If you hunt Illinois you support gun confiscation and a 72hr waiting period

Triple C said:

You prolly right Hillbilly...Prolly the same commie craphole as you often refer to about Asheville. Only thing your post proves is you don't know many folks in IL. The folks that populate 99% of the land mass in IL are as good as they come. They'r just as passionate about their guns n trucks as we are down south and all over the country for that matter.

Bout the same in N California...cow farmers, pickup trucks and NRA supporters. And for that matter...bout the same outside of Asheville - cow farmers, pickup trucks and NRA supporters.

Overdramatize...And that coming from you! Wish I was in your league. Truth hurts. If deer hunting in IL is a stand against the 2nd amendment then planting corn that came from IL might as well be the same according to your logic.

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Tio Hey Seuss said:

I've got respect for you NCHB but I don't think that's over dramatization at all. He followed your argument to it's logical conclusion. If you really feel that strong about not supporting a "communist state" then don't talk about it, be about it.
Not that I think anyone is changing any minds here but I wanted to applaud Triple C, Philtuts and Jim for well informed and intellectually sound contributions.

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I'm not saying that there aren't good people in Illinois. I'm sure there are. I know several people from there who moved because they couldn't take it any more. They are just plain old country people.

My gripe isn't with the rural people of the state. My point is that whether you're in Chicago, or in the woods in a rural county, the same laws apply STATEWIDE. It has nothing to do with how good the people are who live out in the woods. It doesn't matter, because the whole state is ruined by the socialist laws that are in place. It can be the most beautiful place on earth, populated with angelic people, but I still don't want to set foot in the state with the laws and policies they have in place.

As if y'all say, everybody who lives in Illinois is a great, rural, gun-and-hunting-supporting person, then why do they let their elected officials counter the laws of our nation and trample them into the ground and treat them like dirt? Apparently somebody votes for the folks in charge, and likes it the way it is.

Your example of Asheville doesn't hold water, because those folks are outnumbered a thousand to one, and they don't dictate the laws of the state of NC that I have to live under. They hold a couple cities, but the state is against them. We have went steadily in the opposite direction for the last decade, as a matter of fact. I was born and raised in NC, and I love it. My heart is here. But if it got to having laws like Illinois, I would leave in a heartbeat and go somewhere that is still America.

You can justify and sugarcoat and claim that reality is fantasy all you want to, but the fact remains that Illinois is one of the most liberal states in the country, with one of the most oppressive governments, and has the strictest gun laws. Noting the great people that live in a rural corner of the state doesn't change the fact that the laws and government go from border to border. And as if you say, 99% of the people in Illinois aren't liberals, why do they keep electing liberal overlords?

And I have no desire or intention of boycotting businesses from Illinois, nor do I really care what they do up there, personally. I just don't want to go there or hunt there. Ever. Period. I've been there. It sucked. I couldn't wait to leave and head south. It was the crappiest state I've ever been in in half a century. If you want to go there and stay and hunt, it doesn't bother me. Everybody is different. I just don't see why anybody would want to go there. Horns don't make a flip to me, but if they did, there are plenty of other midwestern states with big deer that don't have Stalinist laws.

That is just my personal opinion. Yours may vary. I also seriously doubt if your few dollars spent there hunting make a lick of difference in supporting or furthering their state policies, and it would be ridiculous to claim they do.

And I don't have to physically enter Illinois to plant corn seed that was grown there.

I hunt where I hunt, in south Georgia, and I enjoy it very much, and don't give a rip where anyone else is hunting.

Jim Boyd said:

BYA

I tried to research today whether or not all donated deer in Illinois are tested for CWD. Based on what I read today it looks like they are but I cannot find a definitive answer for the “Sportsmen against Hunger” group that I donate to.

I would suspect that the liability of not testing the animals would far outweigh the food gain that they get from it.

I don’t know very much about CWD, but I will note that you have to gut the animal and clean it properly before they will accept it at the meat processing plant.

I was under the impression that certain organs were part of what they tested for CWD.

I am pretty sure they test the brain also, but I am not 100% sure about that. I believe also that I saw deer that were being donated that had been prepared for shoulder mounts and the head was not even in place.

The ones that I donated had the head intact but the skullcap had been cut open to get the antlers removed from the head.

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Thank You Jim.
I have really appreciated your responses in this thread along with any thread and can see the great person you are. I ain’t boycotting anything that helps me. It wouldn’t do any good anyway. I’d rather research deeper first.

BYA,

Your words are kind, sir.

I did not harvest (and obviously did not donate) a deer in Illinois in 2017 but will work to get a definitive answer this year while I am up there this fall.

Hunted hard too - and managed to video some decent 120ish bucks. Maybe a few of these have tacked on 25-30”.

Blew the only real chance I had with a genuine rookie mistake - and he was a bruiser at no more than 25 yards or so.

My bad for sure.

Thanks for your observations.

This thread is something else, and a real eye opener. Probably won't do any good but we all really need to heed the words of Benjamin Franklin.

You outdid yourself on this one, Josh. Doozy of a thread.

Smh

Peace Y'all...

Jim Boyd said:

BYA,

Your words are kind, sir.

I did not harvest (and obviously did not donate) a deer in Illinois in 2017 but will work to get a definitive answer this year while I am up there this fall.

Hunted hard too - and managed to video some decent 120ish bucks. Maybe a few of these have tacked on 25-30”.

Blew the only real chance I had with a genuine rookie mistake - and he was a bruiser at no more than 25 yards or so.

My bad for sure.

Thanks for your observations.

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I just hunt my land & never have been out west to hunt but your posts & TC' s is the way I roll.

If you buy pecans and peanuts from South Georgia you support hunting over bait

You have to know that any "deer hunting" thread that starts off with a breibart link is going devolve into mud-slinging and fear mongering. Them commie yankees is going to get us! Sheesh.

livetohunt said:

I wish more people would quit hunting in Illinois..It is too crowded with hunters already. Those same folks need to stop eating anything with corn and soybean in it also because there’s a good chance it came from Illinois.. Also, they need to quit using any gasoline with ethanol in it because there is a good chance that corn came from Illinois.

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My exact thought Dave!!