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Turkey Hunting
2024 Georgia Turkey Season Dates
Kids, Mobility Impaired: March 23-24
Public-Land: April 6 – May 15
Private-Land: March 30 – May 15
* Two gobbler per season limit; one-gobbler-per-day restriction.
Sign up is still going on for NWTF’s Women In The Outdoors annual Outdoor Workshop Weekend Sept. 14-16 at the Georgia FFA-FCCLA Center (720 FFA FHA Camp Road, Covington, Georgia 30014). The NWTF Women in the Outdoors Program provides opportunities for women (and girls at least 14 years old) to learn and enjoy outdoor skills…
With the end of another turkey season upon me, I took advantage of the opportunity to make another run after them in the north Georgia mountains. It has gotten to be an annual event that me and good friend Kevin Lowrey plan out each season. Kevin is a wildlife biologist with WRD. Over the last…
By Chris Palmer This journey starts well before the season came in. I noticed the bird from trail-camera photos and field observations the weeks leading up to the season. This gobbler ruled the area and would become my obsession during the season. Like most turkey hunters in Georgia, I wondered if the good breeding action,…
Before the Georgia turkey season began, there was hope among hunters that this season would mark the beginning of a return to the quality of turkey hunting we used to have in Georgia. Based on reports from GON’s Hunt Advisor team, it was a mixed bag in the Georgia turkey woods, with less-than-stellar gobbling even…
GON subscriber Ken Hamil, of Marietta, killed a rare erythritic, or red-phase, gobbler on a Carroll County cattle farm Tuesday, April 3. “I have killed a few turkeys over the years, but the reason for sending GON this bird was because of the red wing feathers,” said Ken. “I have been hunting them for 30 years…
Turkeys have a way of utilizing their surroundings that makes getting one into gun range a pretty tough row to hoe. In the timber, they seem to always manage to put a ditch between themselves and the hunter. Or maybe just a slight rise exists there that the hunter doesn’t know about until the gobbler…
As is often the case during the opening weekends of Georgia’s turkey season—both the youth opener and the general season opener a week later—the gobbling reports ranged from red hot in some counties to non-existent in some others. Overall, Georgia turkey hunters hope this season will mark the beginning of a return to the quality…
I always enjoy seeing the transitions from season to season. I love seeing the leaves changing colors in the fall, and in my opinion, there is nothing more special than the transitions that occur from winter to spring. The temperatures begin to warm back up, and the foliage and native browse turn green…
Longtime friend and hunting companion Bobby Knight and I have shared quite a few turkey battles together over the years, and less than a week into the 2008 turkey season, we were smack dab in the middle of another one. Bobby and I, along with another good friend and hunting partner, Cal Marsh, had been…
Arthur Woody had a lifelong passion for his mountain turkeys. Next to his beloved deer and trout, wild turkeys were the most important game animal in Ranger Woody’s life. He hunted them as a boy, and during the 1920s and ’30s, at the height of his restoration program with deer, he worked hard to try…
Turkey Recipes
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…
It can be downright chilly at the start of the turkey season, and that’s when most turkeys are taken. Why then not whip up a turkey stew that the whole family will enjoy on a chilly evening? 1/2 wild turkey, shredded 4 red potatoes, quartered 1/4 stick butter 1 large onion, diced 4 tbsp. garlic…