Flatlander Outdoors

Newsletter # 6

Illinois slow down
Even though the deer hunting in Illinois is slowing down
the days in the outdoors of autumn are far from over.

Good friend Josh Byrd from Pennsylvania put his coveted buck tag on a nice deer this season. The folks from PA. are allowed 1 buck for the entire season and Josh had his eye on this Giant for much of the season.

After a long and grueling season and the disappearance
of the Big 8, Josh decided to pull a management buck
off the property and continue to hone his archery skills
at the last of the buck season with this beautiful deer.

Many of the Illinois hunters are filling the whitetail void

with lots of other critters, Kevin Stuepfert trapped
this nice beaver, and will look really nice tanned
hanging on the wall of his man cave

Jim Crowley got the opportunity to hunt with Mark Rongers and Johnny Vucko of the Mighty Layout boys the other day. www.mightylayoutboys.com Layout boat hunting on lake Michigan. Chicago in the back ground and a boat full of multi- specie ducks makes a good way to break up the monotony of the flatlands of central Illinois.

Jim and some nice Bluebills

Meanwhile on the baron corn stubble tundra of the Midwest, Lile Stein (The nation’s best coyote hunter in my opinion) continues to get in the Christmas spirit by making life easier for the occasional pheasant and rabbit that continually look for cover these days.