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Tracy Groves on When Turkey Hunting Is More Than Bagging a Gobbler

I really love spending time in the woods with anybody who gets emotionally torn up when a turkey gobbles and becomes even more excited when a turkey moves in close. We don’t always have to harvest a bird to have a successful hunt. Again, that’s the difference in a woodsman and a turkey hunter. Often, a turkey hunter feels like he fails if he misses the shot, or if he doesn’t get the shot. But

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The Importance of Passing the Turkey Hunting Heritage On to Family and Friends

A woodsman learns the double joy associated in calling in turkeys or finding deer for his/her family member, newcomers to the sport and people who’ve never had an opportunity to hunt and take gobblers. The woodsman knows where to set-up, when to call, what calls to use and when to stay silent. He often knows how to manipulate the turkey (if that’s possible) to put the gobbler in front of the person he's guiding. When

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Steve Coon on Whether the Bird’s Bad or the Hunter

I think that turkeys get a bad rap. Sometimes they’re labeled as bad turkeys when they're really not. Sometimes I think the hunter makes mistakes, or the hunter just doesn’t know how to bring a gobbler within gun range. Here are some tips that may help you take bad birds and also good birds.

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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

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The Shepherd of the Flock

What happened next was a big part of what made this the most memorable hunt. The group with the gobblers started turning to go up the hill so I began to call. They would gobble and drifted closer but would not come in. The other hens met up with them and they all started going up the coulees. This was a large steep climb going up 200 feet that no Eastern bird would walk up.

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Eva Shockey Explains Why Someone Like Her Got into Hunting

Eva Shockey is one of the most-recognized women in the outdoors. In the last 4 or 5 years, her life has made a dramatic turn around, since before this Eva always has been a momma’s girl. Her mother, Louise, is the epitome of femininity, a professional model, a prima ballerina and a dancing instructor. This path is the one that Eva followed from the time she first could walk until she was about 21 years

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