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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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Tripp’s First Turkey Hunt: Empty Hands But Full Heart

Spencer Halford Photo by Dylan Farrell I've often thought about what it would be like to take my son turkey hunting. To be honest, I've worried about it a lot. I’ve worried about whether or not I had the patience to make it fun for him and to help him enjoy it. I've wondered if he would grow up to like it, and I've worried about what our friendship would be like if he didn't.

Turkey, Mossy Oak Obsession

Better Your Hunting Property for Sale

Improving land for wildlife can be an expensive proposition, especially if you plant fruit and nut trees, create green fields, create sanctuaries and bedding areas, and keep hunting pressure to a minimum. I have to know what the land buyer wants.

Deer, Turkey, Waterfowl, Conservation, Land Management, How-To, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers

Protecting Yourself From Ticks

Spring is here and with the warmer weather and gobbling turkeys, comes the dreaded tick. Any GameKeeper will tell you that there is nothing worse than after a day in the field to look down and find a tick. Follow these quick tips on protecting yourself from ticks and enjoy the outdoors! Preventing Ticks The first step in protecting yourself from ticks is prevention. These tips can help stop ticks before they have a chance

Deer, Turkey, Fishing, How-To, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers

Small Food Plots Can Still Increase Wildlife

More and more hunters are beginning to learn that small properties - often as small as 5-10 acres or as much as 500 acres - can be great places to hunt, to own and to increase the wildlife living on that property.

Deer, Turkey, Conservation, Land Management, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers, Mossy Oak Properties, BioLogic

Making Time, Choosing a Location and Gearing Up for Turkey Hunting

Every day I turkey hunt is a blessing, an opportunity to learn, a chance to interact with a wild turkey and a way to experience new places and different birds. That’s enough for me. I don’t measure success or failure by whether or not I take a turkey. At the end of the day, if I know I’ve done the best I can, then most of the time it’s a successful outing.

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Embrace the Challenge of Turkey Hunting Unknown Property

As long as I've been hunting turkeys, as hard as I've been hunting turkeys, and as much as I know about turkeys, each day I really never know what’s going to happen when I go turkey hunting. I have to look for ways to adapt to the unexpected to try and be successful. I don’t really get upset when the turkey beats me. I try to learn something even when I lose to a turkey.

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Research To Hunt Turkeys All Season Long

I like to hunt public lands because public lands give me the opportunity to stretch my legs and cover a lot of ground. I don’t have the ability or the finances to buy enough land to keep me occupied throughout turkey season. But with the national forests, state forests, Bureau of Land Management (BLM) lands and other public lands that I can hunt, I can cover an awful lot of ground during opening season in

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The Turkey Calling Calendar

Varying your calling through the season could earn you a successful date with a big gobbler this spring. Turkey behavior, including how they call and how they respond to calls has a certain chronology to it. While there are no hard and fast rules when it comes to turkeys, there are some generalities that seem to hold true more often than not.

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Public Land Turkey Hunting for Osceolas

One of the real secrets to hunting multiple states for different species of wild turkeys is the hunter’s ability to adapt to various conditions like terrain, weather and habitat. You’ve got to be willing to face turkey-hunting situations that you never may face if you hunt in your home state.

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Tips for Patterning Your Turkey Gun

Have you ever patterned your turkey shotgun? I mean really put it through the paces with several different manufacturers’ loads and shot sizes to determine what shoots the best through your gun? I can tell you that each gun is a bit different and something is going to perform best. Don’t just shoot what your local sporting goods store has on sale. Take an hour, some butcher paper or targets, cardboard boxes, maybe a realty

Turkey, How-To, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers, Firearm

What Goes Into a Turkey Calling Championship?

David Owens from Acworth, Georgia, is the 2018 National Wild Turkey Federation (NWTF) Grand National Senior Open Division turkey-calling champion. In 2017, he completed an almost unbelievable feat by completing the U.S. Super Slam of wild turkeys, taking 49 gobblers in the 49 states with 90 percent of those birds harvested on public lands. Owens started hunting turkeys when he was 13 and has been hunting them for 20 years. He’s only been entering turkey-calling

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Blinds, Decoys and Preference for Turkey Hunting

Another situation where I’ll use a blind and decoys is when a tom is roosted on a piece of property that I can’t hunt, but every morning he flies down into a field that I can hunt. Then when he leaves the field, he walks back onto the property I can’t hunt. I know that the only way I'll be able to harvest that bird is to get out into the field with him, set

Turkey, Mossy Oak Bottomland, Mossy Oak Obsession, How-To

Mr. Fox Haas Pursues 71st Successful Turkey Season

Mr. Carl Fox Haas, Mossy Oak’s “founding father” and a legend in the outdoors industry, will begin his 71st turkey season on Thursday, March 15th in his home state of Mississippi, where he will be accompanied by his son Toxey Haas and grandsons Neill an Daniel Haas.

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Bizarre But Effective Turkey Calling Tactics

The best advice I can give anyone about calling turkeys is that there's not an instruction book on what calls or types of calling will make every turkey come within gun range.

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Wild Turkey Chimichangas

Mincing or grinding wild turkey lends itself to a wide array of cooking options, especially if you have an old bird that could cook up as tough as shoe leather. It is easy to bone out the breast meat and thighs, providing several pounds of choice mince. If you want to increase the moisture content, and flavor, pluck your turkey and grind the skin with the meat. One of the best ways to utilize the

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