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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Being allowed to hunt spring gobbler in the afternoon has some real advantages that go beyond sleeping in and having breakfast at 7 a.m., with plenty of time to relax and enjoy a second – and third – ...

Consecutive strong nesting seasons in 2023 and 2024 set the stage for an abundance of mature gobblers on the Texas landscape ...

We’re on the cusp of another spring turkey season in Texas. Depending on where you hunt, the show may have already begun. Texas is a massive state with multiple spring turkey hunting zones — North, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The 2026 midwinter gave us one of the coldest winter “snaps” in years, but February’s warmup and subsequent snow melt gives us ...

Nothing quite matches an early morning in a spring “turkey woods." It starts out pretty quiet, except for the occasional chorus of frogs trilling away. Then, as the woods begin to take shape as ...

This story, “Longbeard Lives,” appeared in the March 1972 issue of Outdoor Life. The hunt was over, or we thought it was. It was the last day of the spring gobbler season. We had come out of the woods ...