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Complete Turkey Hunting

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With authoritative and good humored text and over 220 photos and drawings, John E. Phillips' Complete Turkey Hunting is a virtual treasure-trove of information and ideas about the art and science of turkey hunting. If there's a question you can ask about hunting turkey it's probably addressed within the pages of this ecclectic book.

Table of Contents

Preface 10

Turkey Hunting Terms 13

PART 1: GETTING STARTED

  • North American Turkeys by John E. Phillips
  • The Master Turkey Hunter by Harold Knight
  • Developing Your Hunting Skills with Lovett Williams
  • Basics from a Master Teacher with Ben Rodgers Lee
  • Mistakes Hunters Make with Harold Knight and Terry Rohm
  • Where Does Patience Begin and End by Charles Elliott
  • I Don't Believe in Secrets with Aaron Pass
  • Teaching a Beginner with J. Wayne Fears
  • Guns and Ammunition with J. Wayne Fears
  • How to Dress by John E. Phillips

PART 2: CALLING TURKEYS

  • Talking Turkey Does Not Equal Taking Turkey by John E. Phillips
  • Henning and Gobbling with J. Wayne Fears
  • Mastering Turkey Talk with Wilbur Primos
  • Gobble Your Way to a Tom with Walter Parrott
  • Firing Them Up with Bill Harper
  • Owl-Hooting the High Country with Rai- Eye

PART 3: TACTICS AND TECHNIQUES

  • Hunting the Strut Zones with Bill Harper
  • Mapping Your Way to Gobblers with Terry Rohm
  • Finding Gobblers from the Road with Paul Butski
  • High-Noon Turkeys with Harold Knight
  • Following Spring Turkeys with Tom Kelley
  • How to Hunt Jack-Frost Turkeys by John E. Phillips
  • Hunting Them Hard by John E. Phillips
  • Double-Circle Technique with Brent Harrell
  • Cool 'em Down to Kill 'em with Gary Stilwell
  • How to Outcompete Competition with Glenn Terry
  • Call-less Turkey Hunting with David Hale
  • If Too Many Turkeys and Too Many Hunters with Lewis Stowe
  • Moving in Front of Walking Birds with Ben Rodgers Lee
  • Napping for Gobblers with Rob Keck
  • The Big Seed Turkeys with Jay Brown
  • Playing the Game Fairly by John E. Phillips

PART 4: SPECIAL SITUATIONS

  • Fred Darty: Trophy Hunter by John E. Phillips
  • Pasture and Field Gobblers with Seab Hicks
  • Bad-Weather Birds by John E. Phillips
  • How to Take Swamp Turkeys with Nathan Connell
  • Hunting the Rio Grande Turkey with Dave Harbour
  • Hunting the Merriam Turkey with Jim Zumbo
  • Merriams Could Be the Easiest with Doug Harbour

PART 5: BOWHUNTING

  • Should You Bowhunt Turkeys? with Charles Farmer
  • Bow Tactics for Turkeys by Hugh Blackburn
  • Turkey Decoys: The Bowhunter's Best Bet by Kelly Cooper

PART 6: SHARING THE SPORT

  • Staying Friends Even Though It's Turkey Season with Billy Ilaccoi
  • The Day Patience Nearly Died by John E. Phillips
  • Teaming-Up for Turkeys by John E. Phillips
  • A Boy's First Hunt with John E. Phillips Jr.
  • The Disabled Can Hunt Turkeys by John E. Phillips

PART 7: TURKEY TALES

  • Uncle Roy Talks Turkey by John E. Phillips
  • Luck May Intervene When Skill Fails by John E. Phillips
  • Jim Beam's Unforgettable Gobblers by John E. Phillips
  • Turkeys in the Rain by John E. Phillips
  • The Origin of the Mouth Yelper with Jim Radcliff, Jr.
  • The Greatest Turkey Fighter of Them All by John E. Phillips

PART 8: AFTER YOU SCORE

  • Preparing and Cooking Wild Turkey with Sylvia Bashline
  • Denise Phillips' Turkey Cookery by John E. Phillips
  • Turkey Taxidermy by John E. Phillips

PART 9: TURKEY MANAGEMENT

  • How to Have More Turkeys with Dr. Dan Speake
  • The Flock That Baffled Biologists by John E. Phillips

THE MASTERS: BIOGRAPHICAL DESCRIPTIONS INDEX

 

Complete Turkey Hunting is $24.95

SPECIAL! - For turkey season: $15 + $5.50 for shipping and handling (will ship priority and you will receive in 2-4 days)

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