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SUCCESSFUL TURKEY SEASONS START HERE.

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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How to Take a Gobbler You Can’t Hear and What Equipment to Use

If you’re sitting in a spot, and the gobbler doesn’t come in for 20-30 minutes, what do you do next?

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Paul Butski Hunts New York Turkeys

In the 1960s, I started hunting during fall turkey season because at the time, New York didn’t have a spring turkey season. I live in one of the most beautiful areas of New York.

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The BEST Turkey Vests of 2021

Turkey vests are your absolute, number one must-have in the turkey gear world. Whether you’re shooting turkeys with a gun or a bow, you’ll be ready to take on the adventure in one of these vests.

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Developing Shotgun Patterns

By knowing what your gun shoots best, you can have confidence when the moment of truth comes and you squeeze the trigger.

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What to Do When You’ve Lost Your Merriam’s Gobbler to Hens

Often the Merriam’s gobbler will have a flock of hens with him when he goes to the roost. If those hens fly down with the gobbler and are able to take that tom away from you and your decoy, what do you do?

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Mountain Merriam’s in the Black Hills of South Dakota

The Merriam’s gobbler is one of the most beautiful wild turkeys in the nation and often gobbles more and louder than any other sub-species of wild turkeys. Knowing Kayser’s success in harvesting these fascinating gobblers, learn how Kayser hunts and takes them.

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Use a Blind, Be Patient, Stay Put and Call Softly and Seldom for Osceolas

This is another reason why I’m a strong proponent of hunting from a blind when you’re hunting in the open ground of south Florida. If a gobbler is with hens, you have so many eyes looking for you that there’s a very good chance they’ll spot you and spook.

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What to Do When You’re on Turkey Time

I’ve sat in one spot for three or four hours before waiting for a gobbler to come back and find me. On other hunts, the gobbler has flown down and landed right in front of our blind.

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Eastern Wild Turkey Super Stocking Project: A Microcosm of National Success

There is something that is visually appealing about a turkey being released into a new area, the way it flies off, awkwardly at first but then with vigor shortly after; it’s representative of the evolution of turkey restoration efforts.

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How to Hunt the Osceola Turkey in Oak Hammocks

I’m a strong proponent of scouting and pinpointing the turkey you want to hunt before you hunt him.

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What Makes an Osceola Turkey an Osceola?

We’ve hunted the lands in south Florida so much that we know that very few roost sites are in the places we hunt.

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Calling Hens with Gobblers

When I’ve got a turkey coming and he gets held up by hens, I forget about that gobbler and start calling to the boss hen.

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Turkey Hunting and Calling in the Hills

If you decide to get on the ridge with that turkey, make sure you’re either higher up or on the same level. Calling a turkey downhill is a very difficult task.

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How Hank Parker Closes the Deal When Hunting Turkeys

If I hear a turkey gobble a pretty good ways from me, I’ll start to close the distance between us. I believe that how you close that distance is a major key in whether or not you’ll spook a turkey.

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Hank Parker: When, How and Why of Calling and Taking Turkeys

I take most of my turkeys between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. when most turkey hunters already have left the woods.

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