Firearms Turkey Harvest Up this Year

(Jefferson City, MO) Preliminary data from the Missouri Department of Conservation shows hunters checked 2,219 turkeys during Missouri's fall firearms turkey season, October 1st through the 31st. Top harvest counties were Dent with 86 birds harvested, Crawford with 82, and Washington with 72. Hunters harvested 1,844 birds during the 2022 fall firearms turkey season. Fall archery turkey hunting continues through November 10th and resumes November 22nd through January 15th, 2024.