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Matt, a little off topic here, but is Hoss your son??
I thought I read that once upon a time, and Hoss is on my Firearms team for the contest. Just wondering.

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Ok I thought these figures where just for firearm. Im wondering though how they figure success rates? Our archery tags are good for the whole state so how can they figure what county is more successful than the other with those tags? I hunt 3 or 4 different counties and they dont know that except for where I harvested the deer.

Don

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uncle matt,

Do you hunt JTA?

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No CWD in Will County yet. Probably within 2-3 years though.

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Hoss is my son. If something comes along that he wants to take, he certainly has the marksmanship to anchor it.

(Of course he's still just a shadow of his old man!);)

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Don, you do report your harvest right?

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Yes I report my harvest.

But what does that mean to the bowhunters?

What im looking at is lets say "X" county harvested 10,000 deer. How do you know the success rates to that county? Sure I shot a deer in that county and called it in but how do they know how many people are bowhunting in that county to get the "success rates"?? There could be 10,500 people, 6 million people, how do they know that????The people that bowhunt in "X" county do not have to report anything with there archery tag unless they harvest a deer. The gun tags are issued county wide so success information is easily figured out. With archery I dont see how they can figure the success. The total harvest sure.

Don

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Pike as always ... :D

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I haven't lived in Ill. for about 10 years now but only 30 min. away from my Ill. home town in IOWA now.
Just a few picks of some of my Ill. Bucks & none from the counties mentioned-but, a couple are from Lee. Sorry for multiple post. My son with one of my Bucks.

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A couple more-I actually have about 20 like these-but like I said-this ismy 50th year of Bowhunting so I should accumularte something. Good Luck to all this fall. I have passed some of those Iowa Dinks already this year.