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August 25, 2026

Set up a decoy slightly back in the woods from a field for best results.

Decoy and setup wisdom

Bruce Ingram

Mitchell Johnson feels that when hunting a field, too many hunters set up too close to its edge. […]

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

Bruce Ingram

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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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. […]

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. […]

Noel Miller killed this unusual all-white turkey gobbler on youth-day in Dillon County last Saturday.

Dillon County youth bags all-white gobbler on youth-day

Jeff Burleson

After a torrential storm flooded half of Dillon County last Friday night, 15-year-old Noel Miller dropped the hammer on a truly-rare gobbler the next morning. […]

TriStar Raptor ATAC Turkey Shotgun

North Carolina Sportsman

TriStar Arms has released their new Raptor ATAC Turkey shotgun patterned in Mossy Oak Break Up camouflage. […]

Flextone’s Lightning Crow

North Carolina Sportsman

The Lightning Crow from Flextone Game Calls produces ultra-realistic, natural sounds that can be heard for miles. […]

Hunting pressure is the biggest obstacle to taking public-land turkeys. Here’s how to overcome it in the Carolinas.

Millions of acres of public land gives hunters in the Carolinas a real shot at a turkey gobbler this month — if they’re up to the task.

Jeff Burleson

In many places, spring means many things to many people, but for the diehard hunter who calls the Carolinas home, it’s full of sitting, listening and stalking a gobbling tom. […]