Blue tongue, drought, & crossbow talk aside, I'm starting to gear up for our IL deer hunt. My main gun will be my Knight M-L, but I may just see what my Browning Gold with a slug barrel & Hornady SSTs will do. We will be just a bit North of Peoria. I'd expect the harvest to be coming along early this year.
I took it a little easy on the permits & have 2 anterless & one either sex. The trail cams had some good deer, but nothing in the true monster category. That's O.K., many years half the bucks never offer a picture 1st.