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Youth weekend adds 4,319 for an overall spring 2012 total of 44,766.
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo
– Hunters checked 40,447 turkeys
during Missouri’s regular spring turkey season, up by 2,120 from 38,327
last spring, or about one percent. The harvest of 4,319 turkeys during
this year’s spring youth weekend, March 31 and
April 1, brought the 2012 spring turkey harvest to 44,766, up about one
percent from 2011. Youth hunters harvested 3,893 turkeys during the
2011 spring youth weekend for a 2011 spring total of 42,220.
Top harvest counties
during the regular 2012 spring turkey season, April 16 through May 6,
were Franklin with 852, Texas with 803 and Greene with 698.
The Missouri
Department of Conservation (MDC) recorded four non-fatal
firearms-related turkey hunting incidents and no fatalities.
The bulk of birds
taken during both this year’s youth weekend and regular spring season
were adult gobblers with 31,813, or about 71 percent. Juvenile male
turkeys (jakes) comprised almost 28 percent with
12,445 birds. Bearded hens made up one percent with 508.
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