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October 25, 2026

Taryn McCutchen always makes sure to get her turkey tags early, just like the SCDNR urges all hunters to do.

SCDNR reminds turkey hunters to get their tags

It’s time to get turkey tags! In order to legally hunt turkeys, all hunters, including hunters under the age of 16, must possess a set of turkey tags. […]

What would the game warden do?

Brian Cope

Last week, we ran an article posing the question of what would you do if you inadvertently gigged an undersized flounder or accidentally shot a hen while killing a gobbler. Our readers provided some good feedback and a variety of answers. […]

The NCWRC and NWTF are teaming up to offer 14 free turkey hunting seminars across North Carolina throughout the month of March.

NCWRC teaming with NWTF to offer 14 turkey hunting seminars

NCWRC Release

The N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission, along with the National Wild Turkey Federation, is offering 14 free turkey hunting seminars across the state in March. […]

The NWTF is heavily involved in turkey hunting, but there is much more to it than that.

NWTF is about more than turkey hunting

Brian Cope

Since turkey hunting season is a long ways off, there’s really no reason to see what’s happening with the NWTF right now. Perhaps they are shut down for the winter anyway, and will open back up in the spring? Far from it. […]

The SCDNR is looking for volunteers to help with the state's annual Summer Turkey Survey.

SCDNR looking for volunteers for Summer Turkey Survey

South Carolina Sportsman

The S.C. Department of Natural Resources is looking for volunteers to help with its annual Summer Turkey Survey. […]

Andrew Kibler shows off one of the 17,932 turkeys that were harvested during North Carolina's turkey season this past spring.

2016 turkey season was 2nd best in state’s recorded history

Dan Kibler

North Carolina turkey hunters produced the second-highest harvest on record during this past spring’s season, taking 17,932 birds, an increase of 104 over the 2015 season. […]

Late-season gobblers on public lands respond to some of the same tactics that fool private-land birds.

Private land or game land, late-season turkeys take a different approach

Jerry Dilsaver

Guide Karl Helmkamp said many hunters who don’t have access to private lands will give up on game lands after the first couple of weeks of turkey season, and that is a mistake. […]

Guide Karl Helmkamp lets his strutting jake decoy, Biggie Smalls, do his stuff.

Dead rapper or plastic turkey decoy, Biggie Smalls still has his charms

Jerry Dilsaver

Not many turkey hunters are fans of The Notorious B.I.G., but if they could see guide Karl Helmkamp’s Biggie Smalls strutting jake decoy in action, they might reconsider. […]

Carolyn Reeves killed this gobbler that Jay Bruce called in with a push-pin call after more than 2 1/2 hours working the bird.

Keep your turkey calling simple late in the season

Terry Madewell

Jay Bruce, a former tournament crappie professional from Greer, loves to spend his spring chasing gobblers, and he’s taken a number in recent years, especially late in the season. […]

Areas that underwent prescribed burns during the winter are great places to find turkeys, especially later in the season as regrowth of vegetation begins.

Keep recently burned areas on your late-season turkey hunting map

Terry Madewell

William Peagler of Moncks Corner, a Lowcountry hunter with more than 30 years experience hunting turkeys, said one late-season trick involves getting in a turkey’s way and being where he wants to be before he arrives — and some of those spots are burned areas. […]