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Are jake decoys all they’re cracked up to be? Let’s talk about it

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Let’s talk about that full-strut jake decoy you lug around the turkey woods.
When it works… holy hannah the video footage you get of gobblers spoiling for a fight! They come in at a trot with beards flying and the dust-up starts. You want to talk about a 20-pound bird throwing its weight around and what that looks like? You have all day to raise your gun or draw your bow and make the shot. It works. Sometimes.

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Mastering turkey hunting’s game of ‘let’s find each other’

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You call and a gobble rings out. Quite a ways out, maybe 200 yards.
If you sit down right there and keep calling, there is a chance that tom will come all the way to you. But there is a much greater chance that you’ll still be sitting there when the sun goes down, all by yourself. This season, consider trying my favorite turkey-hunting game, called “let’s find each other.”

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Wild turkey hunting’s great debate: How much calling is too much calling?

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How much to call and how loud to call is a question many turkey hunters face. It’s one of the most hotly-debated topics in the sport.
If you want to get a red-faced dose of powerful opinion, simply advocate for one extreme or the other and watch what happens.

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The art of sitting still may be the most important skill in turkey hunting

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Over the years, I have made every mistake in the book while pursuing wild turkeys, plus I invented several that nobody knew about.
Now that I’m an expert on all the ways you can scare turkeys away, it’s fun to listen as hunters imagine all the possible causes when a hot gobbler suddenly goes silent or presses itself into a pancake barely six inches high and slithers away.

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DIY tips for turning a tiny travel boat into a fishing machine

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It all started when my wife, Jill, and I bought a travel trailer a few years ago. We used it to successfully get the heck out of Minnesota in the dead of winter.
A month in Myrtle Beach. A few runs to Florida. Spring, summer, and fall found us camping on the North Shore of Lake Superior and other nearby spots. It turns out that most places have bodies of water begging to be fished.

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Focus on these important details to trigger a tom

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According to my turkey-hunting mentor, Ray Eye, skilled hunters in the Missouri Ozarks have forever wished there was no such thing as a spring season. Why? Because they think it’s not fair to hunt gobblers when it’s so easy to trick them.

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Here’s how to plan a turkey hunt on western tribal lands in the U.S.

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To a great extent, my hunting life has revolved around planning a spring turkey season that keeps me in the woods from late March through Memorial Day. To do that requires creativity and lots of road time.
One of my favorite turkey road trips is a meandering loop west from my home base in Minnesota, hunting a combination of American Indian reservation lands and at least one of what they call Prairie Units in South Dakota.

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Calling bird to bird can change your turkey-hunting fortunes, which means knowing gobbler calls

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It’s been many years since turkey-hunting legend Ray Eye blew my mind by saying that, of all the spring gobblers he calls in, maybe 60% come to investigate the sounds of another gobbler – this reality, during the only time of year gobblers come to the calling of hens.
You mean you don’t always call like a hen to bring in a springtime tom? Definitely not.

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