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How to Unhang A Hung-Up Gobblers

What do you do when you're calling to a turkey, he's gobbling back to you, he starts coming to you, and then, he stops, struts and drums just out of gun range at about 60 yards?

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Hunting the Named Turkey With Will Primos

When a friend starts telling you about a turkey he's going to take you to and he's given that turkey a name, you know you're in trouble. When turkey hunters name turkeys, you automatically know that turkey has a reputation for being a hunter dodger. That turkey hasn’t earned his name by doing what turkeys are supposed to do. For this reason, if you decide to hunt that turkey with a name, you need to

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Why I Call So Much and Call So Loudly

Over the years, I've often been criticized because I call a lot, and I call loudly. I developed this style of calling when I first started hunting turkeys with the Vice President of TV and Video Productions for Mossy Oak, Ronnie “Cuz” Strickland. We learned this fact together: if a turkey gobbles when you call, and you can tell that turkey what he wants to hear quickly and emphatically, and if you sound like an

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How to Solve Turkey Hunting Problems

If you’ve been calling to a turkey on public land, but when you sit down and set-up to take the turkey, you hear another hunter calling to that same turkey, that’s one of the most-frustrating things that can happen to a turkey hunter. I've been asked, “What will you do to solve this problem?”

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Learning the Good News and the Bad News about Hunting Exotics in Texas

There's good news and bad news about hunting exotics in Texas. The population is tremendous. The words, free-ranging, mean these animals don’t live behind fences, but most if not all of the ranches where you find exotics are privately owned. You must have permission to hunt there, and/or on leased lands or hunting operations. Also, Texas homes numbers of enclosures used to raise trophy whitetails. So, I define free-ranging as those animals that are able

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Mossy Oak now the Official Camo of the NWTF

Turkey hunting and camouflage go together like turkey and dressing. And this holiday season, the NWTF is excited to announce a bigger-than-ever partnership with Mossy Oak that includes a feast of support for conservation and hunting and names Mossy Oak as the Official Camo of the NWTF.

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How to Set Up a Goose Decoy Spread

Mossy Oak ProStaff Member Cory Dukehart shares tips on how to set-up a goose decoy spread. Cory shares how he uses full body and silhouette decoys and what pattern of a goose spread he likes to use.

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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.

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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

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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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