Turkey

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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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Steve Coon on How to Take the Hung-Up Gobbler
Turkey hunters define a gobbler that stands in one place, gobbles and struts but won’t come in to the call as a hung-up gobbler. When a turkey hangs-up, it’s because he knows that when he gobbles, the hen is supposed to come to him. If he can’t get that hen to come to him, he becomes suspicious there’s danger where he hears that hen calling to him. Primarily, you'll encounter hung-up gobblers on public-hunting lands
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Big Game, Turkey, How-To, Firearm
Tracy Groves on Whether Turkey Hunting’s a Blessing or an Aggravation
When the alarm clock goes off an hour or two before daylight, many of us struggle with fully awakening and climbing out of that warm, comfortable bed. We have to go out in the weather whether it’s rainy, cold, windy, dark or just mild to hunt. We have to start walking and listening for turkeys. If we don’t locate a gobbler to hunt until the middle of the morning or later in the morning, we’ll
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Big Game, Turkey, Mossy Oak
If Your Patience Runs Out Your Gobbler Probably Will Run Off
I'm often asked, “What’s a turkey doing when he quits gobbling?” You have to remember that a turkey thinks that everything in the woods is trying to kill him and eat him. So, the turkey is very cautious. Usually, turkeys don’t walk in straight lines. Too, some thick cover, a wire fence or a ditch or creek the turkey doesn’t want to cross may be between you and the turkey. There are a lot of
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Big Game, Turkey, Mossy Oak
DEER THUG Justin Eakins on Managing Lands for Turkeys As well As Deer
Our hunting lodge isn’t just a one trick pony. We not only manage our land to produce older-age-class bucks, we also manage the land for wild turkeys. Turkey season isn’t far off at all. We have some of the finest turkey hunting out here in Oklahoma, as you'll find anywhere in the United States. We have Rio Grande turkeys, and each season we’ll harvest about 70 longbeards off our property. We manage our turkeys much
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Big Game, Deer, Turkey, How-To, Mossy Oak
Save The Habitat. Save the Hunt. Initiative Makes Significant Impact Through First Year
The National Wild Turkey Federation's (NWTF) Save the Habitat. Save the Hunt. initiative was implemented just over one year ago and it's already making a difference. The Save the Habitat. Save the Hunt. initiative is an aggressive charge that mobilizes science, fundraising and devoted volunteers to combat some of the driving factors in the decline of wild turkey numbers, loss of habitat and the decrease in the number of hunters.
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Big Game, Turkey, Conservation
Parrey Cremeans Says California’s Loaded with Turkeys
Last fall we were scouting for turkeys and found a flock of jakes and hens that had 200 or more birds in the flock. In the high country of northeastern California, you can hunt Merriam’s. But in the areas where we hunt, the Rio Grande turkey is our dominant bird. In some of the higher elevations, we find some of our bigger birds that are crosses between the Rio Grande and the Merriam’s. Before spring
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Big Game, Turkey, Mossy Oak, Bow, Firearm