RE: Illinois Hunters Sighting /Hunting Journal
Last Sat. (18th) harvested a mature doe after seeing 16 deer on an all day hunt, she seemed kinda uneducated for a public land deer and was a little different color than the rest.I wonder if she had been living in the corn all season and had just moved into the woods, only to get a double lung at 15 yards!
Thurs. (23rd)
Evening = nothing
Friday morning=nothing
Friday eve.=
A nice wide 8 point feeding in the cornfield with a doe, I softly tickled the rattling bag and he started coming in, then lost interest and went back to his doe. So I rattled again and same thing happened again. I had him within 60 yards when it got too dark, so I let them feed the other direction and slipped out of the edge of the woods after they crested the hill. I' m gonna break out the ghille suit and try again next time the wind is right.
Have been seeing alot more rubs and scrapes in the last couple of days......Happy days are here again!