Tips & Features
Call like you mean it to attract mid-season toms
There’s a reason you don’t see really good turkey callers shun mouth calls. While it’s possible to cover the turkey’s vocabulary with slates and box calls, the diaphragm call is the best option if you
Pennsylvania turkey hunters complete every slam recognized by the National Wild Turkey Federation
Two Luzerne County, Pa., residents recently accomplished one of the rarest feats in the world of turkey hunting, and they did it just 13 days apart.
Tony Hudak, of Noxen, and Alden resident Ed
Gene Kroupa: A heavy Iowa gobbler falls for some time-tested tactics
High winds, heavy rainfall, and a few tornadoes peppered the spring turkey woods and fields the day before Iowa’s third season opener.
Better yet, hens were already on the nest, according to my landowner
When is it time to be mobile for toms, and when is it best to stay put?
No doubt you’ve been a part of that’ll-never-work type of maneuvers in the turkey woods that end up paying dividends. Maybe it was a 20-yard reposition on some birds working around you. Or perhaps a
Ryan Rothstein: Turkeys not cooperating? Hunt them like deer
When I was younger, I made it an annual tradition to get absolutely spanked by wild turkeys. Every March, I would start practicing on my diaphragm calls, and I would read article upon article about
The latest strategies for controlling (or at least surviving) biting insects afield
It was last July and I was hiking on Stockton Island (Apostle Islands National Lakeshore) with my wife and Joan, a friend of ours. After criss-crossing through the forest on the well-worn trails, we returned
Calling bird to bird can change your turkey-hunting fortunes, which means knowing gobbler calls
It’s been many years since turkey-hunting legend Ray Eye blew my mind by saying that, of all the spring gobblers he calls in, maybe 60% come to investigate the sounds of another gobbler – this
So, you want to kill a spring gobbler? Here’s what you need to know as a beginner
If there’s one common trait I hear from new or would-be turkey hunters, it is that they know little about it and are often unsure where to begin the learning process. If you fit this
Tom Bahti: Examining high deer numbers on a farm in Wisconsin’s Waupaca County
Since the late 1970s I’ve been extremely fortunate to have deer hunting access to the Hill farm in northeast Waupaca County. The farm was owned by Allie and Lulabelle Hill. Lulabelle was a childhood friend
