Big Gobblers, Lots of
'Em
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Spring and fall seasons |
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Missouri, Kansas and Iowa |
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Multiple tags, long seasons |
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Good populations and high success rates |
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Firearms, muzzleloader and archery |
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Rio Grande and Eastern turkey
varieties available |
Missouri, Kansas and Iowa turkey populations have exploded over the
past 18 years. In 1982 only one spring turkey was harvested off our leases. During the
1998 spring turkey season 152 MAHA turkey hunters harvested 212 gobblers, averaging 1.4 turkeys per hunter.
The reality was that all who wanted a turkey tagged one, with
those dedicated to turkey hunting filling all four spring tags. The fastest any one turkey
hunter filled all four spring turkey tags was in five days. The largest hunting
party that all hunters tagged a turkey the first day was four.
Turkey inhabit 1000 - 2000 acre timbered ranches to small farms with 5-20 acre wood lots.
These areas along with hundreds of river or creek system provides the turkey
hunting habitat that ensures large sustained flocks. These areas surround crop
fields that provide turkey forage throughout the winter as snow accumulations are
infrequent and short.
The Rio Grand Turkey occupies the more open terrain of north
central Kansas making hunting more challenging as this turkey is often grazing and
strutting the larger open fields away from wood lines. Wooded stream areas with
their surrounding broken terrain is the primary turkey hunting habitat.
All turkey hunting reservations are managed by the association's
land manager to ensure those unfamiliar to any of our turkey areas are placed in the best
turkey habitat available. Each turkey hunter will have enough turkey hunting habitat
that he may hunt as many or develop as few locations as he desires.
For turkey hunting groups that want to hunt together we can
recommend several large areas that all can hunt from the same truck and each be in areas
not pressured by other hunters.
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