Turkey hunting is about as close as you can get to archery elk hunting in the off-season. Just like elk hunting during the rut, you get to work on calling skills to try and lure in your prey. Just like a bull, a big gobbler will often come in loud and looking for a fight. Just as many times, though, you chase around the woods and never close the distance even though a vocal gobbler is just over the next ridge. That’s how one turkey earned the name “The Phantom Gobbler.”
Read more about this superhero bird in my column in this week’s Billings Gazette at:
buff.ly/2pEdLsV(Written by Brett French – Outdoors Editor for the Billings Gazette)
