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Minnesota wild turkey hunting report

Last updated 2026-09-24 · from MN DNR data · 2026 season year

Wild turkey season is shut in Minnesota today. It opens October 3, 2026 — 9 days away. The bird is well established in Minnesota.

Season status

Today
Shut
Next opening
October 3, 2026
Season
October 3, 2026 to November 1, 2026 — 30 days afield
Bag
1 per day, 1 in possession

Computed against the day this page was built, from MN DNR's dates. This page carries no weather and no bird count: this app holds neither a hunting-weather model nor a population survey for wild turkey, and a report that invented either would be worse than one that says so.

September in the cover

Mature hardwoods that carry mast — oak ridges and beech — against open ground: pasture, food plot, log landing or field edge where birds strut and feed. Roost trees are usually the biggest timber near water.

Where the bird is

Restored from nothing since the 1970s and now across the southern and central hardwoods, thinning northward. Both a spring and a fall season, run on permit areas rather than zones.

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Stronghold Regular Present Occasional No records The 10 units in the table below
57 of 72 subbasins draining Minnesota carry a wild turkey record. Observed occurrences, not a range map and not a habitat model. Scored as a share of all bird records in the same cell, so a well-watched county does not read as better bird country than an unwatched one. The mesh is the subbasin — the unit this app scores in — and not the state line, so its edge is a drainage divide rather than a border. The green is the 10 public units in the table below, drawn as PAD-US records their boundaries: context, not permission.

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