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John's Journal... Entry 137, Day 3

MASTER TURKEY HUNTERS

Harold Knight Names More Master Turkey-Hunter Attributes

EDITOR'S NOTE: Each year John E. Phillips hunts with some of the nation's top turkey hunters and learns all he can about their calling and hunting strategies. This week we'll talk with a couple of master turkey takers to learn more about how they hunt. Harold Knight, one of the founders of Knight and Hale Game Calls in Cadiz, Kentucky, now a subsidiary of EBSCO, has taken a world-record turkey before and has won many calling contests across the nation.

He's well known from speaking at hunting seminars and outdoor shows where he shares his turkey-hunting findings with his listeners.

Harold Knight is convinced that the master turkey hunter must have the six attributes he's mentioned in the past two days as well as today.

"5) The master is the hunter other hunters call when a gobbler has whipped them. Often an old gobbler will get so smart that he's not any fun for the average hunter to chase. That turkey may be so smart that he's embarrassing those hunters, and he may have a reputation of being impossible to kill. Then the other hunters will call the master. He's much like the hired guns of the Old West. He's brought in to bring back peace and do away with the bad guy. In this case, the bad guy is a super-smart turkey. The master picks up his gun and accepts the challenge, putting his reputation on the line. Win or lose, he takes pride in pitting his woods' wisdom against the best woods wizards. Whether he actually takes the turkey or not, he learns something from each tough tom he hunts.

"6) Lastly the master turkey hunter shares his sport with others. After all, how many turkeys do you have to take to prove to yourself and others that you're a master? A true master will take more pleasure from developing other good turkey hunters than from collecting boxes and drawers full of beards and spurs."

TOMORROW: BEN RODGERS LEE TALKS ABOUT SPRING TURKEY HUNTING

 





 

 

Check back each day this week for more about Master Turkey Hunters ...

Day 1 - Harold Knight on What Makes a Master Turkey Hunter
Day 2 - Harold Knight on More Master Turkey-Hunter Characteristics
Day 3 - Harold Knight Names More Master Turkey-Hunter Attributes
Day 4 - Ben Rodgers Lee Talks about Spring Turkey Hunting
Day 5 - What We Know about Turkeys That Can Help You Bag One


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