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

I need help with a couple of things, and in this week's episode I turn to the listeners for assistance.  I also share the story of what I think is one of the funniest turkey hunting stories ever.

Listen in and see if you would like to volunteer to help me test a product that I am working on and see if you happen to know of a college student who would like to work for The Turkey Hunter podcast as a marketing intern.

There are so many hunts that I can recall from previous seasons where I'd love to have a Mulligan. But, I learned some great lessons from those botched hunts, and I've done a good job of not repeating those same mistakes over the years.

In this episode, I share a few short stories of my worst turkey hunting blunders from past seasons and what I could have done to prevent those from happening at that time and what I do now to prevent them from happening again.

Listen and learn from my mistakes and feel free to email me that turkey hunting story that still haunts you from time to time.

The last episode of the Turkeys and Technology series lists several helpful turkey hunting websites. 

These sites have everything that a turkey hunter would want - from networking with other turkey hunters, awesome articles, maps of where the different subspecies of turkeys can be found, and even maps of public lands close to your location.

Be sure to tune in to this week's episode to see if your new favorite turkey hunting website is featured.

In this episode of The Turkey Hunter podcast, I share 5 gadgets that some listeners may find useful while turkey hunting. 

We turkey hunters use some of these gadgets while we are doing different types of hunting or shooting activities, but they can be quite useful while we are turkey hunting as well.

Listen to this episode and see if any of these gadgets may help you find more success in the turkey hunting woods this coming season.

In this episode of The Turkey Hunter Podcast, I share 7 smart phone applications that I find useful during turkey season.

These apps can help you with scouting and hunting, after the hunt, and in preparing for tomorrow's hunt as well. Some of these apps are general apps that are not specific to turkey hunting, or even hunting in general. But others are developed specifically for us turkey hunters.

Listen in to this week's episode and see if there are some apps that may help you to have a more successful turkey season.

This very brief episode is just a gentle reminder to take someone who is near and dear to you in the turkey woods this coming fall or spring season. You may lessen your chances of bringing home a gobbler for the freezer, but you'll gain something that can never be taken away from you or the person you take hunting.

In this episode, I share some of the ways that I use Google Earth to help me become a better turkey hunter.

Google Earth is an irreplaceable scouting tool. By using your knowledge of wild turkey behavior and studying Google Earth to see how turkeys can use your hunting land for their needs for food, shelter, and water, you can greatly increase your odds of success. 

I also like to use Google Earth while I'm hunting to make sure that I don't scare gobbling turkeys and to mark a turkey's last known location if I have to leave one in the woods.

Google Earth can also help you stay safe while turkey hunting when used properly.

Listen in to this episode and see how using Google Earth can help you to become a better turkey hunter.

Pot and peg turkey calls seem like very simple instruments, but there are so many variables that go into making one that affect the sound quality of that call.

This is part 2 of an interview that I did with Adam Prouty of Prouty Game Calls and Brent Rogers, a friend of the show. In this part of the interview, Adam shares with us the functional differences between 1 and 2 piece strikers and he gives us a few weatherproof pot and peg call combinations so we can still make turkey sounds while it is pouring rain.  Adam also shares the story of his most recent successful turkey hunt and one or two things that helped to make that hunt a success.

Listen in and enjoy part 2 of Dissecting a Pot and Peg Turkey Call. 

There are so many different variables that go into making a pot and peg turkey call that affect the sound produced by that call, and many of us turkey hunters do not even give those components a second thought. But there are a few wood and calling surface combinations on the market that sound better than most of the other options.

In this episode of The Turkey Hunter podcast, Adam Prouty with Adam Prouty Turkey Calls shares some tips to help us pick the best pot and peg call that we can while we are shopping for new calls. Adam dissects a pot and peg call, how the different components of a call can affect the sound of the calls, pot and calling surface combinations that are consistently great sounding calls, which striker components sound best with which pot calling surfaces.

Be sure to listen next week as Adam shares the functional differences between one and two piece strikers, some great weatherproof call options, and what it is that people do to his calls that make him cringe. Adam also is going to share the story of his most recent successful turkey hunt and the one or two things that made that hunt a success.

This is part 2 of episode 53 where I discuss how to pick a piece of public land to hunt turkeys on.

In this part of the interview, Dave Owens shares some interesting tactics about how to hunt public land once you've chosen it, the politics that can sometimes play into hunting public land, and his pet peeve about taking pictures of wild turkey trophies.