At first glance, one might think that there is really nothing to putting out turkey decoys. Right? Just put the plastic replicas in a field, get yourself hid nearby and call. Birds see the decoys and ...

The background in the upland woods changes almost daily during gobbler season, from gray-brown, with no leaves, to green in the early going of the season. Leaves pop out and give us one more thing to ...

To be honest, I don’t know how many turkeys I’d killed before I set my first turkey decoys; probably a dozen or more. The way I was taught, the hunter made the yelps and the clucks and the purrs, and ...

A skinny "jake'' turkey decoy, left, and a flopped-over foam hen turkey decoy were enough to help lure in a nice tom turkey for John Myers in May near Barnum.

Just because we can shoot turkeys at longer ranges doesn’t always mean that we should. At its very best, turkey hunting is a close range game. Having a big old tom gobble and drum his way into 15 ...

Looking back over the decades of spring gobbler hunting, some of the old early truisms still stand the test of time, but others ... not so much. Hard to believe that it was 40 years ago this year we ...