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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.
My name is Lora Akin, born and raised in Columbus, Ga. I don’t have any private land to turkey hunt, so I normally drive about 45 minutes to an hour just to hunt some public land. On April 17, 2025 around 7 p.m. that evening, I was blessed with a beautiful turkey. I was out…
When it comes to the status of wild turkeys in Georgia, we’re certainly not out of the woods yet. Reproduction remains very low compared to the glory days of chasing gobblers in Georgia in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Something changed, for sure, and hopefully answers and solutions will come soon. The good news…
As the crisp, clear, moonlit night gave way to the grey light of dawn, our breaths became visible. It was a memory in the making. My 6-year-old daughter sat on my lap looking down the barrel of her .410 shotgun. Her whispered words carried a nervous excitement, “When will we hear them?” It is Saturday,…
Standing on an old logging road in a creek bottom, the bird gobbled 125 yards out. I found a wide-enough tree that matched my camo pattern and put my padded seat and gun down. I walked back 30 yards with my favorite, chalked-up box call and scratched out six, high-pitched yelps. The bird cut me…
The season is upon us with the itch of spring and all she brings puts an anxious bone in a man’s soul. Old Man Winter is slowly fading behind the scenes, but his few final curtain calls come with a bitter sting and a cold bite, leaving any early bloomer to perish. It’s a season…
I like being positive. I really dislike spreading unfavorable news, but sometimes reality gets the better of me. Now is one of those times. I heard someone this past deer season talk about how many turkeys he saw at his deer feeder. He called it a “turkey problem” and complained that they were eating all…
Callie Cunningham set out on her third season turkey hunting with a good opening-day game plan in her head, as good a plan as you can come up with for trying to outsmart a very intelligent bird. Countless pins marked on maps, hours of trekking through the woods, and many early mornings with no luck…
The first time I ever heard a turkey gobble from the back deck of my house was a cold, winter morning. The bird wasn’t on my property, but he was easy to hear, and I began to dream of the day I might kill a bird on my own property. The problem was, or so…
It wasn’t a day with perfect turkey hunting conditions, but it was turkey season, and that’s really all that mattered. It was overcast and a little muggy, but I had just one day to hunt Georgia before hitting the road for Texas, then South Dakota. It was Donna’s birthday, and she had reminded me the…
Growing up in a family of one sister and four mischievous boys, I did not stand much of a chance of not becoming somewhat of a tomboy. We lived in the country near Ichawaynochaway Creek in Terrell County, so hunting and fishing were basically at our back door. As a young girl, I became quite…
Turkey Recipes
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…
I am a big fan of the smoked turkey at Jim ‘N Nick’s BBQ. Most turkey is too dry for me. I experimented with this recipe trying to come up with something close to Jim ‘N Nick’s. It is pretty danged good. 1 whole wild turkey 1 cup of favorite BBQ sauce 1/2 cup of…
Cajun Turkey Broccoli Alfredo 1 pound boneless turkey breast 2 cups macaroni pasta 2 cups broccoli florets 3 tablespoons Cajun seasoning 2 tablespoons olive oil 2 tablespoons butter 3 cloves garlic, minced 1/2 cup dry white wine 2 cups heavy cream 8 ounces Parmesan cheese Salt and pepper In large pot, bring 4 quarts salted…