One of the best ways you can improve your success rate this spring when hunting spring gobblers is to avoid making mistakes. Thinking back on hunts I've made with some of the country's best turkey experts, this is the one thing they all seemed to have in common. They kept mistakes to a minimum.
I didn't know him. But when word came from my wife that a neighbor less than a mile up the road had been fatally shot, it was like a stiff punch to the gut. Another hunter had shot him when he thought he saw a turkey.
I was contacted by the Outdoor Dream Foundation in early February to guide one of the participants on a 