North Carolina hunters are becoming an increasingly experimental lot when it comes to turkey hunting. They are using many types of calls, decoys and other hunting strategies, and with crossbows legal for the first time and Sunday hunting available for bowhunters, the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission kept statistics on archery-killed turkeys.
Hunters took 254 turkeys last spring with regular archery equipment, and hunters with crossbows took another 40.
Rockingham County was the archery mecca for turkey hunters, with 19 gobblers and jakes bagged, including 17 with traditional archery equipment and two with crossbows. The only other county with a double-figure archery harvest was Northampton with 10.
No one has admitted to bagging a turkey with a spear or a rock, but we’re expecting it to happen.
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