Posts by Donald Devereaux Jarrett
Attracting & Holding Small Tract Turkeys
The first time I ever heard a turkey gobble from the back deck of my house was a cold, winter morning. The bird wasn’t on my property, but he was easy to hear, and I began to dream of the day I might kill a bird on my own property. The problem was, or so…
Read MoreHanging Around
It wasn’t a day with perfect turkey hunting conditions, but it was turkey season, and that’s really all that mattered. It was overcast and a little muggy, but I had just one day to hunt Georgia before hitting the road for Texas, then South Dakota. It was Donna’s birthday, and she had reminded me the…
Read MoreTried & True Turkey Hunting
I picked up the small tube call sitting beside me and threw a couple of yelps down into the steep, hardwood bottom below. I thought it sounded pretty good and apparently so did the three north Georgia gobblers that showed up not too long after. It was all new to me then, and the resources…
Read MoreYonah Invitational Grand National Adds New Division At Outdoor Blast
The 2024 GON Ag-Pro Outdoor Blast is in the books, and so is the Pistol Creek Outdoors sponsored Yonah Invitational Grand National Qualifier turkey calling contest. This marked the fourth year for the NWTF sanctioned event, and it was nothing short of spectacular. The event has gone from one that was filled with hope of…
Read MoreWhat To Do When Turkeys Reject Your Call
It had been a half hour since my last call. I had no idea if the bird was even still in the neighborhood or not. He hadn’t given me any reason to believe he was, and when he had last gobbled, he was still in the same vicinity as he had been when he first…
Read MoreFinding Memories
The drift of smoke from a chimney somewhere distant instantly grabbed my attention and caused my mind to rewind to years a long time ago. It reminded me of my boyhood as I walked this very logging road I was now on, but I was a kid then, likely still shy of my teens, and…
Read MoreKeeping It Real For Turkey Hunting Success
There was a time years ago when I tried pretty hard to convince my younger brother, Walter, to go turkey hunting with me. I had experienced some early success in the turkey woods and curiosity eventually got the best of him. The first day we went to the turkey woods together, I managed to call…
Read MoreThe Broad Perspective Of Turkey Hunting
“Turkey hunting? You have lost your mind!” I remember saying. That was the response I gave to my longtime friend Cal Marsh over three decades ago when he suggested we go turkey hunting. He had been a few times before he made that suggestion, but I had never hunted anything in the spring woods, except…
Read MoreLong-Range Gobblers
It had been a long time since my oldest son Devereaux and I had been able to turkey hunt together. The last turkey hunt we had shared had been a few years back. His duty in the United States Army had taken him to a baron, turkeyless place called Afghanistan, and since his return we…
Read MoreOld Habit Gobblers
My son, Devereaux, and I made our way along the old, worn trail in the morning darkness toward our listening spot. I knew where two birds likely were, and I also knew we would be nowhere near them to start the morning. I had hoped there might be other birds closer to where we would…
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