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Top 20 U.S. Counties for Turkey Hunting

We pick the 5 best counties in each region for punching a turkey tag this spring.

Top 20 U.S. Counties for Turkey Hunting

What's the best county in your state for bagging a gobbler? (Photo by Josh Honeycutt)

  • Coming Soon: The Game & Fish Regional Strut Update, our weekly field reports on gobbler activity across the country, begins the week of March 25. Find it all here.

Gobbling turkeys are echoing through the woods all across the country this spring. With turkey-hunting seasons already open in some places and just about to open in most others, we wondered: What are the best turkey-hunting counties in the U.S.?

Our experts in the East, South, Midwest and West broke down data from hunter harvests, local guides, turkey populations and big-tom...

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