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Spurring On a Great Tradition: Youth Turkey Hunt at Pymatuning WMA
On Saturday, April 24, Youth Turkey Day in Pennsylvania, the Northwest Region hosted the first-ever turkey hunt at the Pymatuning Wildlife Management Area. A lottery application process helped to select the seven lucky junior hunters, who then took part in an educational training session… Continue Reading “Spurring On a Great Tradition: Youth Turkey Hunt at Pymatuning WMA”
Five Tips for a Safe and Fun Spring Turkey Hunt
By Pennsylvania Game Commission Hunter Education Staff The excitement of hearing a thundering gobble and watching the approach of a fired-up gobbler is enough to rattle hunters with even the steadiest of nerves. For turkey hunters, we thrill to the challenge of calling in… Continue Reading “Five Tips for a Safe and Fun Spring Turkey Hunt”
Spring Gobbler Season 2019 Forecast
By Joe Kosack (excerpted from Pennsylvania Game News May 2019 issue) At a time when spring turkey hunting is drawing less of a crowd, Pennsylvania offers an almost unimaginable gobbler carryover for its 2019 spring season. Crafty old toms, strutting 2-year-olds and even ambitious… Continue Reading “Spring Gobbler Season 2019 Forecast”
Improve Hunting Success by Identifying Turkey Habitats
by Josh Fuqua, Game Lands Maintenance Supervisor, Southwest Region The wild turkey has a long rich history here in the Keystone State. Although the Eastern Wild Turkey at one time here in Pennsylvania had extremely low populations, we now have a thriving turkey population… Continue Reading “Improve Hunting Success by Identifying Turkey Habitats”
Top Five Tips for Taking a New Turkey Hunter Afield
By Hunter Wallis, Champion Turkey Caller from Pennsylvania When it comes to knowing the ways of the Wild Turkey and how to lure a trophy gobbler into range, few hunters are as well-versed as the aptly-named Hunter Wallis. A native of Greenfield Township in… Continue Reading “Top Five Tips for Taking a New Turkey Hunter Afield”
Celebrate Spring Gobbler Season 2019!
By Bryan Burhans, Executive Director, Pennsylvania Game Commission Turkey calls should come with the following warning label: “Exposure to turkey hunting can result in loss of sleep, rapid heart rate, severe fatigue, dry mouth, and sore muscles. Highly addictive, please consult your physician prior… Continue Reading “Celebrate Spring Gobbler Season 2019!”
Late Season—No Time to Give Up on Gobblers
by Steve Sorensen When the spring gobbler season is racing down the home stretch, and you have an unfilled tag, you’re desperate. You’re seeing a few hens taking a break from sitting on their nests, but they’re not attracting gobblers. The silence is deafening.… Continue Reading “Late Season—No Time to Give Up on Gobblers”
How to Take a Field Turkey
by Matt Morrett In the last decade, more and more people have tried to hunt field turkeys. The reason there has been an increase in hunters trying to take gobblers out in the field is they’re: easy to see from a long distance; often… Continue Reading “How to Take a Field Turkey”
Double Teaming Gobblers
When I first hunted with my husband John more than a decade ago, we agreed that I would turkey hunt after he had killed a bird that season. I made all the mistakes beginning turkey hunters do and probably invented a few of… Continue Reading “Double Teaming Gobblers”
Talk Turkey With Local Hunters
By Steve Sorensen Are the how-to lessons you read in magazines often hard to apply in your neck of the woods? Do embattled gobblers in your area behave like they’ve had the survival training and experience of an Army Ranger fresh from Fallujah? I… Continue Reading “Talk Turkey With Local Hunters”
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