Boating
Told You So by Bob Humphrey The spectacle that now lay before me was a natural phenomenon I hadn’t witnessed for nearly two decades, and wondered if I’d ever see again. Yet there it was, acre upon acre of Read more…
Turkey Hunting
Once Upon a Time in the Woods
Conservation approaches have paid off and we now have a very healthy, stable to slightly increasing turkey population that generates a substantial income in license sales and a tremendous recreational opportunity.
Strategies for Success
Strategies for Success – Foul Weather Fowl
Wind and rain can certainly put a damper on your turkey hunting; but you shouldn’t let it keep you indoors. The birds are still out there, and you should be too. You just need to adapt, improvise and hopefully, overcome. Read more…
Strategies for Success
Strategies for Success – Take a Turkey’s Temperature
The two biggest mistakes turkey hunters make are calling too much and not calling enough. The key to success is calling just enough, and saying the right thing. And sometimes it takes a little experimenting to figure out what that Read more…
Strategies for Success
Strategies for Success – Tag-Team a Gobbler Tom
Hunting with a friend always adds more fun to any adventures afield, and can sometimes make your hunt more successful. Team up on turkeys by letting one person be the caller and the other the shooter. That way, the shooter Read more…
Strategies for Success
Strategies for Success – Patience is a Virtue
There’s little doubt the successful turkey hunter’s greatest virtue is patience. Too many hunters expect a gobbling tom to come running to their sweet, seductive calls. When they don’t, the hunter gets up and moves closer. More often than not Read more…
Strategies for Success
Strategies for Success – Turkey Hunting Etiquette
There’s a certain etiquette that goes along with turkey hunting; and understanding it is important for both success and safety. In general terms, etiquette means respecting other hunters. One way is to simply avoid them. Stay away from heavily hunted Read more…
Strategies for Success
Strategies for Success – Patterning
Regardless of what gauge, action, chamber or shot size you select, the most critical part of optimizing your turkey gun is patterning. You really should pattern your gun before you hunt. If you use optics or sights they could be Read more…
Strategies for Success
Strategies for Success – Scout Now: Score Later
Pre-season scouting is often critical to success and much of it can be done by merely driving the roads in potential turkey country, looking and listening for turkeys. But the visible birds often draw a crowd on opening day. To Read more…
Column
Repeating Rifles and History: An Assault on Common Sense
by Bob Humphrey The prose for each chapter in our country’s history was punctuated by armed conflict. War allowed us to be a country, then later nearly split us in half. Wars fought largely oversees have allowed us to continue Read more…