Fall archery hunters reach third-highest turkey harvest on record for season
SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS, February 10 - 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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