Hunters shoot 12,970 turkeys during second week of season

The strong second-week harvest pushes this year?s harvest slightly ahead of last year?s.

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JEFFERSON CITY—Hunters checked 12,970 wild turkeys during the second week of Missouri’s spring turkey season, boosting the two-week tally slightly above last year’s figure.

Hunters killed 21,021 turkeys during the first week of the season. This brings the tally for the first two weeks to 33,991. Hunters checked 32,607 turkeys during the same period last year.

Top counties for the first two weeks of this year’s season were Franklin with 713, Texas with 612 and Ste. Genevieve with 570.

The spring turkey season runs from April 19 through May 9. Before the season opened, Resource Scientist Tom Dailey with the Missouri Department of Conservation said he expected a total harvest of 41,000 turkeys during the regular spring season and approximately 3,000 for the youth season, for a spring harvest total of approximately 44,000. The youth season exceeded Dailey’s expectations with a harvest of 3,945 turkeys.

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