2022 Illinois Whitetail

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Tagged out in Illinois! I passed on this buck this morning and as soon as he got by me I instantly began to regret it. I told Wayne Nations as we were headed to our stands this evening that if I saw him again I wasn’t going to let him go again. Well, he slipped up and retraced his steps this evening.

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