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SUCCESSFUL TURKEY SEASONS START HERE.

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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Hunting Fall Turkeys: Breaking Up Isn’t Always Hard to Do

Learn several strategies for fall turkey hunting success from the experts at Mossy Oak. Click for more.

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Turkey Hunting Poncho and Lefty with Will Primos

Poncho and Lefty were Merriam’s turkeys that lived in the high mountains, near Eagle Nest, New Mexico, near Wheeler Peak, one of the highest peaks in the state.

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Will Primos’s Turkey Education

Will Primos shares about what turkeys have taught him and the hunts from which he’s learned the most. Will has hunted all the species of turkeys in the U.S and Mexico and in just about all the states.

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Ernie Calandrelli Hunts Badlands Gobblers

Rio Grande turkeys, unlike eastern turkeys, sometimes will roost in the same tree every night – 10 to 40 turkeys may be in the same big tree.

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Ernie Calandrelli Hunts the Gobbler Named 180

We’d hunted this turkey for six consecutive days. Since I don’t take a turkey at first light when they fly down off the roost, I decided to go hunt the 180 Turkey in the middle of the morning, about 10 a.m.

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Ernie Calandrelli Belly Crawls to a Turkey

I hadn’t called this turkey at all, so I decided that when the turkey lay down in the grass, I’d belly crawl out into the field where he shouldn’t be able to see me.

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Mossy Oak Featured on the All-New Savage Renegauge Turkey Shotguns

Savage Arms has partnered with Mossy Oak to offer Bottomland and Obsession patterns on the all-new Savage Arms Renegauge Turkey shotguns.

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Primos Mossy Oak GameKeepers Custom Box Call Now Available

Primos has partnered with Mossy Oak GameKeepers on a Special Edition GameKeepers Custom Box Call. The two iconic outdoor brands have teamed up to offer a custom box call that will appeal to turkey hunters, land stewards, and consverationists alike.

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Ernie Calandrelli Hunts the Kentucky Rolling Tom

Patience will kill more turkeys than great woodsmanship or awesome calling will.

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Ernie Calandrelli: The Gobbler that was a Pain

One of the most memorable turkey hunts I ever went on was in Missouri several years ago. This turkey I finally named “The Pain” would gobble all morning long, but he was in an area I couldn’t reach.

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Habitat Improvement is Priority for Turkey Populations

We need to work diligently to recruit new turkey hunters, because those young people are the future of the conservation of turkeys and also of turkey hunting.

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The Future of Turkey Hunting and Conservation

What's the future of wild turkey hunting and conservation? Read this blog to learn how we can bring gobblers back to where they can maintain themselves.

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Of all the fun I have had in and around turkey hunting, there are few things I enjoy more than hearing someone who’s calling sounds terrible actually call in and kill a gobbler.

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The Importance of Reporting Your Turkey Harvest

Several years ago Alabama started a program to require turkey hunters to report the turkeys they took. Has that program seemed to keep up with the number of turkeys being harvested in the State of Alabama?

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Two Problems Resulting in a Decline in Turkey Populations

Dr. James Earl Kennamer is the retired chief conservation officer of the National Wild Turkey Federation (NWTF) in Edgefield, South Carolina. He’s spent 60 years hunting and researching the wild turkey.

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