Turkey Hunting Archives - Page 18 of 26

May 4, 2024

Gobblers have been inconsistent

April 1, 2014 Bobby Cleveland

John Gentry may have had the best line about the current state of turkey hunting in Mississippi, when he gave this report about his bad luck since opening day. […]

Turkey patterns and cleaning tips

March 25, 2014 Gordon Hutchinson

In turkey hunting, preparation is everything.

So thinking about you guys (and gals) who get all heated up over feathers in the spring, I thought I would write about patterning — and cleaning your guns. […]

Youngster gets the early bird

March 20, 2014 Bobby Cleveland

Breck Farrior, age 9, of Learned has a pretty good reason to brag about the gobbler he killed on March 8, the opening morning of Mississippi’s youth turkey season. […]

Spring break lesson comes in turkey woods

March 13, 2014 Bobby Cleveland

Spring break and youth turkey season in the same week, could it be?

You bet and the ideal scenario worked perfectly for Hayden Kyle, 9, a third grader at Pontotoc City School. One of thousands of kids out of school in Mississippi this week, Kyle learned an important lesson in the woods. […]

Turkeys make you work

March 11, 2014 Bobby Cleveland

It was a cool April morning, several springs ago. The dogwoods had bloomed, the crappie were spawning and, even better, there were five tom turkeys around us gobbling to greet the rising sun. Inside of the next two hours I would learn to honor and respect the wild turkey, and to admire the men and women who work hard to hunt them. […]

A simple gobble makes day worthwhile

March 7, 2014 Bobby Cleveland

It’s March now, and spring is on the way. We can soon look forward to blooming dogwoods, spawning crappie and to the thunderous gobbles of turkeys, resounding through the woods. […]

Accessories increase youth’s turkey odds

March 5, 2014 Bobby Cleveland

When it comes to killing turkeys, Revel Rawlings of Ridgeland is one of the best.

Even then, the former president of the Mississippi Chapter of the National Wild Turkey Federation knows he needed all the help he could get when his two sons started chasing gobblers with him. […]