turkey Archives - Page 13 of 22 - Mississippi Sportsman

7 steps to display beards from gobblers

March 16, 2017 Dan Kibler

Every gobbler a hunter takes is a memory, and preserving and displaying the beards is a great way to revisit those memories. […]

Mississippi hunters harvested just over 22,000 birds last spring.

Pilot turkey harvest report program

March 15, 2017 David Hawkins

The Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks will initiate a stateside pilot turkey harvest reporting system for the 2017 spring season, the agency announced. […]

Mississippi's week-long youth-only (age 15 and under) turkey season opened on Wednesday and state wildlife officials are urging all hunters to voluntarily report their harvests this year.

Youth turkey season opens

March 8, 2017 Bobby Cleveland

Spring turkey hunting began Wednesday in Mississippi, with the opening of the weeklong youth-only hunt statewide. Only hunters aged 15 and under can shoot gobblers through March 14. […]

The overall turkey numbers in most places, especially in the central part of the state, will likely be up due to a good hatch last summer.

The striker extracts notes from a slate covered box, and the sound descends the ridge and mingles with the morning fog. In the distance a woodpecker hammers away at a potential meal in a rotting tree. A cardinal calls and a wren darts and flits through the understory. […]

March of the toms — Keys to early season turkey success

March 1, 2017 Mississippi Sportsman

There’s one key to early season turkey success: Being ‘relentlessly patient.’ These expert hunters tell you why it’s important to tagging a longbeard. […]

Mississippi has a lot of prime public hunting land for the spring turkey. Some of the best is at Hillside and Panther Swamp National Wildlife Refuges in the Delta.

Hillside NWR accepting turkey applications

January 24, 2017 Bobby Cleveland

Applications for the spring turkey hunt at Hillside National Wildlife Refuge are now being accepted, according to the Teddy Roosevelt National Refuge Complex. […]

Born with spina bifida, Mark Brown refuses to let his disability define him. Always an avid hunter, this year he reached another goal of killing his first gobbler.

Wheelchair-bound hunter kills gobbler

May 19, 2016 Bobby Cleveland

Born with spina bifida, Mark Brown has faced adversity in just about everything he has ever done, but he’s had the determination and faith to face and overcome the obstacles. […]

Turkeys feeding on grain in a field are vulnerable to seeds that have been treated with certain insecticides. The deaths of 15 hens in Tallahatchie County are being attributed to treated seeds that were found during necropsies of the dead fowl.

Treated seeds blamed in turkey deaths

May 9, 2016 Bobby Cleveland

Wheat seeds that tested positive for insecticides are being blamed for the mysterious deaths of 15 wild turkey hens found in Tallahatchie County, state wildlife officials said Monday. […]

Scott Kimock (left) poses with Lee Blackmon (right) and the York County gobbler that scored 168.4 by NWTF standards, and is the nation's best turkey killed with a bow.

Hunter arrows record book, 7-bearded gobbler

May 2, 2016 Brian Cope

Lee Blackmon from York, S.C., took a day off work to go turkey hunting on April 14, and killed the gobbler of a lifetime that is headed for the NWTF record books. His 7-bearded, 20.4-pound bird scored 168.4 (atypical) by two NWTF scorers. And he killed it with a bow and arrow. […]

Why are turkeys so tough to hunt?

April 15, 2016 Jonathan Olivier

So what is it about turkeys that make them so difficult to kill? University of Mississippi’s Richard Bucholz ran down the some of the reasons hunters can easily miss out on tagging out. […]

Gobblers become active after hens have started to nest. These two couldn’t resist a hen decoy that coaxed them into camera range.

Turkey regulations

April 15, 2016 David Hawkins

WMAs & national forests: Not all national forest land is part of a wildlife management area. Forest service lands outside WMAs can be hunted without a $15 annual WMA Permit, and statewide season structure is followed. A proper license is required. […]

Lake George, Sunflower and Twin Oaks WMAs, along with Panther Swamp NWR, will be closed to turkey hunting for the rest of the season.

3 WMAs, refuge will not have turkey season

April 14, 2016 Bobby Cleveland

State and federal wildlife officials announced this week that turkey season has been cancelled at three state Wildlife Management Areas and a National Wildlife Refuge in the south Delta due to high water and backwater flooding. […]