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The Gobbler Guru
“You need to park a little way down the road and walk to the tram; you don’t want to drive in too close because you never know where one might be roosted.”[…]
Turkey Hunting
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2008 Turkey Forecast
A lady from St. Tammany Parish was quoted in an article within the past year that was rather telling. She said it used to be she was upset at the sound of chain saws in the woods around the parish.[…]
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Up High vs. Down Low
Show me another state with as much diversity north to south as Louisiana has, and I’ll eat my hat.In North Louisiana, from Alexandria to the Arkansas line, folks are called a variety of names, with “redneck” no doubt being the predominant moniker to which we answer.[…]
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Ghost Hunters
The story begins way back in my early turkey hunting years. I was turkey hunting before turkey hunting, like country music, was cool. Come to think of it, is listening to country music, if real country music exists anymore, now uncool?[…]
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2007 Turkey Forecast
When Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro went down with a shattered leg just out of the gate at the Preakness, even those who don’t follow thoroughbred racing were saddened.[…]
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Turkey Talk
When I woke up this morning, I immediately noticed something was different. It was just starting to break daylight, and I hadn’t heard the first vehicle come down the old gravel road.[…]
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Two-Minute Warning
No one will ever convince me that there is a tougher game animal on the North American continent than the Eastern wild turkey.[…]
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A Winn is a Winn
With over 600,000 acres, Louisiana’s Kisatchie National Forest can seem an overwhelming place to find a turkey, much less to end a hunt successfully.[…]
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Turkey Season Primer
I was in my sixth decade of life before I was even remotely interested in spring turkey hunting.[…]
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Lessons Learned
Out of nowhere, the allure of hunting wild turkeys in spring snuck into my bloodstream one April morning in 1992 over in Alabama.[…]
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State of the State’s Turkeys
It stretches my mind to recall it, but I still remember the first wild turkey I ever saw in Louisiana.[…]
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2004 Turkey Forecast
Paul Ferrell had several good turkey hunts last year, but one stood out above the rest and will be forever etched in his memory.[…]
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Tough Turkey Tactics
The wind was stiff, and the sun was blocked by a thick layer of clouds. Lafayette’s Jeff “Bubby” Jackson stepped out of his truck and shook his head.[…]