New hunter, just bought my first shotgun in the fall and have done some rabbit and squirrel hunting. Parents bought me a mossberg 500 12 guage and now im looking into the bigger game.

After reading through the IL DNR's website reference turkey tags and applying for permits, I'm still confused... I hope someone can shine some light on how all this works for me.

How does the lottery drawing work exactly? I saw on the application, you can pick up to 10 sites you would like to hunt. if you are drawn are you allowed to hunt all 10 of these sites or how does it get chosen?

What is this stuff about group hunting and how does that work? Is it better to enter as a group?

Also, after you receive a permit, how do you go about acquiring tags?

Any help would be appreciated as I don't want to buy a permit without knowing how it works, and i know im passed the resident deadline so the permits are filling up fast.

Thanks in advance,

Tcanuth