RE: Much Action In Illinois Yet?
I was hunting a ridge overlooking a funnel and a bedding area with a crp field at my back.This is a new stand sight that I had not hunted yet. It was raining.I had a doe and a fawn with a 4 pointer and a 8 pointer walking the woods edge about 20 yards from me after only 20 min in this stand. Around 5pm I saw antlers in the bedding area and noticed a huge racked buck and he was with a doe. The doe would put her head down and streched out with her ears back and trot away from the buck and he would run after her. I later had a small spike with a nicer buck following him approach the stand the spike turned and walked toward the larger buck, the larger buck flipped his head and kindof jerked forward as to tell the spike ( stay away). When I left I saw a buck out in the cut corn field with 7 does feeding.Found 3 fresh scrapes in the funnel and a rub within 23 yards of the stand. Its looking good in Illinois . I already filled both of my buck tags and now all Im seeing is bucks everywhere. GO FIGURE!