{"id":2939,"date":"2025-02-03T10:36:54","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T16:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thexradio3.com\/news\/?p=2939"},"modified":"2025-02-03T10:37:07","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T16:37:07","slug":"deer-season-harvest-preliminary-totals-in-illinois","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/local-news\/2939-deer-season-harvest-preliminary-totals-in-illinois\/","title":{"rendered":"Deer Season Harvest Preliminary Totals in Illinois"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-post pdfprnt-top-right\"><a href=\"javascript: window.print()\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_self\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><span class=\"pdfprnt-button-title pdfprnt-button-print-title\">Print<\/span><\/a><\/div><p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">According to the Illinois Department of Natural Resources, hunters in Illinois harvested a preliminary total of 170,758 deer during all 2024-2025 archery and firearm seasons, which concluded Jan. 19.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">That total compares with a harvest of 160,313 deer for all seasons in 2023-2024.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">During the 2024-2025 deer seasons, hunters took 46.27% females and 53.72% males.&nbsp; Final harvest totals by season and county can be found in the annual deer harvest report, which will be published later this spring.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Totals from specific seasons:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 2em;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><strong>&#8211; Archery deer hunters<\/strong> took a preliminary total of 73,598 deer during the season that began Oct. 1 and concluded Jan. 19.&nbsp; The total archery harvest during the 2023-2024 season was 71,226 deer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 2em;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><strong>&#8211; Youth deer hunters<\/strong> harvested a preliminary total of 4,057 deer during the three-day Illinois youth deer season Oct. 12-14, compared to 4,576 in 2023.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 2em;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><strong>&#8211; Firearm season hunters<\/strong> took a preliminary total of 82,496 deer during the firearm season Nov. 22-24 and Dec. 5-8. This compares to a harvest of 76,494 deer taken during the 2024 firearm season.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 2em;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><strong>&#8211; Muzzleloader hunters<\/strong> harvested a preliminary total of 2,832 deer during the muzzleloader-only season Dec. 13-15, compared with a harvest of 3,378 deer during the 2023 muzzleloader season.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 2em;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><strong>&#8211; Late-winter seasons:<\/strong>&nbsp; The 2024-2025 late-winter antlerless-only and special chronic wasting disease (CWD) deer seasons concluded Jan. 19 with a combined preliminary harvest total for both seasons of 7,775 deer.&nbsp; Season dates for the seven-day late-winter and CWD seasons were Dec. 26-29 and Jan. 17-19.&nbsp; During the same seasons in 2023-2024, a total of 4,639 deer were taken.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Eighteen northern Illinois counties were open to the special CWD season, which is used to assist in slowing the spread of chronic wasting disease in the Illinois deer herd.&nbsp; And 27 counties were open for the late-winter antlerless season in 2024-2025 compared to 23 counties in 2023-2024.&nbsp; Counties that are at or below their individual deer population goal for two consecutive years may be removed from the late-winter season.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Illinois Department of Natural Resources, hunters in Illinois harvested a preliminary total of 170,758 deer during all 2024-2025 archery and firearm seasons, which concluded Jan. 19. 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