here's some bucks I took pics of last night on way home from airport, I can't ever just go straight home, lol, the biggest buck in these photos looks like he might be a typical 12 pointer! with some nice G-2s, G-3's & G-4s, gotta gross somewhere around mid 170's, thats just a guess from looking at photos, what do you think?

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Very nice Huntrz...seems like alot of Bucks are getting caught out at dinnertime lately!

I glassed 8 bucks last night, but my cam was home getting charged...Bummer.

I didn't see any that big, a few 100+ though.

I think he would gross nicely on my wall. :D

lovely looking! I hear ya about never going straight home....I always have to wander around..."just in case" my friends swear I could run coast to coast and never get on a state highway for more than river crossings...LOL

NIce pics!!! Both shooters for sure in my book! I've been working on my house too much and not being out and about, I'm usually snapping alot of pictures this time of the year too.

uh- yea-uh, if you really want to kill a big buck in Illinois, uh you need to hunt uh Pike county, yea PIKE COUNTY, thats the ticket for big bucks in Illinois! nothing but dinks down here in southern Illinois, (I'm an idiot for swearing)(I'm an idiot for swearing)(I'm an idiot for swearing)(I'm an idiot for swearing) they oughta let us seperate from the rest of the state, we're not worthy to part of that Chicago gig. nonresident hunters? whats that? in the New State of "SILO" residents only!, no outfiters!, and NO AMUSEMENT PARKS! what ya think? civil war?










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Dane,Huntrz why don't you tell us how you really feel? LOL:D

Your truck didn't break down or anything did it? ..

I met a guy, one of my customers over in Edgar cnty last week, east side of the state, those guys are killin booners every year, and keepin it quiet, there are big bucks in every county of Illinois,
naw trucks got nuthin to do with it, I have a friend who started selling hunts in our county, just got mixed feelings about that, it makes the land lease and sale prices go thru the roof, makes it hard for the local guy to go ask his neighbor farmer to hunt for free when some outfitter is offering 3 times the going rate on a lease, and he'll still make money on it. just needs to be some control on this issue, it's not always about money, quality of the hunt for the state tax payers is more important, the only good thing my outfitter friend said that made since is, nonresidents should have to use an outfitter, that would leave the public land that our state government wants to trade for an amusement park, for the resident hunters who pay taxes.
last year my wife and I bowhunted a state park, the one that they want to trade off on us, there were three trucks in the parking area we hunted, one from michigan, one from pennsylvania and one from alabama, i spoke to a few of them after the hunt, nice guys, they drive here to hunt, and probably cant afford an outfitter, see, whats right? these big bucks that are popping up all over the state attract people who try to figure out a way to cash in on it, is that right? is it right for a resident hunter to have to compete for a spot to hunt on public land? maybe I should have started a new postfor this topic. just wondering where its going.........

I had a new spot last year just out of town, was great took about 10 minutes to get to it from the house.
The farmer bought an outfitter license and this year I cant hunt it and its an outfitter.
I know its his land.

But he wanted me to guide his clients in trade to hunt the place.
Why would I use my bowhutning time to baby sit his $1500 a pop clients ?

I was just teasin ya Huntrz......I know how you feel....My husband and I bowhunt on some family property. The have 40 acres just for us to hunt on. Problem is some dip wads bought the property right next to it and put a stupid little shed on it for there hunting trips right by where we set up. I guess they all party at night and ride there atvs all over durning the day.We always found there evidence! lol.
Anyway they always caused some kind of problem for us. Either with them talking or ridin the atvs everywhere all crazy or startin up their trucks and leavin or something...I swore they did it on purpose ,they knew when we where there because we parked the truck on a little road by the front so the fam would know we was there as well...just in case something happened..

Conclusion....The 40 acres is now for sell.....

One thing for sure. I have no beef at all with a DIY hunter from any state coming here to hunt. If he does his own homework, hunts public, or private. It's all on his own merit.

Hell all the $$$ I spend on hunting outdoors throughout the year, I couldn't afford to have some one take me to a tree on private ground...

I've got mixed feeling as well on the guys that lease to outfitters. One thing I will say that it wears me out trying to keep up w/ people that feel that they have the right to hunt wherever they want w/out asking. On our farm in Effingham ever since I was born, it was an unspoken rule that every neighbor could hunt wherever as they pleased on neighbors property except during deer season and then it was an ask first situation. On my random trips I've encountered non-neighbor hunters on nearly every trip from towns 20+ miles away who "just thought" they could hunt because they didn't see a house for the property owner. It burns my behind to spend the time and effort putting out food plots, erecting stands and maintaining the property so my son has a good spot to hunt just to have some peckerwoods hunting the hell out of it when I'm not there. Perhaps if I allowed a lease, there would be more local control over my ground. I'm kind of up in the air about it.

It didn't matter where they were from Bob, the problem was is that they were loud, left atv trails all over the place, trashy, and only here a couple weeks out of the year.

No one lives out there so it is hard to monitor who comes on our ground as well but Im sure those guys did because they knew if the truck was there or not.... Anyway Im sure you would feel the same....

sweet buck brother, get him on the wall