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Tuesday, October 15th, 2024

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Tuesday, October 15th, 2024

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Sportsmen Since 1968

Could Illinois bowhunters flirt with record harvest mark this season?

While 2023-24 numbers are not available, the 2022-23 archery deer season in Illinois had a harvest of 68,625. The record season was 2020, when bowhunters took 75,106 deer. (File photo by Bill Thornley)

More than nine months after it ended, the Illinois DNR has yet to release harvest totals from the 2023-24 archery deer season.
But the somewhat mysterious lack of numbers coming out of Springfield isn’t affecting anticipation for the Oct. 1 opener of a new season. More concerning to hunters are reports of dead deer being found in woods, fields, and ponds as late summer winds down, evidence that epizootic hemorrhagic disease outbreaks in neighboring Indiana and Michigan have also hit here.

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