Regular spring turkey season ends with 44,187 birds harvested

Turkey hunters checked 44,187 birds during Missouri’s 2016 regular spring turkey season April 18 through May 8.

Top harvest counties were Franklin with 961 birds checked, St. Clair with 878 and Texas with 861.

In Phelps County, there were 641 turkeys harvested. That breaks down to 510 adult gobblers, 125 juvenile gobblers and six bearded hens.

Also, in the county, there were 39 turkeys harvested by youth, including 29 adult gobblers, nine juvenile gobblers and one bearded hen.

Get more information  by county at extra.mdc.

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