Turkey Hunting

Your turkey tag is punched. You’ve got the fan cleaned up and drying out. You toss the beard in the cigar box with all the other beards from over the…

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It was moments after legal shooting light when the two roosted gobblers that I’d been hen-talking to were on the ground and approaching my decoys. I readied my Mathews bow,…

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  The early season came and left. The middle of the season passed us by. But now the late season is here. The end of turkey season is drawing near,…

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More times than not, when a turkey hunter tries to call in a gobbler, it doesn’t work. As frustrating as it is, that’s one of the reasons we keep coming…

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It was the spring of 1999, and I was tagging along with my father to the local hardware store in search of carpentry supplies. As a 5-year-old with a rapidly…

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For many states, turkey season seems to end as quickly as it started. But if there’s still time on the clock where you live, and you still have a tag…

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If you’re looking for the most efficient way to kill a turkey with a bow, a well-placed, pop-up style ground blind is hard to beat. But they are restricting, and…

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Modern turkey decoys present a variety of benefits to the turkey hunter. Their lifelike appearance—aptly described as the “absolute pinnacle of realism”--  has evolved to the point that turkeys interact…

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