Turkey Hunting
Turkey hunting warm up
It was nearly dark when the black ghost finally materialized around from the back of a big oak. We had been working that gobbler one of many ways since early afternoon. […]
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Early turkey forecast good
That moment when a mature tom turkey commits to a hunter’s spring trap, coming to the gun displaying his splendid courting passion — fully strutted, glowing red head, with thunderous gobbling and drumming — is as exciting as hunting gets. […]
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MDWFP conducting turkey tagging survey
Mississippi wildlife officials are apparently considering instituting a tagging or, at the very least, a harvest reporting system for turkey hunters in the Magnolia State. […]
Happy Trails
We’ve come a long way
The 2015 spring turkey season was, as of this writing, a total bust for me, as I have been neck-deep in the moving process to a new house that the wife and I have been building and dealing with for some months now. […]
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Hunter gets her limb-hanger
Jenifer Flanagan was brimming with anticipation as she waited expectantly for a gobble in the quiet pre-dawn darkness at her hunting camp near Topton in Lauderdale County. […]
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Don’t give up on gobblers
Too many hunters quit long before May 1’s official closing of Mississippi’s spring season, which is a mistake others say since some of the best hunting is in the final two weeks. […]
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Call less, kill more gobblers
If Marshall Collette of Greensboro strung together all the beards from the turkeys he’s killed or called in for other hunters on a piece of rawhide, you could probably use it to measure for first downs in a football game. […]
Field Notes
What you need to kill a turkey
Make sure you check these turkey hunting items off your list before heading to the woods this hunting season. […]
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Uncles help youngster get first gobbler
When 15-year-old Austin Gill finally killed his first gobbler on April 10, it was a family success story that couldn’t have come at a time when the Gills needed one more. […]
Sidebars
Meek: Keep your box “fine tuned”
Paul Meek has made thousands of turkey calls in his life, including about every style there is to try. It’s what he does for a living.
Even with that experience, he knows every call has to be fined tuned. […]
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Gobble call: Proceed with caution
The dangers of using a gobble call without knowing others are around when turkey hunting. […]
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Odd call ‘Kee’ to turkey triple
Devin Rice called in a crowd of gobblers to the area where he and two friends were hunting early in the Mississippi season, but it wasn’t until he switched calls that the birds got fired up. […]