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Originally posted by Jeff Higgins
overbearing game departments and their silly rules
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That seems to be the biggest thing to me. In Illinois, you can't hunt on private land unless you have 40 acres (or permission from an owner with 40 acres). Most public hunting areas only allow bow hunting. Hunting with guns is only shotguns with slugs or muzzleloaders. You have to submit an application for a hunting license for a given season in the summer, and then you are later notified if you have been granted a license and are allowed to buy deer tags.
If you actually manage to kill a deer, you have to tag it immediately and call in your kill. (I guess if you hunt in an area with bad cell-phone reception the DNR is more than happy to confiscate your kill.) You must field dress your deer before loading it into (or onto) your vehicle.