A New Jersey man commuting along Route 46 thought he hit a pothole—until glass exploded in his face and he realized a wild ...

Wild turkey wing feathers, although a bit thinner, can also be saved for the same purpose. Flank feathers of wood duck drakes are highly prized as speckled wings on dry flies for various fly patterns.

In fact, they are louder than any other subspecies of turkey. Like Merriam’s, Rio’s, and Osceola’s, the eastern sports black-and-white wing feathers. However, eastern turkeys contain much ...

Specifically, the department wants hunters to save the ninth and tenth primary wing feathers and three-to-five breast feathers. Turkey hunting suspended in Kansas this season “Once hunters have ...

Many hunters save parts of their wild turkey, mounting the fan and beard on a plaque, or stringing the spurs through a length of rawhide, sometimes adding the spent shotshell that scored the harvest.

Only one turkey can be a jake — an adult gobbler categorized by having wing feathers with white barring to the tip, tail feathers that are the same length and a bearded longer than six inches ...