Turkey Dates, Rules & Regulations
2024 Private Land Turkey Zones
- Zones follow county lines with the exception of the inside of the Mississippi river levee in Crittenden, Lee, Mississippi, Phillips and St. Francis county. See the current Hunting Guidebook for WMA Zone info.
Regular Turkey Season Dates
Zone 1: April 21-29, 2025
Zone 2: April 21-May 11, 2025
Special Youth Turkey Hunt
Zones 1 and 2: April 12-13, 2025
- Youth must have a free Customer Identification Number (CID) to hunt and check a turkey. To set up a youth’s customer profile click here. Select New Customer. Once you fill out your youth’s information, make sure to add the free Customer ID to your cart (under the Hunting tab) once in the licensing system and complete the checkout process.
- Bag Limit during the Special Youth Turkey Hunt is one legal turkey or jake.
- Only hunters 6 to 15 years old may hunt turkeys during the special youth turkey hunt.
- Youths who have not completed hunter education must be under the direct supervision of an adult who is 21 or older.
Statewide Turkey Bag Limit
- The statewide bag limit is two legal turkeys (no jakes or females).
- Exception: Hunters 6 to 15 years old may harvest one jake as part of their two-bird limit during the season (including the youth hunt).
- No more than one legal turkey (not a jake or female) may be taken during the first seven days of the regular season.
- No more than one legal turkey (not a jake or female) may be taken per day.
- It is illegal for any hunter to harvest a bearded hen.
- Bag limit on all individual wildlife management areas is one legal turkey (not a jake or female).
- Hunters may not exceed any zone (Statewide or WMA) harvest limits.
Zone Turkey Harvest Limits
Zone 1: One legal turkey (not a jake or female) (see Statewide Turkey Bag Limit for exceptions). Hunters who kill a turkey in this zone must travel to Zone 2 to attempt to harvest a second turkey.
Zone 2: Two legal turkeys (not jakes or females) (see Statewide Turkey Bag Limit for exceptions).
