If you’re a hunter like me who likes to do their homework—a.k.a. figure out where the birds want to be and set out a few decoys—a good turkey blind will come in handy. While there’s nothing wrong with ...

At first glance, one might think that there is really nothing to putting out turkey decoys. Right? Just put the plastic replicas in a field, get yourself hid nearby and call. Birds see the decoys and ...

The background in the upland woods changes almost daily during gobbler season, from gray-brown, with no leaves, to green in the early going of the season. Leaves pop out and give us one more thing to ...

Turkey hunters have their favorite keys to success. Here's mine: No. 1: Be patient. Gobblers keep their own sense of time. We are in their world and like to imagine that our success will be classic; ...

MINNEAPOLIS — Hunkered in a small, tent-like hunting blind, I watched with frustration as a big tom turkey strutted and gobbled all morning in a distant field, then strode past, well out of shotgun ...