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Cover: April 2014
Turkey season is finally in full swing, but how do you kill those wary birds? Everything you need to know is in this issue. […]
Turkey Hunting
New Products
Flextone’s Lightning Crow
The Lightning Crow from Flextone Game Calls produces ultra-realistic, natural sounds that can be heard for miles. This long-range turkey call forces even the most tight-lipped birds to expose their position. […]
Content
Cool under pressure — Tips for public-land turkey hunting
A lot of turkey hunters shy away from public lands in the spring, believing them to be too crowded with sportsmen and home to birds that are too heavily pressured and act spooked all season long. […]
Features
Better Late than Never — Late-season turkey hunting tips
Morning jumps to life in the spring, that special time when the morning music of the breaking dawn begins, when a turkey hunter can sit very still and realize he is witnessing the way the nature awakens when he is not there. […]
Content
Making the Call — Expert turkey calling tips
Joey Rose peered into the still dark early morning woods and sent out an owl hoot, and the forest sent him a response. […]
Featured
Gobblers have been inconsistent
John Gentry may have had the best line about the current state of turkey hunting in Mississippi, when he gave this report about his bad luck since opening day. […]
The Shootist
Turkey patterns and cleaning tips
In turkey hunting, preparation is everything.
So thinking about you guys (and gals) who get all heated up over feathers in the spring, I thought I would write about patterning — and cleaning your guns. […]
Featured
Youngster gets the early bird
Breck Farrior, age 9, of Learned has a pretty good reason to brag about the gobbler he killed on March 8, the opening morning of Mississippi’s youth turkey season. […]
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Spring break lesson comes in turkey woods
Spring break and youth turkey season in the same week, could it be?
You bet and the ideal scenario worked perfectly for Hayden Kyle, 9, a third grader at Pontotoc City School. One of thousands of kids out of school in Mississippi this week, Kyle learned an important lesson in the woods. […]
Bobby C's Outdoors
Turkeys make you work
It was a cool April morning, several springs ago. The dogwoods had bloomed, the crappie were spawning and, even better, there were five tom turkeys around us gobbling to greet the rising sun. Inside of the next two hours I would learn to honor and respect the wild turkey, and to admire the men and women who work hard to hunt them. […]
Bobby C's Outdoors
A simple gobble makes day worthwhile
It’s March now, and spring is on the way. We can soon look forward to blooming dogwoods, spawning crappie and to the thunderous gobbles of turkeys, resounding through the woods. […]
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Accessories increase youth’s turkey odds
When it comes to killing turkeys, Revel Rawlings of Ridgeland is one of the best.
Even then, the former president of the Mississippi Chapter of the National Wild Turkey Federation knows he needed all the help he could get when his two sons started chasing gobblers with him. […]