Spring turkey season is open in the state of Kansas and with it many of us are venturing into the woods. This season marks my twentieth year turkey hunting, the last ten of which, I would consider serious. At first, I did what everyone does when they first start calling turkey, a standard four or five-note yelp on a box call. It’s what every single turkey...

At first glance, the Muddy Creek whitetail facility near Meriden, Kan., looks like any other farm operation in northeast Kansas.  The farmyard includes the prototypical buildings and equipment among fields of corn stubble and newly growing wheat. The owner of Muddy Creek, Andy Petesch, however, isn’t raising cattle or corn. Muddy Creek is a game preserve,...