Doing the math clearly shows that the number of turkeys killed and the number of hunters who pursued the birds slumped during Ohio’s recently concluded fall turkey hunting season.
The total number of turkeys killed
Hunters in Illinois harvested a preliminary statewide total of 262 wild turkeys during the 2023 fall firearm turkey season, which ran Oct. 21-29.
Each year, the National Wild Turkey Federation’s Minnesota State Chapter partners with the Minnesota Veterans Outdoors Program to host two events: the disabled veterans turkey hunt in April and the disabled veterans deer hunt in
The Minnesota DNR released preliminary reports from the 2023 season and saw an increase in licenses sold, but a slight decrease in turkey harvest.
Even with the decrease in harvest, the 2023 fall season is
“We were stunned to find out how many of these eggs were fertilized, but for various reasons, including hens being killed or bumped off nests, they failed to hatch,” said Richard Gerhold, associate professor at
Ohio’s turkey population is showing signs of bouncing back after a rough string of years that produced poor spring hatches.
Ohio’s poult index, a metric used to estimate nest success for the popular game bird,
With the Pennsylvania Game Commission enacting more restrictive rules governing the autumn turkey hunting season in an effort to reduce the number of birds taken during the fall, turkey hunters have to make the most
Finally, after four unsuccessful spot-and-stalk turkey hunts, I connected on a 22-pound tom that sported an 11-inch beard.
I love to hunt turkeys in the fall, and I use an old-school type of spot and
The fall turkey season opens throughout most of New York’s Southern Zone Oct. 21 and in my opinion, it should be a good one. Other than the first week in May the weather for the
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