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What you need to kill a turkey

April 18, 2015 Andy Crawford

Make sure you check these turkey hunting items off your list before heading to the woods this hunting season. […]

Austin Gill, 15, of Vancleave, and his uncle Rusty Gill pose with the youngster's first gobbler, killed with his two uncles. Matt Gill did the calling and set the photo.

Uncles help youngster get first gobbler

April 16, 2015 Bobby Cleveland

When 15-year-old Austin Gill finally killed his first gobbler on April 10, it was a family success story that couldn’t have come at a time when the Gills needed one more. […]

Break down a turkey caller’s vest and you will likely find an assortment of calls from boxes, to pots to diaphragm mouth calls.

Meek: Keep your box “fine tuned”

April 15, 2015 John J. Woods

Paul Meek has made thousands of turkey calls in his life, including about every style there is to try. It’s what he does for a living.

Even with that experience, he knows every call has to be fined tuned. […]

Gobbler chasing can often put hunters in dangerous situations. Where you sit, what you wear and how you react to any sound is important.

Gobble call: Proceed with caution

April 15, 2015 John J. Woods

The dangers of using a gobble call without knowing others are around when turkey hunting. […]

A major issue facing states, like Mississippi where there is a noticeable decrease in hunting and fishing license sales, is a way to count elder sportsmen in numbers used to decide how much money each state gets annually in federal funding.

Making senior sportsmen count key to funding

April 15, 2015 Bobby Cleveland

Like their peers in every state, Mississippi wildlife officials are always looking to increase — or at least protect — their share of federal funding from the Sportfish Restoration and Wildlife Restoration programs. […]

Devin Rice of Wesson (left) called up a trio of gobblers that he and friends Kenny McLaughlin of Vicksburg (center) and Aaron Weatherford of Fairhope, Ala., killed simultaneously on private property in Central Mississippi. Weatherford’s turkey was double-bearded, with 11-inch and 9½-inch beards.

Odd call ‘Kee’ to turkey triple

April 9, 2015 Bobby Cleveland

Devin Rice called in a crowd of gobblers to the area where he and two friends were hunting early in the Mississippi season, but it wasn’t until he switched calls that the birds got fired up. […]

Lloyd Dempster won the overall prize at the Big Buck Bounty contest with his monster 18-point Claiborne County buck.

Blackstack, Dempster earn top prizes

April 2, 2015 Bobby Cleveland

It is quite possible that some of the hunters who entered the 2014-15 Big Buck Bounty made a lot of noise when they killed the trophy deer that led them to the contest’s awards breakfast on March 28 at McClain’s Lodge in Fannin. […]

Chad Bell's first turkey was killed in the Big Black River bottoms north of Canton and sported an impressive 15.25-inch beard.

Bell’s first gobbler true longbeard

April 2, 2015 Bobby Cleveland

Chad Bell figures he earned every inch of beard his first gobbler sported, and, at 15.25 inches, that’s a whole lot of work. […]

Cover: April 2015

April 1, 2015 Mississippi Sportsman

What do you need to get in on the hot turkey action? It’s all inside this issue. […]

JEBS Chokes

April 1, 2015 Mississippi Sportsman

The JEBS Headhunter Turkey Choke Tube is for everyone from the serious turkey hunter to the beginning novice. This tube has a patented interior bore design which allows for better shot and wad cup separation, thus making patterns smaller and denser on your intended target. […]

Veteran turkey hunters know it could take every trick up their sleeve and every call in their bag to kill wily ol’ gobblers. That’s why they often use several calls to take a big bird.

Beginner’s luck — Turkey hunting tactics for the novice

April 1, 2015 John J. Woods

There are simply too many choices of turkey calls, including all the types, materials, configurations, and styles, not to mention brand names, models, and all the marketing hype that goes with it. […]

Turkey flock populations across the state are always in flux, but annual turkey surveys help track their activities.

Join the spring gobbler survey team

April 1, 2015 John J. Woods

Turkey hunters can play an active role in providing information that helps determine future management of the wild turkey in Mississippi. I mean, do you ever wonder where all the annual turkey hunting results information and data comes from each season?

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