Nate Hinton and Myles Brummel
Posted By
Chad Lathrop
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8/25/2009 12:00:00 AM
When it comes to hunting whitetails, Nate Hinton has got it going on. With a number of bucks hanging on the wall, Nate plans on adding to the collection this fall. Nate is a new member to the Main Show. Most of Nate’s free time is spent scouting for bucks in his hunting area. Nate loves scouting so much that he actually went out and bought 15 trail cameras this year. If there is a buck on his feet somewhere, Nate already has a dozen pictures of him. Count on exciting hunting footage from Nate.
When Nate is not hunting, he works at Vermeer Manufacturing. He also enjoys riding four-wheelers and just spending time with family and friends. Nate has lived in Southern Iowa all of his life and plans to keep it that way so that he will never have to worry about non-resident tags come hunting season.
One thing is for sure, Myles Brummel will bring flavor to Midwest Whitetail. Myles is a new member this year, but is quickly becoming an enjoyable hunter to watch on camera. He has probably worked the hardest of everyone this summer scouting and laying down velvet footage to get his season started. Myles has a lot of bucks in his sights and plans on taking at least one to the taxidermist this fall. Myles will be hunting in Southern Iowa on some private farms that he has grown up on and hunted since boyhood.
Myles is also an avid turkey hunter. He killed a nice bird on our turkey hunting episode (Struttin' 09) this spring. It is apparent that hunting is very important to Myles. It’s going to be fun watching his season unfold and seeing how he goes about killing a mature buck in Iowa.
Myles and Nate's Hit List
As mentioned earlier, Nate and Myles will be hunting a number of private farms in Southeast Iowa and will occasionally travel over to Western Iowa to hunt a few family farms that they have always hunted. Keep checking back for updates on their hit list because they have a bunch more Iowa monsters to add.
The following words are from Nate and Myles.
"CAPTAIN HOOK": "Captian Hook" will be at the top of our hit list this fall. He has been a regular on a new private farm we picked up this summer. We got our first picture of him around July 17th over a mineral site. "Captain Hook" is a mainframe 10 with a big hook kicker coming off his main beam. With hundreds of trail cam pictures and some good video, putting our hands around those hooked horns will really be something.
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We have been watching "Captain Hook" in a bean field all summer. He comes out pretty early but doesn't stay long. On the evening of August 12th of this year, our good friend Mike Earp was able to get some awesome footage of "Captain Hook" in the same field. Mike actually set up in the middle of the beans which got him up close and personal with ol' "Captain Hook". Here is some of the footage that Mike got.
When October 1 rolls around, "Captain Hook" is the first buck that we are going to hunt. There is a great timber that surrounds that bean field. We think that we can get on him early at a couple pinch points located in this timber. There is also a cornfield close by that might be a hotspot for "Captain Hook" as well. We will just have to wait and see what happens come October. Please keep checking back to see how we do.
"MOOSE": "Moose" is another buck has been a regular at a mineral site in the late night hours only after "Captain Hook" comes through. Unlike "Hook" this old worrier keeps most of his movement to a minimum until he has the moonlight over his giant horns. He is a main frame ten with the mass of a big ol moose.
Due to his late night movement we were not able to get any velvet footage of "Moose" during the summer. We did get pictures of him in early summer as you can see above and we also got pictures of him in late summer. You can tell that he added more tine length and mass.
"Moose" may be one of the oldest bucks that we are going after this season so we will have to be smart about how we hunt him. As always, our best chance of killing him will probably be during the rut. However, we will be doing some early season hunting in that area so things may happen a little quicker than we think.
