Most of my turkey hunting success comes during the fall season. I am fortunate to have a lease on some land where the turkey have never been hunted, that is until I started leasing there. During the fall season the turkey tend to travel in larger groups. They are easier to spot due to a lack of foliage. However, there are some tricks that can be used to help improve your turkey hunting success during the spring season. …Read_More;»»»»

I was trying to decide whether to take my bow out, or do a little turkey hunting this week and it reminded me of a good story. You know how I like to tell a good story….


3-4 years ago or so I was out during the last day of black powder season. This day also happened to fall on the second day of the fall turkey season in Osage county. I was watching a trail that opened up into a clearing that had a pond. Now I was sitting on the ground leaning against a tree so I had to be pretty still. So, when I saw something out of the corner of my eye, I very slowly started to turn my head. When I looked over in that direction there wasn’t anything there so I figured it might have just been a squirrel running around or something. Have you ever noticed how many squirrels there are in the woods when you aren’t squirrel hunting? Anyways, I decided to watch that area for a few minutes to see what the movement was. Then there it was again. Something popped up over the hill but I wasn’t quite sure what it was at the time. Then it happened again and I clearly saw it was the head of a turkey. …Read_More;»»»»