SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — State officials say hunters in Illinois took a total of 50,173 deer during the first weekend of the firearm season Nov. 22-24.
The preliminary total reflects a 15% drop in the number of deer harvested compared with the first weekend in 2018.
The Illinois Department of Natural Resources says that the seven-day firearm season will conclude Dec. 5-8.
But IDNR notes that there are other hunting opportunities under way or approaching. They include archery hunting and hunting with muzzleloaders, late-winter antlerless-only deer hunting and Chronic Wasting Disease hunting in certain counties.
Exposing the Big Game 
Good grief, that still sounds like a staggering number.
Have you heard about the two high school boys, Alex Smith and Cody Hetrick, who filmed themselves torturing a wounded deer in PA? Is that considered hunting? I haven’t watched, but I know enough about these things that I do not need to. Apparently there is another video of at least one of them torturing small animals too, so it isn’t the first time. Typical pattern.
https://www.ydr.com/story/news/2019/12/01/pa-game-commission-investigating-video-boys-brutally-beating-deer/4347580002/
The Internet is giving them the punishment that won’t be given by the usual channels, and the Internet is doing a public service. Thankyou, concerned Netizens!
Sick.