It’s 10 a.m. and you’ve just raised what sounds like an amorous 2-year-old bird, judging from the gobbles, that wants nothing more than to ride home in the back of your truck. You close the distance to 150 yards, find a perfect tree, settle in and get ready. He gobbles on his own.
Behind your facemask, you smile then you hear it, a faint hum that grows and grows. Within seconds, the sound becomes a shape, an undulating cloud. You are the main course for a hoard of mosquitos.
While spring turkey season doesn’t hold a monopoly on biting bugs, stinging critters and poisonous plants, there’s no denying the quest for a spring gobbler comes with any number of flying, crawling, itching or chewing critters.
Here’s how to fight them. Read more….