
Spring turkey harvest up slightly in 2022
Fewer permits were sold for the 2022 Illinois spring turkey season.

Fewer permits were sold for the 2022 Illinois spring turkey season.

Occasionally, when everything comes together nicely, an outdoors adventure may last minutes rather than hours. This was one of those occasions.

An everyday meal harvested from nature’s pantry and celebrated in the home kitchen.

For this writer, during some recent turkey interactions, the birds chose to cooperate.

Bud Grant celebrated his 95th birthday two weeks early by going out on an early May turkey hunt in southeastern Minnesota. Even though he didn’t kill a bird, he said it was still a great

New York hunters are generally a safe bunch, but the statistics we often boast about should never cause us to let our guard down.

In essence, the bill would allow the use of a single-shot centerfire rifle to harvest deer in Illinois.

Hunting springtime gobblers is even harder nowadays because of the proliferation of predators, which has decreased turkey numbers.

The state Game and Fish Department is making 64,200 licenses available, down 8,000 from last year.
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