After a day and a half trying to double-team a particular Arkansas tom we nicknamed “Old Long-gobble,” Roger Hook and I advanced up the spine of a ridge to get closer to the bird’s strut zone. Listening to the distinctively voiced bird advance and retreat along the ridgetop gave me audible clues as to what […]
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Turkey hunting equipment has evolved dramatically over the past four decades. Guns, loads, calls and more have improved to the point that some veterans marvel at the change. But, they don’t necessarily fondly refer to “the good old days.” One of the many thing that has appeared on the market in the past quarter century
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“All a guy needs to have fun is a mouth call in his shirt pocket, a box call, head net, gloves and some shells for his gun.” Tad Brown, veteran turkey hunter. A few years ago I sat with my laptop computer propped on my knees, staring out the window of a speeding Amtrak train
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Since 1948, there have been more than 275 unprovoked alligator attacks on humans in Florida, of which at least 17 resulted in death. There were only nine fatal attacks in the U.S. throughout the 1970s, ’80s, and ’90s, but alligators killed 12 people between 2001 and 2007. In May 2006, alligators killed three Floridians in
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My typical coyote hunt with an AR, or any other rifle or shotgun, starts out by picking a good setup spot and calling them in. This hunt with Advanced Armament Corporation’s new 300 Blackout rifle would be anything but typical. It was a good time of day to begin a hunt, about 90 minutes before
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