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TURKEY REGULATIONS For requirements on hunter orange, legal means of taking, public
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lands, shooting hours, carcass disposal, more than one method
of take in the field, tracking with dogs, field tagging and checking
requirements, see Big Game Regulations on pages 56 and 57.
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Baiting Field Tagging & Checking Roost Shooting
Turkeys may not be hunted or taken within All hunters (including lifetime license hold- Roost shooting is prohibited.
100 yards of any bait. Baiting is the placing, ers) who harvest a turkey (fall or spring) must
exposing, depositing, distributing or scattering immediately attach a field tag, securely to the Shooting Hours
of shelled, shucked or unshucked corn, wheat carcass, with their name, customer ID number One-half hour before official sunrise to of-
or other grain or other feed so as to constitute and date and time of harvest (lifetime license ficial sunset.
for such birds a lure, attraction or enticement, holders are exempt from listing date and time
on or over any area where hunters are attempt- on the field tag).
ing to take them. The taking of turkey over A field tag can be any item, so long as the tag Tom Turkey Definition
standing crops, grain crops, properly shucked contains the required information. This infor- Any bearded turkey, regardless of sex.
on the field where grown or grain found scat- mation along with evidence of sex (one leg with
tered solely as the result of normal agricultural foot or beard) must remain with the carcass until Hunter Orange
operations is permitted. See page 78 for rules the turkey is checked in. Beards on hens must For hunter orange requirements, see page 56.
about baiting on Department managed lands. remain intact and not removed from the turkey
until the bird has reached its final destination.
Decoys & Recorded Calls
Artificial decoys are permitted. Live decoys Public Lands
and recorded calls are prohibited. It is illegal to Seasons on public lands may vary from state-
use a smartphone as an electronic call during wide seasons. Consult public hunting lands
turkey season. special regulations on page 81.
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FALL TURKEY
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License Requirements Season Dates & Limits Legal Means of Taking
• Resident: Resident hunting license & fall • One tom turkey regardless of method of take. • Archery: Equipment described as legal for
turkey license, unless exempt from either. • Archery: Oct. 1 - Jan. 15, statewide. big game. See page 56.
• Nonresident: Nonresident hunting license & • Gun: Oct. 30 - Nov. 19, see map below for • Shotgun: Conventional or muzzleloading,
fall turkey license, unless exempt from either. restrictions. using shot no larger than BB (.180 of an inch
Jan. 1-15: Must possess hunting license & in diameter) are legal.
fall turkey license for current calendar year.
Unfilled fall turkey license (Jan. 1-15) may be
used the following fall season.
Ottawa
Cimarron Texas Beaver Harper Woods Alfalfa Grant Kay Nowata Craig
Osage Washington
Woodward Gar eld Noble Rogers Mayes Delaware
Ellis Pawnee
Major
Tulsa
Payne
Fall Gun Dewey King sher Wagoner Cherokee
Blaine Logan Creek Adair
Oct. 30 - Nov. 19 Roger Mills Custer Lincoln Okmulgee Muskogee
(shotgun only) Canadian Okfuskee Sequoyah
Oklahoma McIntosh
Closed to fall turkey hunting Beckham Washita Cleveland Haskell
with a gun. Caddo Pottawatomie Seminole Hughes
Grady
Greer Kiowa McClain Pittsburg Latimer LeFlore
Pontotoc
Harmon Comanche Garvin
Jackson Coal
Stephens Murray Pushmataha
Tillman Johnston Atoka
Cotton
Carter
Je erson Marshall Choctaw McCurtain
Love
Bryan
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