This year please note the following changes to turkey hunting season:
- adding seven days to the early archery portion of the fall turkey season
- adding a second (late) archery turkey season to coincide with the late deer archery season (they are at the same time)
- expanding the fall turkey firearms season in the south for seven more days (12 days total - including two weekends)
The season dates and locations are as follows:
An individual can hunt a wild turkey with archery equipment, including crossbows, statewide, from Oct. 1-31, 2010, and from Dec. 4, 2010-Jan. 1, 2011.
An individual can hunt a wild turkey with legal firearms from Oct. 20-31, 2010 in the following counties only:
- Bartholomew
- Brown
- Clark
- Clay
- Crawford
- Daviess
- Dearborn
- Dubois
- Fayette
- Floyd
- Fountain
- Franklin
- Gibson
- Greene
- Harrison
- Jackson
- Jefferson
- Jennings
- Knox
- Lawrence
- Martin
- Monroe
- Morgan
- Ohio
- Orange
- Owen
- Parke
- Perry
- Pike
- Posey
- Putnam
- Ripley
- Scott
- Spencer
- Sullivan
- Switzerland
- Union
- Vanderburgh
- Vermillion
- Vigo
- Warren
- Warrick
- Washington
An individual who hunts wild turkeys from Dec. 4-19, 2010, must wear hunter orange.
For more information on huntng wild turkeys, including license and tagging requirements and equipment that can be used, go to: www.in.gov/dnr/fishwild/2343.htm.
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