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Oklahoma 2021 Archery Fall Turkey Hunting Season Opens Oct 1st
Submitted by: TBC Press
Posted on: 09/20/21
News # 14530
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License Requirements
- Resident: Resident hunting license & fall turkey license, unless exempt from either.
- Nonresident: Nonresident hunting license & fall turkey license, unless exempt from either.
- Jan. 1-15: Must possess hunting license & fall turkey license for current calendar year. Unfilled fall turkey license (Jan. 1-15) may be used the following fall season.
Field Tagging & Checking
All hunters (including lifetime license holders) who harvest a turkey (fall or spring) must immediately attach a field tag, securely to the carcass, with their name, customer ID number and date and time of harvest (lifetime license holders are exempt from listing date and time on the field tag).
A field tag can be any item, so long as the tag contains the required information. This information along with evidence of sex (one leg with foot or beard) must remain with the carcass until the turkey is checked in. Beards on hens must remain intact and not removed from the turkey until the bird has reached its final destination.
Baiting
Turkeys may not be hunted or taken within 100 yards of any bait. Baiting is the placing, exposing, depositing, distributing or scattering of shelled, shucked or unshucked corn, wheat or other grain or other feed so as to constitute for such birds a lure, attraction or enticement, on or over any area where hunters are attempting to take them. The taking of turkey over standing crops, grain crops, properly shucked on the field where grown or grain found scattered solely as the result of normal agricultural operations is permitted. See Department-Managed Area Rules for rules about baiting on Department managed lands.
Decoys & Recorded Calls
Artificial decoys are permitted. Live decoys and recorded calls are prohibited. It is illegal to use a smartphone as an electronic call during turkey season.
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The Oklahoma 2021 archery fall turkey hunting season opens Oct-1st runs through Jan 15, 2022 statewide. Bag limit is one tom turkey regardless of method of take. Shooting Hours are One-half hour before official sunrise to official sunset.
Gun Season opens Oct. 30 - Nov. 19. See map for restrictions. Youth Fall Turkey - Oct. 15-17. For more information on turkey hunting see; Turkey Regulations
Legal Means of Taking
- Archery: Equipment described as legal for big game. See Big Game Regulations.
- Shotgun: Conventional or muzzleloading, using shot no larger than BB (.180 of an inch in diameter) are legal.
