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News & Tips: Pick the Best Polarized Fishing Glasses...
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Pick the Best Polarized Fishing Glasses

What would you say is the most important piece of fishing equipment you own? Would it be your rod? Your tackle? Possibly your boat? Most anglers are quick to answer, but few realize the benefit…
News & Tips: Pressured Fish? No Problem
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Pressured Fish? No Problem

Fish pressure can originate from a variety of sources. The number one cause is by anglers themselves. This is best illustrated by busy, popular fishing lakes, during weekends or holidays, and while…
News & Tips: Handling Wildlife Camp Visits
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Handling Wildlife Camp Visits

"Look at that funny looking cat!" the boy yelled. "Where?" asked his father. "It walked under the camper," the boy answered. His father peeked under the picnic table, jumped up as he had seen a ghost…
News & Tips: Not Your Daddy's Slug Gun
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Not Your Daddy's Slug Gun

Today's slug-gun hunter has an array of choices in all types of actions.   Pump actions lay claim to the most popular slug guns. These shotguns delver accuracy with the capacity of a fast follow up…
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Short Soft Turkey Calling Got This Strutter

The second week of April I was guiding an older gentlemen and novice turkey hunter and decided I would hunt him from a pop-up blind at a location where I worked several birds earlier in the season.…
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Turkey Calling 101

As a former U.S. Open & World Calling Champion, so often I’m asked, what’s my favorite call…my answer is, “The one the turkey likes on that given day.” Every bird is different, every scenario is…
News & Tips: Youth Hunter Get's a Tip
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Youth Hunter Get's a Tip

On the South Carolina Youth Turkey day, I took a little buddy that I’ve called turkeys to in past years. He and his dad met me before daylight on that Saturday morning and my young friend was excited…
News & Tips: Patterning a Gun with a Dominant Eye
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Patterning a Gun with a Dominant Eye

Before season, Heather my daughter, who has taken the Royal Slam and scores of turkeys, sat at the patterning bench and had trouble with being consistent on shot placement. She wasn’t flinching, she…
News & Tips: Guide to Boat Battery Chargers
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Guide to Boat Battery Chargers

On-board boat chargers like the Bass Pro Shops XPS IT2 4/4 Onboard Battery Charger are technologically advanced, providing multi-stage switching to manage and maintain a boat's batteries during the…
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Patterning Your Turkey Shotgun

Before each turkey season every hunter needs to pattern and understand their shotgun. It’s commonly misunderstood that with a single or double bead and limits of ducks and ring-necks taken with that…
News & Tips: Youth Turkey Camps Teach Skills
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Youth Turkey Camps Teach Skills

Over the last three decades I have conducted a dozen or more youth turkey hunting camps, most through the JAKES (Juniors Acquiring Knowledge, Ethics and Sportsmanship) program of the National Wild…
News & Tips: Traditional Archery: Turkey Tips
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Traditional Archery: Turkey Tips

The first week of turkey season has passed in my neck of the woods and the score is still gobblers 2, traditional archer 0. For some reason the birds I scouted have not shown themselves during my two…