“Tag: tips and tactics”

Mike Roux has spent long enough in the turkey woods to know spring comes in four specific cycles. Here's how to hunt each and every one.

When the use of a shotgun slug is required (or preferred), equipping a smoothbore with a rifled choke tube is always an economical solution. What are the particulars of these specialty chokes? Read on to find out.

Ever wonder how to find big bucks late in the season when they are wise and wary to hunting pressure? Here is part two of contributor Mike Roux's rundown on finding educated bucks.

Hunters should always be on the lookout for know-how they can use. On a buffalo hunt in Mozambique, the author was all too happy to soak up some bushcraft that can be of use to us all in North America.

Contributor Aram von Benedikt discusses methods for arresting your flinch and putting it under lock and key.

Contributor Mike Roux gives readers some tips on keeping their skills and equipment up to snuff throughout the summer season.

Contributor Mike Roux gives readers some tips on food-plot planning and planting to stay productive this offseason.

Everyone knows decoys can bring in the toms, but some setups are more efficient than others. Mike Roux brings his experience to bear in answering some common questions hunters have on how to run their decoys.

Eastern wild turkeys, found in 38 states, are our most widely distributed subspecies of wild turkeys—and also perhaps the most confounding bird to hunt. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Try these tactics to avoid frustration.