Turkey

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Short Soft Turkey Calling Got This Strutter

The second week of April I was guiding an older gentlemen and novice turkey hunter and decided I would hunt him from a pop-up blind at a location where I worked several birds earlier in the season.…
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Turkey Calling 101

As a former U.S. Open & World Calling Champion, so often I’m asked, what’s my favorite call…my answer is, “The one the turkey likes on that given day.” Every bird is different, every scenario is…
News & Tips: Youth Hunter Get's a Tip
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Youth Hunter Get's a Tip

On the South Carolina Youth Turkey day, I took a little buddy that I’ve called turkeys to in past years. He and his dad met me before daylight on that Saturday morning and my young friend was excited…
News & Tips: Patterning a Gun with a Dominant Eye
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Patterning a Gun with a Dominant Eye

Before season, Heather my daughter, who has taken the Royal Slam and scores of turkeys, sat at the patterning bench and had trouble with being consistent on shot placement. She wasn’t flinching, she…
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Patterning Your Turkey Shotgun

Before each turkey season every hunter needs to pattern and understand their shotgun. It’s commonly misunderstood that with a single or double bead and limits of ducks and ring-necks taken with that…
News & Tips: Youth Turkey Camps Teach Skills
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Youth Turkey Camps Teach Skills

Over the last three decades I have conducted a dozen or more youth turkey hunting camps, most through the JAKES (Juniors Acquiring Knowledge, Ethics and Sportsmanship) program of the National Wild…
News & Tips: Traditional Archery: Turkey Tips
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Traditional Archery: Turkey Tips

The first week of turkey season has passed in my neck of the woods and the score is still gobblers 2, traditional archer 0. For some reason the birds I scouted have not shown themselves during my two…
News & Tips: Best Turkey Hunt of the Year: Busted Beards in Kentucky...
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Best Turkey Hunt of the Year: Busted Beards in Kentucky

The turkey hunting action was fast and furious for this episode from hunts over at The Kentucky Proving as we lay out 4 Kentucky Long Beards. Join the GrowingDeer Team as we take down several trophy…
News & Tips: Bow Hunting a Kansas Rio & the Missouri Turkey Opener...
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Bow Hunting a Kansas Rio & the Missouri Turkey Opener

It's the Missouri Turkey Opener!  Adam and I captured some of the most unique and natural turkey action I've ever seen.  Plus, we have Heath Martin taking two Kansas Rios with his new Prime Impact…
News & Tips: Hunting Eastern Wild Turkeys
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Hunting Eastern Wild Turkeys

Birds can be flocked-up during the earliest phase of spring turkey season, and our turkeys were. Jim Martin and I had a plan in the early season to hunt a little old school going after dominant birds…
News & Tips: Setting Up for Spring Turkey
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Setting Up for Spring Turkey

The woods seemed to rattle when the tom bellowed back at me from his roost, barely 100 yards away. After that one response to my soft tree call on the diaphragm, I stopped calling. With a whoosh of…
News & Tips: Taking a Nice Gobbler - Bow Hunting
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Turkey Hunting Girls and Gobblers

Preparing for Youth Turkey Opener in Missouri Dr. Woods, his daughters Raleigh and Rae and friend Adam set up at the proving grounds.   From GrowingDeer.tv Grant Woods