Turkey Hunting Archives - Page 35 of 52

June 19, 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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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. […]

When gobblers are ganged up early in the season, the bird not doing the aggressive strutting and gobbling is often the dominant bird.

Shoot the lookers

Jeff Burleson

Early in the season, gobblers will often be grouped in pairs or larger groups. Seeing several toms coming into decoys gobbling every step can be one of the most exciting sights of any hunter’s season. […]

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. […]

Don’t give up on tough gobblers, just change tactics

Bruce Ingram

Very few wild turkeys are “easy” for hunters, but some are easier than others. Those gobblers that gobble at your first call on opening day and sail down within shotgun range fit in this category, along with the ones that respond the way any turkey hunter would expect them to and wind up 30 yards off the end of your shotgun barrel within 30 minutes.

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