
A record by a beard hair (or feather)? The story of a gobbler to remember
Every once in a while a turkey hunt goes exactly as you want it to. That’s what happened on May 2, the morning I bagged what is perhaps my best spring gobbler to date.

Every once in a while a turkey hunt goes exactly as you want it to. That’s what happened on May 2, the morning I bagged what is perhaps my best spring gobbler to date.

Had I spent another minute cutting prickly ash to create a spot to sit against a giant oak along a field edge, I may not have had a chance to kill a gobbler during Wisconsin’s

In all of the years I’ve been turkey hunting, it’s almost always been with a partner and we’ve almost always both carried shotguns, but we’ve rarely figured that each of us would be walking out

Turkey hunters fooled a lot of gobblers – and even some bearded hens – into believing they were the real deal during Ohio’s recently concluded spring turkey season.
In all, Ohio’s turkey hunters killed

I’ve hunted spring turkeys in both New York and Pennsylvania ever since there was a spring season. Up until 10 years ago, hunting hours in both states ended at noon and that was fine with

Hunting gobblers during the last full week of the season meant a lot less noise and bird sightings than the first week.
Not one to give up easily, I reloaded my turkey hunting

Without fanfare and minus any clamor – much like the strategies vital to a successful turkey hunt – Illinois hunters nearly broke the state record harvest during the 2023 spring season.
DNR’s initial report put

Jack Diederich shot a five-bearded turkey of a lifetime May 12, but he almost missed that opportunity when he considered shooting a jake the day before to supply the main course for his girlfriend’s cookout.<br
A mix of outdoors stories from across Minnesota and neighboring states published in the May 26, 2023 edition of Minnesota Outdoor News.
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