Episode 693

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5th Mar 2026

534 - Pre Season Turkey Soup

Pre Season Turkey Soup

Andy Gagliano and Cameron Weddington bring another turkey soup episode to you guys this week.

Cameron and Andy discuss the struggles of air travel for turkey hunting, sharing a pro tip for circumventing long rental car lines before introducing the main topic on various turkey and turkey hunting news. They cover the nationwide Wild Turkey DNA project, which aims to study genetic diversity and inbreeding, Mississippi's newly extended season structure, and Pennsylvania's move to a one-bird limit offset by increased Sunday hunting opportunities. Other topics include the decline in fall turkey harvest in Virginia, challenges to the future of fall hunting, Wisconsin's available leftover tags, record applications in Delaware's turkey lottery, Ohio's proposed elimination of fall archery hunting, and Michigan's expansion of digital tagging for turkeys.

There's some good info in this week's episode. Listen in!

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The Turkey Hunter Podcast with Andy Gagliano & Cameron Weddington | Turkey Hunting Tips, Strategies, and Stories
Whether you are a seasoned pro or a beginning turkey hunter, The Turkey Hunter Podcast is your show. In this podcast, turkey hunters, like you, will learn to have more turkeys on your hunting property and more successful turkey hunts. Your hosts, Andy Gagliano and Cameron Weddington, will teach you this through tips and interviews with turkey hunting pros, wildlife management experts, and entertaining turkey hunting stories from his years of turkey hunting around the country. Some of the topics covered in this podcast are how to film your hunts, properly positioning your decoys, hunting afternoon and field turkeys, dealing with henned up gobblers, turkey calling tips, benefits of control burns and predator control, as well as new product reviews. If you wake up in the middle of the night with cold sweats dreaming of the big gobbler that you missed this past season, if you hear turkeys gobble in your head anytime you hear an owl hoot or a crow caw, if you take off of work the opening week of turkey season, and if you eat, sleep, and breathe turkey hunting, then you will want to download and subscribe to The Turkey Hunter Podcast with Andy Gagliano and Cameron Weddington.

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