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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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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.

Big Game, Turkey, Mossy Oak Bottomland, How-To

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,

Big Game, Deer, Turkey, Firearm

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.

Big Game, Turkey, Mossy Oak Obsession, Mossy Oak Bottomland, Mossy Oak

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.

Big Game, Turkey, Mossy Oak Obsession, Video, Mossy Oak, Firearm

Jesse Martin's Toughest Turkey

I'm often asked in seminars and when people meet me, “What’s the toughest turkey you’ve ever hunted and taken?” I was hunting a turkey one time in Elliott County, Kentucky. I talked to that turkey for 5 hours before I could get him within gun range and take him.

Big Game, Turkey, Mossy Oak Obsession, Mossy Oak Bottomland, Mossy Oak, Firearm

NOMAD unveils new gear with NWTF logo in Mossy Oak Obsession

Just in time for spring turkey season, NOMAD and the National Wild Turkey Federation have teamed up to bring hunters high-tech turkey gear featuring the NWTF logo and the new Mossy Oak Obsession camouflage pattern. Items will also be available in the Bottomland pattern.

Big Game, Turkey, Conservation, Mossy Oak Obsession, Gear, Mossy Oak

Jesse Martin's Calling Routine for Grand Nationals

When I got to the finals of the Open Division of the NWTF’s 2017 Grand National Championship, the scenario that the judges asked the finalists to recreate was: a hen waking up in her roost tree, and then flying down into a field and trying to call in other turkeys.

Big Game, Turkey, Mossy Oak

How One Hen Enabled Jesse Martin to Win a Championship

I've been hunting turkeys since I was 12 years old, and I'm 34 now. I hunt mainly in Kentucky, but I've hunted Osceolas in Florida too. I've hunted in Ohio a couple of times, and I'm going to Alabama this year. Here in Kentucky I have a lot of family and friends who let me hunt their lands, and some of our friends from church also allow me to hunt on their lands. My friends

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A Turkey Calling Dream Come True

34-year-old Jesse Martin of Mount Sterling, Ky., has been a Mossy Oak Pro for 4 years and names Bottomland and the new NWTF Obsession patterns as his favorites. He's also the turkey hunter pictured in the Mossy Oak ads for their new Obsession camo pattern, which features the National Wild Turkey Federation logo. In the 2017 NWTF’s Open Division of the Grand National Calling Championship (GNCC), Martin was one of 41 callers competing in that

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John O’Dell Never Overlooks Public Land with Its Great Hunting

I had another exciting Osceola hunt when I was hunting in thick vegetation on public land. I found an oak flat where turkeys had been strutting and dusting. I set up in that area, and I had one of the best gobbling mornings I've ever had when hunting in Florida.

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ALPS OutdoorZ unveils new gear with NWTF logo in Mossy Oak Obsession

Just in time for spring turkey season, ALPS OutdoorZ and the National Wild Turkey Federation have teamed up to bring turkey hunters high-tech turkey gear featuring the NWTF logo and the new NWTF Mossy Oak Obsession camouflage pattern.

Big Game, Turkey, Mossy Oak Obsession, Gear, Mossy Oak

How to Hunt Swamp Gobblers

On many of the public hunting areas that I've hunted in Florida, the turkeys will stay in the swamp all day long. So, if you're going to bag a bird, you'll have to go in the swamp to get them. The secret to hunting swamp turkeys is to find a dry piece of ground out in the swamp and look for the strut zones.

Big Game, Turkey, How-To, Firearm

5 Things Wild Turkeys Need

Why are the gobblers always on your neighbor’s property and not yours? The answer to that could be a number of reasons. You must look at what a turkey needs and on the other hand, things a turkey doesn’t like, the solution may be easier than you think. Just like all wild critters, they need food, water, cover and space. What don’t they like? Pressure!

Big Game, Turkey, Land Management