turkey

Hunting gobblers is seldom easy
Outdoors
WADE ROBERTSON Olean Times Herald 
May 13, 2022
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...
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Spring gobbler season is upon us
Outdoors
Apr 29, 2022
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...
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Spring turkey season set to open on Sunday
Allegany County News, Cattaraugus County, News, ...
Olean Times Herald staff 
Apr 28, 2022
ALBANY — A much-anticipated rite of spring by many hunters is coming this Sunday in all of Upstate New York — spring turkey season. ”May is a great ti...
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Signs that spring is on the way
Outdoors
WADE ROBERTSON Olean Times Herald 
Mar 11, 2022
I must be getting old. Cold temperatures, snow, wind and gloomy skies tend to keep me indoors and ill-tempered. I find myself growing fractious, irrit...
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Wild turkey patient has reason for gratitude
News, NY State News
LAUREN CAHOON ROBERTS Cornell Chronicle 
Nov 30, 2021
ITHACA — Thanksgiving may be a perilous time for turkeys, but one wild turkey has a lot to be grateful for. The female turkey, badly injured after bei...
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Thankful for finally grabbing a gobbler
Outdoors
WADE ROBERTSON Olean Times Herald 
May 29, 2021
The alarm blared and I turned wearily over. Was it 4 a.m. already? I’d just gotten to bed it seemed and I had a nap the previous day. Yet, I didn’t fe...
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Spring turkey hunting worth the torment
Outdoors
WADE ROBERTSON Olean Times Herald 
May 15, 2021
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...
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Mistakes made while turkey hunting
Outdoors
WADE ROBERTSON Olean Times Herald 
May 08, 2021
Perhaps the most entertaining aspects of spring gobbler season involve the neverending series of mistakes my friends and I make every spring. This yea...
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Three rules for setting up on a turkey
Outdoors
WADE ROBERTSON Olean Times Herald 
Apr 24, 2021
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...
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A Thanksgiving to be thankful for
Outdoors
WADE ROBERTSON Olean Times Herald 
Nov 28, 2020
I was 16 years old and it was the day before Thanksgiving. Despite the early hour my mother, aunts and grandmother were busily cooking for tomorrow’s ...
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This is the year to embrace doing something different
Local Columnists, Nation World
ANNE K. FISHEL, Tribune News Service 
Nov 25, 2020
The country’s dilemma about what to do about Thanksgiving this year is reflected back to me hour after hour in my work as a family and couples therapi...
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Oh, those leftovers!
Lifestyle, Local News
CANDY WORK Special to Olean Times Herald 
Nov 25, 2020
I hope you enjoyed your Thanksgiving holiday. For many, it may have been vastly different from previous years. Perhaps you were able to Zoom with frie...
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