Georgia’s 2024 Quota Turkey Hunts: A Complete Guide

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Georgia public lands offer plenty of great turkey hunting opportunities, but your best odds of success typically come in the form of the state’s quota turkey hunts.

That’s because quota hunts limit the number of hunters utilizing the WMA, which in turn reduces pressure and keeps the birds a little less on edge and a little more vocal for at least the first week of season.

So, if you’re interested in hunting one of Georgia’s quota hunts this turkey season, read on. I’ll dive into all the available hunts, how many priority points you’ll likely need to draw each (and even some you can draw with no points), as well as your odds of success for each hunt based on previous years.

There is a ton of information to digest in this article, so feel free to use the jump links above to get right to the information you need!

How to Apply for a Quota Turkey Hunt

Applying for a Georgia quota turkey hunt is easy and free. You do not have to purchase your hunting license prior to applying. The process is the same whether you are a resident or nonresident hunter.

Here are the 8 steps to apply:

1. Head over to the gooutdoorsgeorgia.com website and click on the “Quota Hunts” link.

2. Login to your account. If you don’t have an account, create one.

3. Once logged in, click on “Apply for a Quota Hunt”

4. Look for the Turkey option, and click “Apply”

5. Choose to either “Apply as an Individual” or “Create a Party” if you are applying with a group.

6. Select up to three hunts

7. Arrange the hunts in your preferred order of preference by dragging and dropping them. Be sure to put your first choice at the top. Then click “Continue Application”

8. Make sure you are wagering the correct number of priority points, then click “Submit”

You’re all set!

Typically you will receive an email a day or two after the February 15th deadline letting you know if you were drawn.

What Are Priority Points?

Georgia’s state-managed quota turkey hunts on WMAs and VPAs work on a priority point system. The way it works is, every year you apply for a quota turkey hunt and aren’t drawn, you get a priority point to use in subsequent years.

You can also opt to apply for only a priority point if there’s not a hunt you want to draw. You can continue to accumulate priority points year-after-year until you finally use them to draw a hunt.

The more priority points you have, the better your odds of drawing a hunt.

Some quota turkey hunts can be drawn without any priority points. Other hunts may require four or more.

Check out our full explanation of how priority points work in the video below.

Available Quota Turkey Hunts for 2024

For 2024, Georgia is offering 67 quota turkey hunts across 34 Wildlife Management Areas (WMAs) and Voluntary Public Access areas (VPAs).

Depending on demand, these hunts may take anywhere from zero to over 6 priority points to draw. Quota hunts open the first week of turkey season are typically the hardest to draw and have the highest success rates (more on success rates below).

If you don’t have any priority points, there are still opportunities to draw a quota hunt, but it will likely be for later in the season, and the hunting will be tough. But it beats not getting to hunt at all.

The table below breaks down all 67 quota turkey hunts for 2024, including hunt dates, the number of hunters to be drawn, as well as the estimated number of priority points needed to draw the hunt based on 2022 quota hunt data (unfortunately the DNR has not posted 2023 data).

WMA and VPA Success Rates

While this information is useful for making your hunt selections, be cautious in basing your decision solely on success rates.

There’s a few reasons for this, including:

1. Compliance with harvest reporting requirements is not as good on some WMAs or VPAs as others.
2. Success rates on small WMAs or VPAs with a limited number of hunters can seem overinflated with just a few birds harvested (Like River Creek below with a 58% success rate).
3. Success rates can vary significantly from one year to the next. So, just because Rum Creek had a 31% success rate last year, doesn’t mean hunters will be that successful this season.

The information shared below is based on the entire turkey season for each WMA and VPA, not one particular quota hunt. In some cases, these WMAs may have open hunts after their quota hunts, which can skew the success rates compared to how hunters did on just the quota hunts.

Additional Reading

Public Land Turkey Hunting Tips

2024 Georgia Turkey Season Info