I grew up and lived in IL up until 2006. I hunted Shawnee NF for the most part from 90 until 06. I still make it back home occasionally in the spring to hunt easterns but not this year. I made it back every spring the first five years from Co, but it's an awful long trip from MT now.
I'm always planning on visiting a couple states, but it doesn't always work out. I've been trying to plan a hunt in CA with my oldest son during late March with the shotgun and hook up a little later with a buddy from CO in the SD Blackhills for a bowhunt, but it's looking like neither are going to work out for me this year. If any out of state hunt works out it will be a late May hunt in Nebraska because anytime I do that hunt it's with all three kids and the wife.
More than likely I'll stay in Montana, but that still gives me quite a bit of opportunity to hunt multiple regions of Montana in very different terrain types (ponderosa covered hills, cottonwoods, mountains). Both of my teenage boys will hunt with me, and my wife and daughter may get hunts in also.
