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Rio Grande Wild Turkey Spring Season Opens March 23rd

“Cicadas can be a exceptionally nutritious food source for young turkeys, which eat invertebrates during their first few weeks of life."

For hunters in Mississippi, the call of a wild turkey heralds the official start of spring as much as the emerging daffodils and unmistakable coating of pollen.

Texas hunters who hit the field this spring for turkeyshould see plenty of birds in areas that typically house huntable populations of wild turkeys.

Spring turkey season is here! Youth hunters in the South Zone already had a chance at a tom March 11-12. The regular season in the South Zone opens March 18 and runs through April 30. North Zone, One Turkey Counties and Eastern Turkey hunters will have to wait until April to get after the toms.

The Tennessee Fish and Wildlife Commissions has set the state’s hunting and trapping seasons for 2022-23. The Commission established the regulations at its June 2-3 meeting held at the Tennessee

NASHVILLE — Tennessee’s 2022 spring turkey hunting season opened in most areas of the state on Saturday.

The fall turkey season for Texas hunters should be a good one, according to one Texas Parks and Wildlife Department official.

Despite Winter Storm Spring Turkey Season Looks Good   AUSTIN, TX – Much of the Rio Grande wild turkey range in Texas experienced two great years of turkey production and recruitment in 2019 and 2020, and this means that hunters this spring season can expect to see many jakes and two-year-old gobblers across most of the Rio Grande range. “Those jakes will also keep things interesting this spring with big groups of young males roaming the turkey woods,” said Jason Hardin, Texas Parks and...