The Turkey Hunter Podcast with Andy Gagliano & Cameron Weddington | Turkey Hunting Tips, Strategies, and Stories

The Final Results from the 2024 Raffle Hunt with Mark Hatfield

In late 2023 and early 2024, The Turkey Hunter Podcast raffled a turkey hunt for two lucky hunters in South TX to join Cameron and Andy for a late winter hunt. Over two thousand tickets were sold during the raffle period, and Del Ghia and Jason "Justin" Barnes won the hunts. A great time was had by all and new friendships were formed during the hunts. Best of all, funds were raised to be donated to the NWTF and TFT. 

Both the NWTF and TFT received donations of $2000 because of your generosity. This week, Mark Hatfield with the NWTF is on the show to talk about where your raffle donation money is being spent.

In addition to talking about the projects supported with your donations, we talk about the matching dollars that come from the government and other organizations that helped to make the $2,000 donation much, much more than a couple thousand dollars. The NWTF always does a great job maximizing the spend of each dollar donated, and the donation from the raffle tickets purchased by our listeners yielded the same results by the organization.

Cameron and I are very excited to bring you guys this episode, and we are very appreciative of your support of the raffle. Stay tuned for another raffle hunt in 2025.

This is a great episode. Listen in!

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The NRCS and Wild Turkey Habitat Management with Mike Hansbrough

This week, Mike Hansbrough, who is the Area Resource Biologist in West Tennessee for the NRCS, joins Cameron and Andy today to discuss the role the NRCS can play in habitat management on private property.

Mike discusses a few of the programs, such as CRP, EQIP, and CSP that are available to help private landowners manage their properties for targeted wildlife species. These programs not only help to provide a management plan for a landowners property, but they can provide needed dollars to help offset the cost of performing the services needed to improve the habitat.

Mike is very passionate about his job and the programs available through the program, and this episode is loaded with information that any landowner will find useful.

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488 - A Mexican Showdown on a Turkey Hunt

This week Parrey Cremeans joins Cameron and Andy to share the story of a Gould's turkey hunt that didn't quite end up the way that was expected.

After hunting for several days in the mountains of the Sierra Madres for the beautiful Gould's turkey hunt, Parrey and his group were robbed at gunpoint by members of a Mexican drug cartel while on their way back to the airport to catch their flights home. 

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Turkey Tips from the Window to the Walls with Chris Walls

This week, champion turkey caller, Chris Walls, joins Cameron and Andy on the show for the first time. 

Chris is a winner of the Gobbling competition and finished second several times in the Grand Nationals in Nashville. He also knows a thing or two about wild turkeys and turkey hunting. Cameron and Andy managed to pull some tips out of him during the interview.

In addition to several tips, Chris shares how his turkey hunting strategy has had to change over the course of the past couple of decades because of loss of opportunities.

This is another great episode that you do not want to miss. Listen in!

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2024 The Misses

This week, Cameron and Andy talk about some of their missed shots from their 2024 turkey seasons.

The missed shots are always humbling and are a great source of thousands of questions we ask of ourselves. There are really just a handful of reasons as to why we miss most of the shots that we miss. Cameron and Andy discuss some of those reasons during the show, and they play some of the hunt audio from a couple of their misses as well.

Listen in to this week's episode, and if you are feeling brave share your story, or stories, of your missed shots from this season with Cameron and Andy and the listeners.

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2024 Turkey Hunting Goals - Successes and Failures

This week, Cameron and Andy talk about their 2024 pre-season goals and whether or not they accomplished those goals. 

They discuss their failures and a few of the things they learned from those failures. They also discussed how those failures do not define them or their turkey season.

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Pheasants Forever

This week, Cameron shares a 2'fer with us as he shares the stories and audio of two of his turkey hunts from this spring. 

The moral of the stories are that we, as turkey hunters, need to be adaptable to be successful. This is a great episode with some awesome turkey hunt audio.

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2024 Mid Season Update

This week Cameron and Andy share an update on how their 2024 turkey seasons have been going so far.

There have been quite a few turkeys that have been taken so far this year. You'll hear a little about that as well as what both Andy and Cameron have learned during the season and what the highlights of their seasons have been so far.

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Beau Brooks Seminar from the 2024 NWTF Convention

This week, Cameron and Andy replay the seminar about hunting western wild turkeys that Beau Brooks put on at the NWTF convention in Nashville.

This is a very informative seminar that I feel like everyone can learn a little something from, especially those of us east of the Mississippi River. Beau is a phenomenal caller and natural voice caller, and the presentation is very entertaining as well.

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Results from the TN Delayed Season Start Study

This week, Dr. Craig Harper and Dr. David Beuhler with the University of Tennessee join Cameron and Andy on the show to discuss their recommendations from their 7 year study regarding the effects of delaying the start of turkey seasons and the potential for increase in poult recruitment.

The results of the study showed that moving the start of hunting season to later in the year did not greatly affect the initiation of nesting or the start of incubation for wild turkey hens. Drs Buehler and Harper share the details of the study and upcoming vote to possibly change the start date of the turkey hunting season.

This is a very informative interview with information that can be applicable for any states that are considering moving the start date of their seasons to later in the year.

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