Melanie Bigus, celebrating with daughter, Alexis, shot her first gobbler last spring — an 18-pound bird with an eight-inch beard. Melanie will join her husband, Russ, in the woods on Saturday for day ...

Spring gobbler hunters often come out of the woods empty-handed. No tag filled. No turkey today. But hey, no shame in that, we say. Turkey hunting in the springtime is a very challenging sport. And we ...

He materialized one April morning out of the fog that hung heavily on a western Arkansas mountain. That wasn’t so unusual. Every experienced turkey hunter has seen it happen when the woods were damp ...

Tom turkeys boom out their raucous gobbles over the hills and down the hollows each spring, bragging that they made it through another winter. That hasn’t changed. But springtime comes earlier these ...

Before dawn on April 19 Daniel Maness and his good friend Chris Morris were owl-hooting on a hunt club where Maness had seen turkeys during deer season. The club sat on 300 acres in west-central North ...

You're out in the woods during spring turkey season, heart pounding as you hear that distant gobble. You've got your call ...

The 2025 spring turkey season is finally here. The year's first gobbler hunters took to the woods in Florida and Hawaii yesterday morning, and all through the Deep South, puffed-up toms are already ...

Spring gobbler hunters now have the option to spend the entire day in the woods — should they choose to do so. Turkey hunting can be as mentally demanding as it is physically challenging, often making ...

Remember last spring when you woke up at o’dark thirty, drove to your favorite spring turkey hunting spot, carefully walked in the darkness to a spot where you have roosted a mature gobbler and set up ...

Reproduction in recent years boosts hunting prospects throughout Pa. Gobbler hunting prospects are strong in Northeastern Pennsylvania, particularly in Wildlife Management Units 4C and 4E, which both ...

Getting up early to meet turkeys at their roost can be hard enough on the perfect day. Nasty spring weather often will send hunters back under the covers. But turkey hunting in wind and rain isn’t ...

This story, “Ghost Gobbler,” appeared in the May 1986 issue of Outdoor Life. He materialized one April morning out of the fog that hung heavily on a western Arkansas mountain. That wasn’t so unusual.