jmbuckhunter

Good Luck out there tomorrow.

I wish I could join you in the woods. I had taken a day of vacation to hunt the opener, but my wife needs to go to the hospitol for her chemo and blood transfusion. Those big IL bucks will just have to wait till I can make it over there. Hope you find the one you are looking for. Just leave me one please!!

hammerman

Thanks jmbuckhunter! Your wife is in our prayers!!

Cougar Mag

Good luck and best wishes to your wife. Don't worry about the big bucks, I'm sure the one you want will be waiting for you later on when your wife improves and starts her recovery.

MichaelHunsucker

Yeah, goodluck boys in Illinois!

Greg / MO

John,our classlifted you and your wife up in prayer during Sunday school this morning. I'll say another prayer for you two from my stand tomorrow evening!!

redramtough

Less than six hours and I'll be in my stand. So far there's a cold front coming in and the winds supposed to be perfect.

goherd1111

I decided about 9:00 last night that I was gonna go ahead and take today off. Man it was a windy opening morning. I just got back to the house here and will head back out about 3:30 or so. I did see 8 does but none presented a shot. I did have a huge bodied deer in the field behind me right at first light. I'm cinvinced it was a nice buck from the size of its body and its body language. However, It was still just a little to dark to be able to see antlers. Good luck to all you IL boys. I will be back out this evening. I'm hopin' the wind will die down.