Hawkins Ridge Lodge is located on 16,000 acres of land, much of which has been owned and farmed by our family for 100 years. This land is now carefully managed exclusively for this production of trophy game. We are located 12 miles southwest of Eufaula, Alabama and 10 miles west of beautiful Lake Eufaula. We are located 5 miles from the Barbour County Wildlife Management Area and Refuge. This refuge has long been noted for the heavier weights and larger racks of Alabama's deer population and is the showcase of all Alabama's management areas. Alabama is a hunter's paradise, having the second largest deer and turkey populations in the country. While you are hunting at Hawkins Ridge Lodge you will have the opportunity to hunt out of some 475 shooting houses, tree stands and blinds that are located on or near 250 food plots. The combination of limited hunting pressure and isolation make the steep pine ridges, oak flats and dense beaver pond swamps of Hawkins Ridge lodge an excellent place for big racked bucks, and long bearded gobblers to mature.

Your turkey hunting package includes all meals, lodging, daily maid service, one on one guides, transportation and game preparation. All of our guides are experienced woodsmen and understand the lay of the White Oak land. They will get you in the vicinity of a gobbler and then call it in for you. If you prefer, of course, you may do your own turkey calling. There are typically two turkey hunts per day; white oak offers turkey hunts seven days a week, although this varies with each hunter and each bird. Turkey hunters are in the woods well before dawn to listen for the first turkey gobble and usually return before noon, although that could vary depending on the turkey. As each turkey hunter returns to the lodge with either a good turkey or a good turkey hunting story, a warm, delicious meal will be offered. After a well deserved rest, turkey hunters return to the woods for an afternoon turkey hunt. If a turkey was harvested during the morning turkey hunt, there is always the opportunity to roost a turkey for the next morning's turkey hunt or fish for largemouth Florida bass and bream in the 30+ acres of well-stocked lakes and ponds.

You ever so gently ease into position and rest your back against an old water oak you had spotted the previous afternoon. It’s about to break day and you can begin to make out shapes and hear the “wake up” calls of the woods. Almost like clockwork you hear the “whoop whoop” sounds of the turkeys flying down from their roost.

Yelp, yelp, puurrrr, you begin to mouth call to the old gobbler. Cluck, cluck, cluck, puurrr. The morning stillness is rattled by the rapid fire gobble of old tom and it sounds like he’s headed your way – at a fast pace. Lifting your shotgun to your knee you scan the breaks in the palmetto in front of you and strain to see any movement. Gobble, gobble, gobble…”on my gosh, there’s a gobbler off to my right moving in and he’s right on top of me. Now I’m working two birds and …”

This face paced action is business as usual at a Wilkes Creek turkey hunt. Year round management of bird habitat encourages an excellent hatch out that is monitored annually by a wildlife biologist. Continued “best practices management” of the land for turkeys that includes employing the newest proven techniques for improved health are regularly employed. For the guaranteed hunt of a lifetime and more fun than watching drunk monkeys play marbles, contact Wilkes Creek Plantation today to book your hunt.