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Rick White: Deer Can't Grow Big, Strong & Healthy If They Don't Take Their Vitamins

How many times have you heard your mother say, “You can’t grow up to be big, strong and healthy if you don’t take your vitamins.” The same is true of deer. Vitamin and mineral supplements can help you grow bigger deer quicker. By putting out five pounds of Vita-Rack 26, a vitamin and mineral supplement, every other month, you can improve the health of your deer herd and its nutritional level.

Steve Criner: Getting into the Gobbler's Mind and Thinking Like A Turkey

The last week in April I’d roosted some turkeys on a bluff out at my uncle’s farm in Pope County, Missouri. I’d taken a bird off that bluff, four mornings earlier. When we went in to hunt the turkeys on the bluff again, I was set up somewhat wrong. Because the turkeys had quit gobbling as much as they did at the first of the season, I had set up further-back away from the turkey than I really wanted to be.

Steve Criner Hunts the Hybrid Turkey

Editor’s Note: Hunter’s Specialties’ Pro Hunter, Steve Criner, is primarily known as a varmint hunter, but all his life he’s hunted anything that walks, crawls, slithers and/or swims.

Phillip Vanderpool: Running & Gunning When Bowhunting Turkeys

When I’m running and gunning for turkeys with my bow, I usually won’t carry a blind. A total concealment blind is best, when you know where the turkeys are and are bowhunting. You can pick out a place to put your blind, before the day you’re planning to hunt. But, when you’re running, gunning and looking for turkeys, carrying a total-concealment blind can be somewhat of a problem.

Phillip Vanderpool: Blind Up For Gobblers With A Bow

Editor’s Note: Hunter’s Specialties’ Pro, Phillip Vanderpool, has taken 50 wild turkeys with his bow. This week, Vanderpool will tell us how to use a blind and decoys to insure your turkey-hunting success.  
 

Rick White Names the Toughest Turkeys To Hunt

When I’m doing seminars across the country, I’m often asked, “What’s the toughest turkey to hunt?” Since I hunt turkeys of all subspecies all over the nation, I feel qualified to answer that question.

Rick White On How To Take Rio Grande Turkeys and Pattern Your Shotgun

One characteristic of Rio Grande turkeys that makes them different from Eastern wild turkeys is they usually roost and travel in big flocks. Very rarely in the spring in the East do you see more than one or possibly two longbeards roosting or traveling with a group of hens. But the Rio Grande gobbler may be in a big tree with 10-15 other gobblers and 10-20 hens. So, naturally you’ll think, “Wow, I’ve hit the jackpot. I’ve got all of these turkeys in a wad.

Hunting Merriam's Turkeys With Rick White

Most turkey hunters I know believe that hunting the Merriam’s gobbler is easier than hunting Eastern wild turkeys. However, generalities are rarely accurate when you’re discussing hunting wild turkeys. Each wild turkey, regardless of the subspecies, has its own personality and rarely does what you expect him to do. Most people assume that the Merriam’s gobbler is a mountain turkey, often associated with mountains in the West. However, you also find Merriam’s in open-range country like Nebraska.

Matt Morrett: The Turkey Calls To Begin With

I’m often asked, “What’s the quickest, easiest way to learn to call turkeys, in the shortest time, and what calls do you recommend I start with?” I suggest they start with friction calls, either slate, glass or push button. These calls are all very easy to learn how to use; you can control the volume on them very easily; and, because the sound and the tone you need to call in a turkey gobbler is built right into the call, you can learn to use these calls in 10 minutes or less.

Matt Morrett: Four Tips To Help You Take Turkeys This Spring

Editor’s Note: Hunter’s Specialties’ pro hunter, Matt Morrett, has won the World Friction Championship five times, the Grand National Championship once and the U.S. Open Turkey Calling Championship seven times.
 
The real secret to consistently taking turkeys is to sound like a real hen turkey when you’re calling. I realize this sounds like a very simple answer; however, it’s really not. Here are some steps for you to follow to up your changes of taking turkeys this spring.
 

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