Posts by Donald Devereaux Jarrett
Gobblers On Your Home Turf
If you’re like most turkey hunters, you’ll work a gobbler anywhere you can find him. When you strike a bird, the game is on and where you, or the gobbler, are standing at the time doesn’t matter. Lots of times the particulars of the property doesn’t come into play until some time has passed and…
Read MoreYoung Guns Of The Turkey Woods
I’ve been fortunate to have tucked away so many memories from the turkey woods. I can still remember my very first hunt in the north Georgia mountains as if it happened yesterday. Some seasons stand out more than others, too. One season that jumps to the front of the line when I think back on…
Read MoreLearning To Avoid Turkey Hunting’s Classic Mistakes
The big Cedar Creek WMA gobbler had covered a lot of ground and was now getting dangerously close to decapitation. I had pulled the bird from the creek bottom below and over a high ridge opposite my setup. I guess he had probably covered several hundred yards when he finally appeared, walking steadily down the…
Read MoreTag-Along Toms
Every once in a while I find myself tangling with a bird that is seemingly reluctant to leave me but does it anyway. I’m not talking about the ones that give a few courtesy gobbles as they vanish with a harem of hens into parts unknown. I’m talking about a bird that is genuinely sincere…
Read MoreLearning To Hang Up On Hung Up Gobblers
I had one season under my belt when I encountered my first hung-up gobbler. I had worked a bird into a frenzy and watched him strut and gobble for nearly 90 minutes as he pounded every call I made. He put on quite a show, and when he finally gave up on me, I couldn’t…
Read MoreAggressive Moves For Early Bird Gobblers
Opening morning of the 2009 turkey season had arrived, and I couldn’t think of a time when I was more eager to start the season. I had scouted the area I would be hunting a couple of days earlier and had found four mature gobblers and a wad of hens roosting on the edge of…
Read MoreTurkey Hunting Truths
With deer season gone and winter throwing its last punches, my thoughts shift primarily to turkey hunting, a time that energizes my soul for a two-month period every spring. If you’ve never been turkey hunting, or maybe you’re a newbie, this article highlights turkey-hunting truths that should get you started in a positive direction. It…
Read MoreTurkey-Hunting “Experiments” That Work In Tough Times
When we think of drought we usually associate it with lack of water. We can also apply the term to the turkey woods when we go through extended periods of “dry” hunting. Let’s face it; there are times when we can’t buy a gobble, especially on heavily hunted public grounds. Those are the places where…
Read MoreKeeping The Turkey Hunting Edge
Webster’s dictionary defines complacency as, “self satisfaction accompanied by unawareness of actual dangers or deficiencies.” This is a perilous state in life, and in the world of a turkey hunter, it eventually spells doom. When we hunt turkeys in a state of complacency, we are setting our- selves up for failure. It is probably…
Read MoreWinning On Turkey Season Opening Day
I was feeling pretty confident as I stood beside my hunting partner Bobby Knight. It was opening day of turkey season and the orange glow of the eastern sky began to push the darkness from around us. The woods were coming to life as a half a dozen or so barred owls began their morning…
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