If you don’t keep your head in this turkey hunting business, it can be a perilous time for you, and/or you can make it a perilous time for others.
With Kentucky’s annual spring turkey season into its second weekend, hunters are implored to use extreme caution to avoid accidents through the April 13-May 5 hunting period.
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