Good luck! I live in Southern Illinois and from what we have been seeing, your timing should be perfect.

Good luck out there guys. So, which Bowtechs/Diamonds will be getting the bulk of the work?

For me it will be the 2008 General.
29.5" mods, 70#
440gr GT 7595's with 3" feathers, Tracer nocks and Rage 2 blade heads.
Not a flamethrower but still a respectable 270fps at 440grs and quiet as a mouse peeing on a cottonball.

I hope we're hitting it just right, the weather last year was brutal. Warm, rainy south wind crap......I saw the extended forecast andit looks pretty good!

Just finished packing my rations for the trip: An 18" Monster roast beef sub cut 4 ways (Breakfast, Lunch, lunch again, and dinner!) some trail mix, venison jerkyand a bunch of Propel water.
Not sure how I'm going to see out the windows you couldn't squeeze a fart in that truck right now. (The 7 treestands and climbing gear in the back isn't helping)

But anyway, thanks for the wellwishes, and thank God for XM satellite radioso I can bypass all those midwest hillbilly bluegrass stations!14hrs in a truck alone is fun for about the first 3hrs........

Be safe and remember, call me!

Good huntin Matt, hope you guys score. Big Hoosier welcome when your traveling through Indiana

good luck guys!! have a safe trip matt....hope you took that lucky black widow with you... but im pretty sure you arent...baddd move IMO betcha that 150" of PA bone is packed...guess thats all the good luck you need

cant wait for the pics and storys to roll in...

You love our Illinois Deer but gotta slam our music, there is a solution that will fix your dilema.........stay in PA and hunt.

Anyways, the weather this year is going to better for you it seems, calling for highs in the upper 40'sabout mid week here in East Central IL.

Good Luck and have fun!!!!

Best of luck and post up some updates for us! I'm doing the same thing as you right now, packing the car to the gills for my trip between PA and NY......I'll be in the woods the same exact days. I'm leaving directly from work tomorrow and will be hunting Dan's place until Monday, then PA from Tues to Friday, then back to NY for Saturday and Sunday. I'll have to take a picture of my subaru........2x climbing stands on the roof rack, and the entire back packed so full you can't see out the back window.

Drive safe, keep us updated, and best of luck shooting your second P&Y deer!!

The timing should be perfect. The bucks are really chasing HARD right now. Saw a 160 10 pointer dogging a doe at 1 in the afternoon, so be ready all day.

Sweet good luck guys!