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

In this episode of The Turkey Hunter Podcast, Tes Randle Jolly, who is a very well known wildlife and nature photographer, shares information about photographing wild turkeys.  Tes' work has been in numerous magazines, books, websites, and advertisements.

Tes shares with us how photographing turkeys can teach us patience and make us better turkey hunters. She also shares with us the one thing that she has learned while turkey hunting that has made her a better turkey hunter, and she shares with us the story of her most recent successful turkey hunt.

If you want to reach out to Tes to purchase her work or to ask her some additional questions, you can find her contact info on www.jollysoutdoorvisions.com. Listen in to Tes and me while we talk turkey, and I hope you enjoy the episode as much as I did putting it together.

Traveling out of state to hunt turkeys can be very exciting and a ton of fun. These out of state trips can be a way to extend your hunting season or increase your bag limit opportunities.  They are also a necessity for completing a Grand Slam. They can, however, also be a lot of stress and be very expensive if the trip is not planned out properly.  

In this episode of The Turkey Hunter Podcast, I share 6.5 steps that you will want to follow to plan a turkey hunting trip out of state so you can be sure that you are getting the best experience possible for your investment of money and time.

Click here for the blog post where I share 45 questions to ask a turkey hunting outfitter.

Even the best turkey hunters odds of success are greatly diminished when hunting in an area that has a low turkey population. In this episode I share some tips that we all can use to increase the nesting success, as well as the brood rearing success, on our hunting properties.

Preston Pittman with Pittman Game Calls shares his knowledge of how to best care for your turkey calls so you can get years of use out of them.

Preston tells us how to condition our calls during the season so that they are ready to play while we are hunting, and he also tells us how to store our calls so that they are ready to be put into service next year as well.

We also get to hear the story of Preston's most recent successful turkey hunt and the one or two keys that made that hunt successful.

One of the best ways to learn how to have more success while turkey hunting is to learn from the experiences of others, as well as your own. 

In this episode of The Turkey Hunter Podcast, I share 7 lessons that I feel are worth taking away from my 2015 turkey hunting season. These 7 lessons will not only help you kill more turkeys, but they will help to serve as a reminder as to why we are in the turkey woods in the first place.

Listen in to episode 33, where my Yankee buddy, John, shares the story of The Texas Decoy Massacre.

A Texas Rio Grande turkey hunt goes strangely awry during an afternoon turkey hunt in the hot Texas heat. This is quite possibly one of the funniest turkey hunting stories that you will ever hear.  

Listen in next week as I recap my out of state trip to Ohio and Indiana as well as my 2015 turkey hunting season on episode 34 of The Turkey Hunter Podcast.  In the meantime, enjoy this week's episode, and be sure to forward and share this week's episode if it makes you laugh.

In episode 032, Jay Scott with Jay Scott Outdoors is a turkey hunting outfitter who lives in Arizona but guides hunters on Gould's turkey hunts in Mexico.

Jay tells us the difference in the Gould's turkeys in the other subspecies of turkeys, the difference in hunting Gould's and the other subspecies, and the challenges of hunting in a foreign country.

The Gould's wild turkey is a beautiful turkey that is a great addition to any trophy room, and the Gould's hunt takes place in some of the most unique and beautiful terrain that you'll ever hunt in.

If you want to complete your Royal Slam with a Gould's turkey, then you definitely will want to listen in to this episode.

Be sure to tune in next week to hear the story of The Texas Decoy Massacre. This is a story that will keep you laughing for the entire episode.

In Episode 031 of The Turkey Hunter Podcast, 7 time Grand National Champion Turkey Caller Chris Parrish with Knight and Hale Game Calls shares his expertise of what specific turkey calls mean to turkeys and when to use those in your calling setups.  Despite what the title of the show implies, Chris shares some 300 level turkey calling tips and information with us experienced hunters as well.

Chris demonstrates clucks, purrs, yelps, cackles, and cutts, and how we hunters can use those calls to bring in more gobblers and fill more turkey tags.  Listen in to Chris' tips this episode and keep practicing those turkey calls so that you'll have more success this turkey season.

Next week, Jay Scott will be on the show to discuss turkey hunting the beautiful Gould's turkeys in Mexico.  If you want to complete a Royal Slam of turkeys, then you'll have to harvest a Gould's turkey, and Mexico is the place to do it.  Tune in next week to learn more about the Gould's subspecies of turkeys and how and where to hunt them.

A short while back on Facebook, I made mention that I was going to interview Eddie Salter for a Q & A style of episode of the show, and I asked if anyone had questions they would like to ask Eddie.

Well, several people responded and I have the answers to your questions in this week's episode. 

Listen to Eddie share his most recent successful turkey hunt and what made that hunt successful, when he would use a gobble call to locate turkeys, and how he likes to be thorough and aggressive with the turkeys he hunts.

Be sure to listen in next week as Chris Parrish shares turkey calling tips with us on Turkey Calling 101. Just a head's up that there is more to the show than beginner turkey calling tips and info. Chris shares a lot of 300 level turkey calling info with us as well. 

In episode 29 of The Turkey Hunter Podcast, Cuz Strickland with Mossy Oak shares some of his thoughts about the habits and patterns of wild turkeys in the Spring. 

In order to have a great deal of success while turkey hunting, knowing your quarry is very important. There are not many animals in the US more "wild" than a wild turkey, so knowing what they are going to do at any given point on any given day is nearly impossible.  With that being said, wild turkeys do have a few habits and patterns that we hunters can use to help fill a tag with a delicious wild turkey.

Cuz shares some early, mid, and late season habits and patterns that we can use to help us have more success while turkey hunting this Spring.

Also in this episode, Chris Parrish with Knight and Hale Game Calls helps to answer a question asked by Chris Morris in this week's "Ask the Turkey Hunter" segment.

Be sure to tune in next week, when I have a question and answer session with The Turkey Man, Eddie Salter.