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That first-day harvest rate of 30% was actually down from the 32% rate during the 2021 shotgun season, but up from 2020 (26%) and 2019 (27%).

4 months ago in Local Photo: Saga Communications The firearm deer season – on the weekends either side of Thanksgiving weekend – was a successful one, according to the Illinois Department of Natural Resources. The fall firearm “harvest” totaled 76,579, 162 more than the 2019 firearm season. But Peter Schlichting, the DNR’s deer project manager, says it was not that long ago the total was in the six figures. “That’s when I was growing up here in cen...