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Hunting Turkeys with Paul Butski

Paul Butski from Niagara Falls, New York, has been hunting turkeys for 47 years and entered his first turkey-calling contest in 1978. He has won three National Wild Turkey Federation (NWTF) Grand Nationals, six U.S. Open Championships and the Levi Garrett Open twice. Butski was one of the first turkey-calling contestants who signed with Mossy Oak at the very beginning of the company. Butski is also one of the hosts of the “Mossy Oak Turkey

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Jason Pollack Tells Us How He Deals With Turkey Hunting Pressure

I've harvested turkeys on Sugar Hill, which is state property that anyone can hunt. Sugar Hill has 8,900 acres, but this particular public land doesn’t get a lot of hunting pressure. When I'm hunting there, I may only see two or three other hunters. The number of turkeys in our area seems to have been on the decline. So, on Sugar Hill, we don’t seem to hear as many gobblers as we once did. Since

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Jason Pollack Tells Us about Taking His Greatest New York Gobbler

I've only mounted one turkey as long as I've been hunting, but that old bird was really special. I had set up on this turkey several times during turkey season and actually gotten him to within gun range one of those times. However, I was hunting with a turkey scope on my shotgun in a driving rain. As I looked through my scope, I noticed that the front lens of the scope had rain all

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Jason Pollack Remembers His Toughest Turkey Fight in New York

I found this gobbler just before youth season one year on about 400 acres. I hunted him regularly throughout the season right up until the next-to-the-last day of turkey season. Every time I called to him he'd gobble and gobble and gobble. He’d come in to about 50 or 60 yards and hang up. Some days, he'd fly up on a limb to look for the hen who was talking to him. I was able

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Mossy Oak Pro Jason Pollack Takes His Daughter Turkey Hunting

My wife, Megan, went with me to operate the video camera on a Saturday, and then on Sunday, we took our 13-year-old daughter, Ella, turkey hunting. Once again, Megan videoed the hunt. We put out Dave Smith turkey decoys, and we set up a Primos pop-up blind. We saw and heard some hens roosted out in front of us, and I carried on some tree-talking conversations with the hens while they were on the roost.

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How to Hunt May Turkeys in New York

Our turkey season in New York starts May 1 and ends May 31 - one of the latest turkey seasons in the nation. Now in Maine the season typically ends June 5. When I say that I live and hunt in New York, many people think I’m talking about Manhattan (NYC) with its concrete and skyscrapers. But upstate New York where I live is probably more rural than most states with rolling hills, vineyards and

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