Take Advantage of Kentucky Public Hunting Areas This Spring Turkey Season
by TBC Press on 04/01/16
Like deer and elk, the restoration of wild turkeys in Kentucky is a remarkable success story. The statewide flock now numbers around 220,000 turkeys and telecheck harvest records show spring turkey hunters have taken an average of 31,719 birds over the past five years. The statewide harvest was up slightly last year over the previous spring as hunters topped 30,000 birds for the fifth time in the past six years.
This year, the general spring turkey season opens statewide on April 16 and closes May 8, but hunters age 15 and younger are first up. The special youth-only season runs the weekend of April 2-3. While gobblers harvested on private land make up the majority of the spring harvest each year, public hunting areas are not to be overlooked... READ MORE
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