Brock Halstead
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Alex Gyllstrom
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10/27/2009 12:00:00 AM
Brock Halstead grew up in northeast Wisconsin along the shores of Lake Michigan. After college, work brought him to southern Iowa. He lives with his wife, Teresa and daughters Addison and Avery.
Originally, Brock spent the bulk of his time afield chasing ducks with one of his chocolate labs dutifully by his side. After relocating to Iowa duck opportunities declined, but the timbered draws and bountiful agricultural fields provided the components necessary for what is undeniably one of the top areas to chase trophy whitetails.
Over the last few years, Brock and Iowa producder, Jason Vickerman, have been fortunate enough to acquire a few farms and develop them through tree plantings, food plot establishment, etc. They adhere strictly to the credo: “If you plant it, they will come” and are looking forward to a number of their hit list bucks showing themselves in their plots this season on MW-Iowa.
Brock's Hit List
The following words are Brock's:
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“THE BULLY”: What this guy lacks in tine length, he more than makes up for in width. We have some interesting footage of this guy backing down the buck we call “Bo Derek” earlier this summer. He seems to think pretty highly of himself. That fact, coupled with his genetic inferiority make him a prime target this fall.
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“CRABBY”: The footage and trail camera pictures tell the story on this buck, crab claws on both main beams, tremendous height on his 2’s and 3’s, a great looking Iowa whitetail – he could push into the 160s.
“BO DEREK”: This is a potentially obscure reference for some of you out there, but one look at this buck and I think you’ll agree, he’s a Perfect 10. This deer carries immense mass through his mainbeams as well as his tines. When you hear “heavy-horned” as a descriptor, a deer like this is what comes to mind.
“WINGMAN”: This buck always showed up with “Bully”, lacking any real distinguishable characteristics, we arrived at the “Wingman” moniker. He’s just a real nice looking nine point, he’s more than adequate in all phases, good mainbeams, tine length, width, etc… probably a mid 140’s deer.
“DAGGER”: MASS, MASS, and more MASS- initially, I wasn’t sure if this deer would make the hitlist for this year, that was until we reviewed the IR video clips, he has got unbelievable bases and carries that mass through his entire rack. As far as name derivation, look no further than that bladed G2 on his right side.
“SPLIT G-1”: This deer is a “tweener” at this point, I’m fairly confident that I have pictures of him from last February as a 2 yr old…. which would obviously make him a 3.5, with that being said, he’ll be difficult to pass up. Tine length, mass, character, history, we’ve got it all with this deer- we’ll see what happens if he presents us with an opportunity.
“PRODIGAL SON”: He is also falling under the “tweener” category, this deer has excellent 2s and 3s, but is obviously weak in the brows. We arrived at the name for this buck based on an uncanny resemblance he bears to a deer I have a trail cam picture of from Nov.’07 and had the good fortune of harvesting in Dec ’07. The trail camera pictures were captured, and the deer was harvested within roughly 100yds of where the “Prodigal Son” pic was taken.
