
Stretching out the spring turkey season in Michigan
My friend Rick hunkered down in a blind at the edge of a small opening on his forested land on the first day of the turkey hunting season this year.

My friend Rick hunkered down in a blind at the edge of a small opening on his forested land on the first day of the turkey hunting season this year.

Parental rules often are guidelines rather than actual rules. For a 9-year-old turkey hunter from Rockville, Minn., that’s fortunate.
If Tenley Salzbrun’s father had adhered strictly to his personal minimum age at which his

For those spring hunters who must work or go to school until late afternoon, there is a great opportunity still to get in some quality gobbler hunting during the last part of the day.

Most turkey hunters know the basic calls, but they often don’t know how to use them effectively enough to lure in a tom once the season has passed its midpoint. By now, turkeys have heard

I love watching daybreak as much as anyone, and seeing the sun rise in April or May can be a near-religious experience, especially after a long Midwestern winter.
But there’s a price to be

Turkey hunters may not realize it, but the deck is stacked against them right from the get-go.
Every action turkey hunters take goes against the grain of Mother Nature. In the grand scheme of

Five lucky youth hunters were selected from an application process to come out and spend the weekend at Deerassic Park.

Fooling spring gobblers is never a given. Maybe this is why turkey hunting can be high-stress? Such as: An approaching gobbler is coming to you. You watch him strut in the distance as he gobbles.

When mating season arrives for wild turkeys, harsh weather does little to halt their spring breeding activity.
When spring gobbler season opened in Pennsylvania April 29, I found myself huddled against a medium-sized
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