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Turkey Hunting
2025 Turkey Seasons
Kids, Mobility Impaired: March 22-23
Private-Land: March 29 – May 15
Public-Land: April 5 – May 15
* Two gobbler per season limit; one-gobbler-per-day restriction.
Putnam County: On Tuesday, March 26, 2019, Cpl. Bubba Lynn Stanford received a call from a Putnam County landowner about someone hunting without permission. The man was listening for gobbling on the roost around 7 a.m. when he heard a very close rifle shot, and then he actually saw a turkey fall out of a…
Realtree’s Phillip Culpepper reminds GON fans there is still time to post their turkey hunting pictures on social media to qualify for a chance to win a dream turkey hunting trip with Phillip and Sam Klement, of Colosseum Outdoors, during the spring of 2021. The idea behind this spring’s promotion was to let our readers…
Even though an 8-year-old girl from Washington County is in the middle of a fight with cancer, she recently found time to show her 28-year-old brother how things are done when she rolled three turkeys with one shot. Not only has her older brother never checked this accomplishment off his bucket list, he’s never even…
Based on reports we’re hearing from across the state, it’s been a memorable turkey season in Georgia, to say the least. Many hunters had extra time in the woods because of the virus, lots of kids got more time in the woods with schools closed, and it seems like there were plenty of birds to…
Jodi Manders, of Cordele, has done it again. For the third turkey season in a row, she’s killed a gobbler that’ll make the top-12 all-time Georgia turkeys killed by female hunters. “On Friday, April 17, I was debating on going fishing with my husband Randy or going turkey hunting the following Saturday morning,” said Jodi,…
Milly Prince, of Valdosta, may only be just 14 years old, but she’s got a pending No. 3 gobbler ever for a Georgia lady under her belt already. Milly was hunting in Brooks County with some friends on Saturday, April 11 when she rolled the big longbeard. It was her first turkey ever. “We didn’t…
Derek Pritchett, of Chatsworth, has been called one of the luckiest guys alive after surviving a pair of tornadoes on Sunday night and killing two turkeys, one of them a rare smoke-phase gobbler, just two days earlier. “Both of the tornadoes were not even an eighth of a mile on both sides of my house,”…
I used to worship turkeys. From about my junior year in high school well into adulthood, my pure reason for living was wrapped solely into one single thing: killing wild turkeys. In fact, I had decided that whenever I left this world, I wanted my lasting legacy to be that I was a great turkey…
Hank Holder, of Porterdale, connected with a pair of B.F. Grant WMA 2-year-old gobblers on Monday, April 6, and both of them were wearing leg bands and had GPS transmitters on their backs. “I’d hunted 17 straight days, miles and miles from Redlands to Oconee National Forest to B.F. Grant,” said Hank. This was Hank’s…
South Georgia turkey hunting is being featured on the Country Outdoors Turkey Tour, an Outdoor Channel series hosted by Mary O’Neill Phillips and her husband Zach Phillips. Episode three of the series released last week featured turkey hunts in Cook County with young country music singer Jordan Rowe. The Rowe family, from Adel, are GON members.…
Turkey Recipes
Crockpot Crispy Wild Turkey 1 whole turkey I pound butter divided in half 1 tbsp thyme 1 tbsp rosemary 1 tbsp salt 1 tbsp black pepper Pat the turkey dry with one or two sheets of paper towel. Slather the entire turkey with half the butter. Sprinkle with salt and pepper. Sprinkle with thyme and rosemary.…
Peanut Butter Wild Turkey I must admit that I was apprehensive when a friend asked me to try his newly discovered dish. Once he showed me the ingredients, I realized it was a take on a popular Oriental chicken dish. And it is wonderful! 1 turkey breast 2 tbsp salt 2 tbsp white sugar 2…
Turkey Stuffed Bell Peppers 6 bell peppers 1/2- to 3/4-lb. dark-meat turkey 1 diced onion 3 cloves minced garlic 15-oz. can diced tomatoes 1 cup frozen whole-kernel corn 1 cup cooked white rice Shredded Pepper Jack cheese 1 Tbsp Worcestershire sauce 1 Tbsp salt 1 Tbsp black pepper Choose bell peppers that will stand up…