Ultimate Turkey Hunting News

Bear, Deer, Turkey Harvest Data Announced - Feb. 25, 2011
Richmond, VA - Wildlife biologists with the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries (VDGIF) have compiled preliminary figures for deer, turkey, and bear harvests for the 2010-11 fall/winter hunting seasons. The white-tailed deer, bear and wild turkey harvests all declined this year from the previous year which was not a surprise. Exceptional acorn crops across the state coupled with other environmental conditions both this year and last as well as management actions to meet population objectives all factored into fluctuations in populations and harvest trends. The harvest figures continue to indicate that good hunting is available across the Commonwealth for these popular game species.

Get Your Shotgun On Target For Spring Turkey Hunting - Feb. 24, 2011
FRANKFORT, Ky. - With Kentucky?s spring wild turkey season opening in less than two months, now is a good time to make sure your shotgun is on target.

Kansas, Illinois Authorities Coorperate in Turkey Sting - Feb. 23, 2011
SPRINGFIELD, IL - A two-year, cooperative investigation among the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks (KDWP), the Illinois Department of Natural Resources (DNR), and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) has resulted in the prosecution of 11 Effingham County, Illinois, men for violating multiple Kansas game laws. The case had been referred to Kansas by Illinois Conservation Police and the USFWS in 2009 after investigation of a case in Illinois revealed that the same people being investigated there were also illegally taking wild turkeys in Kansas. KDWP Law Enforcement Division investigator Doug Whiteaker assisted in the effort.

Applications Now Being Accepted for Special Turkey Hunts at Lake Mendocino - Feb. 18, 2011
The Department of Fish and Game (DFG) is accepting applications for spring wild turkey hunts, including several for youth hunters and mobility impaired hunters. Three such weekends of hunting are being offered by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) at Lake Mendocino, in cooperation with DFG?s Northern Region and Game Bird Heritage Program. Several hunting opportunities are designed for a hunter to share his or her hunting experience with a guest.

Youth hunters to benefit from turkey hunt on private lands - Feb. 17, 2011
Beginning this spring turkey season, young hunters can take advantage of a special two-day youth turkey hunt on private lands the weekend prior to the opening of spring turkey season in each hunting zone. In Zone A (the southern portion of Florida, south of State Road 70), this youth turkey hunting weekend is Feb. 26-27. In the remainder of the state, this special youth hunt is March 12-13. The youth turkey hunt applies only to private property, the Kissimmee Chain of Lakes Area, the Kissimmee River Public Use Area and Lake Monroe WMA.

Released Gould's turkey flies into conservation history - Feb. 16, 2011
SONOITA, Ariz. -- With a quick flapping of powerful wings, a Gould's turkey flew its way into history books Feb. 9, becoming the 200,000th wild turkey in the U.S. to be captured and released back into the wild.

Get a turkey hunting permit - Feb. 09, 2011
If you didn't obtain a limited-entry permit to hunt wild turkeys in Utah this spring, don't put your shotgun away yet. Permits to hunt during Utah's general statewide turkey hunt go on sale Feb. 24. 2011.

West Virginia Hunters Harvest 1,126 Fall Turkeys in 2010 - Feb. 09, 2011
SOUTH CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Preliminary figures for the 2010 fall turkey hunting season show a harvest of 1,126 turkeys, according to Paul Johansen, Assistant Chief in Charge of Game Management for the Wildlife Resources Section of the West Virginia Division of Natural Resources. The 2010 harvest was seven percent lower than the 1,208 birds checked in during the 2009 fall season.

Apply now for youth quail, turkey hunts at Babcock Ranch Preserve - Feb. 03, 2011
Ten lucky youngsters will be chosen for each of the two quail hunts and each of the two spring turkey hunts on the 16,612-acre Babcock Ranch Preserve in Charlotte County. All hunters will be chosen by random drawing. All hunts are Saturday-Sunday and will be guided.

UNIT 4 SPRING TURKEY APPLICATION DEADLINE FEB. 18 - Feb. 03, 2011
PRATT - While Kansas spring turkey permits are available to all hunters in most of the state, only 500 permits (residents only) will be issued for Unit 4, a western portion of the state bordered by highways I-70 on the north, U.S. 183 on the east, and U.S. 54 on the south.