GAME COMMISSION SAYS SPRING GOBBLER SEASON HOLDS PROMISE
Pennsylvania Game Commission officials believe the upcoming gobbler seasons will provide excellent hunting opportunities for the nearly quarter million hunters who are preparing to participate.
The state's one-day youth spring gobbler season is April 19; the general spring gobbler season is April 26 to May 26, and includes the Monday of the Memorial Day holiday to afford those hunters who have off work or school an additional opportunity to participate in this season. In both seasons, shooting hours are one-half hour before sunrise until noon.
SPRING GOBBLER MENTORED YOUTH HUNTS
The Pennsylvania Game Commission's Mentored Youth Hunting Program permits mentors to take youth under 12 years of age out to participate in either the "Spring Gobbler Youth Hunt" on April 19, or the general spring gobbler season, April 26-May 26.
TURKEY HUNTING SAFETY TIPS
While spring gobbler hunters are no longer required to wear fluorescent orange, the Pennsylvania Game Commission still encourages them to display a fluorescent orange alert band near their stationary hunting position, especially those who plan to call or use decoys. It may alert a hunter who is closing in on your call or decoys that a person is in the area.
WILD TURKEY FIELD REPORTS
Mary Jo Casalena, Pennsylvania Game Commission wild turkey biologist, has prepared a statewide field report, as well as a report for each Wildlife Management Units (WMU), to share agency field observations on wild turkey hunting prospects and population trends.
For more information, please visit the Pennsylvania Game Commission - State Wildlife Management Agency website:
http://www.pgc.state.pa.us/pgc/cwp/view.asp?a=11&Q=173897
