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.” […]
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. […]
Being an outdoor writer who has chased wildlife and fish around Mississippi and the southeast for nearly four decades, I have told many stories. […]
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. […]
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. […]
Joey Rose peered into the still dark early morning woods and sent out an owl hoot, and the forest sent him a response. […]
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. […]
Turkey season is finally in full swing, but how do you kill those wary birds? Everything you need to know is in this issue. […]
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. […]
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. […]
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. […]
Quite often an unorthodox turkey-hunting tactic breaks the stalemate with a hung-up gobbler. Over the years, I have heard of many unexpected tricks to lure a gobbler to the gun. […]
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