Writer Steve Bodio once had this to say about the big gamebirds so many love to hunt every spring: "How about real turkey, the wild kind? It actually tastes like bird, not cardboard, and has juice…
The woods seemed to rattle when the tom bellowed back at me from his roost, barely 100 yards away. After that one response to my soft tree call on the diaphragm, I stopped calling. With a whoosh of…
It was a tough challenge my partner and I faced that spring day in New York's Catskill Mountains. Conflicting schedules allowed us just one morning to hunt turkey together. The bird we located the…
Most turkey hunters associate spring gobbler season with mixed farm country and wood lots or vast reaches of national forest land covered with mature hardwood forests. But there's another kind of…
Chills ran up my spine as sweat trickled down the small of my back. The chills erupted at the first predawn "singing" of el pavo ocellated, the ocellated turkey of Campeche, Mexico. Sweat beaded down…
A 12-gauge shotgun with a 3-inch chamber is probably the favorite of most turkey hunters, but a 20-gauge will also do a good job at reasonable ranges, and its lighter weight and recoil make it better…
Turkey hunting is one of the most exciting pursuits that a sportsman can undertake. But specialized clothing is needed to fool a sharp-eyed gobbler and lure him into shooting range. Here is what you…
A turkey shotgun is more rifle than it is shotgun. Sure, a shotgun is designed to throw as many pellets as possible in a 30-inch circle to hit flying birds or fast moving small game — the exact…
If early hunting season turkeys are still be bunched up in their wintering flocks or just beginning to break up into smaller breeding flocks, there are a variety of different calls I like to use.…
Any hunter who has ever heard the thunderous gobble of a nearby male turkey knows why turkey hunting is one of the most exciting pursuits that a sportsman can undertake. However, to the newcomer, the…
Here's a confession: I've never taken a wild turkey with my longbow. In fact, I've never even tried.
It's not the gear nor the difficulties associated with coming to full draw on a gobbler that have…
Turkey Hunting & Food Plot Tips: When to Plan Spring Food Plots
Hunters across the nation are turning their attention to spring food plots and spring turkey season. Hunters frequently overlook…
