The spring wild turkey hunting season ended on May 31 in Minnesota, and it was nearly a record-breaking kill. The 2023 harvest numbers were the second-highest behind the 2020 spring harvest, the pandemic year, since the Minnesota turkey reintroduction began 50 years ago.
According to DNR’s June 6 turkey harvest report, hunters killed 13,652 total turkeys during the entire spring hunting season.
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