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title: Firearm deer season harvest totals 76,579
description: During the seven-day 2020 Illinois Firearm Deer Season that concluded Dec. 6, hunters took a preliminary total of 76,579 deer.
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# [Firearm deer season harvest totals 76,579](https://buckmasters.com/news/hunting/hunting-news/articles/id/7048/firearm-deer-season-harvest-totals-76579)

 Written by [Illinois Department of Natural Resources](https://buckmasters.com/news/author/illinois-department-of-natural-resources) | Jul 22, 2025 3:39:06 PM

During the seven-day 2020 Illinois Firearm Deer Season that concluded Dec. 6, hunters took a preliminary total of 76,579 deer. A final total of 75,417 deer were harvested during the firearm season in 2019.

The preliminary harvest for the second segment of the firearm season Dec. 3-6 was 29,432, compared with 25,176 during the second season in 2019. The preliminary harvest for the first segment of the 2020 firearm season Nov. 20-22 was 47,147 deer.

Remaining 2020-21 deer season hunting opportunities in Illinois in the weeks ahead include Muzzleloader-Only Deer Season Dec. 11-13; Late-Winter Antlerless-Only Deer Season and CWD Deer Season in designated counties only, Dec. 31 - Jan. 3, 2021 and Jan. 15-17. Archery Deer Season continues through Jan. 17.

A map showing the counties open to the Late-Winter and CWD seasons can be [found here](https://www2.illinois.gov/dnr/programs/CWD/Documents/Late_Winter_CWD_Map.pdf).

For more information on deer hunting in Illinois, [click here](https://www2.illinois.gov/dnr/hunting/Pages/DeerHunting.aspx).

A table of preliminary Firearm Deer Season harvest totals for 2020 by county, and comparable totals for 2019, is below.

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