Harpole’s Heartland Lodge Hunting Blog

I am looking forward to a great year here in west central Illinois, and with all of the issues that surround the hectic life styles of the modern world, including the ever pressing gas prices, I can’t help but look to this year’s deer season to relief.  You know, a whitetail deer hunter is truly a different breed.  Just imagine the amount of patience you have to sit up in a treestand and wait hours on end for an opportunity at a whitetail deer.  That patience is what sets us a part from everyone else. Even here in Pike Co, Illinois, “Land of The Giants” it takes a tremendous amount.  You could be hunting over the best food plots in the state, have the best hunting gear that money can buy, and still go home empty handed.  Yet tomorrow you will wake up and do it all over again.  I personally think this is a god given skill and a true passion that is only shared by those who have whitetail deer hunting, running through there veins.   

Here at Heartland Lodge we are getting ever so close to the beginning of another chapter of our long standing tradition of providing quality whitetail hunts for those who get the chance to hunt Pike Co, IL.  With the unseasonably amount of rain we have had, the crop, and food plot growth has been extremely potent, only making the evenings out glassing the fields that much more exciting.  The thought of a Boone and Crocket buck appearing just before last light, lingers every time we venture out. 

 I truly hope you have a chance to join us out in the woods this fall and look forward to sharing many memories.