11-22-24 First time deer hunting in 4 years and first time gun hunting in 10 years. Was able to get out on opening morning of first firearm season. Had a really big doe come by and shot her for meat. Then, after about an hour from the doe, this buck showed up out of no where and I was able the drop him in his tracks. First time I’ve ever “tagged out” haha.

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If you know me, you know I'm usually hunting baseballs to scoop out of the dirt and throw out my opponents, not hunting deer.... I had been playing a game at Rend Lake College, finished my game and headed home to shower and meet my new niece who had just been born the day before. As I was driving home, headed toward Log Cabin Ln, eating my McDonald's cheeseburger, to my surprise, did I get a dandy. Either way, me deer hunting, deer hunting baseball players, our paths crossed and did not end well for either one of us. Hopefully my last deer hunt with my car!

Her first time ever gun hunting so proud of my wife a 100yd shot and dropped 8 pt buck

Wasn’t having any luck Friday or Saturday morning. Didn’t even want to go hunting Saturday evening. So glad I did!! He came out of the woods and I had to get him.

Brynlee just started hunting three years ago. Last year she got a doe but this year had her heart set on getting a buck! After a rough morning hunt, and not pulling the trigger on another 8 pointer, she got it done that night on this one! Being a kidney cancer survivor, this girl doesn’t back down! We are so proud of her! 🙂

I’ve been watching this buck for a couple years, tons of encounters with him and finally got him this year!

This is my daughter, Kinli Biegeleisen. She is 12 years old. She has been deer hunting for about a year now with no luck. Saturday night 11/23, her and her dad went out and she shot this buck. This was her first deer ever. She shot it on family ground in Iuka. Perfect shot to the heart.

This was 7 yr old Ryker Tolliver's first year hunting and he was lucky enough to harvest his first ever deer with dad by his side at first light on the last day of the first firearm season! After he put his time in practicing with his gun, he dropped this deer at 87 yards! His excitement was through the roof!!

Belle Rive Illinois I went in morning and evenings of 2024 shotgun season and shot this little buck on Saturday Nov 23 on the farm south of Belle rive about 8 miles. My grandpa Mark White and I shared a deer blind and have so much fun hunting together. We donated this to my friends in Ewing who wanted the deer meat. Hunting is so much fun! I can't wait to go again.

Heard footsteps in the woods behind a creek bed…looked behind me didn’t see antlers patiently waited for the deer to move out of the brush so I could see what it was. Turned out being a wide 10 point buck. Had to wait for him to clear the brush.After he cleared the brush I shot right behind the shoulder.Got down after shooting light to find blood….never found any….hot really concerned I shot a deer and possibly injured it. On the verge of giving up and my grandpa says “you check the field line?” I said “no, it’s really thick.”Got to the field line and looked to my right and he was laying there

This old 10 point was taken in Wayne County on opening morning of shotgun season. He had a huge body and not many teeth left. I hunted the area several times during bow season, but this was the first time I laid eyes on him. It’s always a good feeling catching up with a mature deer!

Shot this stud behind our house! I had already shot a doe and was waiting to see what else was coming, he popped up across the creek and his antlers were so dark I thought they were branches!

This is my husband Daniel Droste, he been watching this deer for a week. He finally got him on opening day as soon as the sun came up

Saw this buck across the field. Went down a waterway and figured he was gone. Showed back up along the edge of the woods. Been deer hunting since 1981!!

On November 11th I woke up feeling thankful for my freedom to be able to hunt. I’ve been in my stand all season overlooking a cut cornfield and I decided to change it up this particular morning. I grabbed my climber and decided to sit on an oak flat with an abundance of acorns. Right at daybreak I had 3 does under me eating acorns. At 6:40 this guy came in and turned and headed south. I gave him the “snort-wheeze” and in 20 seconds he was under my stand. I grabbed my compound bow, made a great shot and watched him crash 60 yards from my tree…

I was watching a buck in the field and this one stuck his head out by a pine tree 20ft from me scared me at first when I went to grab my crossbow I hit my cast on the crossbow and he heard me. He was staring right at me so I hurried up and got my crossbow on him and pulled the trigger. Got him with a double lung shot and he dropped after 50yrds.

Awesome hunt with my 12 yr old son Reed Tolliver, we hunted a small permission farm in clay county and this was his 2nd year gun hunting and at 6:55 a.m he harvested his biggest buck to date! What an awesome moment for him but as a father as well!

I drove 4 hours to come back to illinois as I am currently in college in kentucky, it was Friday morning and the first day of shotgun season. He was in a thicket and I could barely see him, just saw his antlers and his nose. I waited for him to move and finally he moved but only to where I could get a shot of. After I aimed and shot he ran to the end of the thicket and dropped. Love hearing the sound of a buck dropping!

Spot and stalk worked out absolutely perfect on November 8! Got to 20 yards on the ground with a compound bow!