WMA Youth Hunt Schedule

Break out the hunting calendars, and start making some kid plans.

Brad Gill | August 1, 2024

Clybel WMA will host two youth quota turkey hunts in 2025. Boone Norman, 7, of Mansfield, killed this gobbler on the Clybel WMA youth quota hunt on April 7, 2024.

Deadlines are nearing to participate in a WRD youth hunt. First up is an Aug. 15 deadline to put your kid on a dove field. Of the 13 quota dove hunts that were offered for kids last season, seven of them required no priority points for a spot. Go online to georgiawildlife.com/hunting/quota to see which hunts were the easiest and hardest draws.

There’s a pile of WMA youth deer hunts to choose from this fall. To help you plan, we took all of last year’s WMA youth deer hunt results and ranked them first to worst in terms of hunter success. That chart is at the bottom of this article.

Kids are figuring out these hunts are pretty popular. Out of the 10 youth quota deer hunts last season, only one of them was a guarantee draw with zero priority points (Carter Lake). However there were five hunts (CFL-Hilliard, J.L. Lester—second hunt, Ossabaw, River Creek, CFL-Fort Perry) where at least a percentage of hunters were drawn while using no priority points.

Consider the following when making plans to attend a youth quota hunt.

• To apply for quota youth hunts, the youth will need their own account and DNR customer ID number, obtained at https://www.gooutdoorsgeorgia.com.

• Only a youth can physically kill a deer, turkey or bear during both quota and non-quota youth big-game hunts on WMAs. An adult is there only as a chaperone and mentor for the youth.

• To view this year’s overall WMA Special, you can visit the August 2024 TOC and click the link.

• Use the rejection odds to see how many, if any, priority points you need: georgiawildlife.com/hunting/quota.

Make note that many of the WMA youth hunts are non-quota—just sign in and show up.