Springfield – Almost true to script, the second firearms deer hunting season ended with absolutely no surprises. Unless you count a 30-point doe as unexpected. Yes, included in the 31,259 deer taken during the Dec.
Friday of the second Illinois firearm deer season had dawned as a beautiful day for hunting. After watching a parade of a dozen does and fawns wander through the wooded hollow below my ladder-stand, I
Muzzleloader hunters killed 4,827 deer over the weekend, topping last year’s total of 3,328. That’s still far below the state record of 5,973 killed during the 2006 season, but is still considered good news for
Fox Lake, Ill. – Ryan Stochl gave up the chance of putting his name in the Illinois record books so that his 50¾-inch muskie, caught on the Chain would live. But at least for Stochl,
Marion, Il. – This was the most anticipated duck hunting season in recent Illinois history. For the first time, the state’s waterfowlers kicked off the season with a fourth waterfowl hunting zone. In theory, that
Region I A CPO received a complaint from the Springfield DNR office regarding a Boone County citizen who had purchased a live woodchuck in Iowa and brought it into Illinois without procuring a furbearer possession
Springfield – Luke Michael Tilly may eventually discover the deer hunting depression that goes with setting the bar extraordinarily high at such an early age. Translation: At 12, Tilly may never again kill a buck
This time of year the cold north winds blow and it seems that everyone has hard water on his or her minds. Hard water is fun, but I would rather put it in my cooler
A couple of weeks ago I was catching up on some reading when I came across Tony Peterson’s article “To Stop or Not to Stop” in the early October issue of Illinois Outdoor News. Peterson
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