Texas County finished in second place in the state in the spring firearms turkey season, the Missouri Department of Conservation said.
The season ended Sunday.
Preliminary data from the MDC shows turkey hunters checked 36,231 birds during Missouri’s 2019 regular spring turkey season, April 15 through May 5. Top harvest counties were Franklin with 785 birds checked, Texas with 729, and Callaway with 672. Other top counties were: Laclede (635), Phelps (607) and Osage (606).
Young turkey hunters harvested 2,546 birds during the 2019 spring youth season, April 6-7, bringing the overall 2019 spring turkey harvest to 38,777.
Last year, young turkey hunters harvested 1,729 birds during the spring youth season and hunters harvested 34,072 during the regular spring season for a 2018 spring season total harvest of 35,801 birds.