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Robertson: ‘The Tank’
Columns, Local Sports, Outdoors
May 26, 2022
Occasionally, you run into a gobbler too smart to fool. Scott Neely and I hunted one of these for three years. We nicknamed the big gobbler ‘The Tank....
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Pa. Game Commission seeks public reports on turkeys
News, Outdoors, PA State News
MARCUS SCHNECK PennLive 
Jan 20, 2022
HARRISBURG (TNS) — To fuel “the largest turkey project” ever conducted by the Pennsylvania Game Commission, the agency is asking the public to report ...
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Turkey season coming
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WADE ROBERTSON Era Outdoors Columnist 
Apr 22, 2021
Beautiful bands of pink and gold streaked the eastern sky — the hills still black bulwarks against the coming dawn. As I waited a few minutes, several...
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Robertson: COVID-19 has made for a silent spring
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WADE ROBERTSON Era Outdoors Columnist 
May 27, 2020
Well, the COVID-19 virus has really put a hurting on this country and changed how the world operates in every segment of our society. It has also thro...
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Robertson: Snow gobbler
Local Sports, Outdoors, Sports
WADE ROBERTSON Era Outdoors Columnist 
May 16, 2020
After five days of hunting spring gobblers, I was beginning to feel the wear and tear. I’m pushing a wheelbarrow full of years, more decades than I ca...
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Robertson: Calling gobblers
Local Sports, Outdoors, Sports
WADE ROBERTSON Era Outdoors Columnist 
May 11, 2020
Big old gobblers, their unpredictability, razor sharp eyesight, great hearing and absolute lack of curiosity can drive the best turkey hunters absolut...
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Robertson: Why hunters quit
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WADE ROBERTSON Era Outdoors Columnist 
Jun 08, 2019
My turkey hunting partner, Scott Neely, and I were talking the other day. We hadn’t seen a single hunter in close to two weeks. The only tire tracks o...
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Burchfield: Hot or cold and unpredictable
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CHARLIE BURCHFIELD Era Outdoors Columnist 
May 23, 2019
When it comes to hunting spring turkeys, birds will be taken every day of the season. However it’s hard to agree with that statement if you’ve been hu...
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‘Round the Square –– 3/27/19
News, Round the Square
Mar 27, 2019
GENDER BENDER : When we left you yesterday, our chicken Stephanie had made a miraculous recovery from her “egg-bound” condition. But then, inexplicabl...
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‘Round the Square –– 3/26/19
News, Round the Square
Mar 26, 2019
MYSTERY CHICK : “They were the words no one wants to hear: ‘Mom, I think something is wrong with Stephanie.’ My heart froze.” “Stephanie is my 11-year...
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A hen turkey’s nest reveals secrets
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CHARLIE BURCHFIELD Special to The Era 
Jun 14, 2018
The odds were against her. After all, at the very least she had to survive nesting on the ground and grow to maturity roaming the fields and forest un...
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Robertson: Spring gobbler 2017
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WADE ROBERTSON Special to the Era 
Apr 28, 2017
Man, can you believe spring gobbler is upon us once again? It seems to take forever for trout season to finally roll around and break winter’s deadloc...
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