We’re all familiar with a raspy hen yelp and a thundering tom gobble. But wild hens and gobblers make many turkey sounds beyond these two vocalizations. Each of these sounds express specific meanings.

Bob Fulcher paid $1,500 for the long-box call in his hands, which is odd considering he built it himself. When a call wins the Grand National NWTF Hunting Call Competition, it’s auctioned off. If the ...

With the spring turkey season beginning March 2 in South Florida, now is the time to start locating gobblers so you have a good idea of where the birds will be on opening day. But as experienced ...

A heavy fog hung in the pines, cloaking the 40-some birds high above my brushy ground cover in their evergreen roost. Turkeys had flocked up for winter, and like clockwork entered their routine of ...

Ohio’s fall wild turkey season began on Oct. 10 and will continue until Nov. 29 in most Ohio counties. It should be an excellent season and a good chance to bag that Thanksgiving dinner with ...

An unusual stimulus-and-response, true, but in fact a beaver dam exploded, so my daughter bagged a bearded wild turkey hen. Crammed in a blind with three squirmy kids behind the Roseville Baptist ...

It takes approximately 12-13 days to lay the full clutch of eggs and another 26-28 days of continuous incubation for them to hatch. Newly hatched wild turkeys, called poults, are highly mobile and can ...