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. […]
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. […]
Choosing a poor setup is a common problem. Often, we doom a hunt because of the spot where we make a setup. […]
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. […]
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. […]
For Joe Johnson of Seneca, the next-to-last week of the 2013 turkey season turned a so-so year into one to remember with just one pull of the trigger and a gobbler with five beards. […]
Editor’s note: The hunt detailed below happened because moderators Diane00 and Gobblintom (aka Joey Murphy) have developed a friendship with user Donion (aka Don Wilson) through the NorthCarolinaSportsman.com forum. […]
A long-awaited opportunity finally ended in success for a Columbus County hunter on April 16 when he killed a trophy bearded hen that’s unofficially the best ever killed in North Carolina. […]
Equipment needed when hunting wild turkeys remains the same, with only a few exceptions, in northeastern North Carolina. […]
Guide Clark Purvis, who called 16 gobblers to hunters during the 2012 spring season, said he prefers a Don Carter double-reed mouth call, but the frequency and loudness of calls depends upon what a hunter hears before he makes the first sound. […]
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