Illinois Hunters... help me with out of state regulations?
 

I think I'm going to go over to Illinois and hunt with a friend of mine this weekend. I'm only going to buy a doe tag. From what I can gather on the internet it looks like I'll have to buy a hunting license and then a deer tag. Is this right? It sounded like a grand total of about $75 or so.

1- can you tell me if this is correct about what I need to buy?

2- can you tell me if I can just go into a walmart and buy it? Or is there some sort of drawing I may have missed...?[:@]

Thanks for any help!!

RE: Illinois Hunters... help me with out of state regulations?
 

Unfortunately, there is a drawing for out of state bow tags. You generally have to sign in the spring and you get your tags that summer.

RE: Illinois Hunters... help me with out of state regulations?
 

awww man! I thought I read that was just for buck tags. Dang! Laziness got the best of me.......... :(

RE: Illinois Hunters... help me with out of state regulations?
 

Hey Chris, are you sure? I just found the information that I was thinking of on the IL DNR site:

2008 Non-Resident Archery Antlerless Only Deer Permits are now available from DNR Direct Vendors

On the link of vendors is Wal-Mart... I'm confused. Now I remember why I started this post! [:@]

RE: Illinois Hunters... help me with out of state regulations?
 

You might be right....However, I thought it was for all out of state tags. I only moved to IL 4 years ago so I'm def. not an expert on our out of state regs. I'm sure one of the other IL guys will be along shortly to straighten us out.

RE: Illinois Hunters... help me with out of state regulations?
 

I feel ya, I lived there for 3 and don't know!

RE: Illinois Hunters... help me with out of state regulations?
 

As a non-resident, you buy a 5 day or season hunting license, a habitat stamp, then you can get all the doe tags you want to buy for $15.50 a tag.

The non-resident draw is for an either-sex tag whch gives your the license to shoot a buck!

RE: Illinois Hunters... help me with out of state regulations?
 

Cool - happen to know if I'm in the range of $75 like I had thought?


You Illinois'ians sure can make an easy thing difficult. In Missouri when we want to go deer hunting we buy a deer hunting tag :D

RE: Illinois Hunters... help me with out of state regulations?
 

Nevermind! Found it! I was missing the habitat stamp... when you add that in it's about $80... then 15$ per doe after that. Cool deal! Thanks fellas!

RE: Illinois Hunters... help me with out of state regulations?
 

Thanks Eddie for the clarification. It's pretty sad when a Georgia boy understands the IL regs. better than we do. [8D]

RE: Illinois Hunters... help me with out of state regulations?
 

I'm always glad to help and I suppose I'm just a bit anal-retentive when it comes to regs. I've probably read IL regs cover-to-cover. It helps pass the time waiting for my turn to hunt there. Six weeks to go and I can hardly contain myself!

RE: Illinois Hunters... help me with out of state regulations?
 

So you're wanting to come to Illinois, why? :D As confusing as they are, all of our regs are the reason we have the kind of Bucks that makes people want to leave their own poorly managed State and spend ridiculous amounts of time and money hunting here!

RE: Illinois Hunters... help me with out of state regulations?
 

ppfttt! You've got to be kidding- right? The size of your bucks is relative to the amount of items have to purchase in order to hunt there? mmmkay. If you say so! :D

RE: Illinois Hunters... help me with out of state regulations?
 

No, it is relative to having tight control over how many people hunt where. Name one big buck state where a hunter can just buy permits over the counter and hunt where ever he wants with it. That's what i thought. You mis-understood my reply. Somtimes you have to put on your thinking cap on this forum. ;)