SPRINGFIELD – Hunters in Illinois harvested a statewide total of 801 wild turkeys during the 2022-2023 fall archery turkey season between Oct. 1 and Jan. 15.
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The total compares with the statewide fall archery turkey harvest of 683 in 2021-2022 and is the third-highest harvest total on record for the season in Illinois. The top five counties for fall archery wild turkey harvest this season were Vermilion with 27 turkeys harvested; Ogle, 24; Clay, 22; Marion, 21; and Randolph, 21.
This season, 25,373 permits were sold (excluding landowner permits), compared to 24,768 for the 2021-2022 season. All 102 counties were open for hunting. The harvest consisted of 48% males and 52% hens.
Below is a summary table of harvest by county compared to last year’s totals.
County | 2022-2023 | 2021-2022 | ||
Adams | 8 | 12 | ||
Alexander | 7 | 4 | ||
Bond | 5 | 4 | ||
Boone | 6 | 1 | ||
Brown | 10 | 9 | ||
Bureau | 5 | 12 | ||
Calhoun | 9 | 9 | ||
Carroll | 10 | 6 | ||
Cass | 15 | 21 | ||
Champaign | 1 | 4 | ||
Christian | 6 | 5 | ||
Clark | 12 | 9 | ||
Clay | 22 | 11 | ||
Clinton | 8 | 12 | ||
Coles | 5 | 6 | ||
Crawford | 8 | 5 | ||
Cumberland | 0 | 3 | ||
DEKALB | 3 | 0 | ||
DeWitt | 2 | 2 | ||
EDGAR | 6 | 0 | ||
Edwards | 5 | 1 | ||
Effingham | 11 | 7 | ||
Fayette | 13 | 11 | ||
Ford | 0 | 1 | ||
Franklin | 9 | 6 | ||
Fulton | 12 | 21 | ||
Gallatin | 4 | 1 | ||
Greene | 3 | 3 | ||
Grundy | 2 | 2 | ||
Hamilton | 12 | 7 | ||
Hancock | 7 | 14 | ||
Hardin | 3 | 2 | ||
Henderson | 4 | 9 | ||
Henry | 3 | 8 | ||
Iroquois | 11 | 1 | ||
Jackson | 7 | 9 | ||
Jasper | 3 | 6 | ||
Jefferson | 19 | 25 | ||
Jersey | 6 | 4 | ||
JoDaviess | 18 | 15 | ||
Johnson | 12 | 7 | ||
Kankakee | 5 | 2 | ||
Kendall | 0 | 3 | ||
Knox | 8 | 17 | ||
Lake | 6 | 1 | ||
LaSalle | 11 | 6 | ||
Lawrence | 4 | 4 | ||
Lee | 8 | 11 | ||
Livingston | 5 | 2 | ||
Logan | 2 | 2 | ||
Macon | 5 | 5 | ||
Macoupin | 13 | 8 | ||
Madison | 11 | 13 | ||
Marion | 21 | 15 | ||
Marshall | 5 | 4 | ||
Mason | 14 | 10 | ||
Massac | 4 | 4 | ||
McDonough | 6 | 5 | ||
McHenry | 8 | 7 | ||
McLean | 6 | 5 | ||
Menard | 4 | 4 | ||
Mercer | 10 | 6 | ||
Monroe | 9 | 7 | ||
Montgomery | 10 | 2 | ||
Morgan | 3 | 5 | ||
Moultrie | 4 | 1 | ||
Ogle | 24 | 14 | ||
Peoria | 12 | 13 | ||
Perry | 6 | 9 | ||
PIATT | 1 | 0 | ||
Pike | 16 | 13 | ||
Pope | 9 | 9 | ||
Pulaski | 3 | 1 | ||
Putnam | 4 | 3 | ||
Randolph | 21 | 5 | ||
Richland | 4 | 3 | ||
Rock Island | 6 | 17 | ||
Saline | 5 | 4 | ||
Sangamon | 3 | 13 | ||
Schuyler | 8 | 12 | ||
Scott | 3 | 4 | ||
Shelby | 11 | 7 | ||
St. Clair | 14 | 9 | ||
Stark | 0 | 1 | ||
Stephenson | 12 | 8 | ||
Tazewell | 17 | 5 | ||
Union | 12 | 10 | ||
Vermilion | 27 | 12 | ||
Wabash | 3 | 1 | ||
Warren | 4 | 2 | ||
Washington | 7 | 4 | ||
Wayne | 17 | 14 | ||
White | 4 | 2 | ||
Whiteside | 10 | 7 | ||
Will | 13 | 12 | ||
Williamson | 12 | 11 | ||
Winnebago | 13 | 10 | ||
Woodford | 6 | 9 | ||
TOTAL | 801 | 688 | ||
