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SPRING TURKEY
Legal Means of Taking
• Archery: Equipment described as legal for
big game. See page 52.
• Shotgun: Conventional or muzzleloading,
using shot no larger than BB (.180 of an inch
in diameter) are legal.
• Illegal Firearms: Rifles and handguns may
not be used during the spring seasons.
Youth Spring Turkey
Age Requirements
17 years old and younger. All youth hunters Jeremiah Zurenda
must be accompanied by an adult 18 years of
age or older. The adult may not hunt or possess
any archery equipment or firearms.
License Requirements
• Resident youths under 16 years of age: Ex- Dates & Open Areas Spring Turkey
empt from a hunting license, but must pos- • April 3-4: statewide except in the Southeast
sess a turkey license or proof of exemption. Region. License Requirements
• Resident youths 16 and 17 years old: Must • April 17-18: Southeast Region only. • Resident: Resident hunting license & spring
possess a hunting license (see page 44) and a turkey license for each turkey hunted, unless
turkey license or proof of exemption. Season Limit exempt from either.
• Nonresident youths under 14 years of age: One: Statewide and Southeast Region youth • Nonresident: Nonresident hunting license &
Exempt from a hunting license, but must pos- seasons combined. spring turkey license for each turkey hunted,
sess a turkey license or proof of exemption. A turkey taken during the youth spring sea- unless exempt from either.
• Nonresident youths 14-17 years old: Must son counts toward the regular spring turkey
possess a nonresident annual hunting li- season limit of three turkeys. Dates & Open Areas
cense and a turkey license for each bird to A hunter cannot exceed any county limit • April 6 - May 6: statewide except in the
be hunted unless otherwise exempt. while pursuing season limit (see map below). Southeast Region.
• Nonresident lifetime license holders: Must • April 19 - May 6: Southeast Region only.
purchase a nonresident annual hunting li- Unfilled Spring Turkey License
cense and turkey license(s). Youth hunters who do not harvest a turkey Season Limit
during the spring youth turkey season may use • Three (3) tom turkeys; harvest of non-beard-
The nonresident 5-day hunting license is their unfilled turkey license during the regular ed turkeys is prohibited.
not valid for hunting turkey. spring turkey season. A hunter cannot exceed any county limit
while pursuing season limit (see map below).

Cimarron Texas Beaver Harper Woods Alfalfa Grant Kay Nowata Craig Ottawa
Osage Washington

Woodward Gar eld Noble Rogers Mayes Delaware
Ellis Pawnee
Major
Tulsa
Payne
Dewey King sher Wagoner Cherokee
Blaine Logan Creek Adair
April 3-4 Roger Mills Custer Lincoln Okmulgee Muskogee
Youth season statewide except Canadian Oklahoma Okfuskee Sequoyah
Southeast Region McIntosh
April 17-18 Beckham Washita Cleveland Pottawatomie Haskell
Youth season Southeast Caddo Seminole Hughes
Region only. Grady
Greer Kiowa McClain Pittsburg Latimer LeFlore
Pontotoc
April 6 - May 6 Harmon Comanche Garvin
One tom turkey Jackson Stephens Coal
limit per county Murray Pushmataha
Tillman Johnston Atoka
Cotton
Carter
April 19 - May 6 (Southeast Region) Je erson Marshall Choctaw McCurtain
One tom turkey limit for all eight counties Love Bryan
combined (Atoka, Choctaw, Coal, Latimer,
LeFlore, McCurtain, Pittsburg & Pushmataha)
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