I’ve been turkey hunting for just shy of 30 years. For the first half of that time, everyone hunted turkeys pretty much the same way, using hen calls and woodsmanship to get a gobbler to within range.

My eyes snap open when the toms gobble, my head swiveling to pinpoint the sound. They’re close. “Hear something?” My dad is looking at me, eyebrows raised. “Two,” I whisper, surprised. The gobbles ...

In turkey hunting, the optic you put on your beard buster—whether a red dot sight or a standard fixed or variable scope—matters. And if you don't want an optic sitting atop your shotgun receiver, you ...

These last few days of turkey season are prime time for run-and-gun turkey hunting; that is, using locator calls to find birds and get in front of them, and then calling them in for the kill. The ...

Before I ever got serious about patterning turkey guns, chokes, and loads, I believed the 12 gauge was the king of the turkey woods — and always would be. Like many turkey hunters, I killed my first ...

Some 60,000 turkey hunters are expected to head out into farms, fields and woods across Minnesota starting this week in the hopes of hearing the scratchy, echoing cry of a tom and calling one in.