Illinois 2017......

Took a quick break from the bears to head out to Illinois to hang some stands and other prep work... One of the highlights of the trip was meeting up with "J" near Canton... Chad was also supposed to be there, but we were running a little late and he had to go to work... Chad did leave me one of his strikers though... Very nice piece of work... Thanks Chad... After chatting awhle, it was back on the road again... It takes roughly 18 hrs. driving time to get out there...

First stop was a 200 acre piece in Pike County that my friend and I hunt... I moved his stand up about 5 more feet and then it was on to check 3 cams we had there since March 1st... Duracells were still good... I was disappointed though at the fact there were no shooters on cam yet... I guess key word here is: "YET"... Cams are in center of property and property is surrounded by 1000's of acres of corn... So I think we all know where the majority of deer our...

Back to the main farm, we hung 4 more stands... We had no cameras out there except for 2 that my friend hung earlier this summer... He's not into cams so I didn't expect much, but figured what the heck lets check them out... I was shocked at what I was about to see... Heres a few pic's for your viewing pleasure...

Don't know what I got into... But, I've got bites all over me... Tomorrow back to YOGI...

I'm also guessing chiggers... Although last time I got into chiggers it was more of a rash and itched like hell... This time it looks like individual bites with hardly an itch... I have the bites all over me from head to toe... Walked through a lot of CRP and high grass and only found one tick on me...

A lot of nice bucks, but we all know all too well that once those groups break up, they will disappear...