For this old turkey hunter, it has always been difficult to figure out the female of any species. But hen turkeys seem especially problematic. Even as recently as a couple years ago, my belief was ...

There are thousands of turkey calls on the market, and just about any of them will work fine for yelping up a gobbler. Designating one call as being “better” than another is tricky. A pot call’s sound ...

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.

PINE RIVER — Rolf Moen, of Nisswa, and I stood in the gray predawn doing what turkey hunters do; listen for the gobbling of tom turkeys as they announce the start of a new day from lofty perches.

Not that any experienced spring gobbler hunter needed a reminder on the opening day of Pennsylvania’s season Saturday, but many who failed to fill a tag are beating themselves up for calling too much ...

Knowing when to call and how often to call is the most-often asked question to Lingelstown native Matt Morrett in the more than 25 years he has conducted seminars. A world champion caller and former ...

I began my obsession with turkey hunting in the low-population days of the early ‘90s, when hearing a gobble in the distant hills was grounds for buying a lotto ticket. Between 1992 and 1997, I never ...