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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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Turkey Calling: Setting the Mood

Vocalizations are the wild turkeys number one means for communication. Take the time to learn the 5 calls mentioned throughout this article and be able to reproduce them effortlessly.

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Strategic Plantings for Game Birds: Plan Ahead

You can’t wait until just before the hunting season and expect to plant an effective food plot for anything. Most all plantings that will be attractive to birds involve “seed production,” which requires 60 to 90 days of growth. You need to be thinking 4-6 months ahead to really do it right.

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Is The Box Call A Thing Of The Past?

The box call has been around since the very first calls were developed for a reason, being that they work. Learn 3 reasons as to why the box call will always be around and why it is a call that should be in a hunter’s turkey vest each spring.

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3…2…1…Triple: A Memory 3 Turkey Hunters Will Never Forget

An opening weekend trip to some of North America’s best turkey country had me giddy with excitement! I had been to the rolling red dirt hills of Oklahoma before, so the reality of what I had experienced exactly one year prior only fueled my turkey hunting obsession, knowing I was heading back to the same exact target-rich environment.

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Tactics for Late Season Gobblers

Hunting turkeys late in the season can present numerous difficulties, yet can be very productive. We will discuss my most successful tactics. There are a few variables that need to be identified to help decide your plan of attack. Once you have done so, put your strategy in place and throw your hail Mary.

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Foul Weather Fowl: Turkey Hunting Tips

Turkeys generally don’t like being in the woods in wet or windy weather, probably because it’s much harder for them to see or hear predators. They like to be in open places like fields and pastures, and where they might spend an hour or two there on a pleasant day, they may well be there all day in a storm.

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Turkey Predator

Discipline, caution, woods awareness and attention to detail are the ingredients to become a turkey predator. The wild turkey is a formidable opponent. His senses and instincts are his number one defense.

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Turkey Calling Composition

When it comes to hearing turkey calls in the woods, it can sometimes be tough to tell humans from the real thing. There are some pretty good calls and callers out there nowadays, and some of the worst you hear are often uttered by the birds

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Analytical Gobblerometry: Strategize for Turkey Hunting Success

During the heat of battle, a successful turkey hunter must analyze a multitude of situations with swiftness and then formulate a strategy to successfully harvest their feathered quarry

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7 Tips for Great Trophy Photos

On social media, a photo can get launched and seen by millions before you know it…and you can’t change it once it goes out. As hunters, gamekeepers and as representatives of our hunting community and our sport, you owe it to yourself and all other hunters in the world to be ethical and tasteful with your photos.

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Teaming Up for Turkeys

In addition to making for a more enjoyable turkey hunt, having a partner along can sometimes mean the difference between success and failure.

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Bad Birds: When Turkeys Don’t Cooperate

And after more than 40 years of turkey hunting I still find birds that beat me. I cuss them out at first, but when reason returns I bless them for making me a better turkey hunter.

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How to Trap Turkey Predators In Order to Increase Poult Populations

Ongoing predator control is a useful and often necessary tool for successful wildlife management. A regular relationship with a trapper will help you see a big increase in ground-nesting birds.

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Food Plots for Game Bird Success

Two aspects of wildlife management that are growing rapidly are the restoration of native habitat and growing crops with game birds in mind. I am of the opinion that “loss of habitat” may be the number one factor (on a list of many reasons) for the steady decline in quail numbers over the past several decades.

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Gobbler Groceries: A Professional Hunter’s Guide to Wild Turkey Nutrition

Turkeys aren’t very picky eaters. They can eat a wide array of both plant and animal (insect) food and have adapted to survive on what’s most abundant at any particular time of year. Here we’ll help you build the right nutritional calendar to ensure big turkeys at hunting season.

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