Often from late March through the first week and a half of April, turkeys will still be in wintertime flocks. Love is on their mind for sure, but often after flying down, toms will follow a wad of hens to their morning breakfast location.
Typically, stick-and-string goers get the first crack at springtime noisemakers in most states. Archery-only seasons give bowhunters a chance to hit the woods, often for several weeks, before loud booms start filling the woods.
All animals produce tough meat. Somewhere on every animal will be a cut, or many cuts that are just not easy to eat by grilling on a hot flame.
Four Mississippi men are facing a slew of charges following a grand jury hearing for allegedly poaching turkey among other violations.
In 20 years of turkey hunting, I’d never heard or seen so many jakes. Or been so fooled by so many of them. Big, brawny jakes, their gobbles loud and booming like mature toms.
“On a heavily forested ridge mixed with White Oaks and Pines, the acquaintance mistook movement of the boys as a turkey and fired at the brothers,” the West Virginia Natural Resources Police said in a statement on Facebook.
Turkey seasons are kicking off in many states this month. It’s funny that some people see turkey as the last hunt of the season while others consider it the first hunt of the year. Whichever camp you fall into, this simple turkey schnitzel is a good way to eat some of that “thunder chicken” breast.
The only thing better than hunting for yourself is hunting with your kids. When they successfully kill an animal and are excited about eating it, it makes you feel like you’re teaching them right.
The 2019 Spring Turkey season kicked off Saturday, March 30 in The Volunteer State. Here’s what you need to know to participate.
Lucky winners will receive engaging, hands-on instruction over the course of the three-day hunt, covering everything from Turkey hunting 101 to how to orient a compass.