Here’s a shorty about Ohio’s fall wild turkey-hunting season that comes via Mark Wiley, the Ohio Division of Wildlife’s wild turkey management biologist.
Wiley says the to-date total for turkey tag sales stands at 7,843 permits. That figure is down 1,598 permits that were issued in 2019: or 9,441 tags.
Likewise, said Wiley, Ohio hunters had checked 568 turkeys during the fall season’s first 24 days. A total of 600 birds were recorded for the 2019 season’s first 24 days, said Wiley.
“We remain on track to harvest approximately 1,000 turkeys this fall,” says Wiley. “This total would be on the low end of the state’s average, which is typical in a year with a below-average summer poult index.”
Ohio’s fall wild turkey-hunting season began October 10th and continues through November 29th. Hunters are allowed to shoot one bird of either sex and hunting hours are 30 minutes before sunrise until sunset.
Often, fall turkey hunting is viewed as one of “opportunity,” or where a person archery deer hunting takes a poke at and kills a turkey that happens to stroll by. This helps explain why the number of birds shot with archery tackle far exceeds the number of spring-killed turkeys taken by the same means.
- Jeffrey L. Frischkorn
JFrischk@Ameritech.net
JFrischk4@gmail.com
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