Put a Turkey on Your Table – or Duck, Venison, or Crab This Washington Thanksgiving

By Vanessa Torres

Washington -(Ammoland.com)- There’s more than one way to put a turkey on your table for Thanksgiving.

Rather than head to the grocery store, thousands of hunters plan to get their birds during the hunting season for wild turkey that gets under way Nov. 20 in eastern Washington.

Then again, who says turkey has to be the center of attention on Thanksgiving Day? November is also prime time to hunt ducks, geese, elk, deer, pheasant, and a variety of other game around the state.

“Waterfowl hunting usually picks up around the middle of the month, when the wet and windy weather starts pushing more migrating birds into the area from the north,” said Mick Cope, game manager for the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW). “That’s good news for waterfowl hunters from the Skagit Valley to the Columbia Basin.”

Cope reminds hunters that WDFW is accepting photos of hunters with disabilities for the 2016 Big Game Hunting Pamphlet Cover Photo Contest. This year’s theme is “Finding Inner Strength,” a tribute to …Read the Rest

Source:: AmmoLand