Click here for the BOTW, well the trail cam shot of one, which I used as the leadin to the opening of bowhunting in Illinois on Saturday.

I usually don't start running BOTW, the weekly celebration of bucks bagged by Chicago area hunters, until closer to the rut, but I received a couple good trail cam shots and may start earlier this year.
E-mail BOTW nominations to straycasts@sbcglobal.net.

Yowza! The scary thing about that buck in velvet is that he still looks young! Man are his beam thick though.
Yeah, I would have liked to have seen one like that running around this summer. But I haven't, and am starting to get worried.