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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
Whiskey-Glazed Wild Turkey • 1 wild turkey breast • 1/4 cup whiskey • 1/2 stick butter • Salt and pepper • 1 cup chicken stock • 3 tablespoons honey • 2 tablespoons orange juice Remove the turkey breast leaving the skin on. Make a brine from 1 cup of salt to one gallon of water.…
When I saw someone showing how to spatchcock a turkey on the show “Man. Fire. Food,” it made perfect sense. You simply take poultry shears to a whole bird and cut out the backbone and toss it away. You then flip the bird over, push hard with the palm of your hand to flatten it.…
Are you looking for a break from frying that wild turkey? I tried this last year, and it was incredible. Brining makes the turkey juicy. The stuffing makes the turkey incredibly flavorful. 1 large turkey, brined 1 red apple, chopped 1 stalk celery, chopped 1 red onion, quartered 6 red potatoes, quartered 3 large carrots,…