(Springfield, IL) — Jackson County, in southern Illinois is the state’s new deer hunting capitol. The Illinois Department of Natural Resources yesterday released the preliminary figures from this year’s shotgun deer season. Hunters bagged over 80 thousand deer, that’s about 500 more than last year. Hunters in Jackson County got the most, about 23 hundred. That’s nearly 200 more deer than the traditional leader, Adams County.
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Illinois Deer Hunters Bag Over 80 Thousand Deer
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Dec 7, 2017 | 7:35 PM