General Hunting Blog

Pike County, IL Deer Hunting

Pike County, Illinois is world renown for being one of the best places in the nation to harvest a trophy whitetail. The combination of multiple habitat features promotes quality deer numbers and produces year after year, multiple world class deer. Pike County lies in between the Mississippi and Illinois rivers. …

Trail Camera Experiment

There are so many advantages to using trail cameras that I believe they far outweigh not using them. Especially from a trophy hunters point of view, they’re invaluable for getting dialed in on your target buck. But with the good comes the bad, and to illustrate some of the negative effects …

A Father and Son’s First Deer

A hunter’s first deer holds a special place in any hunter’s memory. It doesn’t matter how big or small, buck or doe, it’s a memory you’ll cherish for the rest of your life. For Marshall and his son Mattingly, the long journey to harvest their first deer started with Mattingly …

Jeff Mohney’s 140” Eight Point

It was the second evening of Jeff Mohney’s late muzzleloader hunt at the Heartland Lodge, the weather was near record highs for mid-December and deer movement had been relatively slow. With a major cold front moving through the next day, hopes were high that deer activity would be increasing throughout …

Heartland Lodge

10236 393rd St.
Nebo, IL
62355

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