Opening day for the 2019 Ohio wild turkey spring season was finally here. I had prepped well before season again this year and had “that” feeling when I woke up on the morning of April 22nd. I was not dissapointed. Preseason Prep I’ve found that my preseason preparations have had
I have been working on completing my NWTF Slam with a bow for several years now, and I’ve been fortunate enough to take quite a few Eastern Turkeys, as well as four Merriam’s. So when my wife asked me if I’d like to go to Texas this spring to visit
There are daddy’s girls, and then there is my Morgan. Mo, as I affectionately refer to her, is a daddy’s girl to her core. Not everyone in her life is as thrilled about this fact as I am, but I would be lying if I said I didn’t enjoy it.
After having success at Dad’s farm in Indiana on April 28th, I was eager to get home and see if I could end my Ohio Turkey drought. It had been 3 years since I had last tagged a bird in my home state, and I had no intention of going another year without
It was Friday, April 28th. My wife and I had just made it back from our last vacation as a family of two a couple of days prior, and the Ohio turkey season was already underway. My wife was, at the time, 33 weeks pregnant with our first child, and I
Last year, for the first time since 2002, I failed to kill a turkey. I still managed to have some enjoyable, even exciting hunts, but the sting of failure has sat with me for the last 12 months. I knew leading into the 2017 turkey season, there was going to
This story begins way back in 1998, when I started my so-called turkey hunting “career”. My parents had recently purchased a beautiful slice of heaven, 160 acres in Southern Indiana. I remember renting a VHS tape about turkey hunting from our local movie rental store in Huntingburg, Indiana. A quick trip
Calvin’s 2017 success story for his first-ever Osceola turkey!
After having a successful weekend hunting down in North Carolina, it was time to head back home to Ohio to prepare for the opener of the 2016 turkey season. I had been running several trail cameras on the property I hunt, and had started moving my Covert Code Black camera
It had been a couple of years since I had made the trip back to North Carolina to hunt. To say I was a little excited when I got the call from my good friend Forrest to come on down and spend the weekend chasing gobblers would be an understatement.
Our first full day had ended in excitement as I had finally taken my first Merriam’s. With the monkey now off of my back, all focus shifted to getting my Dad on a bird. It was still early in the week with three full days left before making the journey
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