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Find Your Pattern
Patterning your turkey gun is an important part of turkey hunting that sometimes is an after thought to many hunters. Having a finely patterned gun, especially at long-range shots of 40 yards can be the difference of placing a tag on a bird or watching it run away from you. Use these tips provided to ensure you have a pattern that will kill turkeys once you pull the trigger. Patterning your turkey gun first starts off with your choice of [...]

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Change Your Lure Presentation For More Fishing Success
By Bob Jensen Have you ever been fishing and catchin’em really good off one spot, then the action slowed a little bit, and then it pretty much shut off? You figure you probably caught them all, so you move to another spot. Next time that happens, before you move, try switching your lure presentation. If you do, you’ll probably catch a few more. Here’s why. Several times in the past I’ve had the good fortune to get in on a [...]