By Jacque Day
Metropolis, IL – Illinois deer hunters are gearing up for the final weekend of the 2010 Illinois firearm deer season. It resumes this Thursday and goes through Sunday. The Illinois Department of Natural Resources reports that Illinois hunters harvested more than 68-thousand deer during the season's opener November 19 through 21. That number was up, nearly 2,000 from this time last year. Just over 400 of those deer were logged in Massac County.