• How to Use Slate, Tube, Wingbone and Push Button Calls for Turkeys

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    John’s Note: The early colonists found turkeys so plentiful that hunters didn’t have to call in the birds to take them. A Massachusetts settler in the 1600s might see 1000 turkeys in a day close to his home. New York City in the mid-1700s held an annual Christmastime turkey shoot between where Park Row and

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  • Calls for Turkey Hunting with John E. Phillips

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    John’s Note: Outdoor writer John E. Phillips has hunted turkeys almost his entire life. He went to college at the University of West Alabama in Livingston, Alabama, in a section of the state that never has had a closed turkey season. There he met fine turkey callers from across the state whose passions included

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  • How to Select Calls for Turkey Hunting

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    The mouth diaphragm, considered by many the ultimate call, leaves the hunter’s hands free to shoot. Usually a hunter will cup a hand and put it next to his or her mouth when using this call. With a gobbler in close, the hunter needs more calling to bring the tom into gun range and generally …

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  • Make Turkey Sounds That Work with Will Primos

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    John’s Note: Will Primos, the creator of Primos Game Calls in Flora, Mississippi, “http://www.primos.com,” loves to call turkeys and wants his customers to enjoy calling turkeys. But Primos realizes that to take some turkeys, you have to use turkey sounds like he did when he hunted his toughest tom ever.

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  • Catch Summertime Crappie

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    John’s Note: You can catch plenty of big slab crappie all year if you know where to fish for them and what baits to use. Then when your taste buds tingle for those tasty, just-popped out of the oven or frying pan fillets of crappie, you won’t have to wait until the spring spawn to …

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