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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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What Happens Once the Hunter Makes the Shot and the Turkey’s Flopping

I’ll tell my hunter before we leave the lodge to go hunting that day that if we see a turkey, and he shoots him, I’ll jump up quickly, grab the hunter’s gun, start running toward the tom and get my foot on the tom’s head to make sure he can’t run off. I don’t think that I’m in a safe position when I have my back to a hunter, he has a shell in the

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How the Hunter Prepares to Shoot When the Turkey’s Closing Ground

I don’t want my hunter to have to hold his gun for a very long time, and I don’t want him to get fidgety. So, I make sure he’s in a good shooting position with his butt flat on the ground, his back supported by a tree trunk, his knees pulled up, and the gun resting on his knees, with his cheek against the stock and scanning and searching for the turkey.

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Zink Calls unveils new gear with NWTF logo

Just in time for spring turkey season, Zink Calls, Plano Synergy and the National Wild Turkey Federation have teamed up to bring turkey hunters high-tech gear featuring the NWTF logo. No matter where Zink Calls turkey hunting products are purchased, hunter conservationists across the United States will be positively impacting the NWTF Save the Habitat. Save the Hunt. initiative.

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Setting Up a Second Time 150-200 Yards from a Gobbling Turkey

The spot we choose to set up is often critically important as to whether or not we’ll bag a tom. I don’t want the turkey to be 100 yards from me and possibly be able to see me or not see the hen he’s heard calling to him. I want to be on the opposite side of a little rise from where I think the turkey is, or I want to be on the other

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What Setting Up on Turkeys Means and How To Do It

When you’re setting up on a turkey, that’s a spot in the woods where you decide to take a stand to shoot the gobbler. Most of the time you want your back against a tree that’s wider than your shoulders and be sure you’ve got a good field of view. You want some type of brush, cover or terrain in front of you, so that the turkey has to come within gun range to see

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Tips for a Successful Turkey Hunt

Something that I’ve learned is that the first thing in the morning when a tom gobbles, he’ll be listening more intently than at any other time of day. He’s not only listening to hear hens call, he’s also listening to hear any signs of danger. I’m totally convinced that a turkey can hear and understand what a hunter in the woods sounds like, and where he is.

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Identify Open Places for Warm Weather Early Spring Gobblers

If our section of Alabama has an early spring, and the weather warms up before the opening day of turkey season, then I’ll want to have identified where all of my strut zones are. You’re more than likely to find your early spring gobblers in green fields, clear cuts, old logging ramps, pastures or any other kinds of large openings.

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Avian-X unveils NWTF-logoed decoys

Just in time for spring turkey season, Avian-X, Plano Synergy and the National Wild Turkey Federation have teamed up to bring hunters high-tech turkey gear featuring the NWTF logo. No matter where Avian-X turkey hunting products are purchased, hunter conservationists across the United States will be positively impacting the NWTF Save the Habitat. Save the Hunt. initiative. A portion of the purchase price for each decoy will come back to the NWTF, ensuring the gobbler

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Know what to Do When a Turkey Shuts Up

You can get your feelings hurt by toms at the beginning of turkey season.

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Simple Tips For Tough Toms

Scouting is possibly the most important element of hunting anything, but especially turkeys. Learning roost locations, strutting zones, grit sources, bugging habitat and the lay of the land can mean everything.

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Know Where Turkeys are in Their Breeding Season

In the early season, you need to know if some of the hens are ready to breed. You often can tell how ready the hens are to breed by how much gobbling you hear when you’re scouting. If you don’t hear much gobbling when you’re scouting before the season, this may mean that the gobblers are still staying together in bachelor groups.

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Talk to Deer Hunters to Find Early Season Gobblers

If you deer hunt in the same woods where you turkey hunt, you’ve definitely got an advantage. However, some landowners will lease out their deer-hunting rights to one group of hunters and their turkey rights to other hunters. But if you deer hunt the same property that you turkey hunt, you need to make note of where you’ve seen turkeys during deer season. If you don’t deer hunt the property where you’ll be hunting turkeys,

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Tips for Taking Early Season Gobblers

Most turkey hunters want to hit the woods on opening day of turkey season. However, in many states, turkey season opens before turkey breeding season starts. So, Mossy Oak has asked Walker to give us tips for taking early gobblers.

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Why Soft and Low Is Deadly Turkey Calling

Another call that I use when I'm hunting that I think most other hunters don’t use as effectively as they can is soft purring. Most turkey hunters judge what a turkey can hear based on their own ability to hear. Even though we all know that a turkey’s ability to hear is much greater than our own, we don’t use that fact oftentimes when we talk to gobblers.

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The Obsessed - Cypress Swamp Osceolas

Introducing our all new digital series "The Obsessed". We will be following the obsessed of Mossy Oak with new episodes throughout the season. This episode takes us to South Florida on the opening day of turkey season 2017.

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