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Hunting camo vs flannel patters

Hunting Camo: Fad or Function?

Hunting requires hiding from your target. Don’t depend on camo; rather, depend on cover. A dense cover behind you and some outline-breaking cover in front of you is the ticket. If cover is adequate, spooking game is a lot more difficult.
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Turkey Hunting Season Lessens Learned

Turkey Hunting Season Reflection

If you are a hunter, failure and success will both be familiar (often more heavy quantities of failure) but failure is not a bad thing. Failure can make you hardened and prepare you for future success.
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Hunting Pressured Turkeys

Hunting Heavily Pressured Turkeys

There is a ton of luck involved with any successful turkey harvest, but there is one factor you can control that often determines the success of the hunt and that's persistence.
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What's Wrong with the Hunting Community? 

What's Wrong with the Hunting Community? 

No matter what you post on social media, someone will have an opinion. That opinion often comes with an undertone of negativity. Just because someone doesn't do something the way you would have, doesn't mean it's wrong, yet keyboard cowboys can't seem to help bring other people down. 
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A Plan for Successful Turkey Hunt This Spring

A Plan for Successful Turkey Hunt This Spring

Killing a turkey is a huge accomplishment and it can happen at any time. Just because you’ve still got tags burning a hole in your pocket doesn’t mean you’re any less likely to get it done. So, stick with the plan if you’re seeing birds, or change it up if you’re not. But keep learning and keep hunting.
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Turkey hunting vs deer hunting

Turkey Hunting Is Not Like Deer Hunting

We can put a lot of pressure on ourselves when it comes to hunting, especially if you devote a large portion of your life to hunting like a lot of hunters often do. That pressure to succeed can be one of the biggest reasons we fail to stick to a plan. Remember that as turkey hunters, we’re not defined by the number of spurs we’ve collected, but by the experience and wisdom we gain through the lessons learned on every hunt.
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Planning out-of-state turkey hunts

The Mindset of a Traveling Turkey Hunter

As a traveling turkey hunter, I feel blessed. I get to experience new places and new turkey flocks every year. I get to spend time with some good people and fellowship. I get to test my small brain against a turkey’s. You just can’t beat hunting turkeys in new places.
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3 turkey hunting tips

3 Turkey Hunting Tips to Up Your Odds at a Tagging a Gobbler

Are you looking to put the odds in your favor this season? Well, I’m going to tell you that the odds are never truly in your favor while turkey hunting but there are some things you can do to increase them. Here are three things you must do to up your odds at a gobbler this year. 
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