Spring Turkey Season

With the snow almost gone and the warm weather here it is showing that summer is almost here, but for the early risers and the willing it signals the start of something else: The spring turkey season and its youth weekend. For both Vermont and New Hampshire it is this weekend, the 28th and 29th. The start of the Vermont turkey season is Tuesday, May First and for New Hampshire it is Thursday, May Third.

Turkeys have great eyesight and can see in color which makes them see you even better and makes them really hard to hunt. Some of the little things that hunters use are they get in full camouflage and wear camouflage gloves and face masks. They also use turkey calls to make it sound identical to real turkeys talking to each other. For most turkey hunters the decoys make the turkeys come within range to kill them but this does not work all the time. If your setup is just the tiniest bit suspicious they will not come with in range. Turkeys also have really good hearing so they can hear any little movement that a hunter does. Pair that with turkeys eyesight you have the main reason that most younger youth hunters will sit in a ground blind so the turkeys will not see them as good. A ground blind is like a portable camouflage shelter that many hunters use to hide from their prey and hide there movements.

For the adults that take youth hunters out you are teaching the kids both respect and patients. You might also make a new hunter out of them and they will pass on their hunting experience with later generations and take kids out when they are old enough. For many different people now think that hunting should be banned because they hurt animals, but without hunting the populations would be out of control and it would actually hurt the animals even more because they will be fighting for the food sources that they need (and we also need) to survive.