Registered: Dec 2008
Location: Illinois
Posts: 331

Tonight is the opener for the Illinois kill season. To bad I won't be able to get out until who knows when. Hope everyone has a great season

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Registered: Jan 2009
Location: Central Illinois
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I live south of Rt 36, so I will have to wait 5 more days. I could drive north, I know some places, but I will likely just hunt my squirrel dogs until then. Good luck.

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Registered: Dec 2008
Location: Illinois
Posts: 331

true, it is the opener for the northern zone. Southern is in a few days. I live very close to 36 so I can hunt the both zones, but we do most of our hunting in the northern zone

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Registered: Mar 2005
Location: Illinois
Posts: 2043

ya i cant stand it. im on call till sunday at midnight. two more days and i will be hitting it hard. i took all but monday off for it this next week.. i am lucky enough to live in a town that rt 36 runs through and have timbers on both sides to hunt before the southern zone comes in and when the northern zone goes out. where is every one else form?

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Registered: Jun 2003
Location: waldo wi
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hope ya have a good time!!lots of corn on ta run in down there?,, ours is a mess up here!! guys that didnt get their beans off are ahvin a terrible time too!!! i finally got some decent plowin done the last couple days

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Registered: Aug 2009
Location: Cleveland, Tx
Posts: 308

it must suck having a "kill season" down here its all fair game here, but i guess thats why there isn't as many.

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Registered: Apr 2004
Location: Cutler, Il.
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Allen, back in the 60's there were alot of coon over on Hardin side of the Trinity river. K.K. Compton (who lived just north of Harden) & I kept track for a 2 month period of hunting 3-5 nights a week, & we averaged treeing Just over 8 coon a night.

We each had 2 dogs & one night all 4 dogs treed in a Pecan grove, by standing in 1 spot, we could see all 4 dogs & see the coon that each dog had treed. Thats where I seen my first Alligator in the wild also. We treed a coon in supposedly the biggest Cypress tree in the U.S. & would park sometimes under what they said was the largest Holly tree in the U.S.

Didn't like it though when the dogs got into some of those rough spots of the BIG THICKET.

That place still ranks in the top 5 coon hunting spots that I have hunted in my lifetime.

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Registered: Dec 2008
Location: Illinois
Posts: 331

Ron, we have 140 acres of beans left and 700 acres of corn to go yet. I'm not sure what the coon are doing yet, My dad saw one up a tree while turning the combine on the end of the bean field tonight. I'm not gonna be able to get out until next weekend at the earliest.

Dang Ron you need to stay in the house for awhile so you can heal up good

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Registered: Nov 2008
Location: Pinckneyville, IL
Posts: 959

3 more days for us down south. can't wait

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Registered: Aug 2009
Location: Cleveland, Tx
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Originally posted by John Wittenborn
Allen, back in the 60's there were alot of coon over on Hardin side of the Trinity river. K.K. Compton (who lived just north of Harden) & I kept track for a 2 month period of hunting 3-5 nights a week, & we averaged treeing Just over 8 coon a night.

We each had 2 dogs & one night all 4 dogs treed in a Pecan grove, by standing in 1 spot, we could see all 4 dogs & see the coon that each dog had treed. Thats where I seen my first Alligator in the wild also. We treed a coon in supposedly the biggest Cypress tree in the U.S. & would park sometimes under what they said was the largest Holly tree in the U.S.

Didn't like it though when the dogs got into some of those rough spots of the BIG THICKET.

That place still ranks in the top 5 coon hunting spots that I have hunted in my lifetime.

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