turkey

Sydney Shaw was born into a hunting family. Her sister took to the sport early on, but Sydney had other interests and wasn’t all that enthusiastic abo...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — As it does every year at this time, as part of its ongoing monitoring, the Pennsylvania Game Commission again is asking the public ...

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....

Timing alone would make it special. Pennsylvania’s upcoming spring gobbler season – the state’s only big-game hunt outside of fall and winter – takes ...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — To fuel “the largest turkey project” ever conducted by the Pennsylvania Game Commission, the agency is asking the public to report ...

Pennsylvania’s fall turkey season kicks off Saturday, Oct. 30 in 19 of Pennsylvania’s 23 Wildlife Management Units (WMUs), and there’s reason for hunt...

Last hunting season found me pursuing my favorite game bird, the wild turkey. I’d seen a flock hunting squirrels and knew where they should be. Well, ...

The eastern sky began to lighten, the stars to fade, dawn was quickly chasing the night away. It was time to sound like an owl, a barred owl to be exa...

The fishing was quite good this year, the weather fairly cooperative and my early mornings were spent in pursuit of the wily trout. On occasion as I s...

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...

POST-THANKSGIVING CLEANUP: Thanksgiving is almost here and millions of Americans are gearing up to cook up holiday feasts, filled with traditional hol...

SAFETY : The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) has issued its Home Cooking Fires report, which shows that Thanksgiving is the peak day for U...

SMETHPORT — Hamlin Memorial Library invites the public to join in for its November Footstomp To Go starting at 6 p.m. Nov. 20. The library will serve ...

The eastern sky began to lighten, the stars to fade, dawn quickly chasing the night away. It was time to hoot like an owl — a barred owl to be exact —...

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...

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...

By this time in the season, turkey hunters have begun to form opinions as to how the season is going. For those who have filled their tag(s), the seas...

Big old gobblers, their unpredictability, razor sharp eyesight, great hearing and absolute lack of curiosity can drive the best turkey hunters absolut...

As I have mentioned in earlier articles, people with obsessions — those who literally eat, drink and sleep their passions — are fascinating studies. W...

It’s spring gobbler season once again. Good grief. It’s a fact that few spring turkey hunters make it through the entire season without missing many m...