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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.
Let’s talk about turkeys. Again… I can’t tell you how many times over the past five years I’ve talked about this goofy looking critter. I love turkeys, and I love hunting them. Every good turkey hunter I know has spent more time than they’re probably comfortable with being questioned by me about turkeys. Do you…
Two decades have passed since poult counts began to shift downward and hunters begin to cry about worsening conditions in the turkey woods. Southeastern biologists, researchers and hunters have come to the same table to discuss the issue, and we now find ourselves on the cliff of what could be pretty drastic changes to Georgia’s…
“Why did we have to get up so early, Uncle Eli,” the boy said, rubbing the sleep from his eyes. “We have to get ahead of the turkeys,” Uncle Eli said. “Turkeys have to get up very early in the morning and go to work, and we have to get ahead of them before they…
We’re starting to wonder how much better Georgia deer hunting can get. For the 2020-21 season, 356 of our 1447 respondents, or 24.6%, rated their seasons as excellent, the best excellent rating in at least 20 years. Only 10.1% said they had “poor” seasons. That’s the lowest percentage of folks with a poor rating in…
Your last chance to apply for WMA general and youth turkey hunts is Feb. 15. The charts below show a long list of WMAs that offered turkey hunting during the spring of 2020, along with each WMA’s gobbler harvest and hunter numbers. WMAs can differ greatly in the turkey hunting opportunities offered. Some WMAs offer…
Dr. Michael Chamberlain, Ph.D Terrell Distinguished Professor of Wildlife Ecology and Management Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources University of Georgia With deer season winding down, turkey hunters are eyeing spring and what many of us consider the best time of the year—spring wild turkey season! A question I am often asked is why…
VOTES, which stands for Voice Of The Educated Sportsman, is a GON survey that has been around for more than two decades. A question on the survey each and every year is Rate Your Deer Season, which gives us county-specific ratings that can be compared to historical trends. We simply want to know how your…
My son Kasen Gurr, 14, of Danville, was selected for the Rum Creek WMA first youth quota hunt of the 2020 turkey season. I haven’t hunted turkeys much, so we had a family friend Craig Pearce ride up to do the calling for us. While standing there awaiting sunrise, we shared hunting memories of a…
By Adam Reas This story starts way before the 2020 turkey season. It’s years in the making leading up to opening day March 21, 2020 and tagging out by 8:30 in the morning. May 2014 is when I first gained access to the property. It was close to the end of turkey season when a…
A few weeks ago we released a story at gon.com about an 8-year-old girl from Washington County who is in the middle of a fight with cancer. In the midst of that storm, she recently found time to show her 28-year-old brother how things are done when she rolled three turkeys with one shot. “I…
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…