Texas hunters ready for 2021 spring turkey season Brownwood Bulletin Fruitful nesting seasons in 2019 and 2020 contribute to a promising outlook for this year’s Texas spring turkey hunting season. While the South Texas zone is already open for spring turkey season, activity across much of the state will officially begin April 3, according to Texas Parks and Wildlife Department Wild Turkey Program Leader Jason Hardin. There should be many successful Texas hunters this season no matter the location, he said in an interview with the Texas Farm Bureau Radio Network. “We had great production in 2019, so those birds are now two-year-olds across most of the [Rio Grande wild turkey] range. And we had another good year of production last year, so there will be a lot of jakes out there, which bodes well for new hunters or folks that are just out looking to put a bird in the freezer and also bodes well for the 2021-2022 season, because we’ll have a lot of two- and three-year old birds next year,” Hardin said. “Time will tell what production will be like this year, but for now it looks good. I’ve been out around the state and seen birds strutting and gobbling from North Texas all the way to the Rio Grande River.”