Spring Fling
An all-archery turkey episode from the hills and flats of Wisconsin.
Anderson and Company
To the Andersons, turkey season is more than tradition, it's an annual community-wide ritual and no turkey is safe.
The Boys of Spring
As turkey season wears on, frustration with uncooperative birds can take its toll. Sometimes you have to get down and dirty to bag a stubborn strutter.
Tough Huskers
The boys head west to open the Nebraska turkey season with a thwack. Changing weather and uncooperative birds made for a tough go in The Husker State.
Slump Busters
After a rough start to the Spring Turkey Season, Mike and Dylan get a chance to settle the score on some birds.
Clean Up Crew
As the Wisconsin Turkey season goes on, some birds become reluctant to decoy. The guys get aggressive in order to level the playing field for a weekend dubbed, "The Beat Down."
Stump Town
After a long and trying weekend on Stump Town Rd, Ryan was able to fill his Wisconsin turkey tag.
Flats Kickoff
Central Wisconsin is where we cut our teeth when it comes to Breaking Spring each year. The flats, as we call them, become our stomping grounds for the majority of turkey season. We got 2017 off to a promising start as Robert, Mike & Dylan were each able to fill their early season tags.
The Grind
As the Wisconsin spring turkey season wears on, we get into a routine of trial and error. It becomes a game of cat and mouse attempting to find workable birds, but persistence tends to pay off.
The Beatdown
After a long season of playing nice, we pull out all the stops for the final weekend of the Wisconsin spring turkey season, which we've dubbed, 'The Beatdown". It's a run and gun race to fill as many tags as possible; last spring we exceeded our own goals and expectations with 10 birds in a 3-day span.
Broken Spring
Winter wasn't leaving without a fight last spring. Aaron and Mike's father battle the elements to punch their early season Wisconsin tags.
Stump Town II
Ryan heads to southern Wisconsin to meet up with his buddy Scott and partake in their annual spring turkey chase.
Struggle Bus
The mid-season struggle was real last spring. Perseverance amidst the butt whoopin’ paid off in punched primers and birds in the fryer.
Fourth Redemption
Brennen finally makes the trek north to get on the board for the spring, foliage is starting to pop and the birds are starting to drop.
The Beatdown
The holy grail, the best week of the season. Turkeys can run from it, but they can't hide from it. It's the last week of the season, it's the Beatdown.
Bluegrass Birds
Brennen and Dylan head back to Kentucky for the second spring in a row to share turkey camp with good buddy Josh Smith of Wild Carrot Deer Attractants.
Flocked Up
With a late spring in central Wisconsin, Mike and crew struggle through the first few weeks of turkey season as the big flocks of birds dont want to cooperate to the calls and decoy set ups.
Turkey Camp
Camp Strut Zone, our turkey hunting headquarters, is full this week. Alex Comstock of Whitetail DNA and Josh Smith of Wild Carrot Deer Attractants join us in Wisconsin to chase spring turkeys. This is the first time they've hunted turkeys in Wisconsin and we're up to the challenge to make sure they aren't making the trip home empty handed.
Record Beat
It's become a tradition of ours to see how many gobblers we can knock down on the final weekend of the spring turkey season in Wisconsin. After the 2018 Beat Down (12 birds in 2.5 days), we werent sure we would even come close in 2019. To our surprise, the birds were cooperating, and there was certainly no shortage of them to chase. In just 2.5 days, we were able to knock down 14 longbeards. This is certainly a weekend of hunting that none of us will ever forget.
Back in the Flats
Its back, spring turkey hunting in Wisconsin! Mike Mancl teams up with his father to kick things off during the first season. Mike Mancle and Aaron Skrzypczak both have tags for the second season.
Stumptown III
Dylan Lenz and Ryan Unger head to Southern Wisconsin to join their friend Scott on an early season spring hunt. Ryan and Scott both have tags in their pocket and its a good thing they did because 2 strutters make their way into the decoys.
Eastsiders
Meet the Eastsiders. Dylan Guelig, Hunter Jacobs and Brandon Schrage grew up hunting on the east side of Wisconsin. They kick off their spring turkey hunting season in fashion by knocking down some early season birds!
Boys Weekend
The cast from 6 Packs n Racks links up in Wisconsin for a late season spring turkey hunt. Cold beer, tight lines and fired up turkeys makes for an exciting weekend of hunting!
Fitting Right In
The Eastsiders are back for the second half of the Wisconsin spring turkey season. The boys change up their early season strategies and get aggressive in order to punch their remaining tags for the spring.
Iowa Opener
Brennen Nading from The Breaking Point kicks off the spring turkey season in his home state of Iowa. An action-packed opening day provided several close encounters before on of the longbeards finally reads the script they that youd hope for.
Run n' Gun
Mike Mancl and Aaron Skzypczak of The Breaking Point are in central Wisconsin hunting eastern longbeards on their home turf. A fast-paced week of hunting and some aggressive tactics would put them right in the middle of some fired up birds.
Hill Birds
Dylan Lenz from The Breaking Point is looking to fill a mid-season turkey tag in west central Wisconsin. Several days of putting on the miles and birds that wouldnt cooperate all culminates on top of a ridge in a beautiful alfalfa field.
Another Beat
The boys from The Breaking Point close out their Wisconsin spring turkey season with their annual Beatdown.
Best Man Birds
The brothers, Nate and Nick Monzyk, head to Nebraska to get a jump start on their spring turkey season. After a slow start and some bad luck, they keep the course and connect the dots on a beautiful gobbler in the cornhusker state.
Iowa Easterns
Brennen and Mike are in Iowa hunting early season birds during the first week of the season. The boys find lonely gobblers during the midday hours on back to back days and get the job done.
Zone 1
Chad got permission to turkey hunt on some new ground in southern Wisconsin this year. The property took a little figuring out but it wasnt long before a strutter made his way into the decoy spread.
Wisco Opens
Its always special to get the Wisconsin season started on the home turf which we have coined The Flats. As early season hunting typically goes, we cover ground and try to find birds that want to play the game. Last spring was no different, long days ultimately result in longbeards riding in the back of the truck.
Eastside Birds
The Eastside boys, Dylan, Brandon, and Hunter spend their spring chasing Wisconsin strutters around. The season was full of ups and downs but at the end of the day they are left with big smiles and cold beer.
Last Hunts
Hunting has always ran deep in Brennens veins, and he has his father to thank for that. After traveling to Mexico for alternative cancer treatments, Jerry returned home 6 weeks later just in time for a Wisconsin turkey hunt. At the time, neither of them realized just how special this hunt would be.
Closing Time
The guys are in Wisconsin for the second half of the spring turkey season. Like any other year, the tactics change as the season progresses. Adapting and staying aggressive pays off in terms of punching several late week tags.