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Ohio's fall turkey hunting season under way

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Hunters harvested 362 wild turkeys during the first week of Ohio's fall wild turkey hunting season, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR), Division of Wildlife.

The fall wild turkey season opened on October 8 and will run through November 27. Hunting hours are a half-hour before sunrise to sunset. The bag limit is one turkey of either sex per hunter for the fall season. A fall turkey permit is required in addition to a current Ohio hunting license.

Last year, hunters killed 417 birds in the same time period. The top 10 counties for wild turkeys killed to date are: Noble-18, Knox-17, Guernsey-15, Monroe-14, Coshocton, Holmes, and Richland-13, Ashtabula and Highland-12, and Tuscarawas-11.

Wild turkeys can be hunted in 48 counties during the fall season. More than 20,000 hunters pursued wild turkeys in Ohio last fall.

Turkeys must be checked by 11:30 p.m. the day of harvest.

The following is a breakdown by county of wild turkeys killed  through October 16. The number taken during the 2010 fall turkey season is marked in (_): 2011 (2010). A final tally will be provided at the close of the season.)

Adams -9 (6); Ashland –3 (13); Ashtabula –12 (28); Athens –7 (4); Belmont –10 (1); Brown –9 (8); Carroll –8 (6); Clermont – 5(14); Columbiana –10 (11); Coshocton –13 (28); Cuyahoga -0 (0); Defiance –4 (5); Gallia –10 (15); Geauga –10 (12); Guernsey –15 (13); Harrison –8 (14); Highland –12 (14); Hocking –3 (4); Holmes –13 (7); Jackson –9 (8); Jefferson –3 (4); Knox –17 (22); Lake –3 (0); Lawrence –4 (5); Licking –7 (12); Lorain –7 (3); Mahoning –4 (5); Medina –1 (8); Meigs –6 (14); Monroe –14 (5); Morgan –6 (5); Morrow –1 (3); Muskingum –7 (9); Noble –18 (10); Perry –7 (6); Pike –4 (4); Portage –6 (9); Richland –13 (9); Ross –5 (8); Scioto –6 (6); Stark –5 (7); Summit -2 (4); Trumbull –10 (15); Tuscarawas –11 (10); Vinton –9 (8); Washington - 6 (10); Wayne -2  (2) and Williams -8 (3). Preliminary total –362 (417).[[In-content Ad]]

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