gobbler

If you are unfortunate enough to have been bitten by the spring gobbler bug, the infection has more than likely spread deep and is incurable. Having s...

Man, can you believe spring gobbler is upon us once again? It seems to take forever for trout season to finally roll around and break winter’s deadloc...

It’s spring gobbler season once again. Good grief. It’s a fact few spring turkey hunters make it through the entire season without missing many mornin...

Perhaps the most entertaining aspects of spring gobbler season involve the neverending series of mistakes my friends and I make every spring. This yea...

You’d fallen exhausted into bed the night before. After getting up at 4 a.m., experiencing another fruitless hunt, then working all day, you came home...

This has been an unusual spring. Being in the woods every day for the last six weeks scouting and hunting gobblers, I gradually became aware of subtle...

Turkey hunting is a time-consuming and often difficult sport. This year has been especially frustrating since birds I know are in the general vicinity...

I’ve noticed that the further from the farm people are, the more unrealistic their viewpoints become. Farm life grounds one in the oftentimes harsh re...

A non-hunter happened to overhear a conversation I had with another spring gobbler hunter. I was ecstatic having finally bagged a beautiful bird the d...

As seems to happen so many times, the gobblers were extremely active up to and including the last week in April. Then, just as if they had the opening...

When Jim Acker of Smethport first traveled to Missouri hunting spring turkeys it was some 20 years ago. He’d been introduced to a farmer near Browning...

The clock has whirled rapidly around, the circle has completed itself and another spring is upon us. Another month of spring turkey lies ahead. I myse...

April on Chautauqua Lake. The ice was off and the crappies running. I hoped to get in on the action. Up at 5:30, the first streaks of daylight smeared...

When you’re creaky and squeak around the hinges you seldom enjoy a sound night’s sleep. Some tendon, joint or other tissue starts squawking and you to...

This has been a strange spring, colder than most, but especially cold in the states to the south. Snow, ice, frosts and rain have held back spring a m...

This gobbler had been unpredictable for two weeks. He gobbled one morning and not the next. Sometimes he answered my calls, sometimes he remained sile...

Show me a turkey hunter who killed a spring gobbler on his first hunt and never hunted turkeys again, and I’ll show you someone who thinks turkey hunt...

There is a drawer in my gun room I can almost shut. It’s filled to capacity with various types, makes and models of turkey calls. I couldn’t ever use ...