The 2009 fall turkey hunt fell a little short of normal success rates. Most years the fall kill is around 10,000 birds while the past season showed 8,265. Poor spring hatches were to blame for the smaller kill. There were a little over 68,000 permits purchased for the hunt. The success rate works out to be about one in eight hunters taking home a bird. This compares to about one in four having a turkey for the table in the spring hunt.
When you think back to the early 80s’ when there were no turkeys in Wisconsin at all, this is an amazing thing. What started out as an experiment in the southern counties has now grown to the point where there are turkeys in every county in Wisconsin and thousands of hunters who take part in this exciting sport.
The Spring Permits will be arriving in the mail soon and the opening day for the first season in 2010 is two months away on April 14. Southern Wisconsin is prime turkey habitat and a spring turkey hunt is one of the most exciting outdoor sports you’ll ever participate in. If you’ve never heard the early dawn stillness interrupted by the sound of a gobbler calling, you don’t know what you’re missing.
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