Nic, I don't ever remember a fall turkey season growing up In Irwin county or never ever saw wild turkeys back then or never heard of any those old timers going or referring to turkey hunting.
May have been a turkey season but I wasn't aware of it because there wasn't any turkeys around in our area & nobody talked about it. Never saw any in the fields or anything.
This was in Wheeler County down on the South end of the county. There weren`t any deer, and the turkeys were beyond wild. They stayed in the swamp and I don`t ever remember them in the fields. And if you spooked them, they flew most of the time rather than run. Those birds were smaller and darker than the turkeys we have today. It was a big gobbler that weighed 16 pounds. Only after I moved to Florida for a couple of years did I realize that they were Osceola turkeys. When the state did all that restocking, they were using Easterns.