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Jason Pollack Tells Us about Taking His Greatest New York Gobbler

I've only mounted one turkey as long as I've been hunting, but that old bird was really special. I had set up on this turkey several times during turkey season and actually gotten him to within gun range one of those times. However, I was hunting with a turkey scope on my shotgun in a driving rain. As I looked through my scope, I noticed that the front lens of the scope had rain all

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Jason Pollack Remembers His Toughest Turkey Fight in New York

I found this gobbler just before youth season one year on about 400 acres. I hunted him regularly throughout the season right up until the next-to-the-last day of turkey season. Every time I called to him he'd gobble and gobble and gobble. He’d come in to about 50 or 60 yards and hang up. Some days, he'd fly up on a limb to look for the hen who was talking to him. I was able

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Mossy Oak Pro Jason Pollack Takes His Daughter Turkey Hunting

My wife, Megan, went with me to operate the video camera on a Saturday, and then on Sunday, we took our 13-year-old daughter, Ella, turkey hunting. Once again, Megan videoed the hunt. We put out Dave Smith turkey decoys, and we set up a Primos pop-up blind. We saw and heard some hens roosted out in front of us, and I carried on some tree-talking conversations with the hens while they were on the roost.

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How to Hunt May Turkeys in New York

Our turkey season in New York starts May 1 and ends May 31 - one of the latest turkey seasons in the nation. Now in Maine the season typically ends June 5. When I say that I live and hunt in New York, many people think I’m talking about Manhattan (NYC) with its concrete and skyscrapers. But upstate New York where I live is probably more rural than most states with rolling hills, vineyards and

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Setting Up on Two Turkeys

I've learned that every turkey I hunt, whether I take him or he fools me, teaches me something. Over the years, I guess one of the most important lessons I've learned is that turkeys don’t really care which calls that you think sound the best. They only care about the calls they want to hear.

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Doubling Down on Gobbler Turkeys

Brian Enoch, another Mossy Oak Pro Staffer, and I went to Ohio to hunt. Brian knew of a place that he had hunted before that he said was, “eaten up with turkeys.” On the morning of the hunt, we located two or three different groups of gobblers. We decided to go to a close-by clover field where we had heard one group of gobblers talking. The woods were thick around that clover field. As soon

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Turkeys Just Like We See Them on TV

My best turkey hunts every year is when I take my children turkey hunting with me. My son Taylor took his first turkey when he was 8, and my daughter Mady took her first turkey when she was 9. For me, nothing is more fun or more exciting than having my children sit between my legs, and I explain what the turkey is doing, watch my kids get excited, help them get steady enough to

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The Excited Guide Who Sucked in Leaves

One of my favorite out-of-state hunts was in Virginia, where I hunted with an outfitter close to Wytheville, Virginia. This outfitter was new to turkey hunting and knew where the turkeys were, but not how to hunt them.

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Bit By the Turkey Bug

Our friend Ray Boggs came down to my dad’s house and said, “Let’s go turkey looking” (in other words, scouting before the season). When Mr. Boggs and my dad, Cam Campbell, went turkey looking, they’d drive around the back roads and listen for turkeys to gobble. They invited me to go with them when I was about 13 years old. The first time I heard a turkey gobble, I asked “What’s that?” And they told

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Mossy Oak Folks Do the Right Thing

I know that we all feel like that we get more out of guiding on these charity hunts than we give. We enjoy turkey hunting, helping people raise money for worthy causes, the friends we meet along the way and the fact that helping others is another major thread that runs through the fabric of Mossy Oak.

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Who Is the Mossy Oak Family and How Did It Become That?

I also guide my family on turkey hunts. My son, Gregory, and I were hunting out in Texas. I yelped a few times on my big, long box call. The turkeys answered, and I told Gregory, “Let’s mount our horses.” We didn’t really have any horses, but I meant we had to run to the spot to set up to call the turkeys. When we reached the place I wanted to be, I sat Gregory

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Bill Sugg Says Sharing Turkey Hunting is about Giving Back

Bill Sugg, the president of Haas Outdoors/Mossy Oak, has been with the company and Toxey Haas, since its beginning. The relationship between Sugg and Haas was rooted in turkey hunting. In most companies the size of Mossy Oak, you'd expect to see the president of the company in a coat and tie with well-polished shoes sitting behind a big heavy oak desk, but not Sugg. During the spring of the year, when he arrives at

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Mossy Oak Serves Others Because It’s the Right Thing to Do

Unlike the officers of most companies who have guide to take them out, call up gobblers and let the officers harvest the turkeys, Bill Sugg, Toxey Haas, Ronnie Strickland and all the top executives at Mossy Oak spend most of turkey season guiding turkey hunters. Mossy Oak supports many different charities. When these charities have turkey hunts to raise money, the Mossy Oak family guides the hunters who give monies to those charities. They also

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From the President’s Point Of View

All the top people in Mossy Oak are turkey hunters. Toxey even suggested we might put a box for a check mark by the question, “Do you turkey hunt?” on our application for employment. My passion for turkey hunting is much like what happens when you throw a rock into a puddle of water. Those few ripples after the rock hits the water represent my family and Mossy Oak friends. They know how much I

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Keith Kelly Loves to Go West to Hunt Gobbling Turkeys

There’s not a better decoy made than a live hen out in front of a hunter’s blind. In just a few minutes, we looked to the right and saw a longbeard coming into the food plot from the same direction that the hen had come. He was shying away from my hen decoy and was walking toward the live hen he could see out in the field. When the gobbler was about 35 yards from

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