View Poll Results: Doe harvests accepted?
yes
12
85.71%
no
2
14.29%
Voters: 14. You may not vote on this poll
Team Pass Thru - #7
09-04-2012, 07:28 PM
#42
Typical Buck
Thread Starter
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Mason County, Illinois
Posts: 635
So to keep with pace, lets hear about our individual hunting properties.
I'm hunting Mason county Illinois. My hunting parcel is 450 acres of high ridges, deep draws & its covered in briar thickets & mature white oaks. Its 425 acres of timber in a sea of beans & corn with a small pasture in the wood lot.. Its holding more deer than we can hunt, so we have set to shooting alot of does & cull bucks while waiting for the old slammer bucks to slip up & walk into a trimmed lane. The acorns here fall the size of golf balls. The property has two spring fed creeks running the length of the property & an inactive cattle pond just inside the tree line bordering an abandoned pasture. This place is buck heaven & I only share it with 3 other bowhunters. We haven't hunted it with firearm for 4 years now. We've put in around 12 sets now & we've been trying to not all hunt the same times & we try not to sit the same set twice in a row. Its going to be a great season I do believe.
So what about the rest of ya?
I'm hunting Mason county Illinois. My hunting parcel is 450 acres of high ridges, deep draws & its covered in briar thickets & mature white oaks. Its 425 acres of timber in a sea of beans & corn with a small pasture in the wood lot.. Its holding more deer than we can hunt, so we have set to shooting alot of does & cull bucks while waiting for the old slammer bucks to slip up & walk into a trimmed lane. The acorns here fall the size of golf balls. The property has two spring fed creeks running the length of the property & an inactive cattle pond just inside the tree line bordering an abandoned pasture. This place is buck heaven & I only share it with 3 other bowhunters. We haven't hunted it with firearm for 4 years now. We've put in around 12 sets now & we've been trying to not all hunt the same times & we try not to sit the same set twice in a row. Its going to be a great season I do believe.
So what about the rest of ya?
Last edited by On_Point; 09-04-2012 at 09:47 PM.
09-04-2012, 08:06 PM
#43
Typical Buck
Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: northernwestern south dakota
Posts: 722
my hunting area is pobably about 4-4.5 square miles. 75% of it is cattle pasture with rolling hills and draws all connecting to a spring fed creek covered in plum bushes at the bottom of the big valley. there is about 28 oak tree draws that also have alot of brush leading up the hills from the creek. most of the draws lead up to flat plains with a mixture of wheat, sunflower, and corn fields that is also part of my area. I bow hunt and rifle hunt the property. I am the only one that bowhunts this land but everybody and their dog rifle hunts it, so it is usually pretty damn good in the early season and alot of chaos in the late season. Take the good with the bad i guess.
09-04-2012, 08:57 PM
#47
Typical Buck
Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: northernwestern south dakota
Posts: 722
thats definately the truth, I think eastern sd has bigger bucks than western sd. The best part about western south dakota is i can hunt antelope, mule deer, whitetails, turkeys, sharptail grouse, and pheasants within 10 minutes of the house lol. I like variety packs.
09-04-2012, 09:21 PM
#50
Typical Buck
Thread Starter
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Mason County, Illinois
Posts: 635
Lol, I only want one arm, not an arm & a leg both. And they can probably promise you a shooter. I can only promise a long drive home. Lol
Last edited by On_Point; 09-04-2012 at 09:26 PM.