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 Proper Plucking - How to Defeather a Wild Turkey  When it comes to getting the most flavor out of a wild turkey, plucking is the best choice. Skinning the bird might take less time and effort, but it doesn't provide you with that juicy, crispy skin on the roast or the tasty fat for the frying pan. Once you've learned how to properly defe...

Squirrels can be surprisingly challenging to hunt. It's time to get serious about bagging more bushytails. (Johnny Carrol Sain/) The sounds of frenetic scratching on pine bark pulled my eyes skyward. Scanning the uppermost branches for any tell-tale movement, I expected to see the subtle shimmy of pine needles or a twitching bushy tail. But the can

Abner Druckenmiller is an opportunistic predator hunter. (FoxPro/) Ducks, geese, deer, turkeys...any critter you can call to, Abner Druckenmiller is obsessed with. But he’s particularly hooked on calling in coyotes and foxes. He works for Foxpro, one of the most creative game call and intensely-focused predator companies in the outdoors. It’s his b

Eastmans’ TagHub is now offering a rifle season special pricing for a limited time! Get signed up before the end of October! CLICK HERE TO GET SIGNED UP WITH DISCOUNT The post Eastmans’ TagHub Rifle Season Special appeared first on Eastmans' Official Blog | Mule Deer, Antelope, Elk Hunting and Bowhunting Magazine | Eastmans' Hunting Journals. Origi

There’s still plenty of good duck hunting to be had in the South. (jake latendresse/) Walk into the blue & white restaurant in Tunica, Mississippi, during duck season and you’ll hear hunters grumbling about mallards not showing up. It’s a running debate in greasy-spoon diners and duck camps all across the Southeast. Theories run rampant, from shift

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CWD management won’t eliminate stud bucks like this one from the landscape. (Lance Krueger/) My 90-year-old father, who still kills deer with incredible consistency each year during Minnesota’s archery season, faced a conundrum last fall. For several years, we had hunted under Antler Point Restrictions, which require us to shoot bucks with at least

We’ve all seen the statistics. Hunter numbers are down, way down. There are fewer than 12 million hunters in the United States as we speak. To put it another way, that’s less than 5% of the roughly 325 million people living in the U.S. Five percent, for crying out loud, the percentage of Americans who don’t own a car hovers around 9%, there are mor

Eastmans’ Brandon Mason shows how to turn a YETI cooler into a portable air conditioner unit! This DIY AC can be built with any cooler or ice chest and cost little to nothing! This easy to build AC cooler will surely keep you comfortable in your tent during those especially hot early hunting seasons. The post YETI Cooler Air Conditioner – How to bu

Fresh 6 GT loads, topped with 110-grain A-Tips and 109-grain Berger Hybrids. (Bill Buckley/) I feel bad for new cartridges. By and large, they are greeted with the same warmth that a guy in tennis whites gets when entering a biker bar. You can practically hear the record player needle skid across the vinyl whenever another whiz-bang round is announ

The NSSF is ensuring shooters of all levels have the proper training to be safe and accurate with their firearms. (NSSF/) We are in the midst of a gun boom. In the time it takes you to read this sentence, another two new firearms will be purchased somewhere in America by an owner who has never before purchased a gun. Very few of these new gun owner

Paslie Werth’s 40-point Kansas whitetail. (Kurt Werth/) Paslie Werth’s hunting career is off to an exceptional start. The 14-year-old from western Kansas has been deer hunting only four years. In each season she has shot a whitetail. Last year on the Kansas rifle opener, she tagged the buck of a lifetime—a 178-inch 12-point—with a 150-yard shot fro

It’s so ubiquitous that your local grocery store now stocks it, and so trendy that complete diet plans are being built around it. But bone broth is more than a traditional food source or recent health fad. It’s also a great way to add more nutrients to your diet in a survival situation. Here’s what you need to know about this ancient superfood and

Every year we hear of the poaching nonsense that happens all over the country, and…really… all over the world. Recently this thread popped up on our Forum: https://forum.eastmans.com/threads/nice-bucks-poached-in-utah-how-can-we-stop-poachers.22129/ I’m preaching to the choir, here, but hopefully someone is reading this and maybe will think twice b

Hunter Brandon Mason reviews the brand new RazorBone replaceable blade knife from Outdoor Edge. This lightweight knife combines performance with a 5-inch replaceable filet blade in an easy to use and convenient folding knife style. It comes with three blade styles; 3.5 inch drop-point blade, 5 inch filet blade and an all-new gutting blade. This kni