Old Rivals III

Old Rivals III, the third in the "Old Rivals" series features two bucks that were Iowa’s #1 and #2, non-typical, Pope and Young whitetails at the time. Amazingly, they were taken in consecutive years and only fifteen miles apart. The Hobart buck, in the background of Old Rivals III, was taken by Mike Hobart in Madison County, Iowa, on October 23, 1993. Mike took the big non-typical while hunting over two huge scrapes he had found a week earlier along the edge of a standing cornfield. During the second day on the stand, twenty to thirty turkeys exploded from the cornfield in front of him. Soon afterward a nice 10-point buck showed up in the timber behind the stand. Mike tried to call in the 10-point, but he didn’t respond. A few minutes later a doe stepped out of the corn, walked past his stand and into the woods. Then, a huge buck stepped out of the corn on the doe’s trail. The buck followed the doe’s trail and eventually presented a shot for Mike. A spine shot dropped the record buck