Birds, Turkeys & Waterfowl

Learn how to field dress a wild turkey with tips from the National Wild Turkey Federation.

Nearly 100,000 turkey hunters statewide spend their mornings tiptoeing through forests and fields trying to entice a big gobbler into shooting range. About 30,000 of them find success each year, enough to catapult Michigan to the No. 7 spot for spring turkey hunting nationally.

After just one month, and selling less than 100 tickets per show, the Duck Commander musical based on Willie and Korie Robertson’s book has been shut down in Las Vegas.

A Rhode Island woman thought a pipe burst when she returned home to find water pouring from her garage ceiling. But the culprit turned out to be an unusual houseguest that dropped in.

California officials dramatically scaled back habitat restoration planned during construction of two massive tunnels under the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta to send water to farms and millions of people.

“It's kind of a unique area in terms of the Continental Divide on the Helena National Forest,” said John Gatchell, MWA conservation director. “It's proximity to rich wildlife habitat and what we've seen showing up with the diversity of life, it's a neat thing for people to get engaged with.”

Visitors can walk through a man-made cypress swamp, go bowling or shoot arrows at the archery range. A 105-room hotel designed like a hunting lodge has balconies overlooking the indoor swamp. There are also live ducks, alligators and fish.

Think about taking a kid or an adult who hasn’t hunted before the next time you go hunting. There are programs available to make it easier to take someone hunting for the first time.

Turkeys can be hunted with air rifles in California, Virginia and Maryland (fall only). Here's why airgun turkey hunting isn't as crazy as it sounds.

With more than 8,600 student athletes representing over 250 teams, clay target shooting has quickly become a favorite sport of Minnesota's high school students. It's also one of the safest, with zero reported injuries or gun-free zone violations since 2001.

It may sound crazy, but you can create a fake duck pond if you’re facing drought conditions during the season. And it really works.

Youth hunters in Ohio topped last year's totals in the annual youth turkey hunt over the weekend.

Last spring's waterfowl survey numbers promised more birds than we had seen in ages. But did all those birds really add up to an epic duck season?

I recently visited the American Suppressor Association’s shoot outside of Nashville, Tennessee just prior to the NRA show. I walked away a sold-out fan of suppressed shooting, too.

The first phase of the ban will begin this summer and requires non-lead ammo be used for all hunting on California’s state-run wildlife areas and reserves. Lead ammunition was already banned in the state’s condor areas, but beginning in July, no lead ammo will be permitted on California Department of Fish and Wildlife areas.

Two days after being shot in the head, neck and shoulder, Jerry Cusick ambled into the snowy pre-dawn woods. He was barely able to swing his shotgun but determined to shoot a wild turkey.

The Ladies Shotgun Course at Gunsite Academy in Arizona will test your mettle and help you nail the basics of using a shotgun for protection — whether at home or while hunting.