According to the Illinois Department of Natural Resources, this year Macoupin County hunters harvested a preliminary total of 1,200 deer during the Nov. 22-24 opening weekend, outnumbering Pike ...

Anyone who doubts Pike County still is at the epicenter of the deer-hunting world should just ... for about $32 billion in economic activity in Illinois. Sample was planning to hunt Saturday ...

PIKE COUNTY, Ill. — A Jerseyville, Illinois, man was killed Sunday when the motorcycle he was driving struck a deer in Pike County, Illinois. The Pike County Sheriff's Department said the crash ...

Interestingly, Pike County (Illinois top producer has ... deer disease reports and other factors. Hunters in Illinois harvested 4,537 deer in 27 open counties during the Late-Winter season and ...

Late October is the start of rut activity in Pike County, Illinois and Carter had witnessed a great deal of deer chasing around his creek-edge stand set. Having a hot doe run under his tree ...

The Belleville News-Democrat reports the 14-year-old Belleville freshman bagged three deer with just two shots. Vielweber says his luck started in October, when during a youth hunt in Pike County ...

An invite to Pike County Illinois to hunt monster whitetail with ... That is almost three times the size of our Texas deer!!!! Some does weigh close to 200 pounds! With all the practice, I just ...

Pike County may get the headlines, but there’s good hunting elsewhere in western Illinois, too ... “but those who do come generally see deer and some real good bucks have been taken ...

BARRY, Ill. (AP) - An Illinois hunting program is helping to feed the hungry in Pike County. The (Quincy) Herald-Whig reported last week that Access Illinois Outdoors recently donated 10,000 ...

Deer harvest during Illinois ... for muzzleloader season harvest were Pike (140), Randolph (111), Adams (107), Jefferson (99), and Hancock (94). County by county numbers are below County ...

drove 13 1/2 hours to a farm in Pike County, Ill., just about a year ago because Gregory wanted to hunt deer the size of a horse. Well, maybe not that big, but the western Illinois region is a ...