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

The spot and stalk method of turkey hunting can be a very effective method for filling a turkey tag while hunting in the afternoon.  In the afternoons, turkeys can often be spotted in crop or fallow fields, food plots, and openings in the timber from hilltops, roads, or just slipping up to the edge of a field.  Once spotted, the next step is to put together a plan of approach for that turkey.

There are certain tips that can help you to be successful in these situations, like using the wind to your advantage, getting ahead of the turkeys, and adjusting your calling strategies to the situation, that can help you to be more successful.  I cover these tips in this episode so that you can have more success in the turkey woods this Spring. 

I hope you enjoy part 2 of Episode 016.  Please tune in next week for part 3 of Episode 016, where I will discuss another effective method of killing a turkey in the afternoon which is to sit and wait.

In Episode 016a, I share the first of 3 strategies for filling a turkey tag while hunting in the afternoons. 

Hunting turkeys in the afternoon can often provide an exciting, productive hunt.  Many times, a gobbler is alone and looking for company during the latter part of the day before he heads back to roost.  If you can find that lonely, normally quiet, gobbler and get him interested, you'll have a pretty decent chance of eating turkey for dinner instead of the tag soup that you had for lunch that day.  Of course, all of this depends on whether or not afternoon hunting in your state is legal as there are still several states that do not allow turkey hunting in the afternoons.

The first strategy that I'm going to share with you is the Run n Gun.  The Run n Gun strategy for an afternoon hunt is slightly different than it is for a morning hunt where you can afford to be a bit more aggressive since gobblers are more responsive in the mornings.  Afternoon Run n Gun hunting typically involves covering a lot of ground in order to find a responsive bird.  If you don't have a lot of ground available to cover for an afternoon Run n Gun, then you'll want to slow down and do a good deal more looking and listening and walking and calling than running and gunning.

Listen in for some great turkey hunting tips to help you have a little more success with your afternoon Run n Gun hunt.  Thanks for listening and be sure to tune in next week when I share with you strategies #2 and #3.

Here is a simple tip to help you sight in your turkey shotgun before turkey season starts in your neck of the woods so you can be sure not to wound a bird due to a poor shooting gun. 

Steve Hickoff is an author of several books and too many magazine articles to count.  Steve hunts turkeys 8 to 9 months out of each year, and he particularly enjoys taking his turkey dogs out into the Fall turkey woods in pursuit of a great hunt after a successful turkey flock bust.

In this episode, Steve Hickoff, shares Fall turkey hunting tips with us so that we can have more successful turkey hunts.  Steve shares his thoughts on using decoys in the Fall, what to do if you get a bad bust on a flock of Fall wild turkeys, and his most recent successful turkey hunt and the one or two keys for success to that hunt.

If you want more Fall turkey hunting tips, then please purchase a copy of Steve's book titled, Fall and Winter Turkey Hunter's Handbook.  The book can be found on Amazon.

In this part of the episode, outdoor writer and author, Steve Hickoff, shares his passion for Fall turkey hunting.  Steve also shares how he was introduced to the sport, information about turkey dogging, his thoughts as to why Fall turkey hunting is not as popular as Spring turkey hunting, and some tips for having more success in the Fall turkey woods.

Steve is an excellent turkey hunter who spends months each year traveling the country hunting wild turkeys.  Be sure to listen in and use some of these Fall turkey hunting tips to help put that fresh wild turkey on your Thanksgiving table.

A very good friend of mine, Todd, shares a hilarious turkey hunting story of a hunt he took his nephew, Ethan, on this past spring. Ethan was fortunate enough to have taken a bird on this particular day. The events leading up to the hunt are just as exciting as most other turkey hunts we have all been on, but the events after the trigger was squeezed make this story quite entertaining. 

For those of you who have young children or grandchildren who hunt, fish, and enjoy the outdoors with you, you will thoroughly enjoy this turkey hunting story. Hunts like this one are the ones that hook kids on our favorite sport forever. 

Listen along as Todd takes you on another hilarious turkey hunting trip with the story of Ethan's 2014 turkey.

Here are 5 tips to help you have more success hunting those roosted wild turkey gobblers.  

Remember... Roosted Ain't Roasted!  But these tips can help to even the odds a bit in your favor.  Learn mistakes to avoid as well while hunting those early morning wild turkeys and put these tips to good use to maximize your chances of filling your turkey tags this season.

This is the funniest turkey hunting story I've ever had the pleasure to be a part of. The story begins with two friends attempting to play a practical joke on a third friend.  These two friends devised a plan to guarantee the third friend his first turkey on an early morning Spring hunt in west Alabama. The practical joke turned out to be even more of a practical joke when an unsuspecting 4th person enters the story and steals the show. 

The main characters of the story are:

1. Tom "Old Man" Haney, Sr. - The father of the president of the hunting club where the story takes place. An older gentleman at the time, who was just one of the greatest people you would have ever met. A long time turkey hunter, and a good one at that.

2. George Boohaker -  A brand new turkey hunter who had not killed a turkey at the time this story took place. George was to be the butt of an elaborate practical joke where he was guaranteed to kill a turkey.

3. Chip Hughes - George's best friend and roommate of Brian Pearson. One of the co-conspirators of the entire practical joke to be played on George.

4. Brian Pearson - Roommate of Chip Hughes.  Also a co-conspirator of the entire practical joke gone wild.

Listen in as Chip Hughes and George Boohaker share the story of Old Man Haney's Turkey.

In this episode of The Turkey Hunter Podcast, I share 7 tricks for turkey hunting on windy days.

In this episode of The Turkey Hunter Podcast, Jay Salmon the founder of www.outdoormash.com shares with us his reason for starting the website, features of the website, and how the site can benefit us turkey hunters.  Jay also shares his most recent successful wild turkey hunting story with us. 

www.outdoormash.com is a new website that has many features and lots of information that most outdoors people will enjoy and use. From classified ads of your gently used outdoors products to the "Facebook" of the outdoors world to information about the tides in your area, www.outdoormash.com has you covered. So, whether you ride horses, ATV's, snow mobiles, or mountain bikes, shoot guns or bows, hunt or fish, www.outdoormash.com has the information that you'll want to know.

So, listen to this episode of the podcast and then head over to www.outdoormash.com to check them out.  Also, after listening, please don't forget to email me to let me know your thoughts about an upcoming episode with a land manager to discuss improving freshly select cut or clear cut land for wild turkeys.