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

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 ...

Female wild turkeys exposed to heavy hunting pressure tend to hatch more daughters, a response that could reshape flock ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This story, “Longbeard Lives,” appeared in the March 1972 issue of Outdoor Life. The hunt was over, or we thought it was. It was the last day of the spring gobbler season. We had come out of the woods ...

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.