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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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Mark Drury Tells How Bill’s Windup Fails to Deliver the Pitch to a Tom Turkey

After about 30 seconds of listening, he picked up his wingbone call and started his windup sequence again. Just about the time he brought that wingbone to his mouth, Steve called softly. Again Bill put his wingbone down and cupped his hands to his ears to listen for a gobble. Finally, Bill got so mad that he turned to both of us and said, “Would you two let me call just one time?” Steve and

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Country Singer Craig Morgan’s Most Unusual Turkey Hunt

Highlighting one turkey hunt is like my trying to choose my favorite song of all the songs I’ve sung over my lifetime. I’m so eaten-up with turkey hunting that a bad hunt is a good one for me. I’m super grateful for having the ability to earn a living as an entertainer. My recreation is hunting. If God made me choose between the two, I’d have to pick hunting.

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County Singer Craig Morgan Enjoys Introducing Non-Hunters to the Outdoors

Don’t get me wrong, I really appreciate all the people in the outdoor media, but I also think bringing-in media people who don’t know what hunting is all about is very important too. I want these people to know why we do what we do as hunters, so they can have a better understanding of who hunters are, what we do, and why we enjoy hunting. I’ll bring in editors from “People Magazine,” the booking

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Country Singer Craig Morgan Enjoys Hunting with His Children

Although I’ve taken my share of nice deer and turkeys, my favorite hunts are always when I’m with my children. When someone asks me what hunts I’ve enjoyed the most throughout the years and I remember back over my hunting career, it’s always been the hunts when my children have been with me.

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Cuz and Lauran Strickland Celebrate High School Graduation on a South Dakota Turkey Hunt

I took my youngest daughter, Lauran, to South Dakota, to try and take a Merriam’s turkey, for her senior trip after graduation from high school. One of the things I like about South Dakota is the ground is flat. Where we were hunting had very little vegetation, and we could see the turkeys at great distances.

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Cuz Turkey Hunts with the Rock – Ryan Welch

The most-memorable turkey hunt that comes to mind first is a hunt I went on with the “Catch a Dream Foundation,” and a young man named Ryan Welch. “Catch a Dream” is an organization that takes seriously-ill children on whatever type of event the child wants to attend in the outdoors. Ryan’s dream was to go on a turkey hunt with either me or Will Primos. Ryan had a brain tumor and had quite a

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Wild Turkey Predation

Predator species known for affecting turkey populations are: hawks, owls, crows, snakes, opossums, raccoons, foxes, bobcats, coyotes, feral dogs, etc. Some of these species such as raptors (hawks, owls) are illegal to kill. However, we can still reduce their effectiveness by planting plenty of cover and removing obvious lookout trees

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Never Forgotten

The Red Hills Wounded Warrior Group (RHWWG) is a chapter of the national organization that is based out of Tallahassee, Florida and was founded in 2011 by Brian Proctor and Walter Hatchett in hopes that they would be able to provide outdoor recreational activities for eligible veterans in north Florida and south Georgia. Since their inception, they have already hosted over thirty injured veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan at Southlands Plantation in

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Not Your Average Turkey Hunting Show

More than simply another outdoor television show, the Turkey and Deer THUGS series is a salute and a helping hand to the soldiers who have been wounded while working tirelessly to keep our nation free. A portion of the licensing dollars generated by Deer and Turkey THUG merchandise goes to the Outdoor Recreation Heritage Fund, which helps our heroes get back to the outdoors and return to the traditions their sacrifices help to protect.

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ProStaffer Parrey Cremeans Hunts California Rios

Hunting Rio Grande turkeys in northern California is different from hunting them in Texas or Oklahoma. Hunting Rio Grande turkeys out here in California is more difficult than Eastern hunters think, mainly because you have to scout so much more to take them. Our gobblers stay henned-up throughout much of the turkey season and move in large flocks.

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Jason Daugherty the Giant Killer Takes One of Biggest Eastern Turkeys Ever Harvested

Thirty-year-old Jason Daugherty from Desoto, Missouri, took one of the biggest Eastern wild turkey gobblers ever harvested, as certified by the National Wild Turkey Federation. On his third turkey hunt ever, Daugherty had the opportunity to take the gobbler of a lifetime.

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Tips on How to Bring Down a Gobbler

Patience is a virtue. Extremely annoying, yes, but the wild turkey is survival-based, and if rushed, will end up doing exactly what the hunter does not want them to do. If the turkey is gobbling, he’s extremely interested and will take his time. Being overly aggressive will turn the almost triumph into a bad turkey day.

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Perry Peterson Watches the Greatest Show on Earth on the First Day of Turkey Season

Once I picked up the gobbler, the jakes started walking up the hill. I put my diaphragm call back in my mouth and started calling to the jakes. Those goofy young gobblers turned around and started marching back down the hill, stopping 30-yards from me.

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How ProStaffer Perry Peterson Handles a Turkey Duo Behind Him

I was caught between three turkeys. The gobbler with the hens in the middle of the field was about 150-yards away from me. The gobblers behind me were almost strutting in my lap. These two turkeys hadn’t gobbled that morning, so we had no clue these two birds were in the stand of timber right behind us.

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Perry Peterson and the Merriam’s Turkey

When the turkey reached a sandy road about 150- to 200-yards away, I toned down my calling by using a mouth diaphragm call. As soon as he heard my call, the bird gobbled and started coming down the road to pass right in front of the spot where I had chosen to set-up.

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