For Illinois residents this year, the IDNR has made it available to shoot unlimited does in Pike County, IL during two weekends in January!! Tags are sold over the counter (At the lodge or other license vendors) and you can use any legal weapon in Illinois. (Archery, shotgun, handgun, and muzzleloader).
Heartland Lodge will give prizes [...]
With the 2009 season going strong and alot of good bucks hitting the ground, I just wanted to stop and thank everyone that has had a chance to hunt with us is the past. We have a strong tradition here at the lodge and this year, like the years in the past, you guys are the ones [...]
With 20 days and counting till the 2009 whitetail opener here in Pike Co. IL every minute that goes by only gets our guides fired up even more. The build up of anticipation is uncontrollable and for those of you looking forward to your hunt this fall, the days could not go buy fast enough. [...]
Here’s a few running around.
With the 2009 season approaching and most of the hunts full, now is the time to secure your hunt for 2010. Many of the prime spots will be booked by the first of the year, especially the firearm seasons. You can secure your hunt with only 25% down and with the availability to set up [...]
Here at Heartland Lodge we are all getting pumped up for the start of the Illinios whitetail season. My self and my guides are running around like little kids in Toys R Us every evening, glassing the fields for giant Midwestern bucks, knowing that with every day the season gets closer. For those of you [...]
You still have an opportunity to archery hunt Pike Co, IL. There are left over non resident tags that will be sold first come first serve in Aug, so do not hesitate to make your plans for this fall. Here is a list of the hunts I still have availability during. Feel free to contact [...]
I have discussed the need for food in terms of overall whitetail health in previous emails.
The other avenue in whitetail management that I would like to discuss is water. I find this topic appropriate due to the onset of summer.
Just as all other animals, deer need water to survive. Everybody knows this but tend to [...]
Just to keep everyone updated, we just put out our first trail cameras of the year in hopes to catch a few good bucks we have been seeing around the lodge. One has already exceeded the 100″ mark with plenty of time to go. We ended up putting out the DCL Covert II cameras, and [...]
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Dear Whitetail Hunters,
Here at Heartland Lodge we have started a new month, which in turn brings us one step closer to deer season here in Pike Co, IL. With all of the rain we have had, our food plots have increased growth, by leaps and bounds. Along with that, we have seen some outstanding antler developement while making [...]
