Mike Repp
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Illinois second gun season proved to be a hard hunt. Thursday started out as a pretty good day, partly cloudy temps in the 30's. But all that was about to change. Temps were falling most of the day by 4 in the afternoon sleet had turned to freezing rain. By the end of shooting time I was covered in ice which I had to break off of myself. I awoke the next morning to blowing and drifting snow and still more coming down. I stay in a little town called Augusta, the intersection of 2 small rural routes. At 5 in the morning jumped in the truck and headed out. I made it about an 1/8 of a mile out of town and decided to turn back. The road was impassable with 5' drifts and white out conditions. Waited till 8 and ventured out again, it normally takes 10-15 minutes to get to where I hunt, took an hour. No plows but someone had blazed a path which I dutifully followed, 4wd all the way. By this time the snow had stopped falling and we had 16" on the ground. The good thing about snow is those brown bodies sure do silloutte nicely. Deer werent moving around much having been beaten down all night. Saw a few spikes and basket racks but no shooters. This was pretty much the norm for the rest of the weekend. My friend Kurt shot a nice 9pt. I took a doe on Sunday to supplement the one I had from first season. here are few pics me in the stand and my buddies deer:
