
Glenn Sapir: The makings of an opening day dream turkey hunt
As much as I try to go to sleep early in anticipation of the 3:45 a.m. alarm, my mind and body won’t surrender to slumber. The anticipation and earliness of this 10 p.m. bedtime is

As much as I try to go to sleep early in anticipation of the 3:45 a.m. alarm, my mind and body won’t surrender to slumber. The anticipation and earliness of this 10 p.m. bedtime is

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

Nine-year-old Luella Malone has made it into the Minnesota record books by harvesting the state’s No. 3 overall turkey. The bird scored 90.88, five points above fourth place and one point behind second.
Luella

I’ve hunted spring turkeys in New York and Pennsylvania ever since there was a season.
Pennsylvania’s first spring gobbler hunting season was held in 1968 and it was a short one. It ran from

With the exception of the far north, the ice is gone. A look at the Minnesota fishing and hunting report on April 29, 2026.

It might be surprising, to those who don’t live on Long Island to know there’s more than just some outstanding saltwater fishing at New York State’s easternmost locale.
There is some fine hunting available

Turkey hunters use a variety of words to describe the sights and sounds of morning arriving in the woods and fields. Hushed. Peaceful. Beautiful. Inviting. Exciting.
How about this word: cacophony or cacophonous. That’s

Sometimes a gobbler might know better, but his curiosity overcomes natural caution. Take the hefty tom bagged during the 2017 third season in Wisconsin as an example.
When the alarm jangled at 3:30 a.m.

What would you do when faced with an attacking force and you are outnumbered six to one? If you are a spring turkey hunter, you’d smile and wait for the leading edge to enter your
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