Ryan Marsh, of Sherrill, shot this eye-opening, 13-point buck on Nov. 9 with a bow while hunting on private property in Pike County, Illinois. The deer dressed out at 200 pounds, he said.

Wow! An invite to Pike County Illinois to hunt monster whitetail with a bow….. Every whitetail hunter knows that Pike County is one of the leading producers of Boone & Crockett monsters in the ...

Illinois Department of Natural Resources ... Hunters determined to shoot their Pike County monster buck often are criticized for focusing on bucks and not taking management of the doe population ...

The county is located between the large Illinois River and the mighty Mississippi River two enormous drainages that isolate this monster buck habitat. Pike County is hilly and thickly wooded ...