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April 20, 2026

How to Break Down a Turkey Breast the Right Way
April 20, 2026
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Wild turkey gets a bad reputation it doesn't deserve. Ask most people who've eaten it and they'll tell you the same thing — it was tough, stringy, chewy. And they're not wrong about their experience. But the problem almost never starts in the kitchen. It starts at the processing table, and it has a name: silver skin.

A turkey breast is made up of several distinct muscle groups separated by fascia and connective tissue. Leave that stuff in, and it doesn't matter how good your recipe is — someone at the table is going to hit a chewy bite and decide wild turkey isn't for them. Take the time to break it down properly first, and what you're left with is clean, tender meat that holds up to any preparation you w...

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April 10, 2026

Spring Turkey Season Opener: A Midwest Hunter's State-by-State Breakdown
April 10, 2026
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Spring turkey season doesn't sneak up on you. It builds. The days get longer, the timber starts to green up, and somewhere in the back of your head you start doing the math on how many weeks until opening morning. If you're hunting the Midwest this spring — or trying to find the right piece of ground to hunt — here's what you need to know about when seasons open and what actually matters when you get there.

Missouri

Missouri is legitimate turkey country. Strong populations, diverse habitat, and a long history of serious spring gobbler hunting make it a destination state for hunters who know what they're looking for. The 2026 season opens with youth weekend on April 11–12, followed by th...

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April 3, 2026

Turkey Calling Masterclass with Billy Yargus
April 3, 2026
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Spring Turkey Calling Masterclass: Lessons from a Champion

Turkey hunting will humble you in a lot of ways, but nothing stings quite like working a fired-up gobbler for forty-five minutes and watching him walk the other direction. Most of the time, that's a calling problem — not a gear problem, not a location problem. A calling problem.

We sat down with a 3-time NWTF champion caller to talk through what separates hunters who consistently kill birds from the ones who consistently don't. The answer isn't volume. It isn't an expensive slate call. It's understanding that calling is communication — and communication is situational.

Calling Isn't Just Sound — It's Strategy...

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March 30, 2026

Spring Turkey Prep: Getting Your Property Ready
March 30, 2026
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Spring is Here - A Serious Hunter's Guide to Chasing Midwestern Gobblers

There's a moment in early April, somewhere between the last hard freeze and the first green tinge on the hillsides, when a gobble rips through the timber at first light and something primal fires in your chest. It doesn't matter how many springs you've done this. That sound does something to a person that's hard to explain to anyone who hasn't heard it while crouched against a white oak in the dark, shotgun across their knees, palms sweating in forty-degree air.

Eastern wild turkeys are one of the great hunting animals in North America. Not because they're the biggest or the most dangerous, but because they will humble y...

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March 23, 2026

5 Signs a Property Has Trophy Potential
March 23, 2026
Buying Land

What to Look for When Buying Hunting Land

Not every piece of ground is a "Trophy Property". Some tracts hold deer occasionally. Others produce mature bucks so consistently you start taking it for granted. The difference between the two isn't luck, and it isn't acreage — it's whether a property checks the right boxes. And if you're serious about being set up for this fall — food plots planted, stands hung, TSI and  other habitat work done — the window to buy is coming up faster than most people realize. Summer prep starts very soon.

If you're evaluating land and asking yourself whether it has the bones to become a legitimate trophy...

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February 26, 2026

How to Conduct a Prescribed Burn to Improve Your Rural Property
February 26, 2026
Hunting

Fire built the Midwest. For thousands of years, periodic wildfire and intentional burns set by Native Americans shaped the prairies, savannas, and open woodlands that defined this landscape. The tallgrass prairies of Missouri, the oak savannas of Illinois, the grasslands of Iowa and Kansas — all of them evolved with fire and depend on it to stay healthy.

Today, less than one percent of the Midwest's original native prairie remains. Without fire, woody invasives creep in, dead thatch smothers new growth, and the diverse plant communities that support whitetail deer, wild turkey, bobwhite quail, and...

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