Episodes
Thursday Oct 19, 2017
156P - Talking Turkey with Chris Parrish
Thursday Oct 19, 2017
Thursday Oct 19, 2017
Talking Turkey with Chris Parrish
This week I have Chris Parrish on the show with me to relive a little of his 2017 spring turkey season. Chris experienced a little of a mid season lull at home in Missouri this spring, even though he had productive mid season trips out of state.
He ended up closing out his Missouri season with a successful hunt on an old bird by paying attention to the patterns of that particular turkey.
Listen in to hear the story of this hunt and to hear how the rest of his season went.
Thursday Oct 12, 2017
155F - More Turkey Calling Mistakes
Thursday Oct 12, 2017
Thursday Oct 12, 2017
More Turkey Calling Mistakes
This week I cover more turkey calling mistakes that we turkey hunters make in the woods when we are hunting turkeys.
Some of the mistakes covered in this week's episode are a little more obscure than the ones we covered in the first turkey calling mistakes episode, but that doesn't mean that these mistakes are not equally as important to correct as the mistakes that I covered in the first episode.
Listen in as I discuss 4 more turkey calling mistakes and what we can do to correct them.
Thursday Oct 12, 2017
155P - More Turkey Calling Mistakes
Thursday Oct 12, 2017
Thursday Oct 12, 2017
More Turkey Calling Mistakes
This week I cover more turkey calling mistakes that we turkey hunters make in the woods when we are hunting turkeys.
Some of the mistakes covered in this week's episode are a little more obscure than the ones we covered in the first turkey calling mistakes episode, but that doesn't mean that these mistakes are not equally as important to correct as the mistakes that I covered in the first episode.
Listen in as I discuss 4 more turkey calling mistakes and what we can do to correct them.
Thursday Oct 05, 2017
154P - Packing for an Out of State Turkey Hunt
Thursday Oct 05, 2017
Thursday Oct 05, 2017
Packing for an Out of State Turkey Hunt with Brenda Valentine
Brenda Valentine, The First Lady of Hunting and spokesperson for the NWTF, is a well traveled hunter - not just for turkeys but for all types of game all over the world. In this episode Brenda shares with us how she handles packing for an out of state turkey hunt.
We cover packing our dufflebag, gun case, and even how we can get our wild turkey meat back home with us if we are successful on our hunt.
After having traveled to half way around the world for African safaris, hunting in 24 states in the US, and hunting in Mexico, I still learned something from Brenda in this interview.
Listen in!
Thursday Sep 28, 2017
153P - Vacation and Important Turkey Hunting Safety Lessons
Thursday Sep 28, 2017
Thursday Sep 28, 2017
We are on vacation this week with a replay of a great interview with Corporal Dave Painter with the Michigan DNR where we are talking about public land hunting etiquette.
This is an interview that I think we can all learn a few lessons from.
Listen in!
Thursday Sep 21, 2017
152P - Turkey Calling Mistakes
Thursday Sep 21, 2017
Thursday Sep 21, 2017
Turkey Calling Mistakes
This week I discuss some of the most common turkey calling mistakes we make when turkey hunting, and I share a few turkey hunting stories along the way as well.
Listen in!
Thursday Sep 14, 2017
151P - How a Wild Turkey Hen Chooses a Mate with Rich Buchholz
Thursday Sep 14, 2017
Thursday Sep 14, 2017
How a Wild Turkey Hen Chooses a Mate with Dr. Richard Buchholz
This week I have Dr. Richard Buchholz on the show to talk about how a wild turkey hen chooses a mate.
Dr. Buchholz has dedicated his career to studying mating behavior in the wild turkey, and we talk about some of the factors that have been tested in Dr. Buchholz studies and experiments. We also discuss some of his findings as well.
We talk about snood length, caruncles, beards, spurs, coloration, skull cap width, and many other factors that may have to do with why a hen chooses a male turkey to breed with. We discuss that the hen uses those aspects of a gobbler's appearance to determine his healthiness and his ability to pass on good genetics to the hen's offspring.
Listen in and learn a little more about these amazing birds and their mating behaviors with Dr. Buchholz.
Thursday Sep 07, 2017
150P - Turkey Soup
Thursday Sep 07, 2017
Thursday Sep 07, 2017
This week, I have a bit of a hodge podge of a show for you - kind of a turkey soup, if you will.
We are discussing scouting for fall wild turkeys, using trail cameras, additional tag buying opportunities in Wisconsin, fall turkey hunting forecasts in Missouri, and money to be invested in Texas by the NWTF Texas state chapter.
Thursday Aug 31, 2017
149P - Homemade Turkey Callers
Thursday Aug 31, 2017
Thursday Aug 31, 2017
Homemade Turkey Callers
We turkey hunters live and die by our turkey callers. Truth is, we don't really need those callers to be successful while turkey hunting, but those callers do help to increase our odds of success and enjoyment of the sport.
While most commercially sold callers are well worth their money because of the amount of testing and design work done on them, we can make our own turkey callers ourselves very inexpensively and with very common materials. In addition to saving a little money, it is often quite fun to make our own callers and very rewarding to kill a wild turkey using our handmade, homemade caller.
Today, I discuss several homemade turkey callers, which commercially sold caller they most resemble, and where we can learn how to make one ourselves.
Listen in, learn, and get to work making a couple of homemade turkey callers to throw into your turkey vest to use this fall.
Thursday Aug 24, 2017
148P - Talking Turkey with Preston Pittman
Thursday Aug 24, 2017
Thursday Aug 24, 2017
This week I have clips of audio recorded with Preston Pittman where I pick his brain about certain turkey hunting related topics.
We talk about turkey predators and nest predators, fanning wild turkeys, turkey caliing, cross contamination of steaks, super slams, and a couple of other topics.
This is a hodge podge of turkey hunting material and topics that I think you will really enjoy and learn from as well.
Listen in!