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September 09, 2009
Need an Osceola for your Slam? - 3
Here at the Strut Zone, we're always keen on sharing additional turkey hunting opportunities with you guys. Back on September 8, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) began accepting 2010 special-opportunity spring turkey hunt applications. The deadline for submissions is midnight (EDT) October 13. Applications may be submitted at wildlifelicense.com, county tax collectors' offices or at any license agent. A random drawing decides who will receive the coveted permits. To apply, hunters can obtain application worksheets at MyFWC.com/Hunting/ under "Limited Entry Hunts." According to sources, demand for these hunts is typically greater than the number of available permits, but hunters can increase their chances of being selected by submitting as many $5 nonrefundable applications as they like. Successful applicants pay a permit fee of $50 - $175, depending on the special-opportunity hunt area selected. The FWC says these special-opportunity turkey hunts "take place on large tracts of land, with great habitat, healthy turkey populations and a limited number of hunters." As many of you guys know, the Osceola is a highly prized subspecies of wild turkey, found only in peninsular Florida, south of and including Dixie, Gilchrist, Alachua, Union, Bradford, Clay and Duval counties. All hunts take place within the Osceola turkey's home range. There is one downside. Participation rules limit out-of-state hunters to one permit per hunt. For more information on special-opportunity Osceola turkey hunts, visit MyFWC.com/Hunting. |
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Comments (3)
Hey BRBB (our Florida SZ connection), and everyone else . . .
What's your take on this opportunity? -S.
I think it's a great opportunity for fellow Tom chasers to bag an Osceola.I would have applied if the bank account was alittle healthier.For the turkey hunters in this part of the country,you don't have to travel about 40 to 50 miles and your in Osceola country.For years my bud and I use to get what we like to call the Florida Slam.I have to check with fellow Turkey hunters in the area to see if they applied.I suggest that anyone who does apply try and get permitted around the Levy county area,we hunted private land around Goethie WMA,and every time we hunted near there the birds would just hammer there heads off on that particular NW section of the forrest.And from what one of my cousins tells me that area is still loaded with birds.
Later,
BRBB
Great update there BRBB. Thanks!
S.
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I think it's a great opportunity for fellow Tom chasers to bag an Osceola.I would have applied if the bank account was alittle healthier.For the turkey hunters in this part of the country,you don't have to travel about 40 to 50 miles and your in Osceola country.For years my bud and I use to get what we like to call the Florida Slam.I have to check with fellow Turkey hunters in the area to see if they applied.I suggest that anyone who does apply try and get permitted around the Levy county area,we hunted private land around Goethie WMA,and every time we hunted near there the birds would just hammer there heads off on that particular NW section of the forrest.And from what one of my cousins tells me that area is still loaded with birds.
Later,
BRBB
Hey BRBB (our Florida SZ connection), and everyone else . . .
What's your take on this opportunity? -S.
Great update there BRBB. Thanks!
S.
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