Turkey Hunting Archives - Page 37 of 52

June 19, 2026

Garrett Collins' 22-pound Rockingham County gobbler carried a 17-inch beard, which the NWTF certified as the longest ever killed in North Carolina.

Rockingham County gobbler may have NC’s longest beard ever

Garrett Collins of Reidsville bagged his first wild turkey on April 13, the opening day of North Carolina’s spring gobblers-only season. […]

A 19-percent increase over 2012 has resulted in another record turkey harvest.

Turkey hunters break harvest record for sixth straight season

Craig Holt

North Carolina hunters broke the state’s wild-turkey harvest record during the 2013 spring gobbler season for the sixth-straight year, according to statistics released by the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission. […]

Jonathan Thompson leaves nothing to chance late in the season, altering his camouflage patterns, calling less frequently and letting gobblers do the work.

Make sure you know your shotgun

Bennett Kirkpatrick

If you don’t know your gun and its limits, you are asking for trouble. Pattern your gun to see where the densest part of the pattern hits. […]

Make sure when you set up on a bird, you don’t hurt your chances by making a gobbler walk through an obstacle.

Make sure your setup won’t doom you

Bennett Kirkpatrick

Choosing a poor setup is a common problem. Often, we doom a hunt because of the spot where we make a setup. […]

When putting out decoys, set them away from the direction you expect a gobbler to show up so you’re not in his line of sight as he looks at the decoy.

Be careful with decoy placements

Bennett Kirkpatrick

Improper placement of decoys can ruin a hunt. Never position your decoys directly between yourself and the direction you expect the tom to come from — for two reasons. […]

Jonathan Thompson said you want to limit your calling to drawing a single response, then let the gobbler do the rest.

Last-minute toms

Dan Kibler

The easy gobblers are already in freezers across North Carolina. As the end of the 2013 spring season nears, it’s the tough birds that are left in the woods, the old toms that have survived several seasons by understanding that there’s somebody out there trying to fill them full of copper-plated No. 4s. […]