RE: Question on hunting in Illinois
 

that sounds like it gets expensive fast. It might be worth it though

RE: Question on hunting in Illinois
 

Everyone has been very helpful. This site is awesome. I wish I could hunt with some of you guys. I don't plan to hunt Illinois anymore. Illinois is 910 miles from my house anyway and Florida has alot less hassles . However are deer are some what smaller. At this point of my life I'm still at the putting venison on the table stage. I plan to spend 40.00 dollars to hunt the place where one of those trophy bucks were taken that I listed on this site today.
Have a great day.
Chuck

RE: Question on hunting in Illinois
 

illinois has all the stupid laws because they keep voting in the democrats.in a few years they will be lucky to have a gun at all.

RE: Question on hunting in Illinois
 

The problem is Chicago and the metropolitan area around it. What Chicago and mayor Daley wants they get!! If you can overcome the cost, the large amounts of private ground, and the hassle, Illinois has some awesome bucks.

RE: Question on hunting in Illinois
 

I was also in the same situation this year. I had permission to hunt a 1500 acre farm but was unable to pull a buck tag. When I contacted the NWR it was like this was their first call and knew not much more than I did, which wasn't much. As far as them selling out of archery tags in 1 day last year yes this is true. A friend of mine works for a company that videos and had a planned hunt in Ill. After doing their research they were told that P.I.T.A. had bought every non resident bowhunting tag and burnt them. I have no idea how they pulled this off but it is a true story. It just goes to show you how much this crazy organization has grown. Just hope that something is done to keep this from happening again.

RE: Question on hunting in Illinois
 

I WONDER WHAT THE FINE WOULD BE FOR BUYING A RESIDENT LICENSE IF YOU GOT CAUGHT WITH PRICES LIKE THAT OTHER SITE IS TALKING IT MIGHT BE WORTH FINDING OUT.

re:reply to skidmark
 

You are right the PETA orginazation is growing and is getting more radical every year. It is also true that they did buy up some of the non-resident bowhunting permits but not all of them. We finally got through the over the phone tag sales at around 10:00a.m. the first day they went on sale and got 4 for our group. We have obtained tags every year for the last 4 years and hunt on public ground only and love hunting Illinois. Although if their tags go up to $500 screw it they can all fund their own wildlife department because thats ridiculous.

RE: re:reply to skidmark
 

Well I hate PETA as much as the next hunter and they may have bought some tags but they sure didn't get anywhere close to all of them. I and all my buddies got theirs as did thousands of others. The one day sell out was basically due to the high demand.

RE: Question on hunting in Illinois
 

its crazy for them to think that buying a couple thousand NR archery tags is going to save anydeer in il. i mean what would 2000 NR bowhunters kill.maybe 200 deer at a 10 percent sucess rate.they killed 114,000 deer up there in 10 days of gun hunting.PETA nothing but a bunch of idiots.