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How to Map a Gobbler's Routine

Many turkey hunters don’t put in the effort to map a gobbler’s routine prior to opening morning. Follow these scouting tips to find the best spot to kill a tom.

Turkey Hunting: Sleep in For Success

The ideal strategy for bagging a gobbler is being at the right place at the right time. Here’s why that time might be hours later than you think.

Roosted Toms: How Close is Too Close?

The surest way to not kill a gobbler at daylight is to spook it on the roost. Knowing how close you can get before setting up is key. Here are some tips.

3 Maxims Every Turkey Hunter Can Take to the Bank

Turkey hunters know there's only so much they can count on when it comes to bird behavior. As random as it may seem, the turkey equation can become easier to solve by employing these three tactics.

Turkey Tactics: Calling the Same Ground Again and Again

Not all of us have the luxury of multiple hunting spots to choose from. If you're stuck hunting the same ground all season with no change in sight, a slight change in tactics could make all the difference.

How to Analyze Turkey Season for the Perfect Strategy

Turkey hunters must analyze the ever-changing circumstances of the spring breeding season lest they fail to recognize changing behavior among wild turkeys and strike out. Use these strategies to tackle four typical spring turkey behaviors to bag a turkey dinner.

6 Strategies for Hunting Silent Gobblers

Turkey hunting can be fun and sometimes seem easy when any ol’ tom answers the weakest yelps. When toms clam up—that’s when things get difficult. It’s at times like these a turkey hunter needs at least one of these six tips up his sleeve.

Fall Turkey Hunting Tactics

By this time of year, toms have regrouped into bachelor bands and hens have gathered with their poults, which means turkeys enjoy the security of large flocks. Here’s how to outfox all those eyes and ears and take home a bird for Thanksgiving.

Tips and Tactics for Bowhunting Turkeys

Start your spring early by hitting the turkey woods with a bow.

Turkey Hunting: Make a Plan for Merriam’s

The frosty white-tipped tom of the West lures many turkey hunters from other regions. But the bird that roams the Rockies can’t necessarily be hunted the same ways as birds in Eastern forests.

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