A leg up on gobbler spurs
Gobblers have amazing strength in those legs that power the spur. Years ago, I shot a pterodactyl of a tom while hunting woodcock over a point by my English Setter, Briney.
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Time to change spring turkey season in New York?
Wild turkeys face many challenges when it comes to having a successful nesting season, mainly weather/climate related.
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A new turkey call might be just what’s needed to get that gobbler to sound off
I think turkey calls are a lot like guitars. A good guitar player can coax a sweet sound out of any decent guitar. And a good turkey caller knows how to run a call.
But there’s a veil of mystery to calling in gobblers that has never lifted. One morning the woods are ringing with gobbles. Still no guarantee we’ll get one to come in. Even lots of answers. Anticipation. The woods are dripping with dew and expectation. Of course the next morning, right back there, first light. Yet when there, the woods are quite as a mouse.
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Taking an early look at the 2023 whitetail rut prediction
Either you believe in the full moon as a photo-periodic timing mechanism driver on wildlife or you don’t.
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Second rut, second chance
Finally! Early November’s late afternoon big moon beamed down like a smile. The rut, an old cranky engine had hiccuped and sputtered a few times, but now it had caught fire and was revving up.
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Observations of a sumac rub
I have always considered rubs, those white scars on the forest’s saplings, a mystery in the world of the white-tailed buck.
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