I guess I didn't know how lucky I was to be hunting in Illinois.
If you are a bowhunter that loves to hunt big bucks the fact that you live in Illinois should keep a #### eating grin on your face 24/7.
So, it seems to me, that everyone who doesn't take a buck is just a terrible hunter since they are crawling all over.
Pretty much.
They are born with 100" racks here, bet you guys didn't know that!
No but they have supierior genetics compared to our southern deer and the place where wehave beenhunting was about 70 percent corn and soybeans and 30 percent hardwood timber which was loaded with huge acorns. Talk about a deer food paradise. I saw 2 year old bucks that were pushing 200 pounds and we killed does that weighed 150 lbs. A good mature buck in Alabama may only weight 170 lbs. Most of the 2 year old bucks already had racks bigger than the average 4 year old buck down here. Heck, we weren't even in the west central region that is so famous nation wide. Nor have we been hunting some outfitters heavily managed ranch. Just family farms in the southern half of the state. Supposedly where the big buck hunting is the worst in the state.