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Post by steiny on Dec 4, 2007 19:47:59 GMT -5
Five of us are going to Pope county, IL for Fri, Sat & Sun muzzy season. Calling for warm and rainy, but should be fun none the less. Always see some pigs down there.
With any kind of luck, we'll bring a couple bruisers home.
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Post by cambygsp on Dec 4, 2007 20:05:04 GMT -5
Good Luck Steiny, is that a guided hunt or a do it yourselfer?
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Post by hornharvester on Dec 4, 2007 21:05:13 GMT -5
Good luck. h.h.
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Post by Mark T on Dec 4, 2007 21:51:53 GMT -5
Best of luck to your group!!! Mark T
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Post by HuntMeister on Dec 5, 2007 7:51:12 GMT -5
Good luck and bring us back some pics please!
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Post by Woody Williams on Dec 5, 2007 8:01:05 GMT -5
Good luck Steiny. We expect a good trip report and pictures..
I just reread the Illinois regs and we can bow hunt (with orange on) during the muzzleloader season over there. We couldn't duing the regular fireram seasons. So we might head over with bow and crossbow in hand.
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Post by booner1331 on Dec 5, 2007 12:01:14 GMT -5
good luck to all you guys!!!
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Post by steiny on Dec 5, 2007 22:00:53 GMT -5
We're hunting with an outfitter .... Five of us, hope to kill a couple bucks.
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Post by steiny on Dec 11, 2007 19:34:39 GMT -5
Well, we got blanked.
Season was Fri, Sat & Sun and I'll bet we didn't have a combined three hours in all of those days that it wasn't raining. Conditions were crummy, to say the least.
We all toughed it out and hunted hard, got ourselves soaked and cold each day, saw tons of deer, saw a few dandy shooters, and one of our party missed a big un.
Despite the trip sounding like a bust, I think we'll re-book for next year. We had a good crew and a good time, and that area holds some real bruisers. Much better chance of killing one there, than in my back yard.
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Post by freedomhunter on Dec 11, 2007 19:43:16 GMT -5
Get one next year. The back yard around here will still be the same, and Illinois will still be, well, Illinois.
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Post by cambygsp on Dec 12, 2007 6:24:24 GMT -5
Thats why it's called HUNTING and not killin!
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Post by steiny on Dec 13, 2007 19:41:29 GMT -5
Amen !
Killing a trophy whitetail is a pretty slim odds proposition, even under the best of circumstances, in the best areas.
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