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Wade's World Hunting: I like to start my turkey season off with a bang – literally. I take pride in having a string of triumphant opening days. When I can bag a bird on the first morning, it jump-starts what will hopefully be a season of continuing successes.

This is why I go all-out to be in a good spot on opening day. I scout as often as possible the two weeks prior to opening day. Typically I will drive to my hunting spots and listen at dawn from the road for gobbling.

In the two days before the season starts I will return to my best two spots to check them again. Also, this time when I hear gobbling, I will leave the road and actually walk into the woods to do some in-depth scouting. I won’t call, and I won’t get close enough to take a chance on the gobbler seeing me. But if possible, I want to learn exactly where he’s roosting.

Then, after checking my two best spots on the two last scouting days, I’ll decide where to go on opening morning. (I’ll make this decision the night before opening day.) Then, at the next dawn, hopefully I’ll be on the same ridge and close to an actively gobbling turkey. My goal is to call him straight in when he flies off the roost. And that’s the way to open a season!