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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.
A Walker County teen shot in a turkey-hunting incident on April 4 is in rehabilitation at Shepherd Spinal Center in Atlanta with paralysis to his right arm and leg, as some details of the incident are released by DNR Law Enforcement. Steven Chase White, 15, of LaFayette had accompanied another teen and his father, Dale…
At presstime, a Walker County teen remained in the intensive care unit of Erlanger Hospital in Chattanooga, Tenn. after being shot in the back of the head with a shotgun in a turkey-hunting incident on April 4, 2007. Steven Chase White, 15, was hunting with a friend and the friend’s father, Dale McCormick, 47, when…
According to the turkey hunters GON talked to, the opening weekend gobbling ran the scale from dead slow to gobblin’ their heads off. Some hunters reported birds coming straight in off the roost, gobbling all the way in. Others didn’t hear a peep. Generally, most gobbling occurred early, and once the birds hit the ground,…
At the ripe old age of 14, there’s not a whole lot left for Keenan Adams to achieve in the world of turkey hunting — he’s just about done it all. Actually, most folks would say he had just about done it all back in 2003, when at 9 years old he became the youngest…
If you pay attention to the information an uncooperative gobbler provides you each morning, you may be able to turn the tables on the tom during an afternoon hunt. The wind was blowing fairly hard when I got out of my vehicle at approximately 4 p.m. for a late-afternoon turkey hunt. I checked my equipment,…
I was feeling pretty confident as I stood beside my hunting partner Bobby Knight. It was opening day of turkey season and the orange glow of the eastern sky began to push the darkness from around us. The woods were coming to life as a half a dozen or so barred owls began their morning…
Opening day of turkey season is a date that every turkey hunter in Georgia looks forward to each year. For my dad and I, the 2004 season was only the second year we had looked forward to opening day of turkey season. We are both active deer hunters and my dad, Jeff Sr., is a…
Thirty minutes after fly-down time, and we hadn’t heard a gobble. This is crazy, I thought. Thomas Holcombe, 14, of Royston and I were the very first public turkey hunters on the newly purchased River Creek WMA in Thomas County. I’d heard the place was filthy with turkeys, but at this point I wasn’t so…
“That made the whole trip worth it right there,” Matt Howard announced climbing to his feet. Looking 10 yards back at Brad Gill, who had been doing the turkey calling, Matt couldn’t have been more proud of his 11-year-old daughter, Sarah. “What happened?” Brad asked. “They didn’t stop, and she just didn’t shoot,” said Matt.…
It has probably been eight years ago now — one of the more memorable turkey hunts I’ve ever had. I was a student at the University of Georgia, so Tuesday afternoons during the spring quarter meant I’d be heading for my favorite WMA in search of an afternoon gobbler. I was on birds, too. I’d…
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…