With the opening day of spring gobbler season about six weeks away, now is a great time to prepare for those upcoming days in the turkey woods. Quiet camouflage clothing, good hiking boots and an ...

Warm weather has roused turkey hunters from their slumber, sending them afield for dawn patrols on lonely roads listening for gobbles. Finding and patterning turkeys is helpful, but it's also ...

In the world of shotguns there are some large topics of dissension: lead, choke selection, gun fit, and shot size selection to name a few. But one surprisingly controversial topic is the subject of ...

If you’re a turkey hunter, at some time you should have “patterned” your shotgun. Gunsmiths will tell you no two shotguns are alike. Each hunter needs to learn the “personality” of his or her own ...

Patterning your shotgun is the only way to learn its effective range. Testing your gun with different chokes and loads can increase your hitting percentages by helping you find the ideal pattern ...

A lot of turkey hunters think that the whole key in being successful is to learn how to call superbly and that’s all they focus on. In my turkey seminars, I teach that calling is about 20 percent of ...

The dirty little secret about shotguns is that some don't shoot straight. Another secret: Most people who own these guns don't realize they don't place shot where they're pointed. Why not? Because ...

If the hunter—we’ll call him Craig —had been reading the paper, he would have known that different shotgun loads can make a big dilerence in accuracy and patterning in your turkey gun. That tip was ...

A lot of turkey hunters think that the whole key in being successful is to learn how to call superbly and that’s all they focus on. In my Turkey Seminars I teach that calling is about 20% of the ...

With the nice spring days we have had recently, I have sure noticed the turkeys out and about and the toms are strutting. I know the archers are in the field now, but I’m getting anxious for the ...