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5 Awesome Pieces of Duck Hunting Gear

December 15, 2014   |  The Duck Blog

A perk of my job is gear testing. And while I’m not receiving new 4-wheelers or pallets of ammo delivered to my door, I do get to test some cool new waterfowl gear on occasion. As our duck season draws to a close here in Michigan, I find myself reflecting...

Duck Stamp Act Passes Senate

December 3, 2014   |  The Duck Blog

While sportsmen and environmental backers continue to struggle with habitat loss, there appears to be one way to ensure more wetland conservation measures are approved in Washington: cold, hard cash. In what may be the most anticipated license increase in history, the price of the Federal Duck Stamp will be...

Cover Blown: 5 Ways Ducks are Seeing You

November 18, 2014   |  The Duck Blog

You can adjust decoys, change your calling, or turn off the wing-spinners. But when ducks keep veering out at the moment of truth, chances are none of those changes will help because they're seeing you. I do most of my hunting in a public marsh that sees extreme daily hunting...

5 Decoy Mistakes that Cost You Ducks

November 7, 2014   |  The Duck Blog

Nothing is more frustrating than watching working ducks fail to commit at the last minute. We wonder what went wrong. Perhaps it’s poor concealment; maybe the dog moved. But often times, it’s our decoys. When confronted with such a circumstance, many hunters simply move the spread around in a haphazard...

How to Hunt Turkeys in a Tornado

April 2, 2014   |  Turkey Blog with Steve Hickoff

Thing is, I have and maybe you have, too. Extreme weather events seem to dog us spring gobbler hunters, so it’s a factor. By all means, take shelter during tornadoes. If you can’t, and are stuck out there without a way back to camp or home, well sometimes you can...

Guide to the Best Turkey Decoy Setups

March 27, 2014   |  Turkey Blog with Steve Hickoff

Montana Decoy has pulled together tips to help use your turkey decoys more effectively. As the company says: The guide features five proven turkey decoy setups that correlate with specific times of the season. It details what kind of turkey decoys to use, how to set them up, when and...

Why Turkey Hunting TV Shows Usually Suck

March 20, 2014   |  Turkey Blog with Steve Hickoff

Ask my wife, friends and even enemies: I’m a wild turkey fanatic – afflicted and addicted. Chances are you might be, too. We're probably friends for that reason or should be. Much of my professional and personal life involves scouting, hunting, writing, editing, photographing and talking about spring gobblers and...

How to Kill a Turkey with Your Bare Hands

March 19, 2014   |  Turkey Blog with Steve Hickoff

You don’t plan it this way, of course. Killing a turkey with your bare hands comes after you’ve tried to drop a gobbler in his tracks – and failed. Hunt spring gobblers or fall flocks enough and you’ll do this at least once a season. Using the “well after all...

Grand Slam Gobbler ID Guide

March 17, 2014   |  From Articles

Each of the four Grand Slam turkey subspecies looks, acts and hunts a little differently. Knowing those differences going in will make you more successful. Experiencing them firsthand is what makes a Grand Slam so special. [Editor's note: This interactive post was first published on March 17, 2014.]

How to Roost Turkeys

March 13, 2014   |  Turkey Blog with Steve Hickoff

Learn how to roost turkeys this spring hunting season. Finding where turkeys start and finish their day gives you a hunter’s advantage. Roosting a gobbler — and the other birds it runs with — makes this possible.

All-Day Spring Turkey Hunting: Right or Wrong?

February 24, 2014   |  Turkey Blog with Steve Hickoff

This season for the first time Maine will allow afternoon spring turkey hunting. It’s been a New England and northeastern management tradition to finish at midday. This perspective, possibly unfounded, is based on the belief all-day spring turkey hunting disrupts breeding, moves hens off nests, puts added pressure on birds...

Turkey Calling and Coyote Shooting

February 18, 2014   |  Turkey Blog with Steve Hickoff

Texas. A bright-eyed but toothsome head popped up in range where we thought a turkey might. I’d been calling steadily on a mouth diaphragm. The coyote paused, looking hard at us, as I whispered to the high-school football player guiding me and a buddy on the land: “Shoot him?” “You’d...

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