Making Tools Out of Turkey

Making Tools Out of Turkey

By crafting knives, totes and other useful tools, you are taking an extra step as an ethical hunter by making the fullest possible use of your bird. Among turkey hunting enthusiasts, beards which dangle a foot from a turkey’s breast or have the breadth of the spine of...
10 Turkey Hunting Mistakes to Avoid

10 Turkey Hunting Mistakes to Avoid

Avoiding these 10 all-too-common turkey hunting mistakes is sure to increase your chances in finally bagging that glorious gobbler. As turkey hunters, we are hopelessly lost souls doomed to have misery and misfortune as pretty near constant companions. When one of the...
The 55,000-Year-Old Turkey Calls

The 55,000-Year-Old Turkey Calls

A South Carolina man transforms ancient cypress, some over 55,100 years old and stood during the Glacial Period, into top-tier turkey calls. Researchers at the University of Georgia dated the cypress log at 55,100 years old, but admitted it may, in fact, be much, much...
Hunting with the Historic Burnside

Hunting with the Historic Burnside

To get a historic gun firing again is a special joy. To have it fulfill its purpose once again, after a lapse of perhaps a century, makes the joy that much greater. I was beginning to identify with Ahab, though instead of a white whale, I was seeking a whitetail....
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