This time of year is an amazing time to be outside. Fishing and hunting seasons are both in full swing, and cooler temperatures are making fish and wildlife more active. To celebrate, we’re combining forces for our caption contest. The best caption to this photo on GoHUNTn.com will win a GoFISHn and GoHUNTn Prize Pack [...]
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Turkeys Attacking Residents in New Jersey Town
The town of Hainesport, New Jersey is under attack, and it’s the wild turkey population that is on the prowl. According to this Fox News report, there have been multiple reports of the wild turkeys, which appear to be gobblers in this video, attacking the town’s residents. One woman describes a bird charging her multiple [...]
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Memorial Day Weekend Spring Gobbler Success in Pennsylvania!
Patience is the most underrated skill for a hunter. But once you have it, you will have success. Patience paid off for me on Saturday morning, that and some well placed decoys and a plastic bucket strategically located behind an Autumn olive. It’s been a busy spring, and I have only been able to log [...]
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Facts about Turkeys
Did you know that in the early1900s the poplutaion of wild turkeys reached an all time low around 30,000. The eastern wild turkey is the most numerous out of the 6 subspecies, with more than 5 million. You can tell the gender of the wild turkey just by looking at their droppings. A male turkeys droppings [...]
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Top 35 Turkey Taken in Ohio
Most people know how to score their deer and elk, but the National Wild Turkey Federation has their own scoring system for spring gobblers, and a hunter from Winchester, Ohio may just find his way into the top 35 of the biggest birds ever harvested in Ohio. According to People’s Defender, Jamie Nesbitt was hunting [...]
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Michigan Woman Imprisoned by “Godzilla” Wild Turkey
A 69-year-old Michigan woman is a prisoner on her own property after being stalked by a 25-pound wild turkey. Edna Geisler has named him "Godzilla", and this bird means business. The "foul" bird has bitten, clawed, and jumped on Edna and her friends. She has to get up a 6 am just to get to [...]
Top 10 Invasive Threats to Hunting and Fishing
Last Saturday, National Invasive Species Awareness Week ended, but Wildlife Forever wants to make sure you don't forget that this battle exists every week of the year.The conservation organization unveiled their Top 10 Invasive Species Threats to Hunting and Fishing. They're calling the list "Wanted: Dead not Alive," and we tend to agree with their [...]
A Rafter of Wild Turkeys Like Michigan Liquor Store
You expect to find Wild Turkey in a liquor store, but you don't really expect to find wild turkeys. Cork N' Ale employee Dan Meyer, has been working at the Cork N' Ale for five years, but has never seen anything like this before at the store. He says, "So far, they've (the turkeys) just been [...]
Taxidermy and Family in Puerto Rico Mayor’s Christmas Card
We don't know much about Jorge Santini, but we wish we were on his Christmas Card list.Santini, the mayor of San Juan, P.R., said he was promoting the city's Wildlife Museum in his family's holiday card, complete with a chetah biting into an impala. Some of the other scenarios were with a bear and wild [...]
Colorado Seeks Hunters to Help with Conflict Turkey Problem
Wild turkeys are one of the most successful reintroduction stories in the Unite States, but that rehabilitation is going a little bit too well in the eyes of Colorado farmers.Started in the 1980s, the state's turkey population now is more than 35,000 birds that swoop down to eat cow feed, drink from farmers' water bins, [...]
