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Steve Coon on How to Take a Silent Gobbler

If a turkey becomes silent, then neither the predators or the hunters know where the bird is. So, when I have a bird gobbling on the limb, then while he's still in his roost tree gobbling, I want to get that bird as excited as possible. After he gobbles, I want to call back to him so aggressively and quickly that he’ll nearly choke himself trying to get another gobble out of his mouth.

Big Game, Turkey, How-To, Mossy Oak

Steve Coon on How to Take the Hung-Up Gobbler

Turkey hunters define a gobbler that stands in one place, gobbles and struts but won’t come in to the call as a hung-up gobbler. When a turkey hangs-up, it’s because he knows that when he gobbles, the hen is supposed to come to him. If he can’t get that hen to come to him, he becomes suspicious there’s danger where he hears that hen calling to him. Primarily, you'll encounter hung-up gobblers on public-hunting lands

Big Game, Turkey, How-To, Firearm

7 Tips for Keeping Summer Plots Weed Free

One of the most common problems in food plots, especially perennials, is weed competition. Weeds rob your plot of essential nutrients, water, and root space. Given time and opportunity, weeds will quickly mature, produce seed, and overtake a well intended food plot. The use of herbicides is one of the greatest tools a wildlife manager can utilize to keep weeds under control and get the most out of your plantings. Here are a few tips

Land Management, How-To, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers

Steve Coon: How to Hunt Tough Toms

One of the toughest turkeys to try to take is a gobbler with hens, because when you're calling to that gobbler, you’re trying to compete for his attention with hens that he can see that are all around him. That’s why I rely heavily on my decoys. One of the toughest henned-up gobblers I ever tried to take was a bird my friends and I named the “Tree Keeper.”

Big Game, Turkey, How-To, Mossy Oak

7 Tips For A Successful Shed Hunt

Hunting for shed antlers is an ever-growing sport and there are numerous reasons why. If you don’t think it can be exciting you’ve probably never given it a serious try. Shed hunting has become so popular that guided week-long “shed hunts” in prime areas can cost $2,500 or more with food and lodging included. Fear not; however, sheds can be found for free in your own hunting area or on public land.

Big Game, Deer, How-To, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers

Tree Planting For Wildlife: 3 Things You Need To Know

Tree planting time has been here for everyone in the South, and will be cranking up soon further North. Raising trees is addictive like other gamekeeping activities, but it often seems folks who have never tried it (or tried once and failed) put it off every year and year after that. Food plotting has become main stream and for most is an annual or bi-annual ritual, but tree planting and management “in the woods” still

Conservation, How-To, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers

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