Best intentions to prevent poaching, I understand, but this is ridiculous. A step too far, in my opinion. The state of IL is requiring hunters to either 1) hunt a species they may not care to, or 2) pretend to want to hunt a species they may not care to. There have been a few years where I didn't buy deer tags, or didn't qualify for tags, in certain states, but I still hunted coyotes there. BS that they'd require a deer tag to hunt coyotes over any date.