When does your Turkey season start?

[Dean Romig]

Originally Posted by Bruce Hering

Here are the seasons for the Southern zone in Illinois. Permits are by drawing unless you are a landowner and can get one via the landowner permit system. A hunter is allowed 3 permits per Spring season.

1st Season April 5 April 9
2nd Season April 10 April 15
3rd Season April 16 April 21
4th Season April 22 April 28
5th Season April 29 May 6

Wow! That’s almost as bad as the Maine fishing laws...





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[Bruce Hering]

Originally Posted by Dean Romig

Wow! That’s almost as bad as the Maine fishing laws....

Dean:

Illinois politics.... Money for the paid permits. If ya want to play, ya gotta pay.

As a qualifying land owner I get mine free. 40 acres or more and you are good to go.

We have a similar deer permit system which allows the taking of one(1) deer either sex and one(1) antlered only by either gun and bow. There are free permits for land owners and paid permits via a drawing on a county by county basis for everyone else.

FYI

We are lucky to have over 200 ac to hunt on.

[Bruce Hering]

Originally Posted by Dean Romig

Wow! That’s almost as bad as the Maine fishing laws....

Dean:

Illinois politics.... Money for the paid permits. If ya want to play, ya gotta pay.

As a qualifying land owner I get mine free. 40 acres or more and you are good to go.

We have a similar deer permit system which allows the taking of one(1) deer either sex and one(1) antlered only by either gun or bow. There are free permits for land owners and paid permits via a drawing on a county by county basis for everyone else.

FYI

We are lucky to have over 200 ac to hunt on and we can grow some pretty good deer: