RE: Illinois hunters
 

no bars in perry, dry town.in meridosha there are a couple good ones, the south side tavern and the aproach resturant and bar.I like South Side better, but thats me.good catfish either way.

RE: Illinois hunters
 

I haven't been to South Side in ages (not since they changed ownership anyway). I go to the Approach once a year or so. I'm just not much on eating out. There's a bar in Valley City, but I've never been there. I don't drink anymore.

RE: Illinois hunters
 

where you from wolf? im in perry

RE: Illinois hunters
 

Same here. Not from here though. I went to school in Jacksonville. My wife is from Chambersburg.

RE: Illinois hunters
 

where do ya hunt? im northeast of town on the smith's

RE: Illinois hunters
 

Chambersburg/Valley City bottom mostly. Did hunt down by Perry Springs one day first season. The bottom gets to be pretty hard hunting after the first day or so. It get's ran pretty hard by a few guys looking for trophy racks. Had a run in with em on Day 2 of first season. They pushed a nice buck to me, but I didn't have much time for a shot. I hit him, but then they pushed him about a mile or so from where I shot him. Tracked him about 3 hundred yards before I lost the bloodtrail. Following his track wasn't much good either, I lost it and the bloodtrail in some tornup ground that a bunch of deer had ran through. [:@] My brother in law is one of em. Although if I didn't have my father in law's ground to hunt I wouldn't have a place at all. Still, I managed to fill the freezer between firearm season and muzzleloader season. Still have late firearm yet to hunt.

RE: Illinois hunters
 

well i hunt right near you, roger smith owns border to perry springs, i hunt further north though, who's land were you hunting on around perry springs?

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Brice Lawson, my father in law. He bought some ground off of J.L. Wade a couple years back. It border's J.L's ground on one side and so some really nice bucks hang out there. He was trying to make it up to me for my busted hunt that morning. 90% of my hunting is down in the river bottom. I did see a nice buck that Sunday morning, but he was at 227 yds and I have only shot out to 200 with my muzzleloader (killed a yound doe at 201 Sat. night 1st season). I wasn't sure how much extra holdover I'd need. Past 200 the drop gets steeper faster. Well I got to see him up close later, one of my FIL's friends got him. Nice looking buck, had some damage to his rack though. Had he been 27 yds closer I'da had him.[&o]

Edit: Forgot to mention I was hunting on the far East side of Perry Springs. Have to go through Perry Springs to get back home.

RE: Illinois hunters
 

yeah we had an alright season, i got a 2 1/2 year old 8 oint with broken up tines. hes only about a 115. we saw a 175 class buck walk into the ffield and then saw someone shoot him.m it was a vose girl, they were only 250 yards away from us hunting...