I thought us Illinois Hunters could continue our hunting journal here, So come on folks and share your sightings and stories and successes with us.

I am back from Brown County. I spent Thurs-Sunday over there bowhunting at Hunting Unlimited Inc on a Womens Bowhunt. The weather was not very coperative for deer hunting, just a bit to warm, and there was still to much standing corn that the farmers had not gotten out yet[X(] I think alot of deer were held up in that corn. I had 5 deer that I could of harvested but they were not what I was looking for ,just small bucks and a yearling doe and a small oposum. I did get to watch a small 8 pointer make a scrape and work a licking branch at about 15 yards from me, and watch a doe run off her button buck. Had turkeys all around me in the mornings but no shots none came close, but they were gobbling their heads off when they were flying down in the mornings,boy did that wake me up [] seen coyote and heard lots in the am, had a small 8 pointer at 3 yards from the base of my tree another small 8 pointer at 6 yards from my tree , had 2 button bucks at 9 and 23 yards and a yearling doe at 16 yards and and was relaxing by the side of the dirt road leaning up against a stump taking in the sun waiting for Tim to come and pick me up with the truck and closed my eyes for a few minutes and opened my eyes to see a small 6 pointer walking the corn field edge across the dirt road from me totally oblivious that I was sitting there[&:]
Unfortunatly while I was hunting the ridge near a small CRP field and above the Alfalfa field there was a large 10 pointer with a big drop tine in the Alfalfa field, so I returned the next morning to hunt a stand hung near where the buck had exited the field, but he never showed again. And of course as I was driving home Sunday night there were a ton of deer out on the back roads and in the fields.
All in all it was it was a great time hunting and I still had a blast.