Tips to plan your Spring turkey hunt

Permit and Lottery Hunt Deadlines?

Such details can easily be forgotten during your busy days deer and duck hunting. Spring’s hunts are far from your mind but shouldn’t be. Check deadline dates for turkey hunting permit and lottery applications. Even then, it might be a bit late. Call state wildlife management officials to get an inside angle on what’s expected of hunters. Follow the procedure. Do they offer special archery turkey hunts? Are lottery permits often leftover? 

Is Habitat Intact and Holding Birds?

No matter how hard you hunt and scout, the effort is only as good as the habitat access and quality of roost, feeding and nesting areas.

Visit with landowners in the off-season. Keep track of any land-use changes in areas you hunt, or will hunt, next spring. Finding out hunting habitat has changed the morning you pull up in the pre-dawn hours is a sinking feeling. Avoid it. Monitor both public and private land changes.

Schedule Your Hunt and Pay Your Deposit?

The traveling turkey hunter is often faced with a bunch of challenges. Do you want to hunt public land and keep cost low in your quest to chase birds in other states? Do you want to enjoy hot, cooked meals at a camp or lodge with an outfitter and have your buddies along? If the latter is your aim, act now. Book your trip. Pay your deposit. Many of the best operations work one or two years in advance. Their returning clientele might fill spots during the previous spring turkey season. If so, get on the cancellation list and hope for the best.

Are Spring Turkey Hunting Season Dates Set Yet?

By now, the answer is likely yes. Still, there’s no uniformity for turkey hunting season dates around the country. 

Some states run seasons on specific annual days. Others set their season openers on “the closest day to a particular Monday, or Saturday, or whatever. Try to get the inside angle on these dates.

We found a helpful link so you don’t forget what to pack:

TURKEY HUNTING CHECKLIST: 20+ ESSENTIAL ITEMS 

https://www.wideopenspaces.com/turkey-hunting-checklist-20-essential-items-for-2018/

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