The Numbers Are In 2011

[Ozarks Hillbilly]

Looks like the 09 Spring Turkey Harvest is down slightly from 08 I would have guessed it to be a lot lower with the poor weather conditions we experienced this year.

Our numbers are down for 2011 we had a solid week of rain our second week of season.


    Adult Gobbler   Juvenile Gobbler   Bearded Hen   Turkey Total

2011     30,307               7,511               509             38,327

2010     32,728               8,955               570             42,253

2009     32,028               9,208               593             41,829

2008     35,342               7,395               679             43,416

[nhtrkybstr]

Wow, Ozarks! You folks killed as many birds as we have turkey population! What is your bag limit? We can kill one tom or bearded hen here in NH.

[Fan Club]

The non-res limit is two gobblers, I assume the resident limit is the same. Pleased to say that our camp harvested 5 adult gobblers in Schuyler County to contribute to that total.
 
Thanks for the info Ozark.

[Ozarks Hillbilly]

Fan is correct it is a two bird limit for resident and nonresident alike. Our spring season was extended from two weeks to three weeks several years back. You can take a male or a bird with a visible beard, your allowed one bird the first week if you don't take a bird the first week you can kill two birds during the second or third week just not two birds on the same day. We are only allowed to hunt until 13:00 in the spring you can hunt all day during the fall. Our fall season runs the month of October and you may take two birds of either sex. Back years ago during the spring season you could only hunt until 12:00 the first week and do to daylight savings time hitting in the middle of the season the second week you could hunt until 13:00.
 
Sorry I meant to add that our last Turkey population estimate was at 575,000 birds.

[Ozarks Hillbilly]

Missouri Fall Turkey harvest.

Adult Gobbler  Adult Hen   Bearded Hen     Juvenile Gobbler   Juvenile Hen     Total 
   1644               2164         0                     1390                 3153           8351
        

[mark hay]

That's a bunch of birds ,,,,,surprised with the adult hens ,,,,that many kills and not one beard.

[Ozarks Hillbilly]

Good observation Mark, I never thought about it until you brought it to my attention. I would have thought there would have been a few bearded hens taken as well.

[turkeytracks]

here in wisc. we only get 1 bearded bird in spring per tag, and you dont always get more than 1 tag[:(].  I never seen a bearded hen in my whole life, i hardly ever heard of them before.

[Ozarks Hillbilly]

         Adult Gobbler   Juvenile Gobbler   Bearded Hen   Turkey Total

2010     32,728               8,955               570             42,253

2009     32,028               9,208               593             41,829

2008     35,342               7,395               679             43,416

[Fan Club]

I'm surprised the 2010 harvest is that high, given the 3 successive poor hatches and the poor weather to hunt in this year.

Once again I did my part filling my 2 non-res tags in Schuyler county. Saw a few jakes this year which is promising for the future.

Thanks for the stats, Ozark.