The three-week gobbler season ended recently with hunters taking 344 birds, the second lowest harvest this century, but still considerably better than last year’s alarmingly-low take. Good weather and more mature males helped boost the harvest.
COUNTY
HARVESTS
- 2000 351
- 2001 394
- 2002 544
- 2003 424
- 2004 505
- 2005 517
- 2006 511
- 2007 412
- 2008 503
- 2009 487
- 2010 513
- 2011 519
- 2012 566
- 2013 525
- 2014 396
- 2015 390
- 2016 375
- 2017 374
- 2018 284
- 2019 344
