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North Carolina wild turkey hunting report

Last updated 2026-09-24 · from NCWRC data · 2026–27 season year

Wild turkey season is shut in North Carolina today. It opens April 10, 2027 in Statewide youth season — 198 days away. The bird is a stronghold in North Carolina.

Season status

Today
Shut
Next opening
April 10, 2027 — Statewide youth season
Season
April 10, 2027 to May 15, 2027 — days by zone
Bag
not published

Computed against the day this page was built, from NCWRC'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

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, from the mountains to the coastal plain. North Carolina has no fall season at all — spring, male or bearded birds only, is the state's only turkey hunt.

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Stronghold Regular Present Occasional No records The 10 units in the table below 2 units too small to draw
37 of 46 subbasins draining North Carolina 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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