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Michigan wild turkey hunting report

Last updated 2026-09-24 · from MDNR data · 2025–26 licence year

Wild turkey season is shut in Michigan and this app's copy of the 2025–26 licence year holds no further opening date. September is the peak of it — Early, while the fall flocks are still intact and callable. They break up and scatter as the season goes on. The bird is a stronghold in Michigan.

Season status

Today
Shut
Season
September 15, 2025 to November 14, 2025 — days by zone
Bag
not published

Computed against the day this page was built, from MDNR's dates. This page carries no weather and no bird count: this app holds neither a hunting-weather model nor a population survey for wild turkey, and a report that invented either would be worse than one that says so.

September in the cover

Early, while the fall flocks are still intact and callable. They break up and scatter as the season goes on.

Mature hardwoods that carry mast — oak ridges and beech — against open ground: pasture, food plot, log landing or field edge where birds strut and feed. Roost trees are usually the biggest timber near water.

Where the bird is

Statewide and abundant. The fall season takes either sex; spring is bearded-only and licensed by hunt unit.

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Stronghold Regular Present Occasional No records The 10 units in the table below
52 of 59 subbasins draining Michigan carry a wild turkey record. Observed occurrences, not a range map and not a habitat model. Scored as a share of all bird records in the same cell, so a well-watched county does not read as better bird country than an unwatched one. The mesh is the subbasin — the unit this app scores in — and not the state line, so its edge is a drainage divide rather than a border. The green is the 10 public units in the table below, drawn as PAD-US records their boundaries: context, not permission.

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