A Guide to Hunting Pennsylvania Turkeys

A Guide to Hunting Pennsylvania Turkeys is off the presses

Award-winning outdoor writer and broadcaster Tom Fegely has written and illustrated the first all-around turkey hunting guide focused on the Keystone State. The brand new book – “A Guide to Hunting Pennsylvania Turkeys”—follows his highly-appraised 1994 and 2000 publications of “A Guide to Hunting Pennsylvania Whitetails.” The turkey book will be off the presses in early December.

The richly-illustrated work is chock full of helpful advice, tips and hints along with a healthy dose of “easy reading” in its 312 pages. To hit all the key points of turkey history, biology, hunting, safety, ethics and management, the author has included observations and thoughts on all aspects of the wild turkey from more than 50 Pennsylvanians under the banner of “Another View.” The varied viewpoints are liberally scattered throughout the work, along with the author’s personal writings gleaned from 30 years in pursuit of hens and toms. Some of the contributors are regionally or nationally known and others may be the hunter just down the street, an outdoor writer you’ve read or someone who has given time and energy to the 22,000-member Pennsylvania Chapter of the National Wild Turkey Federation.

The guide’s 11 sections, 41 chapters and more than 250 photos delve into Pennsylvania’s past and present with an abundance of tips, tricks and techniques to make you a better turkey hunter and woodsman.

Here’s what you’ll find:

• What it was like “back then”

• Success story: Trap-and-transfer

• Pennsylvania's turkey call pioneers

• Turkey biology and behavior

• Rules and regs

• It's your call

• Locator calls

• Gobbler guns and ammo

• Patterning your shotgun

• Birds with blinds and bows

• Dress for success

• First hunt

• Kids in camo

• Women in the woods

• Penna’s public hunting grounds

• The all-important set-up

• Working hen-pecked toms

• Double teaming gobblers

• Targeting satellite gobblers

• Dances with jakes

• Make mine late season

• Benefit from your mistakes

• Tom foolery: Decoys

• Hunting safe and sane

• Follow fall's foods

• Busting the flock, spring and fall

• Down on the farm

• Score your trophy

• From field to table

• Mounts and memories

• Get it on film

• A question of ethics

• Food plots for turkeys

• Profile: National Wild Turkey Fed.

• Profile: Penna. Chapter of the NWTF

• Crystal-balling turkey hunting's future

Says Rob Keck, a former Pennsylvanian and now the NWTF’s CEO:

“Tom has put his experiences into a powerful book that will provide solid advice in helping you become a more successful and knowledgeable hunter, along with numerous Pennsylvania “turkey tales” to boot.  No matter if you’re a newcomer or seasoned veteran, this richly-illustrated, all-Pennsylvania turkey hunting guide will bring hours of good reading at home and benefits afield.”

For 25 years Tom served as the full-time outdoors editor of  The (Allentown) Morning Call, hosted “Call of the Outdoors” on WGAL-TV for 8 years and has been published n more than 100 magazines.

 “A Guide to HUNTING PENNSYLVANIA TURKEYS” is published by B&T Outdoor Enterprises, P.O. Box 986, Cherryville, PA 18035-0986. It’s available through the publisher for $15.95 ($4 off the $19.95 list price for Pennsylvania NWTF Chapter members) plus 6% state sales tax for Pennsylvania residents and $4 shipping and handling.  For two or more books, add $2 S&H per book. Check or money order accepted.

In addition to the 312-page perfect bound, soft cover edition, arew also offering a Limited Edition of 200 copies, bound in a black, leather cover.  The handsome autographed, inscribed and personalized edition with foil stamping, signature page and marker ribbon sells for $75 plus 6% state sales tax and $5 shipping and handling. Should you wish to purchase a Limited Edition book, we suggest getting your order in early. Include detailed information for personalizing and to whom the book should be directed.

For more information on both editions and/or ordering via the Internet, log onto http://www.fegelyoutdoors.com/. (Credit card orders via PayPal are accepted on the Web.)