I love decoys. I’ve got a half dozen turkey decoys in my garage and a whole basement full of duck and goose dekes. I enjoy setting decoys and trying to imitate how I think real birds would be ...
Turkey hunters have their favorite keys to success. Here's mine: No. 1: Be patient. Gobblers keep their own sense of time. We are in their world and like to imagine that our success will be classic; ...
The background in the upland woods changes almost daily during gobbler season, from gray-brown, with no leaves, to green in the early going of the season. Leaves pop out and give us one more thing to ...
At first glance, one might think that there is really nothing to putting out turkey decoys. Right? Just put the plastic replicas in a field, get yourself hid nearby and call. Birds see the decoys and ...
When a turkey hunt goes perfectly, it’s so simple that it seems anyone could do it. Yelp at a tom, listen to him gobble, sit next to a tree, spot him strutting toward you and then watch him stand ...
If your looking for bow hunting turkey tips ahead of the spring season, you’d be hard-pressed to find a better source than Phillip Vanderpool, host of _The Virtue TV_ show. The Arkansas pro started ...
It was perfect until it wasn't. Suddenly, the puffed-up tom dropped strut, stretched his neck, did an about-face, and scurried away. I could've killed this gobbler multiple times but I wanted him to ...