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Virginia’s fall turkey kill totaled 3,639 birds which was only slightly below the 4,253 bagged last year, reports Game Division Chief R.H. Cross.
Last year’s total was only slightly off the 4,534 record fall kill of the year before. Almost all of the drop was in the Central Mountain counties of Alleghany, Augusta, Bath, Highland and Rockbridge, where the kill declined an average of 36 percent.
Most Piedmont counties with gobblers only, hunting declined sharply but numerically the drop was not great. The 158 gobblers bagged in Southwest counties open to fall turkey hunting for the first time last season helped to offset losses elsewhere.
In spite of a 37 percent drop, Bath/county was still the top turkey hunting countyHn the state with 436 of the big birds bagged there. Augusta ranked second with 293 birds checked while in Frederick the kill was up to 276 placing it third in the state.
Samples from counties along the Shenandoah Valley and in the Roanoke area showed about 70 percent juveniles in their fall turkey kills indicating a good hatch. In the Central Mountain counties juveniles made up only 58 percent of the total, the second year in a row that reproduction has been low in this section. O
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