Posted April 18, 2016 10:12 am by Comments

By Justin Stakes

Turkey Hunting

Pennsylvania’s spring gobbler seasons kick off with the Saturday, April 23 youth hunt.

Turkey Hunting
Pennsylvania Game Commission
Pennsylvania Game Commission

Harrisburg, PA -(AmmoLand.com)- Excitement is starting to build in Pennsylvania’s hunting community for the start of spring-gobbler seasons.

Hunters 16 and younger can head afield Saturday, April 23 to participate in Pennsylvania’s annual youth spring turkey hunt. A week later, on April 30, all hunters can head into Penn’s Woods in pursuit of spring gobblers.

“There’s good reason for the increasing interest among hunters,” said Mary Jo Casalena, the Pennsylvania Game Commission’s wild turkey biologist. “An earlier spring has coaxed hens into nesting sooner and is helping to set the table for hunters to capitalize on those pining gobblers.”

“In an early spring, hens often begin incubating their nests one to two weeks earlier than normal,” Casalena explained. “That’s great news for hunters, because those lonely toms will be gobbling more and coming in easier to calling hunters.”

Of course, that doesn’t mean those gobblers will be “easy.” They won’t come running to every caller out there, or be oblivious to the movements of the thousands of hunters invading their woodland sanctuaries. But their vulnerability to hunters increases …Read the Rest

Source:: AmmoLand

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