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PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Turkey hunting season is underway in Rhode Island. That doesn’t mean turkey bagging season has started.
The wild turkey is known as a wily bird. The animal, once scarce in Rhode Island, figures to pose a real challenge to hunters.
The season began a half hour before sunrise yesterday.
The spring season runs through […]

Citations for illegal baiting for turkeys before and during the annual spring gobbler season may be on the increase this year, according to Col. David Murphy, Law Enforcement Section Chief of the West Virginia Division of Natural Resources.
“We receive numerous reports of baited areas just prior to and during the early days of the spring […]

JEFFERSON CITY-Hunters checked 10,857 turkeys during Missouri’s 2007 fall firearms turkey season, the lowest number in more than 20 years.
This was the third year that Missouri’s fall firearms turkey hunt spanned the entire month of October. The harvest fell 1,070 or 9 percent short of last year’s.
Top harvest counties were Laclede with 252 turkeys […]

National Wild Turkey Federation starts local chapter.No doubt about it, the world is different for kids now than it used to be.Ray Cobb thought he could relax once his two kids were raised and through some of the difficult teen years, until his son became a law enforcement officer. The horror stories of his job […]

Recent turkey population trends, relative hunting pressure, public access opportunities and other factors must be considered in ranking New York’s best fall turkey-hunting destinations.
Taking all of this into account, no one will dispute that the following counties merit special attention from gobbler-getters this season:
CATTARAUGUS COUNTY
For the first four years of this century, autumn hunters […]

It’s turkey season, but how many of you are thinking turkeys?
It’s not springtime, when the toms are gobbling and strutting. And with all the other seasons getting under way, turkeys aren’t on many hunters’ lists — mine included — of things to chase.
I do have a tag for turkeys, but really don’t focus […]

Turkey vultures house-hunting in Sask.
A farmer ran in terror from an abandoned farmhouse on his land earlier this summer.
New residents had taken over the house — giant turkey vultures. The birds have a six-foot wingspan, look like chubby hunchbacks and eat the dead.
“The vulture jumped out from the top of the stairs,” said Dr. Stuart […]

Vermont turkey hunters have record spring season

WATERBURY – Vermont’s reputation for great spring turkey hunting is well known, but hunters have now topped all previous records with reports of more than 5,000 turkeys taken in the state’s April 28-29 youth hunt and May 1-31 season.
A preliminary count shows that Vermont hunters […]

Agricultural damage caused by wild turkeys is nothing new in parts of Middle and West Tennessee. Now crop depredation via the big birds has made its way to Powell.I know. It’s my crop that has been depredated.
In the grand scheme of the state’s farming industry my losses aren’t that big, but then […]

The National Wild Turkey Federation and the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources suggest that hunters employ the following tactics:
Protect yourself when choosing a setup spot. Select a stump, blowdown, tree trunk or rock that is wider than your shoulders and higher than your head, and place your back against cover […]