I just got back from my weeks vacation hunting at my farm in west central Illinois. I killed this buck holloween morning. I spotted him cruising the ridge behind me and as soon as he slipped over the top out of sight I hit the horns and he came on in. I have several pictures of him on trail camera from back in the summer also. Here is a picture of him, the other picture is of the 3 bucks we killed since Oct 24. The top left is my dads 195" 18pt he killed on the 24th, the top right is my buddy's 133 8pt killed on Nov. 4th and my 145" 10pt is on the bottom killed on the 31st.
Sounds like you got a dandy place to hunt, congratulations on ya'lls deer.
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