Turkeys now, turkeys later: Early-season longbeards on a predictable pattern
With turkey opener just a few weeks away, start studying the habits of gobblers in your hunting area right now.
Hunting Tips
Turkey blinds: best features for the spring bowhunter
A smart hunting blind strategy can help you score a big tom or respectable jake this gobbler hunting season.
Hunting cottontail rabbits in February: timing is everything
Plan out your winter brushpile forays, or your bunny hunting will be a bust.
Some real early turkey talk: Match your strikers with the right pot call
Just when you're ready to relegate one to a stash of calls in your camo bag, you connect with the right striker and you’re ready to put it in your vest for future action.
Playing the Western big-game hunting game
An elk or mule deer hunt in the Rocky Mountains or High Plains can take years of planning, so start now.
The light stuff: Running and gunning for late-season gobblers
When the morning sit doesn’t pan out and you have room to roam, scale down the gear and give mobile hunting a try. It’s a great way to find birds and get a little exercise to boot.
Field of nightmares: Dealing with tough gobblers
Ask any turkey hunter what’s the toughest turkey to hunt and you’ll most likely get a variety of answers. Nobody’s asked, but I’ll volunteer my opinion anyway. For me it’s the strutting tom in a field. Turkeys are likely to be…
Wild turkey surprise: Locating and calling boss gobblers during the unusual spring of 2018
A strange season has developed for longbeard activity, but persistent, savvy hunters still can locate a workable tom turkey.
Going back to your turkey-hunting roots: longbeards in the big woods
Every turkey hunter dreams of a textbook spring gobbler hunt. And when they do occasionally happen (for some it’s more occasional than others) we’re on top of the world. When you pull one off on a woodland or a mountain…
Focus on the hens and the food to find spring gobblers
And toe tracks along muddy trails or other soft areas can be good indicators of turkeys, as well as fresh droppings, and they’re just as good as a gobble for betraying silent toms.
Don’t overlook a little girl talk during turkey hunt
Thanks to some adaptive calling, Michigan’s turkey hunting season off to a good start.
Not giving up on a tough spring turkey
If you bowhunt longbeards, pay attention to your gobbler-recovery efforts after marginal hits.
Experience crucial to spring gobbler success
And other simple things to remember as we begin another season in the turkey woods.
A pattern and plan for early-season wild turkey hunting
Weather, food, and calling vocalizations will play huge roles in bagging a gobbler during April.
Quick ticket to more turkey kills: buy better decoys
Boost your gobbler-hunting odds this spring by splurging on a quality fake wild turkey decoy.
It’s up to us to boost hunter numbers – now
We all have to do our part to share our outdoor heritage in an attempt to pass the torch.
Some tips for hunting snow geese in Pennsylvania
The birds are here, but huge numbers do not mean success is sure to follow.
Crucial step for the evolving hunter: small-game hunting
Many of today’s young hunters go from BB guns to deer rifles without ever spending time chasing squirrels and rabbits.
Scout now for next season's buck
By John L. Sloan Maybe one of the most important factors of hunting a mature buck – post-season scouting – is no longer important to some deer hunters, being replaced by feeders, supplemental feeding and trail cameras. But it is…
Going horizontal: Tips on buying a crossbow
Like it or not, crossbows are here to stay, and more New York hunters are hunting with them every year. We talked to several archery pro shop owners about what new-to-the-sport crossbow buyers are looking for and just about all…
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