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Hunter bags rare white gobbler
Jeffery Hutchison was standing next to a tree on March 27, with his shotgun up and his focus clearly on one of three gobblers approaching his position along a logging road in Attala County. […]
Turkey Hunting
Recipes
Make an old tom kabob
Having an excellent and unique table experience is the way family and friends can help a hunter celebrate his or her trophy turkey. […]
Featured
Silent approach nets Hall’s trophy tom
Three days into chasing a wily gobbler, with absolutely no success, Rebecca Hall and boyfriend Timothy Fox knew they had to make some drastic changes in strategy. […]
Sidebars
The Meek approach to calling
Paul Meek started out hunting turkeys for fun, but over the years it transformed into a desire to make the best turkey calls. […]
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Kee-kees anyone?
Everybody knows that kee-kees are made by young turkeys and are rarely heard in the spring season and they’re almost never used to call up gobblers … everybody but Paul Meek that is. […]
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Sport friction
“Friction calls is a sport to me,” said Meek. “I make mouth calls and use them some too, but I don’t depend on them in public areas because they get burned up by calling. A lot of beginning hunters think they’ve got to use the mouth calls because they think they’re better in some way. […]
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Yep! It’s the yelp
What is the call maker’s favorite call?
“I’m tempted to say whatever works,” said Meek, “but I guess if I had to choose one call to make all the time it would be a yelp. You can call up and kill more gobblers with just a plain yelp than by making any other call.” […]
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Decoys can close the deal, or they can close the door
Turkey hunters are always looking for an edge, and under certain circumstances decoys can be exactly that — an advantage that helps close the deal on a spring gobbler. […]
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Homochitto National Forest isn’t easy to hunt, but worth it
Mississippi is blessed with six U.S. National Forests, combining to provide the state with a huge public land hunting resource that is spread across the entire state. […]
Featured
Youngster’s ears save hunt
The McKinions, dad Johnny and son Buck, were being treated to a very vocal show by a tom turkey early on Saturday morning (April 5), so much so that the thundering gobbles made it hard to hear anything else in that part of Rankin County. […]
Bobby C's Outdoors
Hen turkey pays a timely visit
Being an outdoor writer who has chased wildlife and fish around Mississippi and the southeast for nearly four decades, I have told many stories. […]
Turkey Hunting
An earnest try
A guy I know says there is nothing to turkey hunting. Over a decade ago he thought he would try hunting a turkey for the first time. He ventured out into the woods before dawn, sat down and got ready. […]