Young hunter from Demopolis wins 2025 Alabama Black Belt Big Gobbler Photo Contest - Alabama News Center

Young hunter from Demopolis wins 2025 Alabama Black Belt Big Gobbler Photo Contest - Alabama News Center

Mason McLaughlin and his grandfather, Wallace Walker, watched the gobbler and a group of hens strut into the field and then return to nearby woods. It was the same gobbler they had seen the night before on a scouting trip while turkey hunting on family land in Lowndesboro in Lowndes County. “Whenever the gobbler went back into the woods, I was devastated,” Mason said. “I literally started crying because I was so sad.” Mason, an 11-year-old who r…

Time in the Turkey Woods

Mike Joyner Author Interview In Tales From the Roost, you share with readers a collection of both heartfelt and humorous tales taken from decades of time spent sharing the experience of hunting with friends. Why was this an important book for you to write? As with the other turkey hunting storybooks, it is a capture in time. It is an important period as many changes in life had taken place in that period. It has altered my perspective, and how I…