Bowhunting in Illinois in general is open from Oct. 1 to the third weekend of January In 2023-24, bow season for deer was 106 days. Bowhunting is also open during the rut, which is broadly late ...

Rifle use among Illinois deer hunters appears set to make a major jump. Preliminary data from the youth deer season (Oct. 12-14) makes that a bullet point in the second full year for select single ...

Hunters in Illinois harvested a preliminary total of 54,661 deer during the first weekend of the Illinois firearm deer season between Nov. 22-24, a news release says. Comparatively, hunters took ...

Let’s be real: baiting a duck hunting landscape is like other forms of illegal poaching, which disadvantages honest hunters ...

Youth hunters in Illinois harvested a preliminary total of 4,057 deer during the youth deer hunting season Oct. 12-14. Comparatively, youth hunters took 4,576 deer during the season in 2023. Youth ...

ILLINOIS, USA — Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker now has the final say on whether the state will change management practices of a deadly disease spreading throughout the deer population. Two bills ...

ILLINOIS, USA — Illinois hunters bagged more than 54,000 deer during the first weekend of firearm deer hunting season, according to the Illinois DNR. Between Friday, Nov. 22 and Sunday, Nov. 24 ...

A Second Illinois Buck. But Wynn’s deer season was far from over. He would go on to kill another stud buck on November 1. He was hunting on public ground near a large lake and had delayed hunting the ...

ILLINOIS (KFVS) - Legislation aimed at giving hunters more freedom to manage the deer population in Illinois has officially cleared both chambers of the Illinois General Assembly with unanimous ...

The deer's unofficial green score came in at more than 230 inches. Morgeson says he hunts almost exclusively on public land throughout his home state of Illinois, and he documents his adventures ...

WEST FRANKFORT, Ill. (WSIL)-- One day before archery deer season begins a local business that processes deer meat is destroyed by fire. It happened early this morning at Web's Meat ...