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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.
Jodi Manders, of Cordele, has done it again. For the third turkey season in a row, she’s killed a gobbler that’ll make the top-12 all-time Georgia turkeys killed by female hunters. “On Friday, April 17, I was debating on going fishing with my husband Randy or going turkey hunting the following Saturday morning,” said Jodi,…
Milly Prince, of Valdosta, may only be just 14 years old, but she’s got a pending No. 3 gobbler ever for a Georgia lady under her belt already. Milly was hunting in Brooks County with some friends on Saturday, April 11 when she rolled the big longbeard. It was her first turkey ever. “We didn’t…
Derek Pritchett, of Chatsworth, has been called one of the luckiest guys alive after surviving a pair of tornadoes on Sunday night and killing two turkeys, one of them a rare smoke-phase gobbler, just two days earlier. “Both of the tornadoes were not even an eighth of a mile on both sides of my house,”…
I used to worship turkeys. From about my junior year in high school well into adulthood, my pure reason for living was wrapped solely into one single thing: killing wild turkeys. In fact, I had decided that whenever I left this world, I wanted my lasting legacy to be that I was a great turkey…
Hank Holder, of Porterdale, connected with a pair of B.F. Grant WMA 2-year-old gobblers on Monday, April 6, and both of them were wearing leg bands and had GPS transmitters on their backs. “I’d hunted 17 straight days, miles and miles from Redlands to Oconee National Forest to B.F. Grant,” said Hank. This was Hank’s…
South Georgia turkey hunting is being featured on the Country Outdoors Turkey Tour, an Outdoor Channel series hosted by Mary O’Neill Phillips and her husband Zach Phillips. Episode three of the series released last week featured turkey hunts in Cook County with young country music singer Jordan Rowe. The Rowe family, from Adel, are GON members.…
God’s timing is perfect. It took 64-year-old Raymond Gibbs, of Cordele, 14 years of turkey hunting before he finally sealed the deal and killed his first gobbler. It all came down on Friday, March 27, 2020 when Raymond squeezed the trigger on a Dooly County longbeard. “Fourteen years of waiting and waiting. There were times…
Lauren McLendon, of Roopville, may call Heard County, Georgia home, but she certainly doesn’t mind crossing the state line into Chambers County, Alabama if that’s what it takes to go turkey hunting. She was in a ground blind with her dad Brandon on the morning of March 21 when she shot a five-bearded gobbler that…
Realtree’s Phillip Culpepper is used to making hunting dreams come true. He spent the 2020 Georgia youth turkey opener in Troup County taking kids hunting during the 30-30 Ministries’ Turkey Camp in conjunction with the Georgia Sheriffs’ Youth Home. Phillip and cameraman Drake Lamb led two young men to longbeards on camera, where they already…
The sandy road glowed in the darkness as longtime friend Jonathan Barber and I traced it toward the swamp’s edge. We finally reached the end and stood pacing, waiting for the first early morning gobble from the Savannah River swamp. We had hunted together here before and had tangled with some tough old birds. We…
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…