News Education Wildlife Journal Federal Aid Calendar Hunting Fishing Hunter Ed . I've recorded numerous flocks throughout the western half of the state this winter, many with 20 to 40 turkeys per flock, and several with 200. For more information on wild turkey hunting in New Hampshire, click here. The spring wild turkey season runs from May 3 through May 31.
Hunters can take only male turkeys, or gobblers.
Despite his optimism, Walski doesn't expect this spring's harvest to match last year's. During the 2000 spring hunt, hunters took a record 1,883 gobblers. However, about half of the hatching occurred earlier during late May, and survival of those broods was good. So we still have good numbers of turkeys around. Walski estimates that the state's total population of wild turkeys is 17,000 to 18,000.