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Late Season Gobbler Tactics with Joe Brown

As I’ve mentioned, toward the end of the Kentucky’s turkey season, the gobblers will expand their ranges. Often we’ll get new gobblers coming onto our property that we don’t have any pictures of, and some of our gobblers will be in locations where we've never seen them previously. The good news is that those gobblers still will be vocal, and we can locate them.

Big Game, Turkey

Stampede Offers Mossy Oak Break-Up Country Automotive Accessories

Stampede Automotive Accessories, a brand of Lund International®, is pleased to announce that our popular sidewind deflectors, hood shields and fender flares are now available in Mossy Oak’s new Break-Up Country camo pattern. With dramatically larger limbs, leaves, bark, branches and other digitally enhanced natural elements, Break-Up Country offers a fresh, new look like no pattern that has come before it.

Mossy Oak Break-Up Country, Gear, Mossy Oak

Joe Brown Knows Before Turkey Season Opens Whether the Season Will be Good or Bad

In 2016, we didn’t have as many gobblers to hunt as we'd had in previous years. I'd been talking to one of the state’s wildlife biologists and asked him, “Why do we have some years where we have booming turkey populations, and some years when we don’t seem to have as many gobbling turkeys as in the past?” He answered, “I don’t know, but seeing the gobbling turkey population go through a boom or a

Big Game, Turkey

Joe Brown Explains Kentucky Turkeys from the Field to the Fork

Joe Brown of Breckinridge County in north central Kentucky, on the Ohio River, has been hunting turkeys for 24 years. When we called to interview Joe, he was in his backyard frying turkey breasts. He shares with us this week about hunting turkeys in Kentucky.

Big Game, Turkey, Wild Game Recipes, Ingredient Wild

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

Big Game, Turkey, Firearm

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.

Big Game, Turkey, Mossy Oak, Firearm

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.

Big Game, Turkey, Gear

Managing Whitetails with Minerals

A very simple but favorite management chore of mine in the spring is establishing new mineral sites. The anticipation of what might show up that year as the antlers begin to develop is always super high. I have even found myself in the past few years putting out mineral rocks and supplements in urban landscapes and backyard woodlots just to see what deer frequent the area even though I have no intention of hunting there.

Big Game, Deer, BioLogic, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers

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

Big Game, Turkey, Firearm

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

Big Game, Turkey, Firearm

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.

Big Game, Turkey, Mossy Oak

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.

Big Game, Turkey, Land Management

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

Big Game, Conservation, Turkey, Gear

Know what to Do When a Turkey Shuts Up

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

Turkey

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

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The Booming Birds of Spring: The Prairie Chicken

One of conservation’s many canaries in a coal mine, the prairie chicken was once a dominant sound of spring for many who are now chalking up calls for the upcoming turkey season.

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How to Call in a Hung Up Turkey

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Conservation, Land Management, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers, Nativ Nurseries, BioLogic

Wild Turkey Breast Recipe with Morel Mushrooms

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Growing Big Bass Quick

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Mossy Oak's Fox Haas Kills Turkey at 94 Years Old

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