Dylan Tramp

Think of the piece of public hunting ground closest to your house. You know, that property 15 minutes from town that has multiple trucks in the parking lot every weekend throughout deer season. As you drive by, you probably think to yourself, “How could that property possibly be worth hunting? There...

The path to cracking the code on a mature whitetail buck is a convoluted, ever-changing riddle. It’s the cat-and-mouse puzzle that stokes our fires and keeps bruiser whitetails on our minds year-round. We can study moon phases, changing food sources, barometric pressure, alternating feed-to-bed...

You can’t call in a henned up tom. Turkeys don’t move in the rain. Don’t overcall. Devoted turkey hunters know that this is just a bunch of hearsay. That’s doe poop and this is buck poop. Sure it is, pal. As it turns out, you actually can differentiate the sex of turkey excrement. It’s true, the...

Long winter months force thoughts of warmer weather, green dew-covered grass, early sunrises, and Merriam’s gobbling on the roost. At least for me anyway. If you’re a fellow turkey enthusiast, you’re likely thinking about the upcoming turkey season, pondering what you should do differently this year...