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How do you teach someone to call in turkeys when the only places he has to go are public lands with pressured birds?

Having a hard time tagging that gobbler? Here's the gear that's just too darn useful to go without.

Henned-up toms, loudmouths that just won’t budge, topographic obstacles: Regardless what you think, sometimes the “stupidest” tactic just might produce a gobbler in front of your sights. And that’ll make you look smart.

Some trophy poachers shock you with their chutzpah.

Some hunters fail to understand that the steel used for most hunting knives sold today is harder, and in some ways better, than their father’s or grandfather’s blades they once saw sharpened with a few clean passes on a stone. Only a skilled hand can put a fine edge on hard, modern blades without a quality sharpening tool to keep the angle correct.

Your beloved deer rifle, duck shotgun and the rest of your firearms want to be faithful and true. They are among the few things we will ever own and use that can be passed down through generations. But they can only survive the hours at the range and the trips into the marshes and forests, no matter the weather, if we care for them properly.

Our writer's method for getting ruffed grouse in winter is quiet and tactical.

How much do coyotes affect deer populations? Wildlife biologists are now finding some astonishing answers.

It's time to start writing your own late-season success story.