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Wild turkey has incredible flavor and is highly versatile. Consider using it for a tailgate party, watching your favorite sports team or as the ultimate starter in a hunting camp.

They say that ignorance is bliss, and it is, until that bliss is snatched away by the cold, icy hand of reality. In this case, that hand was wielded by a fellow hunter sitting shotgun in an approaching pickup truck.

Funds generated through the sale of the Wyoming Governor’s complimentary big-game licenses in 2024 will soon benefit sportsmen, photographers, campers and others who enjoy the state’s outdoors.

Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) is the latest partner to join the Outdoor Stewards of Conservation Foundation’s (OSCF) “Fill A Bag While Filling Your Tag” program.

Hunters aged 6 to 15 checked 1,443 gobblers during the Arkansas youth turkey hunts April 12 and 13, an increase of 22 percent over last year’s total. Meanwhile young turkey hunters in Ohio, enjoying their state’s special season to pursue gobblers the same weekend, took 1,740, beating the three-season average of 1,571 birds.

If you hunt turkeys long enough, you’ll see them do some crazy, unexpected things. Our man’s seen plenty of that, too—enough to make him think long and hard about how to counter some “Crazy Ivan” moves.

In early April, a federal judge in Brooklyn sentenced two men for trafficking protected birds and eggs into the United States in violation of the U.S. Endangered Species Act (ESA). Dr. John Waldrop of Cataula, Ga., was ordered to pay a $900,000 fine—one of the largest-ever for an ESA case—and serve three years of probation. Toney Jones of Eufala, Ala., was sentenced to six months of probation.

Should you call to a roosted tom? Mike Roux fills his readers in on why this popular strategy may be the reason they don't fill all their tags this spring.