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Turkeys respond much better to turkey calls than owl or crow calls. Calling helps get an accurate gobbler count, roost locations, and direction of travel after they fly down. Calling prior to season has no negative effect on turkeys.

Preseason is the time to inventory turkey calls and hunting equipment.

A backpack holds the author’s turkey calls and camera gear. When setting up, he simply places his open backpack on the ground next to him for easy access.

Ten Turkey Season Prep Tasks

Ray Eye /

Aug 14, 2018

My top 10 preseason preparations will help you have your best season To be a consistently successful spring turkey hunter, […]

Game Cameras: Game Changers for Gobbler Hunters

Andy Douglas /

May 15, 2018

How trail cams can help your scouting If you haven’t scouted for turkeys yet, there’s still plenty of time, but […]

Prepare for Upcoming Seasons

Dave Mull /

Sep 1, 2017

by Bill Cooper Yes, I’ve shot my crossbow and have hunted squirrels in the early-morning heat of August. However, there […]

Trail Camera Timeline

Bernie Barringer /

Sep 1, 2017

Tools are used for monitoring deer movements, but the “trail camera,” or use of the game camera, has now also […]

The Candy Man Can: Late-summer Annuals for Attracting Whitetails

Dave Mull /

Aug 16, 2017

by Todd Amenrud It’s time to get those late-summer food plot seeds in the ground. If you have […]

Six Reasons Spring Scouting Means Big Fall Bucks

Bernie Barringer /

Aug 1, 2017

Serious whitetail hunters crave opportunities to learn more about whitetails year ’round, and I’m one of them. Those first days of […]

Bernie Barringer Shows how to Make a Mock Scrape

Bernie Barringer /

Jun 1, 2017

Study Spring Gobblers for more Hunting Success

Bob Grewell /

Mar 1, 2017

To tag a spring gobbler, a hunter must have a better understanding of the lifestyle of the mating tom, including […]

Whitetail Season is over, so Now What?

Ian Munnoch /

Dec 1, 2016

As you read this, many will be starting to wind down the hunting season or are done and now are […]

Many get excited about finding good scrapes and rubs, but not as much as the deer get about hunters being there. Photo: Ron Kruger

Touting Just the Right Amount of Scouting for Deer

Ron Kruger /

Nov 1, 2016

A lot of things sound good on paper, but fall apart during practice, and it’s not just a government thing. The […]

Scouting and the High-low Rule

Joe Bucher /

Oct 1, 2016

My experiences suggest that scouting is the key to long-term success with trophy-class bucks. The more you know about your […]

Unpressured whitetails are the easiest to hunt. However, in a situation where you have an ‘overpressured’ herd that only seems to move after dark or is in areas difficult to hunt from a treestand or ground blind, some pressure can work to get bucks moving during legal hunting light. Photo: Mikael Males

Just as important as approaching your stand undetected is getting out of your hunting area ‘clean.’ Here, you can see how planting around the stand site can screen movement. Photo: Jesse Raley