There is a Saint of Bowhunting
 

Should be a good season this year.

A bowhunting nephew of mine and his friend, also a friend of mine, built a private lodge in timber acreage located within the Illinois Shawnee National Forest region. We will be doing some bowhunting there this season.

The farm and all the timber where I have hunted for the last four seasons came up for sale this year. Another nephew of mine, also a hunter, purchased the entire farm and timber 2 months ago.

Last week, my hunting sidekick just bought a country home with timber that lies just west of where I have hunted for 9 years and is adjacent to old strip-mine bottoms. The "bottoms" are wild and uninhabited and are at least 70 years old. His timber edge adjoins a 40-acre field that has never been tilled. The field have always been strictly used for clover. I know there are monsters in the bottoms, I have seen them and I have killed some nice bucks out of the area…..and many does. The seller told my bud that a buck comes through his timber that looks like a huge muley.

It could not have gotten better………….but it did. Another bowhunting nephew, the brother of my nephew who bought the farm where we presently hunt, just bought 40 acres of agriculture land that butts up against several thousand acres of prime public land. His land is 6 miles from the farm his brother purchased. Here is one of some recent pics of a buck in the area near his new property that he just (pics) emailed me.



The buck in the pic represents a similar large buck that is running the farm area my other nephew purchased, and represents the types of bucks that roam the areas that my sidekick purchased adjacent to the thousands of acres of old strip-mines.

Can it get any better? :D

RE: There is a Saint of Bowhunting
 

This season is looking very promising for you. If you were on my team I'd wish you good luck but you know how it goes.;) :D

RE: There is a Saint of Bowhunting
 

You lucky dog!!! That is a brute.

BTW, I am going to be hunting near Shawnee this season, got permission from a farmer in Massic county, just north of Metropolis. Is the hunting pretty good in that area?

RE: There is a Saint of Bowhunting
 

:D:);)[:@][&:][8D]
NICE BUCK

RE: There is a Saint of Bowhunting
 

Double Creek:

IMO, any location near the Shawnee is great. I believe you might mean "Massac" county, located to the southeast near Kentucky.

I hiked the width of the Shawnee in the 80's. I went into areas that not too many people have gone. I saw large and big-antlered bucks all over the deep interior of the forest.