central/southern Illinois still hot...
 

Welp, this morning was my first time out since the shotgun weekend. Bucks were still chasing. Hopefully I can bag something before the rut has come and gone because that's the only thing that's sending deer my way... :(

RE: central/southern Illinois still hot...
 

Interesting...going out Thanksgiving morning and Friday. Haven't been out bowhunting since last Wednesday (11/17). That was the only day I saw bucks chasing does...not that it means anything.

Good luck to ya!

RE: central/southern Illinois still hot...
 

Well get out and get em while they're hot.

nubo

RE: central/southern Illinois still hot...
 

East Central Illinois
Yesterday while in my stand at noon I had a non shooter buck chaseing a doe by me at 30 yards... he was grunting the whole time, she acted like she was running for her life.
I took a break and took the climber stand and went to the cut corn field.
I spent the evening watching turkeys, does and yearlings in the cut corn but no bucks appeared.
On the 18th the day before shotgun my husband arrowed a nice 10 point buck that was going to the cut corn field I assume to check all the does in the field , there were so many does in the field my husband said he quit counting them.
On 11/19/2004 when we went to retrieve the 10 pt buck we had a Great shooter buck cross the path right in front of our truck... he was with a hot doe.
Wish I could go today but gotta work sometime.;)
I'll be out tommorrow am.