For 16 or 17 years in a row, I’ve gotten the same phone call from 16 or 17 different deer hunters just before the gun season.

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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (KFVS) - Illinois hunters harvested a preliminary statewide record total of 17,208 wild turkeys during the 2024 Illinois spring turkey season. According to the Illinois Department of ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — During the 2023 Illinois turkey season, hunters harvested a preliminary statewide total of 16,121 wild turkeys. In 2022, the statewide turkey harvest was 13,701 wild turkeys. The ...

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The Illinois Department of Natural Resources (IDNR) has penty to discuss this October with the fall hunting season underway since Oct. 1 beginning with archery deer and turkey seasons throughout the ...

To paraphrase Tolstoy: “All happy days in camp are alike. Each unhappy day in camp is unhappy in its own way.” My unhappy day in camp began in its own way, not to the sound of my 4 a.m. alarm, but a ...

MARQUETTE HEIGHTS, Ill. (AP) -- Jim Bloomer isn't buying any more lottery tickets. Why should he? ``There's nothing I could win as good as this,'' Bloomer said. For a die-hard turkey hunter, at least, ...

Three years after harvesting his last gobbler, legendary outdoorsman and Mossy Oak patriarch Fox Haas notched another turkey tag this spring, rolling out before daylight in a golf cart turkey blind. A ...