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churly

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Well to make a long story short, I came home empty handed once again. The deer were really rutting hard as I was leaving. I Had several nice bucks that got to walk because I was waiting on 130" or better. I had a monster 8 chase 3 does past my stand and at one point he was about 20 yards away, I whistled, grunted and barked like a dog trying to get him to stop but he was on a mission. I was seeing about 12 deer per sitting and seeing several shooters per day. At night when I would drive back to my campsite I was seeing several bucks that were pushing the 170s. I took pictures of all of them and just downloaded the pics only to get glowing eyes, I even tried to enhance the pics-notta! Although I have an empty tag i really enjoyed myself. I got to see bucks chasing, rubbing scrapeing, fighting, and all kinds of other neat stuff that made the time fly by. I just needed a few more days in the stand and I think I could have done something. Either way i had a greast hunt and if I can find time in my schedule I may head back after the muzzleloader/shotgun hunts. next year I'm definitely getting a gun tag! If I had my smoke pole, this would be a story about a successfull harvest!

On a side note-I dont think our rut has kicked in yet. I was seeing bucks hit all over the roads until I got south of Clarksville. So it should be in the next few weeks!
 
That is one thing I enjoy about Illinois is you actually can tell the stages in the rut unlike some parts of TN (Lincoln county in particular). We are headed back up this Thursday morning for the shotgun hunt! Hopefully they will still be chasing and running around.........
 
They will be on fire!!! Seemed like the bigger deer just started showing up. Last week it was the 1.5-2.5 year olds. Please take good pics and good luck!!!
 

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