Fall archery season yields harvest of 803 wild turkeys
SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS, February 23 - Hunters in Illinois harvested a statewide total of 803 wild turkeys during the 2023-2024 fall archery turkey season. The total compares to last year's harvest of 801 and the five-year average of 750 birds harvested.
This season, 25,741 permits were sold (excluding landowner permits) compared to 25,373 for the 2022-2023 season. The season dates were Oct. 1, 2023, through Jan. 14, 2024, and all 102 counties were open for hunting.
Harvest reports were 54% male and 46% female compared to 48% males and 52% hens the previous year. A total of 63% of hunters reported using crossbows versus 36% using compound bows and 1% using traditional bows.
The top five counties for fall archery wild turkey harvest this season were Jefferson, 31; Fayette, 23; Jo Daviess, 23; Williamson, 18; and Ogle, 17.
The following table includes the 2023-2024 county-by-county fall archery turkey harvest results with comparable totals for 2022-2023.
| County | 2022-2023 | 2023-2024 |
| Adams | 8 | 15 |
| Alexander | 7 | 6 |
| Bond | 5 | 9 |
| Boone | 6 | 7 |
| Brown | 10 | 8 |
| Bureau | 5 | 8 |
| Calhoun | 9 | 14 |
| Carroll | 10 | 11 |
| Cass | 15 | 11 |
| Champaign | 1 | 6 |
| Christian | 6 | 7 |
| Clark | 12 | 8 |
| Clay | 22 | 16 |
| Clinton | 8 | 11 |
| Coles | 5 | 8 |
| Crawford | 8 | 8 |
| Cumberland | 0 | 2 |
| Dekalb | 3 | 2 |
| DeWitt | 2 | 1 |
| Douglas | 0 | 1 |
| Edgar | 6 | 4 |
| Edwards | 5 | 4 |
| Effingham | 11 | 6 |
| Fayette | 13 | 23 |
| Ford | 0 | 0 |
| Franklin | 9 | 10 |
| Fulton | 12 | 10 |
| Gallatin | 4 | 2 |
| Greene | 3 | 4 |
| Grundy | 2 | 4 |
| Hamilton | 12 | 15 |
| Hancock | 7 | 9 |
| Hardin | 3 | 2 |
| Henderson | 4 | 6 |
| Henry | 3 | 8 |
| Iroquois | 11 | 10 |
| Jackson | 7 | 5 |
| Jasper | 3 | 9 |
| Jefferson | 19 | 31 |
| Jersey | 6 | 8 |
| JoDaviess | 18 | 23 |
| Johnson | 12 | 6 |
| Kane | 0 | 1 |
| Kankakee | 5 | 3 |
| Kendall | 0 | 0 |
| Knox | 8 | 7 |
| Lake | 6 | 5 |
| LaSalle | 11 | 9 |
| Lawrence | 4 | 8 |
| Lee | 8 | 9 |
| Livingston | 5 | 3 |
| Logan | 2 | 0 |
| Macon | 5 | 5 |
| Macoupin | 13 | 14 |
| Madison | 11 | 11 |
| Marion | 21 | 16 |
| Marshall | 5 | 7 |
| Mason | 14 | 13 |
| Massac | 4 | 8 |
| McDonough | 6 | 3 |
| McHenry | 8 | 12 |
| McLean | 6 | 2 |
| Menard | 4 | 7 |
| Mercer | 10 | 9 |
| Monroe | 9 | 12 |
| Montgomery | 10 | 11 |
| Morgan | 3 | 5 |
| Moultrie | 4 | 1 |
| Ogle | 24 | 17 |
| Peoria | 12 | 9 |
| Perry | 6 | 5 |
| Piatt | 1 | 0 |
| Pike | 16 | 15 |
| Pope | 9 | 5 |
| Pulaski | 3 | 4 |
| Putnam | 4 | 1 |
| Randolph | 21 | 8 |
| Richland | 4 | 3 |
| Rock Island | 6 | 7 |
| Saline | 5 | 2 |
| Sangamon | 3 | 12 |
| Schuyler | 8 | 8 |
| Scott | 3 | 6 |
| Shelby | 11 | 7 |
| St. Clair | 14 | 16 |
| Stark | 0 | 0 |
| Stephenson | 12 | 8 |
| Tazewell | 17 | 8 |
| Union | 12 | 8 |
| Vermilion | 27 | 13 |
| Wabash | 3 | 2 |
| Warren | 4 | 4 |
| Washington | 7 | 11 |
| Wayne | 17 | 12 |
| White | 4 | 5 |
| Whiteside | 10 | 11 |
| Will | 13 | 10 |
| Williamson | 12 | 18 |
| Winnebago | 13 | 14 |
| Woodford | 6 | 11 |
| Unknown | 0 | 4 |
| TOTAL | 801 | 803 |
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