It’s hard to believe turkey seasons will be opening up in the weeks ahead for many states across the country. It’s an exciting time of the year as we shake off the winter months and look ahead to punching our first tags of the new year.
And with turkey season right around the corner, now is the time to restock, replace, and prepare turkey gear for the months ahead. We’ve made the job all the easier this year with a list of some of the best turkey hunting gear for 2021. Check it out below.
LaCrosse Alpha Agility Snake Boot
The Alpha Agility boot from LaCrosse is easily one of the most comfortable hunting boots on the market. It’s like a tennis shoe and shallow-water wader in one. For 2021, LaCrosse made the popular boot even better for turkey hunters by offering it in a Snake Boot design. It was designed to be lightweight, flexible, super comfortable , and now – snake proof.
LaCrosse uses a flexible snake protection fabric in between the liner and exterior of the boot. This gives you complete snake protection without weighing you down.
Price $170 – www.lacrossefootwear.com
Hunter Specialties Paul Butski Series Calls
Paul Butski is one of the the OG’s of the turkey calling world, making him the perfect choice for a partnership with Hunter Specialties. Butski is a renowned turkey hunting expert and champion turkey caller that lends his skills to develop a new line of calls for Hunter Specialties. The new line includes the Butski “Long Stroker” boat paddle box call and Butski “Original” Cutter mouth calls.
The box call is a great locator call and is plenty functional for close in work as well. In reaching back to the past, Butski delivers an old favorite in mouth calls. During the height of his calling career, Butski designed the “Cutter” cut in 1980 propelling him to the top. He designed this cutter call as a 3 reed, stretched extra tight. It’s now better than ever in the H.S.
Price – $9.99 (mouth call) $49.99 (box call) / www.hunterspec.com
H.S. Tongue Series Mouth Calls by Mark Drury
Another new series of mouth calls from Hunter Specialties is the new Tongue Series designed by Mark Drury. Drury is a 6-time World Champion and knows what it takes to make the perfect mouth call for turkeys. He’s found that by tightening up the reed spacing and leaving a flat tongue, instead of a pointed tongue, you get more performance from the call. And that’s just what you’ll get with the new Tongue Series of calls. Real turkey sounds with a unique twist in the call-making process.
Price – $29.99 (4-pack) / www.hunterspec.com
Rolling Thunder Josh Grossenbacher Collection
Josh Grossenbacher is one of the most prolific mouth call makers in recent history. The man knows how to build mouth calls, and he builds every call that leaves the Rolling Thunder shop. He’s the 2015 World Champion and the 2017 Grand National Head-to-Head Champion, and has twice been the 1st runner-up in the Senior division of the Grand National Championship.
The Rolling Thunder Josh Grossenbacher collection features three of his favorite calls: the Combo Cut (3 reed), Ghost Cut (3 reed), and the Combo Cut (2 reed).
Price – $34.99 (3-pack) / www.rollingthundergamecalls.com
Houndstooth Success Call
Houndstooth Game Calls is bringing a revival to an oldie-but-a-goodie turkey call with the sweet sounds of success. The “Success Call” was created by the late Earnest Black. The call is a re-creation of a call that never got its due. There is no other call on the market that produces the sound you get with this call. The Houndstooth crew says they are honored to continue the legacy of the “Success Call” for modern day turkey hunters.
Price $39.99 / www.houndstoothgamecalls.com
Primos Shot Caller Box Call
Primos has been building some of the best sounding box calls on the market for a long time. They know how to make a quality sounding box call at a price most any turkey hunter can afford. Such is the case with the new Shot Caller Box Call. It’s a no frills, straight forward sound design at a price that’ll be hard to beat. It’s constructed from a solid one piece box. No panels, glue or plastic like other box calls you often find at this price point. Just quality construction with killer sounds – and price.
Price – $28.99 / www.primos.com
Houndstooth Dixie Hen
The Dixie Hen Glass pot call has a sound of its own with a aluminum sound board. It is very user friendly making some really sweet yelps, cuts and clucks. It’s a beautiful call that sounds as good as it looks. The Dixie Hen call comes with a Diamondwood striker.
Price – $64.99 / www.houndstoothgamecalls.com
Rolling Thunder TW Crystal Pot Call
This signature friction call was designed by World and Grand National Friction Calling Champion, Terence Williamson. This crystal call is one of Terence’s favorite hunting combinations. It delivers everything from soft clucks and purrs, to loud, aggressive yelps and cuts. It features a cherry pot, a purpleheart soundboard, and a diamondwood striker.
Price $69.99 / www.rollingthundergamecalls.com
Primos Double Bull SurroundView Double Wide
Primos makes a great lineup of ground blinds even better with the addition of the Double Bull SurroundView Double Wide ground blind. It’s loaded with features that turkey hunters will love. It gives you 300 degrees of one-way see-through viewing and an extra wide door to give you easy in and out access with your backpack and all your gear. You’ll also find a built-in sun visor to maintain maximum vision when the sun is at its lowest at sunrise or sunset.
Price – $499 / www.primos.com
Rhino 180 See-Through Ground Blind
This slick new blind from Rhino prevents wild game from seeing in, but allows the hunter to see out with open and unobstructed viewing ability. For added concealment, the blind features brush straps so you can easily add brush, grass, or branches for maximum concealment.
The blind features an oversized zipper-less door and easy-adjust silent-slide shooting windows. The blind comfortably holds up to 3 hunters and sets up and takes down in seconds.
Price – $249 / www.rhinoblinds.com
Alps Outdoorz Dash Panel Blind
Price – $99 / www.alpsoutdoorz.com
Avian-X HDR Series Feeder & Strutter
Avian-X continues to expand on their HDR series of turkey decoys for 2021 with the addition of two new decoys. The series now includes the Avian-X Feeder and the Avian-X Strutter.
The Feeder adds a submissive feeding posture to the Heavy Duty Realism (HDR) series. The HDR design features blow-molded construction, from hand-carved designs. The calm feeding position of the Feeder decoy puts approaching birds at ease, resulting in closer encounters. The decoy includes an integrated mounting stake that stores in the tail.
Price – $139.99 / www.avian-X.com
The new Avian-X Strutter rounds out the HDR series flock. The decoy delivers an impressive display of detail and realism designed to fool tough toms. The Strutter allows for some pretty slick customization when going head to head on tough birds. You’ll find interchangeable heads with varying aggression levels to set the mood you’re looking for.
The tail fan design also allows you to make adjustments between a tom or jake by shortening the tail fan sections. You’ll also find flocked feathers built in to this decoy for a more realistic presentation and detail to fool the most wary of gobblers.
Price – $249.99 / www.avian-x.com
Higdon Apex Strutter
The Higdon Outdoors Apex Strutter Turkey Decoy is a premium, beta-size full-strut tom decoy that is sure to command attention. The aggressive body posture of this decoy is challenging to territorial toms, and the decoy’s small size is sure to give them the confidence they need for a confrontation.
The Apex Strutter is a premium turkey decoy that is quiet to deploy, super lightweight and painstakingly designed by professional turkey hunters, engineers and decoy designers. Higdon’s XHD Hyper Feathering highlights each individual feather with deep carving technique and ultra-realistic paint, showcasing aggressive strutter details with bright whites, vibrant blues and glowing reds.
The rich, natural looking black flocking on the back of this decoy brings it to life. Use Higdon’s innovative magnetic fan ring to mount the included premium Apex Synthetic Fan, or a natural feather turkey fan. With its included Apex Stake System, this decoy offers a ton of lifelike movement in even the slightest wind.
Price $119.99 / www.higdondecoys.com
Nomad Turkey Series
The Nomad crew has released a whole new lineup of apparel for turkey hunters for 2021 in their new Pursuit Series.
It’s a super comfortable apparel series that includes a 1/4 zip Pursuit Shirt, Pursuit Pant, Utility Hoodie, and Stretch Lite Pant and Shirt. The series is available in Mossy Oak Bottomland and an exclusive Mossy Oak Shadow Leaf camo pattern.
“It’s an unprecedented year of new products and innovations in our turkey hunting collection,” said Jason Hart, General Manager of Nomad. “Chief among them is the addition of Mossy Oak’s Shadow Leaf pattern in our premium turkey clothing and gear.”
Price – $50 (1/4 zip shirt) / www.nomadoutdoor.com
Will Primos Turkey Vest
As the name implies, this vest was designed by Will Primos himself. It was built with all the good stuff that Will Primos has gleaned from a lifetime of chasing turkeys. Primos says it’s the ultimate armory for going to war with the toughest of gobblers out there. It’s a lightweight, polyester vest with multiple pockets and features designed to help you organize all your gear. It’s built with comfort, including a removable 3-inch thick seat pad with a high strength magnetic closure.
Price – $199 / www.primos.com
Nomad Killin' Time Turkey Vest
The all-new Nomad Killin’ Time Turkey Vest is a beast of a vest, complete with 28 total pockets to organize and house all your turkey gear, calls and even a ThermaCell pocket. It has a removable stadium seat with dual high-density foam and magnetic attachments. You’ll find conveniently located pockets for a variety of calls, including mouth calls, box calls, slate calls, and more.
Price – $180 / www.nomadoutdoor.com
Pursuit Convertible Turkey Vest
Also from Nomad, comes the all-new Pursuit Convertible Turkey Vest. It’s a hybrid of sorts that wears like a traditional vest but can easily convert to a fanny pack depending on what form and function you need.
It has a double padded high density foam seat with magnetic closure, ample pockets for all your calls, gear, ThermaCell, rangefinder, and water bottle.
Price – $100 – www.nomadoutdoor.com
Alps Outdoorz High Ridge Chair
Turkey Strap
Looking for a nostalgic way to tote your turkey out of the woods when success comes your way? Check out a timeless piece that’ll be passed down from one turkey hunter to the next.
The Turkey Strap from Houndstooth is made from the finest leather and rolls up and ties up for storage in your turkey vest or pack. It’s a more comfortable way to tote your bird back to the truck.
Price – $40 / www.houndstoothgamecalls.com
H.S. Spur Gauge
For the turkey hunter that likes to keep tabs on the size of the spurs their turkey has, the Spur Gauge makes the job super simple. You’ll never have to guess again how big the spurs are.
The Spur Gauge has an accurate curvature design for a perfect measurement of the turkey spur, with 1/16″ etched increments. It’s a compact tool that easily hangs on a turkey vest or key ring.
Price – $9.99 / www.hunterspec.com
Conclusion
What about you? What’s your favorite turkey gear? What new gear will you be adding to your turkey vest this spring?
Comment below, and let us know!
