
Christine Thomas: Charmaine scores on a jake
“Is Charmaine going to shoot a turkey this year or is she just coming up to tease the toms,” joked my husband, Stan Thomas. This is where I left off last issue. Readers will remember

“Is Charmaine going to shoot a turkey this year or is she just coming up to tease the toms,” joked my husband, Stan Thomas. This is where I left off last issue. Readers will remember

If you head into the woods to chase turkeys on a spring morning in southeast Minnesota where I live you’ll likely hear gobbles echoing from every direction. Every gobble tells you a bird is close,

It is difficult to earn a triple trophy award – a Pennsylvania buck, bear and wild turkey in the same license year. It is even more difficult for a married couple to achieve it during

With three weeks down for Ohio’s South Zone wild turkey hunting season – and two weeks for the five-county Northeast Zone, participants were rounding third and heading for home.
By Ohio Outdoor News’ press

Crappies still holding deeper as spring progresses. Here’s the Ohio fishing and hunting report on May 28, 2026.

Anyone who has ever played a sport of any kind, whether it was baseball or basketball in high school, or even bowling, billiards or golf (or more likely today, pickellball) knows what a slump is.<br

John Madden could have made the call on a first-season gobbler finally killed by yours truly in Zone 7’s Vilas County.
“And there goes Bortz yet again, rumblin’, bumblin’, and stumblin’ through the woods.

A new statewide habitat effort put thousands of wildlife-friendly trees and shrubs into the hands of Illinois landowners this spring, while improving habitat for wild turkeys across the state.
The Illinois National Wild Turkey

Going three-for-three is a pretty good average for turkey hunters, and three young ladies recorded that perfect score during a recent learn-to-hunt (LTH) outing.
Mother Libby Stark, 38, and sisters Ava Stark, 12, and
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