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A whopping harvest of 2211 Spring Gobblers makes this the greatest spring turkey hunt ever in Virginia and brings the total for the 1970-71 season to 6464, more than 400 above last year’s record total, reports Games Division Chief Dick Cross Wythe county provided the most birds for spring gunners who bagged 135 gobblers there Other important counties in the spring kill were Bland with 88, Grayson where 72 were bagged, Caroline with 69, Augusta where hunters downed 68, Bland and Smyth with 65 each, and Fauquier where 61 gobblers were bagged
Hunters complained that a late cold spring had greatly reduced gobbling activity, but the kill figures don’t bear out these pessimistic observations. The six day extension of the season to compensate for a like number of days lost during the fire closure did not appear to have caused any noticeable change in the kill pattern. A number of Eastern Virginia counties open to spring
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