Ralph Loos: No mystery anymore about where Illinois hunters, sharpshooters are killing deer

Keri Butt, who for many years wrote a deer hunting column for these pages – that is, until she went out and got herself a real job – liked to kick up debates with me by suggesting Illinois DNR’s sharpshooting program was nothing more than “hired hands picking off deer like they’re barnyard rats.”

Or something like that.
Keri had a lot of folks in her corner, too, some who liked to call me up right after deer season and lecture me themselves about, “all these DNR guys sitting in the woods shooting our deer out of season.”

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