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The wild turkey is an elusive bird. To get the gobbler, get the know-how. Strategies, management and gear for the hunt can all be found right here.

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Turkey Hunting Calling Strategies and Common Mistakes

Turkey hunting is tough. Here’s a look at 5 ways you’ll easily blow your turkey hunt in the first hour.

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Mossy Oak Mother's Day Gift Guide

Outfit Mom in the latest hunting and fishing apparel, plus some accessories that are handy for her outdoors adventures or while she's on the go. These Mother's Day gifts for the outdoorsy mom in your life should only complement the time you spend outdoors with her.

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NWTF Begins Urgent Help the Yelp Initiative

Right now only 10% of all turkey hunters are NWTF members—a discouraging statistic that Help the Yelp aims to bolster, resulting in a mass increase of dollars funding the work on wild turkeys.

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Women’s Outdoor Apparel Designers, DSG Outerwear, Features Hunting Clothing in Mossy Oak

Mossy Oak is proud to announce an exciting new partnership with DSG Outerwear (Doing Something Great Outerwear), introducing a new line of fashionable yet functional hunting clothes designed for the female hunter in the famous spring camouflage pattern, Mossy Oak Obsession, just in time for turkey season.

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Turkey Roost Tales: Bottomland Book Club

The enjoyment of Dale’s book comes from exploring and getting to know the people in the sphere of his turkey hunting world. Though turkey hunting is, at its best, a solitary sport, we shine when gathering in twos and threes and tens, as that is where we get to re-live our greatest moments.

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Turkey Hunting Superstitions

If you call yourself a turkey hunter, yet do not find your life choices during the spring to be peculiar, you probably have the most severe form of the peculiarity in which you appear perfectly normal to yourself yet the most peculiar to the outsiders.

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The Best Gun Cleaning Kits That Do It All

Are you the guy at the end of the duck blind always clearing a jam? If you need a gun cleaning kit, this list from Mossy Oak will help.

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Remembering the Greats: Bottomland Book Club

Turkey hunting has many icons, people who have contributed heavily to the tradition upon which this grand subculture of ours is built. In this book, Jim Casada has chronicled the stories of 27 of them.

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You’ve Spooked the Gobbler - Now What?

If you want to see all the blood go out of a turkey hunter’s face, watch what happens when he's going to a gobbler, but the gobbler sees him and runs off before the hunter can get a shot. Or, a gobbler is coming to the hunter’s calling and spots the hunter moving. That movement spooks the turkey. The only feeling that I know of that’s worse is if you shoot at a gobbler and

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3 Practices For Using A Locator Call

The locator call should be found in every turkey hunter's vest during the spring hunting season. Below are 3 practices for using locator calls that can help you achieve success this spring.

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Memories of Spring: Bottomland Book Club

Jolly’s book, “Memories of Spring,” puts readers right alongside him on his hunts, to experience the thrills and frustrations that ultimately lead to success or failure.

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Turkey Hunting With a Toddler

Turkey hunting with a toddler won’t be like any turkey hunt you have ever been on before. When it comes to filling a tag, you’ll want to set low standards for yourself. Will you enjoy yourself? Absolutely.

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The Art of the Stamp, Conservation and Consequences

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) recently revised rules set by the previous administration regarding the artwork for federal duck stamps.

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Letters to My Grandson: Bottomland Book Club

In his 2018 book, “Letters To My Grandsons,” Proffitt reinforced my opinion, providing us a lifetime of learning and insights from the spring and fall turkey woods, gleaned from legends like Kenny Morgan, Bland, Bailey, and from the sly wild turkey itself.

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Afternoon Turkey Hunting Tactics

Turkeys can be taken at any time of the day as long as you’re in the field and vary your approaches.

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