Video How-To: Keep Turkey Hunting Fun for Newbies

Here's turkey huntress extraordinaire Melissa Bachman's recipe for a family-friendly hunt.

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posted on March 19, 2025
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As the head of an NRA Family, you know that mentoring young hunters is one of the best things you can do to help them grow into caring, safe stewards of our natural environment. But if you're a parent, you also know that children are ... well, children. Short attention spans, bursts of appetite followed by bursts of energy, and other normal "kid things" present a challenge on a turkey hunt. How do you keep your young hunter quiet, still, and engaged in the activity? In this great video from NRAWomen.com's Melissa Bachman, you'll learn how this turkey-hunting dynamo teaches her NRA Family the fine art of turkey hunting.

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