for everyone who cares about the "pike county"
as being from Pike county IL, i know how it is, and since you are not, you dont know how it is.so i wouldnt like to hear something from someone who hasnt incounterd it. im not gonna whine and im not gonna cry about it. you just dont understand what its like to have a great hunting area and then to have a big shot come in waving money, and wham, its gone like that. many people dont have as bad as a problem as us, so you dont really understand the frustration and anger this causes. take an example such as this. We have a perfect thickett where many monster bucks have been taken including 195 and 185 class bucks, and now the landowner, who is very much my friend, may have to sell it because the man keeps offering him tons of money.and you wouldnt complain about this? give me a break. what U need to do is stop looking at the county name and start think about the position that people are being put in. This is not about me, this is about the tons of people who you are calling "whiners" money DOES talk, and thats whats hunting is turning into, a game of money, and its a game that most people cant play. so please, dont look at pike county and point fingers and call names to people who are just like you and me, just straight hunters who have many similarities, and love the sport of hunting, but only to be run off by someone with a great amount of money, and dont act like you wouldnt feel the same way if your hunting area was taken away, because i know that you would feel the same way.