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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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Turkey Decoy Set Up

Turkey Hunter and Mossy Oak Pro-Staff member Scott Hinojosa from Arkansas talks about turkey decoy set-up in this video. Scott shares how his decoy set up changes during the season.

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Trap and Remove Nest Predators and Use Controlled Burns to Increase Turkey Populations

One of the most effective management tools for increasing turkey populations is the trapping and removal of nest predators. Trapping skunks, armadillos, raccoons, possums and coyotes is a very-important tool of wild-turkey management. These nest predators can have a really-big effect on how many turkey poults survive the spring nesting season. So, we highly recommend late winter/early spring trapping specifically for nest predators just prior to when hens begin to nest.

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Learn about Why to Plant BioLogic’s Clover Plus for Turkeys

Clover Plus uses five different varieties of red and white clover, as well as two varieties of chicory. We use multiple varieties of clovers in Mossy Oak BioLogic Clover Plus for several reasons. Different types of clover mature at various times of the year. Also, some clovers grow better in certain types of soils than other clovers. So, by planting Clover Plus, we can help ensure that our hunters have good success with our clover

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Plant Mossy Oak BioLogic Non-Typical Clover and Clover Plus for Turkeys and Deer

Mossy Oak BioLogic has a developed a new clover product called Non Typical clover that was heavily researched and is highly preferred by wildlife. Mossy Oak’s long time clover blend, Clover Plus, also has chicory in it. Chicory is a great companion crop with clover, it thrives in hot and dry conditions. Non-Typical Clover is a single variety of clover, and does great in bottomland soils as well as ridge tops with good soils.

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[VIDEO] How to Care for a Mouth Call

Turkey hunter and Mossy Oak ProStaff member Scott Hinojosa shows how to fit a mouth call in a users mouth. In this video Scott also shows how he cares for his mouth call to keep it working longer.

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Plant Turkey Gold Chufa for More Turkeys

I'm often asked, “What is chufa?” Chufa is very similar to a nut grass. Like WhistleBack, chufa feeds turkeys not only in the fall and winter months, when they need supplemental feeding the most, but chufa feeds turkeys during the spring as well. Like with the other warm season annuals, we’ll plant chufa during May and June.

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Make Your Property Attractive for Turkeys

Austin Delano works in Research & Development for Mossy Oak BioLogic as well as wildlife and habitat consulting. We asked Delano, "What can be planted to make a property more attractive for turkey?”

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Tips I've Learned from Mentoring Turkey Hunters

With children, I've found that the children pay more attention to me and are more willing to do what I ask them to do than they are with their parents. My kids never listen to me, but they always listen to their uncle. So, I try to be like kids who hunt with their favorite uncle. The one thing I'm conscious of is allowing children to fail.

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A Turkey Hunting Memory That Lasts for Two Lifetimes

I try to create hunting memories that will last a lifetime. If I'm successful, that memory will last for two lifetimes. Here’s what I mean. If I guide a person to the first turkey he or she ever has taken, or if I guide a person to his first deer, I’ll remember that hunt for my lifetime, and that person will remember that hunt throughout his lifetime. So, even though I only squeezed the trigger

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Eight Trophy Gobblers in Two Years

I’ve mentioned earlier this week that one of the biggest reasons most turkey hunters don’t teach others to hunt turkeys is that they're afraid the people they’ve taught how to turkey hunt will go onto that same property and try to take the same turkey they’ve planned to take. However, this is the reason I hunt public lands, primarily state Wildlife Management Areas (WMAs).

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3 Key Tips for Taking on Tom

There are so many unpredictable details that can make harvesting a springtime tom either easier or more difficult. We have to deal with weather, time of the season, hunting pressure and natural turkey biology just to name a few. While there are numerous important points that can mean the difference between an unused tag and a 25-pounder hanging on a limb by its spurs, the following three subjects are among the most vital.

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I Teach and Guide Turkey Hunters - Here’s Why

I'm a project supervisor for a construction company. My company is very understanding when I need to take off to go and teach. Now, teaching people to turkey hunt is far more important to me than the time I spend turkey hunting by myself. I'm often asked, “Where does this drive to educate the world on how, where, when and what to hunt turkeys with come from?” My response is that I learned to teach

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Philip Mailhiot Receives the Mentor of the Year Award

The greatest trophies a turkey hunter ever can take won’t be mounted on the wall, kept in a shoe box or put on display for all to see. The greatest trophy that a turkey hunter ever has is the memory of teaching others how to hunt and take turkeys. Philip Mailhiot of Westminster, Massachusetts, a Mossy Oak pro for 6 years, was the first person to ever be awarded the title of the National Wild

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Passing on a Lifetime of Hunting Turkeys with Pat Reeve

I remember the first time I went hunting for spring turkeys. I was walking around in the woods during the spring with a gun in my hand, and it felt like I was doing something illegal. Because up until that time, when deer season was over, hunting season ended. So, even though I knew I was legally hunting, because I never had been able to hunt in the spring before, I kind of felt like

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Hunting Minnesota’s May Gobblers with Pat Reeve

By the end of May, the woods will have greened-up. I believe that the turkeys are easier to hunt in May, because there's more foliage, leaves and bushes to hide behind. By the end of the season, most of the gobblers have bred most of the hens, but the gobblers are still searching for the last of the hens to breed, something that makes them easy to call. This is my favorite time to hunt,

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