Wisconsin Mixed Bag: Preliminary spring turkey kill up 7% from state’s five-year average
A mix of outdoor-related stories from across Wisconsin published in the June 30, 2023 edition of Wisconsin Outdoor News.
A mix of outdoor-related stories from across Wisconsin published in the June 30, 2023 edition of Wisconsin Outdoor News.

Ohio’s spring turkey season is now in the books, so it’s time to put a bow on this year’s hunt.
As usual, I contacted Mark Wiley, the ODNR Division of Wildlife’s (DOW) lead turkey

She called me every name in the book. I thought I’d heard them all.
No, not my wife, girlfriend, co-worker, or boss or even the tattooed gal that cut me off at the gas

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

Groenier retired from the Dane County Sheriff’s Department in 1994 and began making turkey calls shortly after.

When New York’s Department of Environmental Conservation announced that it planned to hold a spring turkey hunt on Long Island, I, like many other Long Island hunters, felt both excitement and apprehension.
Long Island

At noon on May 31, Long Island’s first spring turkey season came to an end.
The season saw hopeful turkey hunters spread out over six major parcels of state land, including the Rocky Point

This year, several Environmental Conservation Officers participated in the Second Annual Suffolk County Youth Hunt.

Thanks to advice from his 8-year-old son, Keith Braunreiter, of the town of Gale in Trempealeau County, shot an eight-bearded gobbler – the bird of a lifetime – April 26 in Buffalo County.
Braunreiter,
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