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Turkey Hunting
2025 Turkey Seasons
Kids, Mobility Impaired: March 22-23
Private-Land: March 29 – May 15
Public-Land: April 5 – May 15
* Two gobbler per season limit; one-gobbler-per-day restriction.
There are few things in turkey hunting more frustrating than a hung-up gobbler. I’ve had lots of birds come running to the call from great distances only to stop at an imaginary line just out of gun range. It’s like they know the distance at which my gun can do serious damage. Oftentimes, they strut…
I was proud to feel a little nip of coolness in the air as I put on my turkey vest and loaded my shotgun. Normally, I do not like cool temperatures during turkey season, especially if I am going to have to wade sloughs filled with water. This morning, however, it was a welcome change.…
Our early morning attempts to locate a roosted bird had failed. After some walking and calling, Terry Adkins and I moved to a rye strip between two stands of planted pines. It looked like a perfect strutting spot, and we had seen some turkeys in the vicinity just the afternoon before. We staked out my…
Opening day of turkey season… what a glorious time in a hunter’s life. You wade through deer season, spend the next two months wing-shooting at wood ducks, chasing beagles through the short pines or lining up your .22 rifle on a flattened-out bushytail sunning himself on a sun-baked hickory branch. It almost seems like passing…
Forty-five minutes had passed since he’d last gobbled, and I was exhausted. I had gotten myself into a battle with a tough, old bird, and the best I could figure he’d whipped me pretty good. We went at it on and off for about two and a half hours when he finally seemed to tire…
Trevor McEntyre, of Plainville, is a bowhunter. As of February, 2003, he has taken 14 of the 27 big-game animals of North America with his bow, including grizzly bear, musk ox, both black and brown bear, bighorn sheep, antelope, Dall sheep — and an elk that scored 300 Pope & Young points. He has also traveled…
They all sounded so good, but only one contestant could get his hands on that $3,000 check for first place. This year it was Benny Briggs from Harlem, as he made yelps, cackles and kee-kees sound effortless. Benny, a former winner of the World Turkey Calling Championship, won the Realtree Grand America Turkey Calling Contest.…
Turkeys are unpredictable, unreliable and undependable. Rarely can you count on what a gobbler will do, when he’ll do it or how he’ll do it. As a turkey hunter, you are allowed multiple chances and dozens of screw-ups before you actually get to take your safety off. However, as a turkey hunter you’ll learn to…
A Glenwood turkey hunter received quite a surprise when he walked up to a gobbler he had just shot in Wheeler County this season. The bird had four distinct spurs, two on each leg! “He has two long spurs like a regular turkey, and underneath them, growing separate, is another spur on each leg,” said…
“And the winning number of the chapter gun, this brand new Mossberg in Advantage camo, is…!” Not mine. As NWTF Regional Director Ricky Peek finished calling out the rest of the winning ticket number, I tossed my little green ticket onto the table, right next to my door-prize number card, and my blue ticket for…
Turkey Recipes
Peanut Butter Wild Turkey I must admit that I was apprehensive when a friend asked me to try his newly discovered dish. Once he showed me the ingredients, I realized it was a take on a popular Oriental chicken dish. And it is wonderful! 1 turkey breast 2 tbsp salt 2 tbsp white sugar 2…
Turkey Stuffed Bell Peppers 6 bell peppers 1/2- to 3/4-lb. dark-meat turkey 1 diced onion 3 cloves minced garlic 15-oz. can diced tomatoes 1 cup frozen whole-kernel corn 1 cup cooked white rice Shredded Pepper Jack cheese 1 Tbsp Worcestershire sauce 1 Tbsp salt 1 Tbsp black pepper Choose bell peppers that will stand up…
It can be downright chilly at the start of the turkey season, and that’s when most turkeys are taken. Why then not whip up a turkey stew that the whole family will enjoy on a chilly evening? 1/2 wild turkey, shredded 4 red potatoes, quartered 1/4 stick butter 1 large onion, diced 4 tbsp. garlic…