Fall archery hunters reach third-highest turkey harvest on record for season
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2/9/2023
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Jayette Bolinski
Fall archery hunters reach third-highest turkey harvest on record for season
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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.
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 | |
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