RE: Illinois - Why shotgun only?
25lieb - I know what you' re saying. I shotgun hunted just outside of Loran for 5 or 6 seasons and it' s a madhouse out there. The thing is, it' s a lot of the " good ole' boys" who have the mentality of " it' s brown, it' s down." They shoot in the dark, shoot at running deer, shoot through thick brush, shoot too far away, etc etc. Personally, I got sick of the way some of the guys I hunted with were behaving, so I stay home out there in Lake County and bowhunt during the gun season in the rest of the state.