I'm interested in finding a place to hunt in Illinois,preferably gun season, where I would pay trespass fee (unguided hunting fee) or have hunting priveleges in exchange for taxidermy work. I am a licensed taxidermist in PA so it is tough to make any contacts. If anybody has any suggestions or experience with this let me know.
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Don, call Illinois dept.of natural resoures,they'll be happy to give you info.
I guess I can't spell resource to good ,sorry.
We have an area here called Jim Edgar Panther Creek. I would suggest putting in a gun permit in for there. This place is around 15000 acres of prime deer and turkey hunting and all public ground. Each year many B&C are taken. You might also try a search on the Grigsby. This if I spelled it right is a pay hunt but it buts up to JEPC. Look at some of there deer to see the quality. Any more info just E-mail me. Tony
I hunt JEPC during archery season, but have only been able to draw in one year as a RESIDENT firearm hunter. All of the available firearm permits for JEPC are issued during the resident lottery each year, leaving none for the NON-RESIDENT lottery. The best bet for a non-resident firearm tag for hunting public land is one of the Shawnee National Forest counties (Jackson, Gallatin, Pope, Hardin, Jackson). And there are not "many B&C" deer killed each year on JEPC anyway. Occasionally a B&C is taken, but not every year. Several P&Y deer in the 125-155 range are taken each year, however. I have been fortunate enough to take 2 of them myself there over the years with bow.