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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
It is no secret among hunters that interest in coyote hunting has skyrocketed in the last decade. Why not? Coyotes are more populous than ever, after decades of being hunted, trapped and poisoned.…
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…
I can't tell you how many times I've been in a hunt camp where someone had a problem with their hunting boots. Usually the boots weren't dry or warm enough, but other times they didn't offer enough…
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…
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
A few years ago while on a caribou hunt on the tundra of northern Quebec, I nearly had my hunt ruined by blisters on my feet. Thanks to some immediate attention to the problem, I was able to continue…
It was a tough challenge my partner and I faced that spring day in New York's Catskill Mountains. Conflicting schedules allowed us just one morning to hunt turkey together. The bird we located the…
