Well, it is that time of year for some of us.  It is almost like clockwork.  Once New Year’s hits, a switch flips in us die hard turkey hunters.  I really notice it on social media.  What once was a timeline filled with deer hunting or western hunting pursuits, has been replaced by endless questions about shotguns, chokes, shells, decoys, calls, vests, and “not looking for honey holes, but…” posts.  Yes, it’s getting close to turkey season.  The most wonderful time of year for those of us ...

April 25 – May 1, 2020 Oklahoma Me and my buddies’ adventures this spring would take us to Western Oklahoma for some hard-gobbling Rio Grande Turkeys.  Jacob was able to get out there a day before me and do a little scouting and was able to put eyes on at least one gobbler, but turkeys turned out to be scarce in those parts.  The afternoon I arrived, we worked a creek bottom nearby where Jacob had seen the tom, but we found no sign and heard zero gobbles.  The next morning, we switched ...

I have been a private land hunter my whole life growing up on a farm in middle Tennessee.  It wasn’t until I became involved with BHA that I wanted to take my hunting to another level by spending more of my time on public lands.   I was lucky enough to be drawn for a quota hunt on a heavily pressured piece of public land around Nashville this year.  I got in a couple scouting trips to get a lay of the land, but most of my scouting was done with topo maps thanks to OnX.  I got a pack to haul ...