This story, “Ghost Gobbler,” appeared in the May 1986 issue of Outdoor Life. He materialized one April morning out of the fog that hung heavily on a western Arkansas mountain. That wasn’t so unusual.

With May now underway, even Northeastern hunters are done waiting for the spring gobbler season to start (or very nearly done waiting in one case. We see you Pennsylvania). Meanwhile, most hunters in ...

Some of us opt to hunt turkeys by setting up in a ground blind, usually watching a field, spiced with a plastic decoy or two. It sure is nice having a roof during the rainy spring gobbler season of ...

It was 60 years ago that the group The Outsiders crooned the lyrics “I can’t wait forever; Even though you want me to.” They could well have been singing about the frustration hunters feel that have ...

A turkey hunter's life, to paraphrase what they say about a soldier’s, is 99 percent boredom, 1 percent sheer excitement (instead of terror). You make plans, scout, walk for miles, and wait for hours, ...

Few things are more exciting than the approach of spring turkey hunting. For many hunters, it marks the end of a long winter and a much-needed return to the field. Often, spring turkey is one of the ...

Before dawn on April 19 Daniel Maness and his good friend Chris Morris were owl-hooting on a hunt club where Maness had seen turkeys during deer season. The club sat on 300 acres in west-central North ...