Youth Spring Turkey Season arrives this weekend (April 11-12) across all of Oklahoma. Hunters 17 and younger will have the first chance to harvest a gobbler during these two days ahead of the regular spring turkey season, which will run from April 16 to May 16 statewide. Bag limit is one tom turkey.

Based on the latest reports from the field, many areas are seeing more birds on the landscape than in recent years. But extremely dry conditions in the west seem to have held bird numbers steady in many of those areassΒ 

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