Andy Melton finds success in Southern Illinois when a doe brings by one of his target bucks. Pushing further into a bedding area, Clayton Dillard is able to harvest a mature Indiana buck.
Rick Vergin connects with an old mature buck he has tons of history with that he calls “Fatty” in Wisconsin. Jared and Mike continue to hunt and learn their new farm in hopes of arrowing one of their target bucks.
Caleb and Taylor Byers encounter two great bucks and Caleb capitalizes from the same stand in consecutive years.
Jared and Mike have a third consecutive encounter with hit list buck “Eli” and cannot get a shot. Kane Gillette has success during the Illinois shotgun season and the Byers end their “Rut-cation” by encountering their number one hit list buck they call “Nemo”.