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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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Wild Turkey Truths

Following are other facts about wild turkeys you may not know. Good luck in the turkey woods. May your grapefruit-sized brain prevail!

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How to Turkey Hunt Public Lands

If I’m hunting public lands, and I hear another hunter calling to the gobbler that I’m planning to call, I back off that turkey and go look for another gobbler to call.

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Henned-Up Gobblers and Biting Bugs

I’m probably more aggressive with my calling than many hunters. I start calling loudly with cutting sounds and yelping, while reminding myself that I have to get in the mind of a turkey.

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How to Take a Gobbler You Can’t Hear and What Equipment to Use

If you’re sitting in a spot, and the gobbler doesn’t come in for 20-30 minutes, what do you do next?

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Paul Butski Hunts New York Turkeys

In the 1960s, I started hunting during fall turkey season because at the time, New York didn’t have a spring turkey season. I live in one of the most beautiful areas of New York.

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The Beginner’s Guide to Turkey Hunting Gear

What do I need to get started turkey hunting? Turkey Hunting can quickly become a gear-head sport, but there’s no need to get a million things when you’re just starting out.

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The BEST Turkey Vests of 2021

Turkey vests are your absolute, number one must-have in the turkey gear world. Whether you’re shooting turkeys with a gun or a bow, you’ll be ready to take on the adventure in one of these vests.

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How to Hunt Merriam’s Canyon Gobblers

Sometimes, I think that Merriam’s gobblers in the mountains like to try to wear their hunters out.

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Kayser Prefers Mid-Morning Hunting to Find and Take Merriam’s Turkeys

Why do you prefer to hunt in the mid-morning or late morning as opposed to the early morning when you’re hunting Merriam’s gobblers?

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Developing Shotgun Patterns

By knowing what your gun shoots best, you can have confidence when the moment of truth comes and you squeeze the trigger.

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How Mark Kayser Hunts Creek Bottom and Open Prairie Country for Merriam’s

I like to hunt Merriam’s in creek bottoms because that’s most likely where the turkeys will roost – generally in cottonwood trees - in the morning before they move out into open prairies.

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What to Do When You’ve Lost Your Merriam’s Gobbler to Hens

Often the Merriam’s gobbler will have a flock of hens with him when he goes to the roost. If those hens fly down with the gobbler and are able to take that tom away from you and your decoy, what do you do?

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Mountain Merriam’s in the Black Hills of South Dakota

The Merriam’s gobbler is one of the most beautiful wild turkeys in the nation and often gobbles more and louder than any other sub-species of wild turkeys. Knowing Kayser’s success in harvesting these fascinating gobblers, learn how Kayser hunts and takes them.

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Get Field Turkey Hens In Range

From scouting, we’ve learned that some of our turkeys, instead of staying in the oak hammocks where they have roosted, will leave the roost and fly straight to a field or pasture.

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Use a Blind, Be Patient, Stay Put and Call Softly and Seldom for Osceolas

This is another reason why I’m a strong proponent of hunting from a blind when you’re hunting in the open ground of south Florida. If a gobbler is with hens, you have so many eyes looking for you that there’s a very good chance they’ll spot you and spook.

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