Originally Posted by
Roger46982
How many years are you talking for your harvests?
Haven't heard of this one but most every option has been hashed and rehashed over and over. OBR is still the way to go.
'01-present, still haven't connected this year.
I was at Muscatatuk this weekend on a special hunt, ran into a CO and asked him about the latest, other than it being shelved he mentioned 2 bucks with the second buck being earned.
But yeah, ORB all the way.
Not directed at you, just my general thoughts..
Indiana will never put up the numbers of these super buck states due the sheer numbers stacked against us, i.e. herd size and number of hunters.
But that's not to say we can't catch them in book bucks per sq. mile, per xx acre, per xx hunters.
Look at what Kentucky is doing with their trophy quality recently.
@ZIM, just saw your post.
There's no way for me to get solid numbers of priv. vs pub. land trophies.
But public land down here in my region gives up great bucks every year.
Be nice during check in if they asked public or private land.
Quick question, hom many bucks in Il are harvested by non residents, is that an easily obtained figure?
Another thing, how many public acres available for deer hunting in Il, is pub. hunting walk in or special type hunts?