The annual firearm deer hunting season starts
Friday and runs through Sunday. Then it picks up again for
another four days between Dec. 5 and Dec. 8.
The total number of deer taken last year in both firearm hunting
season and the much longer bow hunting season was about 180,000.
Paul Shelton of the Illinois Department of Natural Resources
says he expects hunters to take about the same number this
season.
The highest deer densities in the state are in the woods along
the watersheds of the Mississippi, Rock, Illinois and Kaskaskia
rivers and in the Shawnee Hills in Southern Illinois.
Hunters can give the deer to the IDNR for donation to food
pantries around the state.
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