Illinois Hunters Harvest 882 Turkeys During Fall Archery Season
Turkey harvest shows comparisons from 2024-2025 to 2025-2026 years.
SPRINGFIELD – Hunters in Illinois harvested a preliminary statewide total of 882 wild turkeys during the 2025-2026 fall archery turkey season, according to the Illinois Department of Natural Resources. The total compares with last year’s record harvest of 1,045 birds and the five-year average of 824 birds harvested.
This season 26,787 permits were sold, excluding landowner permits, compared with 27,422 permits sold during the 2024-2025 season. The fall archery turkey season dates were Oct. 1, 2025, through Jan. 18, 2026, and all 102 counties in Illinois were open for hunting.
Harvest reports were 60% male birds and 40% female birds, compared with 51% males and 49% females reported during the previous season. A total of 67% of hunters used crossbows, 33% used compound bows, and less than 1% used traditional bows.
The top five counties for fall archery wild turkey harvest this season were Fayette, 33; Jefferson, 32; Marion, 24; Macoupin, 22; and Jackson, 20. The table below shows the preliminary 2025-2026 county-by-county fall archery turkey harvest results with comparable totals for 2024-2025.
County | 2025-2026 | 2024-2025 | ||
Adams | 12 | 15 | ||
Alexander | 8 | 1 | ||
Bond | 11 | 21 | ||
Boone | 5 | 5 | ||
Brown | 3 | 9 | ||
Bureau | 7 | 15 | ||
Calhoun | 9 | 16 | ||
Carroll | 8 | 12 | ||
Cass | 12 | 17 | ||
Champaign | 2 | 6 | ||
Christian | 10 | 9 | ||
Clark | 11 | 4 | ||
Clay | 10 | 19 | ||
Clinton | 12 | 13 | ||
Coles | 5 | 13 | ||
Crawford | 12 | 8 | ||
Cumberland | 6 | 4 | ||
Dekalb | 2 | 3 | ||
DeWitt | 2 | 3 | ||
Douglas | 1 | 2 | ||
Edgar | 6 | 4 | ||
Edwards | 7 | 6 | ||
Effingham | 15 | 16 | ||
Fayette | 33 | 37 | ||
Ford | 0 | 0 | ||
Franklin | 13 | 7 | ||
Fulton | 17 | 14 | ||
Gallatin | 3 | 3 | ||
Greene | 3 | 6 | ||
Grundy | 2 | 5 | ||
Hamilton | 5 | 8 | ||
Hancock | 13 | 17 | ||
Hardin | 4 | 7 | ||
Henderson | 6 | 2 | ||
Henry | 11 | 10 | ||
Iroquois | 10 | 17 | ||
Jackson | 20 | 7 | ||
Jasper | 6 | 9 | ||
Jefferson | 32 | 28 | ||
Jersey | 9 | 9 | ||
Jo Daviess | 16 | 23 | ||
Johnson | 15 | 16 | ||
Kane | 1 | 0 | ||
Kankakee | 0 | 11 | ||
Kendall | 1 | 0 | ||
Knox | 13 | 12 | ||
Lake | 0 | 3 | ||
LaSalle | 13 | 15 | ||
Lawrence | 2 | 4 | ||
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Livingston | 1 | 4 | ||
Logan | 7 | 3 | ||
Macon | 5 | 6 | ||
Macoupin | 22 | 19 | ||
Madison | 12 | 18 | ||
Marion | 24 | 24 | ||
Marshall | 4 | 8 | ||
Mason | 9 | 15 | ||
Massac | 2 | 5 | ||
McDonough | 5 | 2 | ||
McHenry | 7 | 17 | ||
McLean | 11 | 9 | ||
Menard | 4 | 9 | ||
Mercer | 8 | 10 | ||
Monroe | 7 | 10 | ||
Montgomery | 16 | 21 | ||
Morgan | 7 | 6 | ||
Moultrie | 7 | 6 | ||
Ogle | 6 | 17 | ||
Peoria | 17 | 18 | ||
Perry | 8 | 14 | ||
Piatt | 2 | 3 | ||
Pike | 12 | 25 | ||
Pope | 8 | 6 | ||
Pulaski | 5 | 3 | ||
Putnam | 9 | 3 | ||
Randolph | 13 | 19 | ||
Richland | 6 | 3 | ||
Rock Island | 12 | 5 | ||
Saline | 10 | 7 | ||
Sangamon | 13 | 22 | ||
Schuyler | 13 | 11 | ||
Scott | 2 | 1 | ||
Shelby | 10 | 15 | ||
St. Clair | 9 | 13 | ||
Stark | 1 | 1 | ||
Stephenson | 6 | 20 | ||
Tazewell | 6 | 12 | ||
Union | 14 | 5 | ||
Vermilion | 11 | 10 | ||
Wabash | 5 | 3 | ||
Warren | 2 | 2 | ||
Washington | 13 | 8 | ||
Wayne | 19 | 13 | ||
White | 4 | 5 | ||
Whiteside | 10 | 18 | ||
Will | 9 | 15 | ||
Williamson | 16 | 14 | ||
Winnebago | 11 | 17 | ||
Woodford | 9 | 12 | ||
Total | 882 | 1,045 |
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