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Fall turkey season harvest totals 350 birds
By Illinois Department of Natural Resources
Hunters in Illinois harvested a preliminary statewide total of 350 wild turkeys during the 2017 fall shotgun turkey season Oct. 21-29.
The 2017 total compares with the statewide fall gun turkey harvest of 385 in 2016.
Fall gun wild turkey hunting was open in 56 of 102 Illinois counties. The top counties for fall gun harvest in 2017 were Jo Daviess (46), Jefferson (23), Wayne (21), Williamson (21) and Marion (16).