Jamison Brown shot this 11-point LaSalle County buck on the opening morning of firearm season. The deer weighed about 200 pounds, and Brown said he was, “King of the woods out where I hunt.”
County: Sangamon
Date and Season: Oct. 5, 2009; Bow
Notable: Wrong wind, too hot = big buck.
County: McLean
Date and Season: Nov. 8, 2008; Bow
Notable: Buck responds to hunter's doe decoy.
Home: Canton, IL
Occupation: Assembly and test specialist
Most memorable outing in Illinois? Two years ago during shotgun season, I was sitting in a ground blind with my mom taping her hunt and we where just being really goofy that day. Had does come buy all day long and right at dark saw the biggest buck of my life with no opportunity to shoot him.
A federal magistrate sentenced eight men to prison for poaching bears and deer and other illegal hunting activities in national forests in North Carolina and Georgia. MORE :: (0) COMMENTS
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