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  1. TheBenHoyle

    Family Traditions

    That's a great story. Think of how many people have been touched by that tradition and how many people who know how to make sausage who never would have learned. I don'y have a tradition that was passed down to me, but my wife and I started one not long after we were married. It's been close to...
  2. TheBenHoyle

    ‘23 Iowa whitetail

    Hey if you like overcast and 40s, yesterday was for you. Partly sunny and mid 50s today's your day. Rainy and in the 30s? Wait til you see tommorow... There's something for everyone in Illinois
  3. TheBenHoyle

    ‘23 Iowa whitetail

    Illinois is nice this time of year.
  4. TheBenHoyle

    Ben's 2023 Semi-Live Hunt Log

    I went to see the hand surgeon today. He inspected the stitches put in by the ER guy and proclaimed them good. I'll go back on Dec 14 to have the stitches removed. I am cautiously optimistic that I can get out for a few more hunts before the middle go January. I cleaned my shotgun from being...
  5. TheBenHoyle

    Ben's 2023 Semi-Live Hunt Log

    Friday's hunt was good in that I had some fellowship time with a friend who is an adult-onset hunter. He's in his 40s and wants to hunt but he also has 4 kids all under 10. We went out last December once and this was his second time hunting. I thought we had a pretty good chance of seeing deer...
  6. TheBenHoyle

    Ben's 2023 Semi-Live Hunt Log

    I did not get up early to be in a spot before first light. Instead, I got up at my normal time to help get my teenager out of bed and then I finished packing the car and getting all my hunting clothes on and after I took my other teenager to her middle school I hit the road. I really just...
  7. TheBenHoyle

    Ben's 2023 Semi-Live Hunt Log

    I usually like to go out for a hunt sometime during Thanksgiving weekend, but instead we took an overnight trip to Champaign-Urbana to watch the Illini confirm the bowl ineligibility. It was a good family trip regardless of the game. Since I have a few days of vacation to burn, I am going out...
  8. TheBenHoyle

    Ben's 2023 Semi-Live Hunt Log

    One of my goals this season was to get my duck hunting buddy his first buck and/or any deer with a bow. He has shot does before with a shotgun, but he is new to archery and he has never shot a buck. I took him out with our bows early in the season and got him up in a tree stand for the first...
  9. TheBenHoyle

    Hunting and Bipolar

    Nicely done. Congrats!
  10. TheBenHoyle

    Ben's 2023 Semi-Live Hunt Log

    Hopefully it will be a few years before I am "really" duck hunting again.
  11. TheBenHoyle

    Ben's 2023 Semi-Live Hunt Log

    Waterfowl hunting started out pretty good as we had 4 ducks land just to the left of our spread and then 6 more land to the right, but this was all before legal shooting light. Just after legal shooting light we had 2 fly right in front of us from left to right, but we were both waiting for the...
  12. TheBenHoyle

    Ben's 2023 Semi-Live Hunt Log

    Next up is a waterfowl hunt with a buddy of mine. I was hoping to get him his first archery deer this year, but there are geese that came in last week by him and they need to be thinned out. Also he has a chance to hunt deer with a shotgun in southern IL in a week so he's less worried about...
  13. TheBenHoyle

    As they lay

    Not my biggest buck, but I was happy to walk up on this guy. Illinois archery hunt on private land. I have a write up of the hunt on my 2023 semi-live hunt thread.
  14. TheBenHoyle

    Ben's 2023 Semi-Live Hunt Log

    Sunday afternoon I drove out by my parents' to hunt in a spot I have hunted many times in the past. It was the same stand where I had a face to face with the group of bucks that I wrote about a few weeks ago. Of course, I get there and realize I don't have my harness and I don't have my binos...
  15. TheBenHoyle

    Ben's 2023 Semi-Live Hunt Log

    Saturday morning we were out in the same spot, but there was little to no action as the sun came up. We were only going to stay until noon, so at about 10 I got down and told my buddy to stay in his spot and I was going to still hunt along the east edge down to a creek and then along the creek...
  16. TheBenHoyle

    Ben's 2023 Semi-Live Hunt Log

    The morning action was bonkers. We had does and bucks all over the place. It was very exciting until about 11:30 and then the deer just disappeared. I am assuming that the bucks chased them off to the west or to the corn. The afternoon was brutal waiting for nothing to happen. But then we had...
  17. TheBenHoyle

    Ben's 2023 Semi-Live Hunt Log

    I'm back from Ohio. Had a real nice adventure but don't have any fresh venison. I could have filled my tag, but it wasn't my main priority for the hunt. I have been helping a friend get into hunting and I was hoping in his third year of hunting he would get his first deer. In the first two...
  18. TheBenHoyle

    Ben's 2023 Semi-Live Hunt Log

    Packing up tonight so I can leave at 7am tomorrow for my trip to hunt in Ohio with my buddy. I have a real good feeling that he will get his first deer and I am hoping to connect with a good buck. We have 4 days, although with drive time it really becomes an evening hunt, 2 full days and...
  19. TheBenHoyle

    My sons 2023 Hunt Season

    Hooray! What a great adventure. Congratulations!
  20. TheBenHoyle

    Aiming Under Deer

    I always hit a little low and to the right of where I aim. Maybe an inch low and an inch to the right. I always just aim at the spot where you want to hit them and for the most part it has worked out. I have had a couple jump the string and I shot over top of them, but they were both agitated...

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