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100 Days of Turkey Hunting

Brett Berry of Bristolville, Ohio, says, “About 10 years ago when I first started helping Zink Calls and Avian-X Decoys, I also became a pro staffer for Mossy Oak. I hunt turkeys in the spring and fall and use my turkey dogs during fall hunting. I try to hunt every day of the week during Ohio’s turkey season. I also hunt West Virginia and Pennsylvania, and I’m hunting in Wyoming in mid-May. I generally hunt

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Frustrating Turkey Hunts with Perry Peterson

We would give the cameraman a hard time just for fun for not letting the shooter shoot, and then we would kid with him that he was in the wrong spot. At first those scenarios were somewhat frustrating, but I really understood that the Mossy Oak film crew was trying to do the best job they could and make the best video they could make. If the turkey wasn’t right, then there was no point

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Memorable Iowa Turkey Hunts with Youngsters

I have been taking youngsters turkey hunting with me for the last 20 years. To me there is nothing more fun than watching a youngster get all excited when he or she sees one of those big gobblers coming in to my calls, strutting and drumming and about to gobble his head off. It really does not matter whether the kid shoots the turkey or not. The joy and excitement I get from watching those

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Iowa Has Had a Strange Turkey Season in 2017

During Iowa’s youth season, the weather was fairly warm, and the bugs were out. On April 24, 2017, we had a light snow that was enough to cover the roofs on a few houses, and the bugs seemed to disappear. The weather has been fairly cool here at the end of the season, but we’ve hunted here in the snow in Iowa during early May.

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Perry Peterson’s Toughest Tom

I hunted one tom hard during our second season and finally gave up on him. Then I hunted him for 10 days during the last season before I was able to take him. This ole gobbler was the big dog on campus. I think he had all the hens as a part of his harem from across much of the area. In the mornings, when I tried to hunt him, he always would have at

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Perry Peterson Hunts the Fat Turkeys of the Midwest

Perry Peterson is Mossy Oak’s Regional Pro Staff Manager for the nine states in the upper Midwest. He’s been a Mossy Oak Pro ever since the beginning of the Mossy Oak Pro Staff and lives in Iowa. Iowa’s youth season started in April and turkey season runs until May 22, 2017. His 10-year-old son bagged an eastern gobbler that weighed 28 pounds during the youth season, and a friend of Peterson’s hunting on his farm

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Lynn Worwood Explains Why He’s on the NWTF’s Board of Directors

I like the conservation programs that the NWTF offers. The NWTF is not only about turkeys and turkey hunting, it’s about getting people outdoors and participating in outdoor sports, whether they're shooting 3D archery, shooting at targets with their rifles and shotguns, or going hunting.

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Utah’s Lynn Worwood Makes Turkey Hunting Memories

Some of the most memorable turkey hunts I've ever been have been the hunts where I’ve taken my children and grandchildren. There's just something extra special about introducing a family member to turkey hunting, and being there when they harvest their first gobbler.

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Lady Turkey Hunters and a Blackpowder Turkey Hunter in Utah

My job with the NWTF here in Utah is to help promote turkey hunting with the youth, the women and all first-time turkey hunters, as well as our Wheelin' Sportsmen program. I promote Jake events. I've worked with the youth for the past 20 years as the Jake coordinator, but I’ve had a hard time getting women involved. However, I had a friend who got a shotgun, and she said that she wanted to go

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Lynn Worwood Tells What’s Happening with Utah Turkeys

Up until 25 years ago, I wasn’t really a turkey hunter. I loved to hunt mountain lions and bears with hounds. Back then, in the area of Utah where I lived, we didn’t have turkeys until about 1991 or 1992. One day my brother told me, “Let’s go hunt turkeys.” I told him, “I think turkeys are probably the dumbest critters on the face of the earth. When I'm hunting mountain lions or bears, my

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5 Gobblers Each Season As A Turkey Guide in Utah

Fifty-five-year-old Lynn Worwood of Nephi, Utah, helped the state release the mountain goats he hunts today. He has been hunting turkeys for 25 years. Worwood is a member of the Board of Directors for Utah’s National Wild Turkey Federation that helped release the turkeys he’s now hunting.

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My Toughest Hunts

I'm 62 years old and young at heart, but not so young as my hairline goes. So far this season, I haven’t missed a day of turkey hunting. I hunt in South Dakota, Pennsylvania, Missouri and Nebraska. I put in about 50 days of turkey hunting each year. I’ll start archery hunting for turkeys on April 1. Then when gun season comes in, I’ll hunt South Dakota or one of the other states until about

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One of My Most Favorite Hunts

Jerry Foster and Greg Butler are two of my favorite friends, and getting to spend time with them hunting turkeys always is a great pleasure and a joy for me. The turkeys were gobbling good this morning. I put Jerry and Greg out in front of me, and I called the turkeys. We had two different groups of gobblers come in to my calling. But before they could get within gun range of my hunters,

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Three Keys to Bagging More Merriam’s Gobblers

I hunt both the Black Hills and the prairie here in South Dakota, but I love to hunt the Black Hills the most. I like the terrain of the Black Hills, and I enjoy hunting mountains and hollows. Most of the prairie is private ground. I do have some private property I can hunt down there, but there seems to be less turkey hunting pressure in the Black Hills – probably because most people don’t

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Hunting Merriam’s Gobblers When They're with Hens

When I know the gobblers are henned-up, I don’t call to them when they're on the roost. When the hens have just started to get with the gobblers early in turkey season, I’ve learned that they’ll fly out of the tree and hit the ground running the opposite way from where I’m calling and pull the gobblers with them.

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