Advanced Tactics for Hunting Mature Whitetails

Illinois has been one of my favorite hunting destinations for the last 6 or 7 years, and I normally draw a bow and a gun tag, (non residents can shoot one buck with a bow and one with a gun) and with the gun opener this Friday I couldn’t wait to load the truck and head west. I managed to take my best Illinois buck to date in October this year with a bow, and hope my luck continues into the gun season. I hunt with a very close friend in Illinois that farms a few thousand acres of the...

When I quit hunting winds that were good for me and started focusing on the wind direction that was good for the buck I was hunting! Yes, I intentionally hunt winds that are in the bucks favor, not mine.