We have a lot in Texas but there are all in the western half of the state. Every time they try to re-introduce them to East Texas, the rednecks shoot them.
“We have a lot in Texas but there are all in the western half of the state. Every time they try to re-introduce them to East Texas, the rednecks shoot them.”
West and East Texas Turkey season’s are tightly regulated there are a number of one Turkey counties(east of Austin West of college station north of Victoria). I will be near Marshall Texas on a former roommates’s who has been a game warden since 2005 in April season starts 22nd. Last 3 years in a row we both got birds with 12 gauge and TSS shot it puts the smack down from 80+ yards there is nothing like 18 grams per cubic centimeter density it makes lead look like steel shot. It’s denser then depleted uranium and $11 per shell but worth every penny when you can put a 100% pattern at 80 yards and still have clean kills to 100 if you can see the bird it’s a dead bird.
North Central, Central Texas and South Texas are loaded with wild Turkey. I have taken one this year already in CenTex with a crossbow it’s getting smoked Thursday morning along with a feral hog, my in-laws have never had wild hog tamales so the South Texas colonial is coming out this year on Turkey day. My land near Dilly Texas has Turkey for days, same for feral goats and hogs all three get shot every year. My buddies near Blanco and near Johnson City where the family compound is also have Turkey for days. I will fill my freezers for sure.
All of the Eastern zone is one gobbler per year in the whole zone no hens. In North and South zones are four birds per county per season per county except for single bird county. If you have land in two or more counties you could take 4 in fall and four more in spring in each county so 16 with two locations. No need for 16 birds a year but if you had a large fam I could see it. The wife, BIL and I have 15 deer tags between us we good on venison two bucks are already hanging in the ageing cooler from this weekend’s rifle hunt really a harvest they just walkout at the sound of the feeders it’s harvesting not hunting low fence so these are free range critters not caged in at all. Still meat is meat.