Alright you Illinois boys......
 

Are you hunting in one of Illinois' top 25 deer harvest counties? Or are ya "on the outside lookin in"?

Total harvest #'s for all seasons (from 2005 harvest data) .................
1. Pike 7558 harvested9.1 deer/sq mi50.3 % success
2. Adams 43455.049.9 %
3. Fulton43234.8 49.5 %
4. Jefferson 41247.1 58.7 %
5. Randolph 3465 5.8 53.2 %
6. Macoupin 34243.9 49.6 %
7. Marion 32634.058.4 %
8. Hancock 3100 3.959.1 %
9. JoDaviess 3094 5.041.5 %
10. Jackson 3071 6.344.8 %
11. Fayette 3024 4.250.5 %
12. Pope 2932 7.638.8 %
13. Wayne 29214.061.8 %
14. Peoria 2803 4.445.5 %
15. Williamson 2781 6.544.3 %
16. LaSalle 2709 2.347.9 %
17. Schuyler 2683 6.149.3 %
18. Greene 2656 4.957.3 %
19. Union 2614 6.344.8 %
20. Calhoun 2541 9.846.2 %
21. Knox 25373.453.4 %
22. Brown 2474 8.049.7 %
23. Bureau 2441 2.847.8 %
24. Johnson 23726.841.3 %
25. Franklin 2349 5.152.0 %

Or one of the top ten successful % harvest counties?
1. Wayne 61.8 %
2. Hancock 59.1 %
3.Jefferson 58.7 %
4. Marion 58.4 %
5. Greene 57.3 %
6. Knox53.4 %
7. Randolph 53.2 %
8. Franklin 52.0 %
9. Fayette 50.5%
10. Pike 50.3 %

Or top 10 counties for deer harvested per square mile?
1. Calhoun 9.8
2. Pike 9.1
3. Brown 8.0
4. Pope 7.6
5. Hardin 7.3
6. Jefferson 7.1
7. Johnson 6.8
8. Williamson 6.5
9. Union6.3
10. Schuyler 6.1

RE: Alright you Illinois boys......
 

Nope not me, but you are going to have to drag me off my farm in Jersey Co.

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Doesn't surprise me that Jefferson (my home county) is in the top 5.....no comment :eek:. Now I'm stuck way the hell up here in Henry county (near Peoria) but I am going home this weekend and hopefully I'll be able to take vacation the full or half of the 2nd week in Nov.

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According to a magazine article that I read last year, Pike was #1 for both P&Y and B&C. The counties that I hunt in, Lake and McHenry, were #2 and #3 for P&Y. McHenry was also #3 for B&C. Quality, not quantity.

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Fellows, Fellows, we all know that secret is out, thanks for keeping it quiet about Michigan! hahahahah

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Well, I'm on the top 25 list and the top 10 list (Deer per square mile).

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I live there.

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I hate those lists. If you live in those counties listed, and that top 10 list comes out in a magazine, there is a rush of people trying to move in on ya.(had to get that out of my system).

good list, but There are some really small counties that don't get counted that produce good ones every year.

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Hmmm... Morgan didn't make any list. Oh well, we do just fine here...:D

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Ditto for Lee County

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im glad i aint on that list, cause it is just like someone else said, out-a-staters sea that, and then they decide that they want to come here to hunt the first place they will look to go, is one of those counties and that lists.

Also if u dont have a lot of deer harvested in a particular county it could mean the chances of a buck living long, and getting to be big big buck:):D

Good Lucky

RE: Alright you Illinois boys......
 

Not me. I hunt in Will County. I'm thinking development is taking much of the hunting land here though. The current P&Y/B&C map put out by QDMA lists Will as the 5th best county in the state 1991-2000. However, I've not seen it appear anywhere in the last 6 years.

Oh well. Still better than Indiana.

RE: Alright you Illinois boys......
 

Isn't Will in or near the CWD containment area? If so that could be why.

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not one of my three counties is on that list.....o well less people hunting means more for me!

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My home county and the other two counties are on the list :) and y home county is the top of the three :)

RE: Alright you Illinois boys......
 

One thing to think about is these figures are gun season figures. Im sure next year with our new call in system there will be much better information with Archery and Gun. They are starting to get some much better information out there for those that want to look.



Don

RE: Alright you Illinois boys......
 

I hunt Williamson.....but there's no deer there. I just like to have cocktails at JB's[8D]

RE: Alright you Illinois boys......
 

No - these figures are for all harvest, archery and all firearms combined.

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442 - where about do you hunt in Williamson?My family is fromMarion.

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I just set another stand yesterday in Will county. Small piece of land but mega sign all around. I have to letit settle a little before jumping up there.

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Matt, a little off topic here, but is Hoss your son??
I thought I read that once upon a time, and Hoss is on my Firearms team for the contest. Just wondering.

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Ok I thought these figures where just for firearm. Im wondering though how they figure success rates? Our archery tags are good for the whole state so how can they figure what county is more successful than the other with those tags? I hunt 3 or 4 different counties and they dont know that except for where I harvested the deer.

Don

RE: Alright you Illinois boys......
 

uncle matt,

Do you hunt JTA?

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No CWD in Will County yet. Probably within 2-3 years though.

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Hoss is my son. If something comes along that he wants to take, he certainly has the marksmanship to anchor it.

(Of course he's still just a shadow of his old man!);)

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Don, you do report your harvest right?

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Yes I report my harvest.

But what does that mean to the bowhunters?

What im looking at is lets say "X" county harvested 10,000 deer. How do you know the success rates to that county? Sure I shot a deer in that county and called it in but how do they know how many people are bowhunting in that county to get the "success rates"?? There could be 10,500 people, 6 million people, how do they know that????The people that bowhunt in "X" county do not have to report anything with there archery tag unless they harvest a deer. The gun tags are issued county wide so success information is easily figured out. With archery I dont see how they can figure the success. The total harvest sure.

Don

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Pike as always ... :D

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I haven't lived in Ill. for about 10 years now but only 30 min. away from my Ill. home town in IOWA now.
Just a few picks of some of my Ill. Bucks & none from the counties mentioned-but, a couple are from Lee. Sorry for multiple post. My son with one of my Bucks.

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A couple more-I actually have about 20 like these-but like I said-this ismy 50th year of Bowhunting so I should accumularte something. Good Luck to all this fall. I have passed some of those Iowa Dinks already this year.

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Got this guy in a county not mentioned. I'm happy.

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Funny thing, althogh I hunt Greene, I have to laugh that Jersey didn't make it. Its bodered by Greene, Calhoun, and Macoupin. I also have to agree with a previous reply, that as soon as the word gets out people flock to that area, just look at Pike. Not speaking badly of them at all but when the big one was killed there a while back, ever since it is a nightmare.

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I'm glad Macon County isn't listed. It keeps those Georgia boys on the other side of the state.:D