Hunter bags rare white gobbler
Jeffery Hutchison was standing next to a tree on March 27, with his shotgun up and his focus clearly on one of three gobblers approaching his position along a logging road in Attala County. […]
Jeffery Hutchison was standing next to a tree on March 27, with his shotgun up and his focus clearly on one of three gobblers approaching his position along a logging road in Attala County. […]
Having an excellent and unique table experience is the way family and friends can help a hunter celebrate his or her trophy turkey. […]
Three days into chasing a wily gobbler, with absolutely no success, Rebecca Hall and boyfriend Timothy Fox knew they had to make some drastic changes in strategy. […]
Turkey hunters are always looking for an edge, and under certain circumstances decoys can be exactly that — an advantage that helps close the deal on a spring gobbler. […]
Mississippi is blessed with six U.S. National Forests, combining to provide the state with a huge public land hunting resource that is spread across the entire state. […]
Paul Meek started out hunting turkeys for fun, but over the years it transformed into a desire to make the best turkey calls. […]
Everybody knows that kee-kees are made by young turkeys and are rarely heard in the spring season and they’re almost never used to call up gobblers … everybody but Paul Meek that is. […]
“Friction calls is a sport to me,” said Meek. “I make mouth calls and use them some too, but I don’t depend on them in public areas because they get burned up by calling. A lot of beginning hunters think they’ve got to use the mouth calls because they think they’re better in some way. […]
What is the call maker’s favorite call?
“I’m tempted to say whatever works,” said Meek, “but I guess if I had to choose one call to make all the time it would be a yelp. You can call up and kill more gobblers with just a plain yelp than by making any other call.” […]
The McKinions, dad Johnny and son Buck, were being treated to a very vocal show by a tom turkey early on Saturday morning (April 5), so much so that the thundering gobbles made it hard to hear anything else in that part of Rankin County. […]
Being an outdoor writer who has chased wildlife and fish around Mississippi and the southeast for nearly four decades, I have told many stories. […]
A lot of turkey hunters shy away from public lands in the spring, believing them to be too crowded with sportsmen and home to birds that are too heavily pressured and act spooked all season long. […]
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