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July 11, 2026

Mitchell Johnson has designed his Dead End turkey calls to do what he does in calling contests: sound like a real turkey.

Whatever you do, sound like they do

Mitchell Johnson, 32, attributes hard work for the success he has experienced in competitions and with his call company, but he also lists another reason. […]

Make use of locator calls as season progresses

Terry Madewell

Locator calls are an important of any turkey hunter’s arsenal, especially from mid-season to the final day of the season.

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Organic fertilizers may fit better into the strategy of landowners who are interested in food-plot planting instead of extensive agricultural activity.

Organic fertilizers not just for hippies

Jeff Burleson

Each year, landowners with an interest in providing food for wildlife spend countless hours on the tractor, at the farm supply store and at the kitchen table trying to develop a productive crop. […]

Young hunters like Sarah Johnson, who took this bird with her father, Mitchell, get a 6-day season of their own before North Carolina’s month-long spring season comes in.

North Carolina 2014 turkey season details

Bruce Ingram

North Carolina’s statewide spring gobbler season runs from April 12 to May 14. The daily bag limit is one bearded bird, with a season bag limit of two. […]

Choose from a variety of calls and become proficient with several; your turkey hunting success will improve.

Have a wide assortment of calls ready

Terry Madewell

Veteran hunter and call-maker John Tanner said that in the middle to late portion of the season, it is often one specific tone or pitch from a call that will make a gobbler respond and approach your position. […]

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Wildlife Habitat Improvement Series: Rack and Spur Hunting Club

Jeff Burleson

Nestled in the heart of Saluda County, S.C., is Rack and Spur Hunting Club, a unique organization that provides a safe and distinguished getaway for hunters and their families to enjoy the outdoors. […]

Guide Chris Orvin said that gobblers in the Francis Marion National Forest are starting to separate from the hens and start gobbling better.

Guide says national forest gobblers are starting to pick up

Terry Madewell

The first week of the turkey season was disturbingly quiet in the Francis Marion National Forest, but that has changed dramatically late last week. […]

Shannon Lyndon of Taylorsville killed this beautiful red stag on a New Zealand hunt last month that he won at a 2012 archery trade show.

Taylorsville man cashes in on New Zealand stag hunt

Taylor Pardue

Shannon Lyndon won an all-expenses-paid hunt for New Zealand red stag in 2012, and after two years of waiting, he cashed in for a spot-and-stalk hunt on March 24. […]

The Farmers’ Almanac has been helping with planting schedules and other farming activities for centuries.

And the Alamanac says…

Jeff Burleson

In 1792, the first year of George Washington’s presidency, Robert B. Thomas created the very first Farmers’ Almanac, which was used to help struggling farmers improve their agricultural production yields as well as other things. […]

Hunters killed more than 11,000 cormorants during a month-long season on the Santee Cooper lakes, according to SCDNR.

More than 11,000 cormorants killed during first season on Santee Cooper

Brian Cope

During South Carolina’s first-ever double-crested cormorant season, hunters killed more than 11,000 of the nuisance birds in the Santee Cooper lakes, according to the S.C. Department of Natural Resources. […]