Next time you head for the turkey woods, take some wings with you—not the BBQ kind, but a real turkey wing from a past successful hunt.
Wings have been used for a long time by turkey hunters to make…
With the turkey population at an all-time high across America, you have a pretty good chance of coming across a dominant gobbler traveling with hens, jakes, and subordinate gobblers. Even though it’s…
If you want to be a good turkey hunter, you need to learn good woodsmanship. It’s as important, or maybe more so, than being a good caller. Woodmanship skills will help you entice a gobbler to an…
At least when you see the white flag you know you’ve messed up. Think about how many bucks you didn’t see while hunting a bad wind.
How many times throughout your deer-hunting career have you had a…
If you take care of gamebirds bagged in the hunted field or forest, they will take care of you at the dinner table. Having the right tools and techniques for field dressing gamebirds can make the job…
One of the greatest rewards of hunting upland game birds, waterfowl and wild turkeys is the delicious dinners that result from successful hunts. But for the ultimate in wild game dining, proper field…
Spend time scouting in the area you intend to hunt turkey and look for sign.
With the resurgence in wild turkey populations across the country in the last 30 years, many states have opened fall…
Steve Cobb and his spring turkey harvests.
by Steve Cobb
I love to turkey hunt. Since March 15, I was in the woods just about every day. I may have missed a few mornings but not many. I was able to…
Get in shape for physically challenging hunts.
As I was trudging up another Missouri Ozarks hill, the words of my friend Butch McElwain popped into my head: “There’s a big difference between being…
Grant uses a SwingBlaze swing blade knife to carve this wild turkey breast.
Wildlife Biologist, Dr. Grant Woods has a few super easy tips showing you how to remove the breast meat from a wild…
A diaphragm turkey call in the mouth of a skilled caller is turkey hunting's most lethal tool. It perfectly mimics the turkey vocabulary with no more motion than expanding lungs and a bobbing Adam's…
If you've already bagged a tom this spring, congratulations. Harvesting a gobbler is one of the most difficult challenges in hunting and far more sportsmen go home empty-handed than those who succeed…
