Birds, Turkeys & Waterfowl

While you’re roaming the turkey woods, look around for buck sign that will help you hunt smarter this fall.

To lure wary wild turkeys into bow range, it pays to give your decoys some motion.

The journey to a woman’s first bow-killed wild turkey.

The vast, wide-open landscapes of the West can be a tough adjustment for Eastern turkey hunters. How quickly you adapt will make or break your once-in-a-lifetime western hunt.

Take a look at this Short Shot as editor Jace Bauserman walks through his bow setup for the 2018 spring turkey season.

Bowhunting World's Jace Bauserman hunts Nebraska on Day 2 of a turkey-hunting trip that involved rain, a gigantic flock of birds, decoys, freezing temps and a 101 fever.

Decoying early season wild turkeys sometimes requires getting on the "X," willing yourself into long sits and laying off the turkey call. This is day 1 of Bowhunting World editor Jace Bauserman's Nebraska turkey hunt.

Most bowhunters prefer to ambush wild turkeys from a pop-up ground blind, and while this method is certainly deadly, sometimes high winds make it impossible.

Gobblers often place you in an awkward shooting position. Learn the best shots while turkey hunting.

Wild turkey is one of the most challenging game birds to hunt and wonderful to eat, with delicious organic meat far tastier than any store-bought bird.

Going after turkeys this spring? This four-part series is your guide to harvesting the four wild turkey subspecies. Part IV: hunting Osceola turkeys.

Turkey hunting is an affliction, a malady that for some continues long after frosty pre-dawn mornings welcome the season that closes weeks later.

Going after turkeys this spring? This four-part series is your guide to harvesting the four wild turkey subspecies. Part III: hunting Eastern turkeys.

Though it's best to have a turkey-hunting plan, sometimes the gobblers don't play along. Learn how to adapt when things blow up in your face.

If you're looking to connect on a gobbler this spring, these five items can make your hunt much easier.

A hunter kills two birds and the turkey woods is a classroom. The instructor is death. The lesson: unfair, but primal.

Going after turkeys this spring? This four-part series is your guide to harvesting the four wild turkey subspecies. Part II: hunting Rio Grande turkeys.

Going after turkeys this spring? This four-part series is your complete guide to harvesting the four wild turkey subspecies found in the U.S. Part I: hunting Merriam's turkeys.

Do you believe “the birds are either there or they aren't — but they usually are, so why bother scouting?” Not a good plan, Kemosabe.

Turn the tables for a few weeks this spring and focus on turkeys, but if a coyote comes into range...

Sure they can. At least that’s true for the wild turkey, but not so much for the domesticated bird. And while it may not surprise most hunters that turkeys can fly, do you know just how fast these birds are?

Springtime often means turkey hunting, but that doesn’t mean coyotes get a free pass.

Turn the tables for a few weeks this spring and focus on turkeys, but if a coyote comes into range...

"It's hard to tell whether a turkey at a grave site is meant as a companion, a snack, or a status symbol, but any of those options elevate the turkey above an ordinary bird," says Aurelie Manin, an archaeologist at the University of York.

144 turkey loads through two barrels and four different choke tubes later, the new Mossberg 500 FLEX is ready to rock.

SITKA's new Delta Waders are just what waterfowlers have been asking for — quality waders that aren't miserable to wear.

How is the waterfowl flying in your area? Check out the 2017-18 season summary for waterfowl patterns in the Pacific flyway.

See the 2017-18 season summary for waterfowl patterns in the Mississippi flyway.

How is waterfowl in your area? Check out the 2017-18 season summary for waterfowl patterns in the Central flyway.