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This Saturday, April 16, will be opening day for the regular spring turkey hunting  season in all of Oklahoma. The season will close May 16. A new bag limit is in effect this spring, allowing each hunter to harvest one tom only. Turkey populations have declined the past several years in western Oklahoma, and biologists have cited unfavorable weathe

The results are in for the Civilian Marksmanship Program’s (CMP) Three-Position Regional Air Rifle Championship! The event was held at CMP’s own air gun competition centers in Ohio and Alabama, March 31-April 2, as well as in Utah using CMP’s mobile electronic range, assembled April 7-9. The annual, national-level competition series is designed for

Learn how you can get the tongue flutter that it takes for you to make a realistic purr on your mouth call. The tongue flutter, comes from the the vibration of your tongue. Practice by breathing in a large volume of air, and let your tongue lay very limp, then blow that air across your tongue with enough force that your call actually vibrate in you

Due to legislation in 2021 there have been some changes to free landowner elk tags and after the changes, there has been a jump in interest by landowners. There have been free landowner tags in place for the last ten years but just a few have taken advantage of them because for every free landowner tag, they had to allow four public hunters access

Watch as bowhunter Sydney Wells stalks a huge black bear 3 times before she has him in the bear woods within bow range. He sees her and the hunt gets tense and dangerous. Sydney Wells is bowhunting in Canada and sees a monster bear up ahead of her and her dad Tim Wells. And Sydney takes the hunt right to him. Sydney is part of the bowhunting team o

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I started my wild turkey hunting day on a high spot right up against the river bank and close to a curve in the stream. I parked my truck in some thick cedar trees and slipped in carrying a Double Bull ground blind, my bow and 3 decoys along with a pocket full of mouth calls and a slate and striker. I’ve hunted this exact spot for years and knew ex

Luke Clayton Wild Turkey Hunters who hunt them in Texas are fortunate, the Texas wild turkey population is well dispersed from the pine and hardwood timberlands in the eastern portion of the state to the ruggedly beautiful Caprock country of the Panhandle. I’ve chased longbeards here in the Lone Star State for over thirty years and each hunt has be

Spring turkey hunting by boat! Join Todd Helms and friends on the Yellowstone River for a spring surf and turf adventure. Between turkey hunts, the guys load up on catfish for a fish fry. Todd’s river bottom gobbler boasts some incredible spurs on this episode of Wingmen by Eastmans’ Hunting Journals. The post Jet Boat Turkey Hunt! appeared first o

Photo Credit: Mike Eastman The general synopsis of the Wyoming winter conditions for 2022 would be, “mild,” very, very mild up until just recently. In fact, up until this week the outlook for snow pack and spring run off was almost scary. However, a large spring storm has sent the Cowboy state a snowy wallop and the outlook is beginning to improve

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Photo Credit: Mike Eastman The Wyoming Game & Fish Department is looking at intentionally managing our struggling mule deer herds in the state by considering adding more aggressive elk management and predator management to the mix.  To date, the Wyoming Game & Fish Department has a separate ongoing project “which focuses on improving habitat, adapt

As the bull fed toward the timber I was running out of time, racing the rising sun that would send the elk into his daybed like Dracula returning to his coffin. The only shot he offered me was an extreme quartering away angle that would require my bullet to penetrate a couple feet of mature wapiti, including a stomach full of masticated and digesti

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