2010 Spring Turkey Harvest Breaks Previous Record

NASHVILLE --- Tennessee turkey hunters have shattered the record for the spring harvest as the 2010 season has come to a close. The previous record for the spring season was 35,877 and this year’s mark is 36,781 and that number is expected to increase as reports continue to trickle in to the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency.

 

The spring turkey statewide season came to a close on May 16. The harvest totals represent an increase of more than 4,700 turkeys from the 2009 totals of just over 32,000.

 

Maury County and Montgomery County, which had entered the home stretch of the season as the statewide leaders, kept their momentum to finish first and second. Maury County had 1,022 birds harvested with Montgomery having 958.

 

Henry County was third with 886, followed by Greene (877), Dickson (845), Sumner (820), Giles (787), Rutherford (774), Hawkins (729), and Marshall rounded out the top 10 (699).

 

The 2010-11 hunting seasons will be approved by the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Commission at its May meeting to be held in Nashville.

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