Fall turkey season kicks off Saturday in Minnesota

On the spurs of a record-breaking spring turkey harvest in Minnesota, the fall turkey season promises a return to a business-as-usual pace. The autumn kill usually hovers around a bit less than 1,300 birds.
“We don’t sell tons and tons of fall hunting licenses. … A lot of people, I think, put them in their back pockets in case they see turkeys while they’re deer hunting,” said Nate Huck, the Minnesota DNR’s resident game bird specialist.

This content is restricted to subscribers of OutdoorNews.com. If you are already an OutdoorNews.com subscriber, you can log in here. If you are not and would like to read this and all the other great content OutdoorNews.com has to offer, click here.