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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.
Ask any turkey hunter, whether he’s a novice or a seasoned veteran, what his meaning of the perfect spring gobbler hunt is, and nine times out of 10 his tainted version will paint a picture sort of like this…. “Well, year before last I had seen this big ol’ bird in the field bottom fuzzed…
Ben Rodgers Lee, the father of modern-day turkey hunting and calling, was killed in an automobile accident on Oct. 7, 2001 near his home in Jackson, Ala. Lee was 46. “Ben Lee was an ordinary man who enjoyed hunting and calling animals and did them both well, ” said Terry Rohm, longtime friend of Lee’s…
It’s still the golden age for Georgia turkey hunters. For the seventh straight year, Georgia turkey hunters are expected to set a new harvest record, topping last year’s record of 40,000 gobblers. The expansion of the turkey flock and turkey hunting in Georgia is nothing short of phenomenal. In 1973, just 18 years ago, the…
Clarks Hill WMA has one of the oldest and best established turkey populations in Georgia. There is a good number of birds on the area and even more hunters. The estimated hunter success last year on the WMA and surrounding area was estimated at a respectable 20-30% Since December 1988, the University of Georgia has…
Fifty years ago, the land that is now Piedmont National Wildlife Refuge was essentially a desert. Cleared by settlers in the 1800s, the land had been transformed from forest into massive cotton farms. Crop after crop of cotton finally wore the land out, and by the 1870 about half the farms in the area had…
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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…