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When does Michigan's 2025–26 wild turkey season open?

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

Michigan's 2025–26 wild turkey season runs September 15, 2025 to November 14, 2025, on dates that depend on the zone. Michigan zones this season: 1 of 2 zones open, and the dates differ between them. The best of it is September and October — Early, while the fall flocks are still intact and callable. They break up and scatter as the season goes on. Legal hours are one half-hour before sunrise until sunset. No statewide Sunday closure for small game. A few counties restrict firearm hunting on private land under PA 319 of 1994 — not mapped here.

The dates

MDNR's own dates for the 2025–26 licence year, read from MDNR. Michigan lists this season as Wild turkey (fall).

ZoneOpensClosesDays
Fall turkey units I and M September 15, 2025November 14, 202561
Outside both fall turkey unitsClosed season — Michigan shuts this zone

The best weeks

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

Peak: September and October. From this app's Michigan methods file.

Shooting hours

Legal hours
One half-hour before sunrise until sunset.
Michigan's small-game rule, and the one this app's hunt planner draws every day against. It is not “until half an hour after sunset” — that is the waterfowl rule in some states and it is not this one. Waterfowl and turkey run on their own hours. MDNR
Sundays
No statewide Sunday closure for small game. A few counties restrict firearm hunting on private land under PA 319 of 1994 — not mapped here.

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