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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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Get To the Gobblers Quickly

My strategy is to get as close to the gobbler as fast as I can when I hear him gobble. If a gobbler is talking to me, I want to take him quickly before he changes his mind.

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What Is a Stubborn Turkey and How Do You Take Him

For me, a stubborn turkey is a gobbler that’s most often with hens. In my section of the country, most of a turkey’s strut zones are out in fields where hens have a better chance of hearing and seeing the gobblers strut, so they can go to him. If I have an opportunity to watch a turkey in a field the day before I hunt, I’ll try to get in that field early the next

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Matt Van Cise Talks Turkeys

I’ve been calling competitively since 1996 and hunting turkeys for more than 22 years. There are numbers of turkey hunters in Pennsylvania, and plenty of public lands where hunters can take wild turkeys there.

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Eddie Salter Says Never Give Up when Hunting Wily Turkeys

I had this famous outdoor writer coming to Evergreen, Alabama, where I live, to hunt with me. This fellow was writing a book on turkey hunting for the Outdoor Life Book Club. He wanted to hunt with and interview all the well-known turkey hunters and callers of the day for his book. Before the hunt, I’d secured permission to hunt what I considered to be some of the best turkey lands in Alabama. These lands

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Let Turkeys Teach You How to Hunt Them with Eddie Salter

Public-land gobblers learn what a locator call is during the first weekend of turkey season. To take these turkeys, get on the backside of the roost tree, call softly, and watch what happens. Be sure you’re wearing your Mossy Oak camouflage, and you stay well hidden, because these public-land gobblers know what a hunter looks like. Then let the turkeys teach you how to hunt.

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Eddie Salter Tells the Tale of Jimmy Wayne and the Three Amigos

Jimmy Wayne Joyner, a friend of mine, told me about three gobblers he’d named the Three Amigos. The first time he spotted these three gobblers out in the field, he called to them, and they took-off running. He went back the next afternoon and found these same three gobblers out in the field. He decided to set-up along the trail where the turkeys had run out of the field. He called to them again, and

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Clover is Ideal Brood Habitat

Remember that clover field you planted last fall? Last week we told you that if you haven’t paid it a visit since deer season, chances are you’ll be pleasantly surprised at all the new growth it puts on this spring. Fall planted perennials often come leaping out of the ground with fresh forage when the ground temperatures begin to rise in mid March to April.

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Eddie Salter Explains What Makes Southern Turkeys So Tough to Take

This field where this turkey was living had big terraces. When I got out that morning, I saw this bird strutting in the middle of the field on top of one of those terraces. I got on the terrace below him and belly-crawled, peeping over the lip of the terrace to see where he was. Finally, when I got close to the turkey, a hen walked past me within shooting distance.

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Tough Turkeys with Eddie Salter

I’ve learned my best turkey-hunting strategies from some of the baddest birds on the planet. The Bad Foot Gobbler lived on a 730-acre tract of land where I had permission to hunt. I had seen this bird and his tracks, while deer hunting in the fall, and I knew he was a big old gobbler. I was supposed to be the only one with the rights to hunt turkeys on this property.

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In just a few weeks, many of us will be chasing longbeards in certain parts of the country. I myself will be in South Carolina kicking off the Spring Turkey Season filming for our second year of Ultimate Bowhunting TV. Last year we used the Avian-X feeder hen decoy and loved it. The realism is unbelievable! This year we plan on using several of the Avian-X hen turkey decoys and add the new Quarter Strut

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Hank Parker Wears Mossy Oak to Hunt Turkeys and Squirrels

You may not believe this, but when I’ve been sitting still in a tree wearing Break-Up Infinity, I’ve actually had squirrels jump on my shoulder. Evidently they’ve thought I’m a tree limb. If I can fool a squirrel from up close, I’m pretty sure a deer can’t recognize me from far off.

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Ernie Callandrelli on Taking the Missed Turkeys

No one likes to miss or wound a turkey, but if you hunt long enough, it’ll happen. If you shoot and miss a turkey, and if that gobbler starts running or flying away, sit still until you know for certain he’s all the way out of sight. Then, sit still for another 30 minutes or an hour to see if that turkey will start gobbling again.

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MAD MAX Portable Ground Blind

As a gear junkie, I’m always looking for new ways to help get an edge on a gobbler when turkey hunting. Just when you think you have that old long beard figured out, he is going to humble you, sending you back to the truck frustrated. A new hunting product that I am really excited to use in the woods is the new MAD MAX Portable Ground Blind.

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Ernie Callandrelli Explains What to Do when a Turkey Has You

There’s one thing I know for certain. If a turkey hunter tells you he’s never fallen asleep on a hunt, you know one of several things. He hasn’t been turkey hunting very long, he doesn’t hunt turkeys all day, or he’s lying to you. One of the most-terrifying things a turkey hunter has to deal with is being sound asleep and hearing a turkey drumming right behind him.

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Taking Gobblers When There’s No Noise

Most turkey hunters prefer to hunt on days when there’s no wind, no rain and no noise. But any day you wear your Mossy Oak camouflage, it will keep you from being seen. But those are also the days when turkeys seem to be able to hear you scratch your head. More than likely, when you’re trying to call turkeys, you’ll have to move at some point.

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