Southwind
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If I were in your shoes I would hop across the border to Kansas and hunt Walk in.
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Wait... You live in Colorado, and can't find a place to hunt trophy white tail????
I thought there were hundreds of thousands of public access areas in Colorado....
Time to get some game cameras, and put some miles on the boots...
You can get an Illinois archery tag over the counter. That's the best time to hunt it anyway.
Missouri has the mark twain national forest south of where I live it is 1,491,840 acres, and has i belive 8 wilderness areas. Within 30 miles of my house are 3 different state owned conservation areas open to public hunting that total about 10 thousand acres. Tags are available over the counter for $225 for an either sex tag, you can also buy a antlerless tag for $25. Food for thought. Denver is a ten hour drive from my house.
Public hunting in Illinois north of I-70 is horribly overcrowded regardless of the rut. Region 5 in Illinois is really the only place that bucks the trend of population to public land with Shawnee national forest and the surrounding DNR and Corp of Engineer properties. Illinois is not a true OTC state for non-resident archery as there is a lottery then the leftovers go to first come first served. Illinois as a state is only around 2% public land and has twice the population of most of the surrounding states. IL DNR is broke and funded at 40% the level it was 10 years ago so there has been very limited improvements going on to habitat. Illinois is a horrible state to hunt if you aren't on private and that nets the highest lease rates in the country.