turkey Archives - Page 17 of 22 - Mississippi Sportsman

Mississippi's duck season opens Thursday, on Thanksgiving, and the state's hunters can be thankful that freak fall polar vortexes have pushed a lot of mallads south early.

Turkey day also duck day

November 26, 2014 Bobby Cleveland

Move over turkey, this Thanksgiving isn’t all about you.

Make room for ducks. […]

Jeffery Hutchison (right) felt a little bad after killing this rare turkey that his father, David (left), had come close to killing three times before the son got a shot.

Hunter bags rare white gobbler

May 30, 2014 Bobby Cleveland

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. […]

Orange turkey kabobs offer hunters with a different way to bring wild turkey to the table.

Make an old tom kabob

May 6, 2014 Jerry Dilsaver

Having an excellent and unique table experience is the way family and friends can help a hunter celebrate his or her trophy turkey. […]

Rebecca Hall killed this trophy gobbler on April 12 in Simpson County. The big bird had an 11 ½-inch beard and 1 ¼-inch spurs.

Silent approach nets Hall’s trophy tom

April 23, 2014 Bobby Cleveland

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. […]

Mark Boyd is a firm believer in not calling to turkeys before the season opens. He doesn’t want to educate them earlier than need be.

Decoys can close the deal, or they can close the door

April 15, 2014 John J. Woods

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. […]

One of Boyd’s favorite turkey hunting locations is the Homochitto National Forest.

Homochitto National Forest isn’t easy to hunt, but worth it

April 15, 2014 John J. Woods

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. […]

The Meek approach to calling

April 15, 2014 Michael O. Giles

Paul Meek started out hunting turkeys for fun, but over the years it transformed into a desire to make the best turkey calls. […]

Nothing gets a turkey hunter more stirred up and excited than an old tom in strut.

Kee-kees anyone?

April 15, 2014 Michael O. Giles

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. […]

Joey Rose made this cedar slate call and used it to harvest numerous gobblers.

“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. […]

Yep! It’s the yelp

April 15, 2014 Michael O. Giles

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.” […]

Buck McKinion, 12, of Pelahatchie, with the nice gobbler he killed April 5 while hunting with father Johnny McKinion in Rankin County.

Youngster’s ears save hunt

April 10, 2014 Bobby Cleveland

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. […]

Hen turkey pays a timely visit

April 4, 2014 Bobby Cleveland

Being an outdoor writer who has chased wildlife and fish around Mississippi and the southeast for nearly four decades, I have told many stories. […]