Hey Duke, you're about 10 miles from me

I guess I could tell you a little about myself. I'm a 26 year old hetrosexual, with a love of bowhunting, whitetail, and dodgeball. I hate the Beatles, Asparagus, and the New York Yankees[:@] (except Jeter, he's pretty cool). I have a lovely girlfriend who's mad about me (I don't know why) and seems to enjoy/cherish/maybe loath my pursuit of bucks in autumn. Either way, it's all good.

Where you at Matt? Where you hunt?

I'm just outside of Barrington. I have one honey hole spot here that's about 20 acres, but backs into 100+ acre swamp. It's very hard to hunt. The owner of the property hates deer, he likes to grow trees and the deer keep topping them off. So he wants me to kill them all (gotta love it). But, his wife is very anti hunting, so I can only go out when she isn't home or at work. It's kinda tricky, but he has some nice bucks on his property.

Cool. Yeah, their are some giants in and around Barrington. I know the guy who hunts across from the dude who owns Arlington race course, he takes big deer every year!

Yep! Where do you hunt?

I have a lease near Effingham, Illinois(way south). I will be hunting a property outside Huntley this fall for the first time. And I hopefully will get one last year on a farm I've hunted since 2001, outside Mchenry. Their going to turn it into homes, estate lots after this fall.[:@]

Welcome aboard dukemecheals...good luck this season, we have our work cut out for us if XX backs up their smack.

Thanks Rob, I fully intend to help stop the smack.

Viva la Team 36!

Indeed, indeed.

We're 5 strong checked in..I'll give the others time and then I'll email and PM them..at that point we're looking for a team capt.....I'm stepping down as I'll be busy with the contest so I need back up.....thanks.