According to preliminary data from Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC), young turkey hunters in Daviess County harvested 12 turkeys during the 2018 spring youth season, April 7-8. The turkeys were all adult gobblers.
Top harvest counties were Franklin with 51 turkeys harvested, Miller with 43, and Maries with 43.
Across the state, the young hunters harvested 1,723 turkeys.
Young hunters checked a little over 4,000 turkeys during last year’s youth weekend.
MDC’s turkey biologist, Jason Isabelle, says the drop in harvest can be attributed mostly to unseasonably cold temperatures this weekend and for much of spring thus far.
“Weather was the biggest contributing factor to this year’s low youth turkey season harvest,” Isabelle said. “Temperatures that were well below average probably made it difficult.”
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