The Wild Life

. (Originally Posted at   Good Hunt ) The rain was no surprise - hell, it seemed to pour on every other hunt this turkey season. At th...

Rick Ferlita and I with our 1st Morning FL Easterns When chasing gobblers, it always seems like your last easy hunt was yesterda...

I poach posts from this website all the time for my other blog, Good Hunt - think it's about time to cut back across the grain. If ...

Having a fresh turkey tale really improves my standing with others at parties, at work, or in the community at large, I feel. I enjoy the ra...

As you might assume, just about any centerfire will lay a gobbler low. But if you want actual turkey breast to cook at home, you have to eas...

As of this very second, the Interweb says I’m 1st in line for a Special Opportunity Spring Turkey hunt at Homosassa WMA. I covet this tag. I...

The thoughts of particular things frighten the snot out of me. Like the motion sensors on the urinals in the guys room having video recordin...

Time to break out your pencils and calendars, boys and girls, and commence planning for the 2010-11 Florida hunting season – the application...

I know many of you have waited - breathlessly, in some cases - for me to divulge my list of equipment I used to bring that monster jake to b...

Two years ago I started my volunteer outdoor writing service through a local newspaper's public blogging site. Unfortunately, through po...

“*%$#!, I missed!” I can work a pumpgun like an evil man when I have to. I had set up on the edge of a cypress swamp bottom flooded by the r...

The cellphone picture below truly highlights the depths of my turkey calling skillz. Yes, I used a "z." On a clear, 50 degree Flor...

Scouting is hope. You can pore through aerial maps, ride the roads, and ask others where to look for your chosen quarry, but the real excite...

Scouting for spring turkey season is an art that’s really only picked up steam in the last decade or so. Or maybe just written about in the ...

This is not something I am proud of but it happened. Hunting a Georgia clay logging road one foggy morning several Aprils ago, I dropped my ...

With Florida’s Spring Turkey Season resuming March 6th in the South Zone, here’s a list of somewhat random things you should know before the...

If you hunt gobblers long enough, you will get busted. A sure thing becomes a bad memory. I promise there is not a turkey hunter worth his s...