To learn spring-turkey season expectations, the area of the state holding the most turkeys, the best week to hunt during turkey season and the benefits of volunteering as a Mississippi turkey cooperator, Mississippi Sportsman talked with Dave Godwin of Starkville, wild turkey program coordinator for the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks (MDWFP). […]
To learn how landowners can have more turkeys on their land, the link between turkey management and timber management and the latest research on turkey predation, Mississippi Sportsman talked with Dave Godwin, wild turkey program coordinator for the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks (MDWFP). […]
With just a few days to go before the turkey season opener, veteran turkey hunter Jerry McKinley, a native of Petal, was riding high. The mild winter and warm spring temperatures had the southern Mississippi landscape greening up nicely, and the word on the grapevine around his hunting camp on the edge of the DeSoto National Forest was that the turkeys were gobbling. […]
Mississippi has tons of public-land wild turkeys positioned all over the state. There is no trouble, though, figuring out just where they are. […]
Wild turkey hunters are famous for their bags of dirty tricks. Dirty perhaps in the glaring eyes of a tom gobbler that just got schnooked by some kind of off-the-wall tactic that reduced his existence to a plate of fajitas. […]
How would you define the term “turkey pro?” Is it a outdoorsman who has been turkey hunting for many years? Is a pro at this sport one who consistently bags his gobbler limit every season? […]
Don Marascalco moved stealthily in the pre-dawn darkness shortly before daylight last April. The veteran turkey hunter had spotted a mature gobbler and a large harem of 24 hens in a pasture on a previous scouting trip near Meridian. […]
It is way too cool to see a wily gobbler fooled anytime it happens.Turkey hunters have become pretty slick over the years dreaming up new ways to trick ol’ toms into falling for seductive hunter tactics. […]
Turkey hunting can throw lots of curve balls. For once, I thought I was ahead of the inside curve by scouting out a good area two weeks in advance of the season opener. […]
The Swamp Monster was the name Wayne Stewart had given a certain wild turkey gobbler that lived in the Noxubee River bottom near Stewart’s home and had eluded the bowhunter for the better part of the spring turkey season. […]
When I woke up this morning, I immediately noticed something was different. It was just starting to break daylight, and I hadn’t heard the first vehicle come down the old gravel road. […]
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