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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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Cut the Grass and Use M.E.E.N. Green Fertilizer

About all outdoorsmen have things they’d rather do on weekends than mow the grass on green fields planted for wildlife to increase the amount of food to make deer and turkeys easier to find and take. But in most sections of the country, except for the far north, most wildlife managers already have started mowing their green fields before June.

Big Game, Deer, Turkey, Land Management, How-To, BioLogic

I make no claims to be better at turkey hunting than the next guy and in reality I’m not. That’s why (for me anyway) when you pull off a zone 1 miracle it’s sweet. I’ve been hunting with many of the so called “best” turkey hunters in the nation and none of them kill or call in a longbeard on each and every hunt and would not claim too. I have had many hunts where

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Wounded Veteran Finds Another Chance at Life Outside

Marine Cpl. Christian Brown, of Mumford, Tenn., grew up in the outdoors and learned his earliest life lessons while following his father through the woods. Nature’s greatest rewards didn’t come to his attention, though, until he returned years later, missing his legs and looking for the person he had been.

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Pass It On: It All Comes Together

As I’ve mentioned in my other “Pass It On” articles, sharing time in the field with new hunters is a very rewarding experience. It’s a time to share your love and knowledge of the outdoors with them and make some wonderful memories in the process. However, there will come a time when you have to let them step out on their own. I think this is best done in controlled circumstances that give them some

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Want More Turkeys?

One of the most satisfying aspects in game management is maintaining a healthy crop of turkeys to hunt or bringing back a wild turkey population in an area where they have struggled in the past. A simple mistake we see made every year that can have a negative impact on your turkey numbers is the good old bush hog. After being on your property during the spring, you begin to see a lot of things

Big Game, Turkey, Conservation, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers

How a Turkey Hunt Is Supposed to Happen But Doesn’t

So the moral of the story is: when you go turkey hunting, you never know what the turkey will do, even though you think you do. You never know what your turkey hunting partner will do, although you think you do. Also, you never really know what you’ll do, even though you think you do.

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What Turkey Hunting With Other People Means

We've talked some about what a turkey knows that the hunter doesn’t know, and what I know that the turkey doesn’t know. Another thing you can’t know is what your hunting partner or the person you're guiding will do any day you go turkey hunting.

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Turkeys Don’t Know They’re Teaching You about Turkey Hunting

I've been hunting turkeys all my life, and I feel comfortable that I know quite a bit about turkeys and turkey hunting. However, I’ve realized that the most-important thing I know about turkeys is that they teach me something different every day that I hunt them. They can’t read, they can’t watch television, and therefore they don’t know what they're supposed to do. One of the biggest mistakes that most veteran turkey hunters make is

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Bob Walker on What He Knows That Turkeys Don’t Know

I've watched hundreds of hunters miss turkeys. When the turkeys hear that big explosion and see pellets whizzing past their heads, they know the time has come to leave and to leave quickly. Those turkeys understand that. But I don’t think turkeys realize they’ve been able to escape, because the hunter hasn’t had his cheek up against the stock before he pulls the trigger.

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How To Get Your Gobbler This Season

Bob Walker of Livingston, Alabama, a Mossy Oak turkey pro, also is one of the hosts on the Mossy Oak “Turkey THUGS” TV show. Walker has been a turkey hunting guide at Bent Creek Lodge in Jachin, Ala., for more than 30 years and has hunted turkeys his entire life. Walker believes if you know what the turkey knows, then you can take more toms.

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Brian Hicks Scouts Deer on Public Lands While He’s Hunting Turkeys

Brian Hicks lives in southeast Texas near Beaumont. He deer hunts about 200 acres of private lands and two different national forests each season. Both of the national forests that he hunts have heavy hunting pressure. Yet, each season he consistently takes older-age-class bucks that will score 120 to 150 on Boone & Crockett.

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Lions and Tigers and Bears

You hear it a lot lately, on hunting shows and in magazine articles, “take a kid hunting.” It’s a theme that we as hunters should be proud is getting much needed attention. It’s by no means a new concept but in my opinion, it was put on the shelf for a while during the “big” period.

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Chris Phillips Says Hunting Merriam’s Turkeys Can Be Fun

The Merriam’s tom has a different sound to his gobble, and instead of sounding like he's choking, the Merriam’s seem to roll his gobble out. Too, Merriam’s gobblers can be like Rios and come in hard charging. But in the middle of their runs to the call, they may hang up and start to act like eastern gobblers. When they leave the roost, Merriam’s seem to know where they're going every day. They're relatively easy

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Chris Phillips Tells Why He Loves to Hunt Rio Grande Gobblers

I love to hunt Rio Grande gobblers. I can call aggressively to them, they gobble a lot, and they come to calling. They’re not nearly as spooky as Mississippi gobblers. When I first started hunting Rio Grande gobblers, I thought I would blow those gobblers out of the woods with loud aggressive calling, but I found just the opposite was true. These birds in the Midwest like to talk a lot. They're much like junior

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Chris Phillips Tells How to Hunt Mississippi Turkeys

When I moved from Mississippi to Kansas, I spent an entire year trying to learn how to hunt Midwestern gobblers, because I have to hunt them so much differently than I do the turkeys in Mississippi. In Mississippi, if I use a decoy, I’ll only use only one Avian-X hen decoy. On the properties I hunt in Mississippi, if I put out a jake decoy or a strutting gobbler decoy on the edge of a

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