Turkey Hunting With Charlie Elliott: The Old Professor Tells All About Hunting America's Big-Game Bird

Cherokee Publishing, 1982. Hard cover. Like New/Very Good. 10x7x1. With chapters on the turkey in American history, life history, how to prepare for your turkey hunt, Spring and Fall turkey hunting, blinds, camouflage, how to call and types of calls, shotgun and ammo selection, chapters on the Rio Grande, The Apache Gobbler, the Osceola, the author's best all time trophy, turkey hunters and hunting partners, and much more. A classic turkey hunting title from the Dean of southern outdoor writers. Charlie Elliott was a field editor for Outdoor Life magazine for over 40 years, and a former Director of the Georgia Game and Fish Department. A winner of OWAA's Excellence in Craft Award, his books include Prince of Game Birds: the Bobwhite Quail; Dogs, Geese and Grizzly Bears; Turkey Hunting With Charlie Elliott: The Old Professor Tells All About America’s Big-Game Bird, and others. According to outdoor writer Jim Casada, of all the individuals who have written on turkey hunting, Elliott is probably the most important from the standpoint of his national profile as an outdoor writer... "this old-time Georgia writer hunted with many masters of the sport and knew turkey hunting in the South inside out. He is a pure joy to read." Casada considers it a top ten read for the turkey hunter.