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title: "Turkey Hunting Early Season: Huge Boss Tom"
description: Turkey hunting early season strategies on a huge boss tom are shown in this turkey hunting video with Jason Cruise on Mossberg's Rugged American Hunter.
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# [Turkey Hunting Early Season: Huge Boss Tom](https://resources.mossberg.com/journal/turkey-hunting-early-season)

 Written by [Jason Cruise](https://resources.mossberg.com/journal/author/jason-cruise) | Apr 13, 2016 2:53:25 PM

Turkey hunting early season strutters is no doubt a challenge. Today on this segment of [Mossberg's Rugged American Hunter](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbseTHRyg6oa4QlIi8EHvMO006zhtbOYI), Jason Cruise, and Kirk Whitmore combine nearly 90 years of turkey hunting experience to kill a toad of a tom.

### TURKEY HUNTING EARLY SEASON STRATEGIES HAVE SEVERAL CORE COMPONENTS:

- Position.
- Knowledge Of Terrain.
- Amount Of Calling Needed.
- And Patience. And A Ton Of It.

You can "Run & Gun" all you want, but in the early season, your odds go up exponentially if you're willing to be patient.

[View full post](https://resources.mossberg.com/journal/turkey-hunting-early-season)

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