Florida NWTF Turkey Calling Championship

Scott Ellis, a contributing writer for U.S. Hunting Today and Skinny Moose Media, will be participating in the 2008 Florida National Wild Turkey Federation Turkey Calling Championships in Orlando, Florida next month. Scott is a 5-time winner of turkey calling events in Florida and will be joining others for this event. Read more

Calling The Wild Turkey……..When And How Often??

By: Scott Ellis

2005,2006,2007 Florida State Turkey Calling Champion

2004, 2007 Florida State Gobbling Champion

Quaker Boy Game Calls Pro Staff

One of the most asked questions about hunting the wild turkey is “when do I call and how often?” I feel that there is an art to calling turkeys. It’s all based on feeling him out and knowing what he wants to hear. How do you know this? Well I think it will come to you the more you work gobblers in different scenarios. Right off the roost, mid morning with hens, with out hens, public land bird, private land bird. In my opinion, whether calling a hot to trot two year old or a four year old hard hunted public bird, it’s a matter of getting his attention and keeping his interest just enough to get him to investigate. If you over call him, he will stand his ground and wait for this hot hen to meet him for their rendezvous. If you under call him, he will move off to the next hot item. Read more

Broom Totin’ Woman

By A. Sayward Lamb

One night, during September of 1986, Mrs. Irene Stevens heard a loud commotion in the front yard of her home. Mrs. Stevens, a lady of small stature, lived on the former Greenwood Town Farm, located on the Patch Mountain Road, in Greenwood City, Maine
Checking out the noise, Mrs. Stevens discovered a very large black bear had just attacked and killed her pet goat, which had been sleeping underneath the front porch of her farmhouse. Read more

Thanksgiving Day Buck

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I heard the door to the bathroom across the hall quietly close and could see a light shining through the space at the bottom of the door. I grappled with reality trying to decide whether I was dreaming or awake. I looked at the red glowing numbers on my alarm clock and reality came crashing down. It was 4:07am.
Dad was up, this being his usual time anyway. He was raised on a family farm and ever since he was a young boy, his father made him get up by 4:30 and help with the chores before the long walk to school. Read more

Black Powder Axis Buck

By Denny L. Vasquez

 

I lay under the overhanging brush and silently watched the cautious approach of the big Axis buck. He had been easy to spot, at over 500 yards, as he followed the trail of a doe in heat with his nose to the ground, because his unique reddish orange coloration made him stand out among the grays and browns of the drab wintertime landscape. The other outstanding feature, of this import from the Indian sub-continent, which caught my eye, was the graceful upward sweep of his lyre shaped horns, with 30+ inch main beams. This unique headgear reminded me of a smaller version of his distant cousin, our native elk. Read more