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It’s no secret that public hunting ground gets hammered. Getting away from the crowds and knowing how to work tight-lipped toms are requisites for success.

Joe Arterburn

It was well before daylight on opening morning, and we were sitting in Teddy Rainey’s pickup on a dirt back road that winds through Holly Springs National Forest in northcentral Mississippi. Rainey wanted to be here plenty early, ahead of anyone with similar plans of hunting this public-access area along a road he’d scouted in the days leading up to this highly anticipated hunt. One morning he heard seven gobblers sounding off from one point not far ahead of where we were parked. Rainey stepped away from the pickup, cupped his hands to his mouth and emitted realistic, reverberating owl hoots, hoping to startle a gobble out of a roosting tom. Hearing no response, we eased into the pickup and cruised a quarter-mile or so down the road and pulled…

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Turkey & Turkey Hunting (Digital) - 1 Issue, March 2018

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