Turkey Hunting Archives - Mississippi Sportsman

Revel Rawlings with his gobbler from Homochitto National Forest on April 23. It had a 1.12-inch spurs, a 10.5-inch beard and weighed 19 pounds.

Rawlings legendary Mississippi turkey triple

Revel Rawlings accomplished something incredible in a three-day period in Mississippi. He killed three gobblers on three different National Forests. […]

Hunter Waltman of Kiln killed this solid white gobbler on March 17, 2019.

Hunter kills solid white turkey

Brian Cope

Hunter Waltman of Kiln, Miss., killed a solid white gobbler on March 17. By then, he was intimately familiar with the animal. […]

Lone gobblers whose hens are nesting are likely to be doing a lot of traveling, especially late in the morning and early in the afternoon, when they can be fooled and killed.

Be patient, stay late for late-season turkeys

Craig Holt

Turkey hunters find at the end of turkey season that most “easy” turkeys have been killed, and the remaining ones are more wary and won’t come to calls. […]

The slumbering long-beard sits in a logging road with his head tucked away underneath his wing.

A sleeper at Canemount WMA

Andy Douglas

Lincoln County hunter Ricky Case harvested a sleeping gobbler on Canemount WMA. While cleaning the turkey, he discovered two shotgun pellet wounds in its breast area. […]

Flatten the turkey breast with a mallet to render it thin enough to roll it into a ball.

Turkey Cordon Bleu (almost)

Jerry Dilsaver

Put that wild gobbler’s breast to work in a big, delicious way with this turkey recipe. […]

It’s time for hunters to get ready—the best hunting lies ahead. Hunt hard till the end.

Mississippi approaching peak of turkey season

Andy Douglas

The very best of prime time Mississippi turkey hunting is almost here. If you’ve hoarded vacation time, it’s time to schedule it and get out in the woods. It’s time hunt and hunt hard ‘til the end. […]

Lori Kennedy got her first gobbler ever on the ground at 8:10 a.m. just a few days after the season opener.

No fooling for April Fool’s Day

Andy Douglas

Lori Kennedy of Crystal Springs killed two gobblers, one being a huge double-bearded tom, on her first two turkey hunts ever. […]

Bring on the toms! Mississippi’s 2019 spring turkey season

Bobby Cleveland

The outlook for Mississippi’s spring wild turkey season is promising across the state, with some regions expected to have an awful lot of gobblers to try and fool this season. […]

Turkey season opens Friday

Bobby Cleveland

After a successful week of youth-only hunting, Mississippi’s regular spring turkey season opens Friday to hunters of all ages. It will continue through May 1. […]

Turkey season cancelled at NWR

Bobby Cleveland

Panther Swamp National Wildlife Refuge closed to turkey hunting for the season due to high water. […]

Paizley Kendall, 5, of Grenada, killed her first gobbler on the opening morning of the youth turkey season Friday in Tallahatchie County.

Girl, 5, nearly limits on opening weekend

Bobby Cleveland

Paizley Kendall, 5, of Grenada, killed her first gobbler on the opening morning of the youth turkey season Friday in Tallahatchie County. […]

Hunters under age 16 get a head start on their adult brethren this month as spring wild turkey season arrives in the Magnolia State.

Kids get first shot at gobblers

Bobby Cleveland

Only children ages 15 or younger can shoot during Mississippi’s youth turkey season. A child at least 12 years of age and under 16 years of age must have a certificate of satisfactory completion of a hunter education class to hunt alone during the season. […]