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Turkey harvest numbers down again
Times have been tough on turkey hunters in recent years and results from the 2015 turkey harvest indicate that pattern did not change this past spring. […]
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Nurse’s Northampton County gobbler is No. 2 all-time in North Carolina
A Maryland native who grew up fishing and crabbing and had never fired a shotgun at a wild turkey bagged North Carolina’s No. 2 all-time gobbler taken by a female this past spring. […]
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Spring turkey harvest is second-highest on record
North Carolina hunters recorded the second-highest wild turkey harvest on record during the 2015 spring season, downing 17,828 gobblers, according to statistics released by the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission. […]
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Crystal Clucker
Call-maker John Tanner of Hemingway, S.C., knows how to make high-quality calls out of a number of different woods, as his newest turkey call, the Crystal Clucker, shows. […]
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SC legislature passes turkey hunting bill, but deer-hunting bill is sidelined
South Carolina hunters will have a lower bag limit but an expanded season for turkeys starting in 2016 because of a bill that passed both houses of the S.C. General Assembly and was signed into law by Gov. Nikki Haley earlier this month. […]
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To decoy or not to decoy
Marshall Collette never uses decoys in the morning but employs them almost exclusively at fields in the afternoon and evening. […]
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The right stuff
Turkey hunters can be successfully using many varieties and gauges of shotguns, even archery equipment, but most hunters stick to scatterguns because they offer a better chance of success and can be fitted to different hunting approaches. […]
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Caswell County hunter takes bearded hen with bow
Killing a turkey is an achievement. Shooting one with a bow is impressive. Shooting a bearded hen with a bow is the stuff of legend. […]
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Four-bearded Pender County gobbler ranks high in NC record books
His big gobbler had been dead a good half-hour before Monty Mesimer of Atkinson noticed there was something unusual about the Pender County tom. […]
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Monster gobbler pays his taxes on time to Rockingham County hunter
Zach Satterfield said it was common knowledge that a big gobbler with two beards lived on a farm he hunted in Rockingham County close to the Caswell County line. […]