Renamed Thread: Midwest Prep 2024 - Please join in!!! (adding Illinois pics now)

[livetohunt]

Interesting.

I am hoping to hunt during archery in Iowa in 2025 - gonna head up fairly early in the year for a farm search trip.

Jim, I think it is easier to find a farm to lease in Iowa than it is in Illinois. Land also leases for a cheaper price because you do not have the nonresident competition like Illinois. I also hear some of the public land is very good. I think you said SE Iowa is where you are looking? Henry, Appanoose, Monroe, Van Buren, Davis and Wapello are good counties to check. Van Buren probably has the highest hunting pressure.

 

[Jim Boyd]

Jim, I think it is easier to find a farm to lease in Iowa than it is in Illinois. Land also leases for a cheaper price because you do not have the nonresident competition like Illinois. I also hear some of the public land is very good. I think you said SE Iowa is where you are looking? Henry, Appanoose, Monroe, Van Buren, Davis and Wapello are good counties to check. Van Buren probably has the highest hunting pressure.

Thank you Dave!

Yes, I am def gonna start in the SE.

As you know well, not that far from charlies place.

I just don’t have time to look this year but will next year, once retired.

I’m gonna try to find 100-200 acres for the archery season only. I will be a one and done Iowa hunter.

Hope you are doing well, brother.

 

[Jeetdawg]

Good luck to all my fellow Kansas hunters as this is “draw week” according to the email from their DNR….or as we like to say…celebrating @Jim Thompson drawing for the 129th time in a row . Hope everyone gets a tag and we celebrate some Kansas monsters this year.

 

[Jim Boyd]

Good luck to all my fellow Kansas hunters as this is “draw week” according to the email from their DNR….or as we like to say…celebrating @Jim Thompson drawing for the 129th time in a row . Hope everyone gets a tag and we celebrate some Kansas monsters this year.

Amen.

….or some Illinois monsters…

 

[flatsmaster]

Amen.

….or some Illinois monsters…

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Amen brother Jim

 

[Jim Boyd]

Ok here comes the weekend.

Rain Friday - Saturday looks nice and big rain Sunday.

Hope the trails are still evident.

Camera survey coming up!!!!!

 

[Jim Thompson]

Good luck to all my fellow Kansas hunters as this is “draw week” according to the email from their DNR….or as we like to say…celebrating @Jim Thompson drawing for the 129th time in a row . Hope everyone gets a tag and we celebrate some Kansas monsters this year.

With my time as screwed up as it is now I would be better off not drawing KS or IA and spend my time hanging from IL trees for a few weeks.

Although we all know my KS track record for draws

 

[Jim Boyd]

With my time as screwed up as it is now I would be better off not drawing KS or IA and spend my time hanging from IL trees for a few weeks.

Although we all know my KS track record for draws

Yes.

Yes, we do!

 

[Jim Thompson]

Good luck to all my fellow Kansas hunters as this is “draw week” according to the email from their DNR….or as we like to say…celebrating @Jim Thompson drawing for the 129th time in a row . Hope everyone gets a tag and we celebrate some Kansas monsters this year.

With my time as screwed up as it is now I would be better off not drawing KS or IA and spend my time hanging from IL trees for a few weeks.

Although we all know my KS track record for draws

Yes.

Yes, we do!

And...my discover just got charged for KS. Bubba's card dinged too.

Man you gotta be kidding me.

 

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And...my discover just got charged for KS. Bubba's card dinged too.

Man you gotta be kidding me.

Fantastic. Good luck brother.

 

[Jeetdawg]

And...my discover just got charged for KS. Bubba's card dinged too.

Man you gotta be kidding me.

I should have been guaranteed tags with my priority point so I had to check my CC….ding ding…it appears we are gonna be in the tree November 10. Congrats on being drawn for the 129th year in a row

 

[Jim Boyd]

And...my discover just got charged for KS. Bubba's card dinged too.

Man you gotta be kidding me.

For Jim, he has an inside track and it is automatic!

 

[Jim Boyd]

I should have been guaranteed tags with my priority point so I had to check my CC….ding ding…it appears we are gonna be in the tree November 10. Congrats on being drawn for the 129th year in a row

Way to go, Jarrett!

 

[Jim Thompson]

Yep. Come on November!

 

[Jim Boyd]

Can’t sleep so rolling out of Nashville early.

 

[Jim Thompson]

Can’t sleep so rolling out of Nashville early.

Be careful on the road and have a blast

 

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Can’t sleep so rolling out of Nashville early.

Have fun Jim. Be sure to pick up some asparagus for Ron. I'm at the South Coast.

 

[Jim Boyd]

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That is sweet stuff right there!

 

[Jim Boyd]

I have never seen mosquitoes as bad. They are hideous.

Gnats are bad also but the mosquitoes in a different class.

Also have never had a tick here in my life and picked about 10 off of me last night.

Farm is far more grown up, weed wise - than I thought it was gonna be.

Crops are in and look fair.

The ground in the fields is very hard but we got rain (and hail) yesterday and last night. Maybe the rain helped. Hope the hail did not pound the crops.

Off to work.

 

[Mike 65]

We’ll be passing through Illinois Monday heading to Missouri. You can keep the skeeters there. I’ll let ya!