck that had - get this- 12 points! It had a couple of really nice kickers on its G2 tines. The spread was 16:, and it weighed 153 pounds.

Jacob Fulford got his first buck with us on the evening of November 4th. It was a spike that had a broken tine. Our whole family enjoys hosting Jacob and his father, Jimmy.

Audie Newman rounded out our first five days of November with this 12.25" 7-point, taken on November 5th that weighed 141 pounds.  Stand by...Jim just left with Zeke to find another 8-point that was shot at this morning in the A section.....

November Gumbo

The rut is heating up, and the animals are really starting to move. Even Jim feels a little frisky in the cool fall weather! Here are some animals our hunters brought in the past couple of days:

Randy Williams had an interesting hunt this morning. First a nice boar, then a deer and finally a great looking coyote came by during his hunt.

After watching this buck browse around this morning for almost a half hour, John Stowe got a shot at it. It has to be the biggest 5-point rack I've ever seen - since there were no brow tines, the tip count was low, but the mass, width and height made it a beaut!

Al Keith proudly shows his deer from this AM's hunt. He and the other three 'wire guys' always entertain us in November. We're glad that Mr. Stowe actually let Mr. Al get one this year, rather than keeping them all for himself!

Randy Williams also had some luck yesterday with this nice 8-point. Seems like he always makes it happen when he's here at the lodge!