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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
By Bob Humphrey I’ve been in hibernation mode for a while but a recent correspondence from someone taking me to task about turkey hunting stuck deeply enough in my craw to prompt me into writing. Let me preface by noting Read more…