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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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A Turkey Decoy May Work, But Perhaps Not

I really like to use a strutting gobbler decoy. However, you don’t know which gobbler in the flock may come in to your calling. If a subordinate gobbler comes in, and he's already been beat up by a dominant gobbler, there's a very good chance that he's won’t come in and get his head bloodied again.

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Matt Morrett on How to Take a Field Turkey

On most fields, the edges of the fields are wooded. Finding a gobbler out in the field is the easiest way to locate a turkey to hunt. However, a field turkey oftentimes is one of the most-difficult turkeys to hunt. A really-smart field turkey will fly down from the roost, land out in the middle of the field, strut, drum and call his hens to him. He’ll stay out in the field until the sun

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Matt Morrett Loves to Use Friction Calls for Gobblers

In 2 minutes or less, you can learn to push the dowel on a push-button call and call in a wild turkey. In 5 to 10 minutes you can learn to use a slate or a glass-type friction call. You can make a yelp, a cluck, a purr and a cutting sound and call in a wild turkey. For this reason, friction calls are the easiest and simplest to learn.

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Solving Tough Turkey Taking Problems

Matt Morrett represents Zink Wild Game Calls, Avian X decoys and the Plano Company. He has been a Mossy Oak Pro most of his life. After winning his first World Turkey Calling Championship when he was 16-years old, he has stacked-up turkey calling championships higher than he is tall. During turkey season, he probably sleeps in Mossy Oak camo, so he can jump out of the bed before first light and get out into the

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Ronnie “Cuz” Strickland on the Different Types of Eastern Wild Turkeys

In my own mind, there are several different types of eastern wild turkeys. I know the turkeys in Missouri are eastern wild turkeys, but they gobble so loud and so much that believing they have turbo chargers on their chests is easy. So, I classify them as a different species of eastern wild turkey in my mind than some of the other eastern gobblers. Turkeys in New York also gobble pretty good, but they seem

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Ronnie “Cuz” Strickland’s Favorite Turkey to Hunt – Merriam’s Gobblers

I like Merriam’s gobblers, because those birds like to talk. If they can hear you, the Merriam’s gobbler won’t hesitate to come to you from a mile away. If a Merriam’s gobbler answers my calling, over the years, I've learned to sit down and eat a candy bar. By the time I’m finished with that candy bar, the gobbler will be right in front of me. I think one of the reasons that the Merriam’s

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If You Want to See More Wild Turkeys

Most wildlife species require the “F+W+C+S Formula” (Food, Water, Cover, and Sanctuary) functioning in an area for them to take up residence. For wild turkeys it’s a little more involved than that. Turkeys need each element listed, but they are a bit more persnickety, everything needs to be just right for turkeys to take up residence in your hunting area. There are also a couple things you MUST NOT have for turkeys to be found

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New Zealand Gobblers - Rio Grandes Imported from the U.S.

We had heard that a lot of turkeys were in New Zealand, but not very many people hunted them. We also learned that these turkeys were originally Rio Grande gobblers that had been imported from the U.S. However, they were blondish-white color phase turkeys. I don’t know how that turkey phase got mixed-up with Rio Grande turkeys, but they did.

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The Gould’s Turkey in Mexico and the Ocellated Turkey in Central America

For me, the Gould’s turkey is much like a Merriam’s turkey. My first trip to Mexico was many, many years ago. Back then, we couldn’t take a gun across the Mexican border. The guide service we were going to hunt with said, “Don’t worry about your gun. I've got you covered. I've got a gun you can use. I’ll meet you at the border and help you get across the border.” Back in those days,

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Cuz on Hunting the Different Subspecies of Wild Turkeys

Most of us want to hunt a turkey we've never hunted before in a place we've never been. Ronnie “Cuz” Strickland, vice president for media, TV and video productions for Mossy Oak, has hunted all the subspecies of wild turkey in the United States and two other countries. This week Mr. Cuz will tell us the differences in hunting each of the different types of gobblers.

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When You Think a Turkey Hunting Tactic Won’t Work – It May

Turkey hunting in the spring is not only my passion, it’s also my job. Each spring, I hunt with outdoor writers, store owners, dealers and distributors who buy and sell Quaker Boy Calls. One of the best ways to sell turkey calls is to call up the turkey with the calls we make at Quaker Boy for the people who sell our calls, or, for the outdoor writers and TV hosts who write about and

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What To Do When A Critter Spooks the Turkey

You can do everything right, and the turkey is doing everything he’s supposed to do. He’s coming to you, you’ve got your shotgun on your shoulder, and your cheek is against the stock. You know within less than a minute you'll be squeezing the trigger on your shotgun. Then, a fox, a raccoon, a coyote, a cow, a dog, a horse, a goat or another hunter walks between you and that gobbler and spooks your

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What to Do When You Don’t Know What to Do

Chris Kirby is the president of Quaker Boy Calls, produces the Mossy Oak Turkey Thugs calls and has won the World Turkey Calling Championship. As a youngster, Chris trailed along behind his dad, Dick Kirby, who started Quaker Boy Calls, when they hunted. He never remembers a spring when he wasn’t in turkey woods. From the beginning of turkey season in Florida until the end of turkey season in New York, Chris will be wearing

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Will Primos Tells How To Hunt Turkeys That Don’t Talk

Often in seminars I'm asked, “I know the place where I hunt has turkeys. I see them out in the fields, and I see them in the woods. But during spring gobbling season, those turkeys don’t talk. Why are turkeys not gobbling in the spring, and how do you hunt turkeys that don’t gobble?”

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NWTF Announces "Rise and Fly" - A Campaign To Save the Hunting Way of Life

The National Wild Turkey Federation's new membership campaign, Rise And Fly, launched in front of an energized crowd at the Thursday Night Welcome Party during the NWTF 40th annual National Convention and Sport Show. The campaign challenges NWTF members and hunters to gift a membership to someone special or to challenge a friend or family member to join the NWTF online at NWTF.org/RiseAndFly.

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