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Turkey Tracker — Expert turkey hunting tips

March 1, 2016 Michael O. Giles

Scott Ellis struck out on a late-afternoon mission to fire up some tough turkeys while stopping every 200 yards or so to call, hoping to get a shock-gobble from a battle-worn tom. […]

A textbook turkey hunt is rare on opening day, but it worked out for the author’s nephew Josh in the spring of 2015.

Opening salvo: Turkey hunting tips for opening-day success

March 1, 2016 David Hawkins

Last turkey season began with the typical dawn chorus of bird songs, greeting the hunter hoping to score on opening day. […]

Before the season opens hunters should not be out in the woods spooking birds away.

Turkey hunting warm up

March 1, 2016 John J. Woods

It was nearly dark when the black ghost finally materialized around from the back of a big oak. We had been working that gobbler one of many ways since early afternoon. […]

With a mix of mature (4-year-old) and young (2-year-old) gobblers available in most areas of Mississippi, there could be plenty of competition in the flock and for hunters in the 2016 season.

That moment when a mature tom turkey commits to a hunter’s spring trap, coming to the gun displaying his splendid courting passion — fully strutted, glowing red head, with thunderous gobbling and drumming — is as exciting as hunting gets. […]

Blake Jensen killed this big gobbler in 2013 in Southwest Mississippi. The state is now considering having hunters tar or at least report the harvest of all turkeys in the future.

MDWFP conducting turkey tagging survey

August 12, 2015 Bobby Cleveland

Mississippi wildlife officials are apparently considering instituting a tagging or, at the very least, a harvest reporting system for turkey hunters in the Magnolia State. […]

Trey and Kinsman (left) shared a great hunt, shooting these longbeards from the same blind.

We’ve come a long way

May 18, 2015 Bill Garbo

The 2015 spring turkey season was, as of this writing, a total bust for me, as I have been neck-deep in the moving process to a new house that the wife and I have been building and dealing with for some months now. […]

Jenifer Flanagan, fishing manager at Bass Pro Shops in Pearl, displays a trophy limbhanger gobbler killed near north of Meridian on April 18. The bird had a thick 10 1/2-inch paintbrush beard, 1 1/4 inch sharp curved spurs and weighed 19.5 pounds.

Hunter gets her limb-hanger

April 30, 2015 Michael O. Giles

Jenifer Flanagan was brimming with anticipation as she waited expectantly for a gobble in the quiet pre-dawn darkness at her hunting camp near Topton in Lauderdale County. […]

Landen Prestage, 9, of Lena killed his first gobbler of the 2015 season on March 31, while hunting with his grandfather, Glen Prestage. The beard measured 9 inches and the spurs measured one inch.

Don’t give up on gobblers

April 22, 2015 Bobby Cleveland

Too many hunters quit long before May 1’s official closing of Mississippi’s spring season, which is a mistake others say since some of the best hunting is in the final two weeks. […]

If you want to kill a turkey, the key could be toning back your calling.

Call less, kill more gobblers

April 21, 2015 Dan Kibler

If Marshall Collette of Greensboro strung together all the beards from the turkeys he’s killed or called in for other hunters on a piece of rawhide, you could probably use it to measure for first downs in a football game. […]

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. […]