The Spring Legion Podcast
Welcome to a year-round discussion on the wild turkey and those who hunt them. Hosted by Hunter Farrior, founder of Spring Legion and author of Ballad of a Turkey Hunter, the weekly podcast is geared for all outdoor communities and dives deeper than the usual tactics and calling tips. Holding true to the brand, topics are built upon respecting the heritage and challenges of hunting, with a never-ending appreciation for all that the spring season provides. Enjoy insight from special guests like Dave Owens of Pinhoti Project, Cuz Strickland of Mossy Oak, our friends at NWTF and Muscadine Bloodline, and so many more widely known for their impact in the turkey hunting community, as well as the deer, duck, and waterfowl realm, who exhibit the obsession of which only a real turkey hunter may truly understand. Thanks for listening.
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Traveling for Turkeys: Part 2 - Re-Hunting Gobblers with a New Call + The Tolls of Extending Turkey Season
On this Part 2 episode, we're not just swapping hunting stories; we're taking you on a wild ride through the highs and lows of our outdoor adventures, replete with unexpected encounters and the kind of camaraderie that can only be forged in the great outdoors.
Strap in for tales of triumph and tribulation as we navigate the unpredictable world of turkey hunting on public lands. From the strategic ballet of luring a gobbler, to the physical demands of tackling uncharted and often perilous terrain, this episode is chock-full of the gritty details that hunters live for. We're laying it all out there, including the tensions that can arise on the spot and the peculiar hurdles of self-filming our pursuits. It's an honest look at the sport we love, filled with the sort of insights that only come when you're out in the field, learning on the fly.
The climax of our storytelling marathon features a turkey hunt that almost wasn't, complete with low expectations and a crafty bird that seemed to know every trick in the book. When the wild calls, you never know how the story will end, and this play-by-play of our critical decision-making in the moment will have you on the edge of your seat. So, load up on snacks (honey buns are optional), and join us for an episode that captures the unpredictable, exhilarating, and unscripted essence of hunting.
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Alright we're back.
Speaker 2:Welcome to the Sprinkly Lidget Podcast.
Speaker 2:If you're new to it or it's somehow popped up on your shovel, my name is Hunter Farrier and I'm joining you today with Chase Farrier, my brother, and if you didn't listen to the previous episode and ended rather abruptly because yours truly got a little long-winded in the Nebraska story because a lot happened and there was a lot done for there more than a usual 30 minute story everything from a stray dog, near-death experiences and beekeepers and some turkeys and quicksand and some quicksand stuff that I wound up getting in a bind in in my real mushrooms that feel like, turned me into an eight-year-old there for about 15 minutes, got mesmerized by them the first time I'd seen those and had to cut that episode a little short or not short.
Speaker 2:It was rather long but had to end it before we got into a three hour episode, so opted out of that and went into shutdown mode not us, the cameras so had to charge up some batteries, rearrange a few things and now we're back. So we're gonna hop into Chase's half of this episode and we're gonna skip over a few things that happened while I was out there in the boot between times. They are rather irrelevant to the happenings of the first place I went and all the stuff that happened at that place we just talked about. So we're gonna hop in lo and behold back on that word again.
Speaker 2:But lo and behold, chase makes his way to Nebraska. We meet up. We actually meet up with Kansas. That's gonna be another story for another day. What happens there? There's day and a half, two days we were there. We're coming back up to Nebraska and I'm gonna let you start this off so I don't get down to more rabbit holes.
Speaker 1:Alright, so pretty much how we. You end up killing that turkey in Nebraska we were just talking about and that unfolded into us leaving two days earlier and expected it. You know, ended up all on a truck headed to Kansas, so not gonna get into that story at all yeah, much more than that.
Speaker 1:Other than, instead of taking three trucks, we ended up all going at the same time. Me, my dad, little brother, got in a truck and drove and met you. You left Nebraska and met us in Kansas and it all worked out from there. But anyways, we had some success in Kansas and I still had a tag and we said, heck, you know, dad had taken off. At this point we were on dad's work schedule, rec, school schedule or whatever was going on rec schedule.
Speaker 1:Let's just say that I don't even know if he was still in school or not, or on breaker, had taken a few days off or whatever. But we realized, you know, we had planned to stay longer than this, yeah.
Speaker 2:Killed some turkeys quicker than we necessarily allocated the time for. I guess Right in Kansas, In Kansas, yeah.
Speaker 1:So we were like, heck, we're half, you know over halfway there. I'd hate to just go home, you know. And I talked to dad and they were like you know, we're down for the ride. You know we don't have tags, but we'll go. You know we'll ride up there, because that was the issue of not having three trucks. Is you know, if I would have had my truck and dad would have had his, they would have just headed home and we would have me and you would have set out, you know, done the normal.
Speaker 2:I'm living in Georgia and I don't come through Mississippi Head as Georgia's right. I want to go into like Minnesota's and stuff after that. So I don't know when I was coming back.
Speaker 1:I needed to be home for something yeah like the next weekend or something.
Speaker 2:You couldn't stay two to long.
Speaker 1:I couldn't stay. I couldn't just go with you and get mom to come pick me up in Georgia and on two weeks or something it wasn't nothing like that, Like it wasn't where I had no idea when I was coming home. Right right. It was one of those situations that it was either leave and head towards Mississippi or go hunt a turkey for two more days and and after how to tag.
Speaker 2:After this hunt, your season was over, Was over, so it was.
Speaker 1:I kind of knew that. So we picked the turkey, Pick the turkey obviously yeah. So pretty much. I mean you and Brett ended up in the truck together. Me and dad ended up in the truck together.
Speaker 2:Maybe I don't remember Something like that.
Speaker 1:And I had needed some sleep because I drove a lot of the we were driving my truck, so I had, you know, I drove a lot of the way up there and the day or two before we had some, you know, pretty interesting hunts Rough lines you know, we, we.
Speaker 2:A lot of walking.
Speaker 1:I'm trying. I don't want to get into the. I'm trying to get down that rabbit hole of the Kansas story. But yeah, there was a lot of walking involved, A lot of. I was whooped at this point and it don't take a lot for me to get whooped. As you can tell by my body type, I'm not the most reserved athlete, I guess you would say. I don't have much reserve. So if I get to go in for five or six days, I got to take a day or two off.
Speaker 2:You're out, you're out.
Speaker 1:There ain't much left over I can run out of fuel and I'm done, and that pretty much sums up Nebraska as a. I ran out of fuel quite a bit. And we'll get into that in a minute. But anyways, we we tee off, we head up to Nebraska, and one thing that I would do want to hit on it was when the wildfires were going on, you remember that.
Speaker 2:Oh, I forget about that, that was something totally just hit my head.
Speaker 1:I wanted to hit on it and I remember riding up and all of a sudden I'm like man, you know they must be, you know running all these crop, because it's a couple hour drive, several hour drive from where we were, and about halfway there I'm like you know we were looking for deer and turkey you know, just making a trip out of it.
Speaker 1:And you know chit chat with dad and y'all are ahead of us a little ways and but we started getting close. I was like Dad, I can't see the dang road ditch. How are we going to look for turkeys? Thank goodness you had been up there hunting with all your interesting stories. We just told that earlier that week or a few days before, so like if you hadn't already been up there. I was getting worried. We kind of talked about it, me and Dad talked about it.
Speaker 1:We were like let's just hope Hunter knows where some turkeys might be, you know, because, like there ain't no riding roads, looking for areas that have turkeys trying to hone in on.
Speaker 2:I didn't know about these wildfires until the trip up there. I remember it being a little hazy, but I thought that was just but fog maybe.
Speaker 1:But on this second, by the time you came back.
Speaker 2:It was like hmm, this was going on, because I mean you got some water source or something for some fog. I would think like what? Is what's happening and it was. I made this trip and I could, I've driven this road and what I was kind of looking forward to showing, break and stuff, because breaking and everything out there, right, I don't know if y'all ever need to have a way.
Speaker 2:You know. So I'm like I'm rushing to see some you know, sandhills and stuff and we're going through this and going through some stuff that I know there's a canyon here that would be cool to see out the window. I ain't gonna stop and take pictures of it, but you know something to point out that ain't there and I'm like and you can't really tell where the horizon is because you know so flat up there.
Speaker 2:So you know open and I'm sitting there and what in the world is this? And then I get a weather notification. This is what, like a Canadian wildfire, is just a smoke alert you know, it's just like the fire is nowhere near us, but there was wildfires in Canada. Canada and the and the wind shifted in blue, south.
Speaker 1:Yeah, or whatever yeah.
Speaker 2:And I'm like what? No, you know, this is a real thing.
Speaker 1:I guess, yeah, and like we didn't know, like I mean, we're obviously nowhere near anything of wildfire.
Speaker 2:We've never witnessed any part of wildfire we're about to have to try to freaking, find turkeys in the fog, in the middle of a place that doesn't have fog, you know just an added obstacle now.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:You can't get out of it and it's not going to live.
Speaker 1:That was the biggest concern we had that whole trip because, like you had known where some turkeys were, yeah, and I think we had text or something and I was, you know, worried about the fog, you know finding turkeys and are we mad talk before we left Kansas that you knew where you know some should be. And that was a conversation I mean you had was like this is going to affect them, like this, this is I know how Turkish working in fog and a name in your favor usually. And, but it's not fog.
Speaker 1:You know, we're thinking fog like they're going to get in open areas because because the dudes dripping, it's sounding like rain in the woods. You know, a lot of times in the fog they'll go to open because of that. And then we're like heck, it's dry.
Speaker 2:It's not like it's making noise. I know a lot of times Turkish women get off the roost if they can't see the ground. Yeah when they're going to be up there all day.
Speaker 1:It's a visibility thing.
Speaker 2:Eventually rises this one Right.
Speaker 1:So we don't. We're worried about what we're walking into.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:We're like we just we just added another. I mean it was like 20 something hours drive home for us. Yeah, and it was it was only a, you know it wasn't, but like I mean, we probably added what?
Speaker 2:seven or eight hours, yeah, and I had to get a good chunk coming back, coming back home.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we have to undo it going up there. We broke it up by stopping in Kansas, yeah. So you know we're thinking, hey, do we, did we really make the wrong decision here, kind of thing, and therefore, a little while we you know, not necessarily it's never made the wrong decision- whenever you get in a hunt of Turkey. With the tag in your pocket and you know you can keep rolling until the end or till you got to go home.
Speaker 1:But I remember like you know, it's just worry, that's all I'm getting at was it was a worry and not knowing what, how to handle it. You know it's nothing we've ever dealt with before. It's not like. Ok with the fog we can we know how to work with the turkeys in the fog to?
Speaker 2:an extent and I'll say it most times, if you're worrying about something especially in Turkey hunting you're worried about something that hadn't happened yet Exactly. You know what I mean. And then once you kind of grasp that like if you eliminate the chance of worrying about something that hadn't happened yet, your decision making gets so much clear. You make so much more precise, educated, knowledgeable decisions. You know their own plans usually work a lot better than you think because you're worrying about something that ain't happened yet. You know there's enough stuff that's happened, usually in Turkey hunting. This is, you know, warrants some worry. You spend all your time worrying about something that ain't happened yet. You can't get much left for that and then you start just doing stuff.
Speaker 1:Right, it's something that I have to remind myself is be where your feet are. Right, you know just be where your feet are and hunt that Turkey, don't worry about the other one in the other county.
Speaker 2:Don't worry about one, you hadn't heard.
Speaker 1:Never worry about one. You hadn't heard. That's a big thing. Be where your feet are, and just Turkey.
Speaker 2:That's what we try to do. That's pretty much.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so I guess we got in late.
Speaker 2:Right, we get there. We saw a Turkey from the driving in, that's right, yeah. So we got worried about not seeing one. And what we see? One, yeah, like 100 drive around.
Speaker 1:We tried to run it, but yeah, but it happened to be on the piece of public that you knew about. So, like you know, one of the gates that you had used before wasn't too far, you know? Hey, we're parking.
Speaker 2:I know we don't have a hotel or nothing by now Dad. You all right around. Yeah, just go take. And they were pretty ecstatic about that. Just going to see go and take pictures, you know whatever the fog was, it was rough when it was very open, but when it wasn't so open it was kind of like the openness made it seem a lot worse because you didn't realize how far you were looking into it.
Speaker 2:It wasn't nearly as dense Right as it might have seemed at the time when the ground goes for two miles and you can't see anything.
Speaker 1:A lot of smoke to look through. That's a lot of smoke to look for. Yeah, and in hindsight, there probably wasn't anything out there to begin with.
Speaker 2:I mean most places, probably so. It's probably just scow. On the other side, you're thinking, oh, I can't see the barns or houses. There's no barns or houses, exactly.
Speaker 1:It's the same difference, but anyway. So we we were.
Speaker 2:We saw one and Brett took some pictures of it and stuff, and it was Miriam's.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:True White dip, miriam's, and that was really cool.
Speaker 1:Right, feel like for dad. I was first Miriam. I've ever seen Dad's ever seen Breaks, ever seen.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and I was. I was pretty pumped because I was worried that we weren't got seen. Probably 75 percent Rio's, 25 percent Miriam's up there. And I think, as far as I know we're, I mean, you could possibly flirt with an eastern. You know, it's kind of in that real, real hybrid range kind of going up there, but but now I remember stopping going. I hope they see this there's what half the reason I feel like that wanted to go up there was to make sure he saw Miriam's and that was his, his trips.
Speaker 2:Good, you know it's already good, but you know that's been cool Really just icing on the cake there for hours at that point yeah.
Speaker 1:And at that point mean you had swapped trucks back. You know we had swapped people back and forth, and I think mean you were like all right, we're, we're going hunting. You know we're looking for public land that we can hunt a bird on, and if we hit it, we're getting out. You all go. If you also are a truck park somewhere, y'all keep riding.
Speaker 2:Y'all just enjoy yourself. Yeah, and that's all they.
Speaker 1:they walked into it, knowing that that's not like we were telling them that that was, that was agreed upon. But you know, we made this big loop around some stuff and, yeah, I learned Nebraska has mountains Trying to get on the backside of this bird that we saw from the road.
Speaker 2:That was just one of those things whooped me up and down About a two mile route to get 50 yards on the other side of the road. It seemed like yeah, that's the only way to cook, is he was that he was actually at a corner of private Right and there was some houses and stuff there, and not only do you have to get him on the public, but you had to get him on the right corner of public because he could still be on public and you're shooting.
Speaker 2:You can probably hit nothing, but I don't like shooting towards residential anything whether it be livestock or anything like that, right?
Speaker 2:So we really had to bank on him doing exactly what we needed him to do to have a shot. And the last thing you want to do and this is an afternoon, rather late afternoon is call him in and he comes up where you can't shoot and he's on to you and you've eliminated the next morning as well, because he now knows your playbook a little bit, yeah, so yeah kind of you know kind of what happened.
Speaker 1:You know it really is yeah.
Speaker 2:So all that for nothing, but you know and.
Speaker 1:I think he had hands with him.
Speaker 2:A lot of hands. That's right, that's right.
Speaker 1:So I mean, we were, you know, pissing on a house fire, right? I think that's something you said. The other day and it's stuck with me the last couple of days. Yeah, we didn't have much in that dog.
Speaker 2:I mean you can try. You can try it. It's not gonna rain, but don't get mad if it ain't Right.
Speaker 1:So we get whooped.
Speaker 2:And you know, not the real thing, but 12 of the real things.
Speaker 1:Right, right, no hard feelings. We weren't upset about it at all. We had a visual of a Miriam to hunt and we were fired up because I've never killed Miriam, I've never seen Miriam, I've never heard Miriam gobble. You know that was the first one of everything and you know we didn't see him while we were in the woods, but we'd seen him when we passed by. So you know we were all fired up like hey, that Turkey. He stayed down there most of the afternoon and he worked towards the public to roof.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you know in a direction and I knew, and I knew I forgot about that I knew kind of which Turkey that wasn't like there's one on this side, Okay, and he comes up the route we took. I'd heard him on that ridge.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:Before it was just kind of like you know what to get to, right, but the where I knew the Turkish were from hunting them prior. On complete opposite extremes of this piece of public. It's a pretty big piece, but there's one over here I know of and there's at least one or two over here that I know of. But, in between there's about a mile and a half of nothing but up, down, up, down, up down, and I don't know of a turkey in there.
Speaker 1:It ain't no Mississippi, up down, up down. This is straight up, straight down. Yes, and you, you're, you're punching through.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, it ain't a and that's a wall.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's, that's one. One thing I remember a lot about our hunt. I guess the next day is when you were getting our tail by those dead seeded trees down in that creek bottom and we had you said, no, we just got to get through the trees and then it will open up in the bottom. Because apparently when you had oh yeah, gone in, was sent, was like that and we went to you know crawling and belly crawling and can't break them you can't bend them.
Speaker 2:You can try something Stab your back, punch your back harder and punch them.
Speaker 1:I know that, and there wasn't, couldn't have been a turkey within 800 feet of 800 yards us after that, because I mean oh yeah we finally were. I mean, we were, we were dog cussing, oh yeah we were mad at each other. I mean everything we were mad that the sky was blue by the time we got out of those trees that time. It was not pleasant. I think we went to the truck after that, like I did. I don't think we'd heard of Turkey all morning.
Speaker 2:A or something or a, but went by Tree.
Speaker 1:Yes, I mean, we were cut on our face. We were, we were mad.
Speaker 2:Gosh and and and he's talking about. I did a hundred dare before heading back down to Kansas after I killed the other one, I guess, or maybe it was before. That's the place I went to and came back that first morning I was talking about OK, OK.
Speaker 2:This episode and I was very another very agitated Person to be around because of a of those trees and be I was trying to do this whole little YouTube deal. Oh yeah, so and I don't say I don't like it, but it definitely throws a wrench in it and I respect the crap out of folks who are able to sell film Turkey hunting, because it is not easy and especially if you're a not great at it and be Hunt kind of. You know, move around your mobile when you're hunting and stuff and have it repositioned two trees over is very hard. When you got a stake in the ground you got to read this stuff and I'm not. I'm not going to say document anything hurt because I'm not good at it, but I was trying to document as much as I could this kind of the last leg of the season.
Speaker 2:I wanted to give it a go, you know try to try to get some of it and I'd already bumped about three or bump to very, very close. That came in exactly how I knew. I knew, but how I expected the turkey to come in. But dealing with this little stake in the ground camera thing, I was trying to get. Both of them were botched. Very embarrassing when they buy it, look up and he's sitting there where, where I knew he would be sitting.
Speaker 1:You know, because you're not paying attention and I'm worried about something else.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and it takes some adjustment, so I'm I had to go find it after I threw it a couple of times. I was pretty pod, but so I know these turkeys are there and I know they know what my call sound like. As for dang, sure, because I got them both in twice and you were just sit there with my hands up both times like boo.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you know, they know nothing to right. Not going to be the easiest bird in the world to kill three days later is what I'm trying to say. You know right.
Speaker 1:Right, I was trying to get back at that. Yeah, so yeah, and you kind of warned me. Like you know, unless we hit a fresh bird, these birds know I've been in here, they know my call and all this stuff, and I'm thinking at least we got a turkey on, you know. I just kept rolling with it, but I remember the next morning Gosh, you remember this we had a little drive to get where we was at, because we did find some hotel somewhere, I don't know how the thing casino.
Speaker 1:Oh, that's right. Yeah, so I forgot all about that. Yeah, stumbled upon it.
Speaker 2:I mean, the nearest hotel was a long, long way and we pulled up to get gas or something and I was like what is that?
Speaker 1:It was neon like over there glow in this cornfield.
Speaker 2:And of course, you pull up hotels. Casino didn't come up, Right? I'm like casino's have hotels, don't they? And when there's like 70 bucks a room or something.
Speaker 1:I'm like heck, yeah, we got a free hour, free slots. Yeah, we're like I'll play if I need to, but I just need a shower.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so yeah, we crashed at a casino for a night and that was pretty sweet. Yes, you know just having a you know somewhere to shave and stuff like that. It had been a good old minute since I've been able to do that and you know, are going on a couple of days to if you're like right, yeah, I don't even remember sleeping in Kansas. Yeah.
Speaker 1:I don't even know if we did.
Speaker 2:I mean it's happening fast, so yeah.
Speaker 1:Anyways, wait what? What's happening fast? No, I was meaning the trip is, I mean, yeah, by halfway, but yeah yeah, sorry, but I remember you know waking up, we were all out of the casino. Yeah, I remember that now. It's all clicking. This was nine months ago, 10 months ago, when we you know, did this? Some of this stuff comes to us while we're recording.
Speaker 2:That's why the last one, last, went by real fast, because I kept just thinking of stuff that happens.
Speaker 1:first time I thought about it and said I'm wrong, we thought it was going to be a three minute section to the episode you know being the whole thing yeah. Um, and I just saw it hit me bad. Just I ran out like I slept hard.
Speaker 1:You know we had been running and gunning for I don't know five or six days, including, you know, after traveling and all that stuff, and I was a damn bad. And I remember I had a. I had a white frosted honey bun and a white monster and you know we had probably 20 minute drive, 30 minute drive, something like that. By the time we got there I'd been chewing that same first bite of that honey bun and I finally was just like I don't know and he looked at me and if you ain't going to go kill him, I'll go honey, yeah, or if you ain't going to go hunt him, I'll go honey. And I'm like I don't want to be sitting here without a truck.
Speaker 1:You know, I knew that you were going to take your keys and everything. It didn't mean I can, like, go to sleep. I thought like I was coming down with something. Yeah, like I thought I had the flu at that point and I don't know when I snapped out of it, but it was like nine, 34, I snapped out of it. But I remember you know T and all for you. And then we head out and we're going to hunt the Miriam bird that we'd seen the day before, yeah, and we go through. You know we'd gone up there. I knew what was ahead of us.
Speaker 1:I think that might have been some of it Getting over that you know top school, because I mean we had, we had found water. It was like so deep, but a little bit over, you know, and we were trying. It was loud. Oh, it was about that, it was thin enough that, like it, every time you took a step, there wasn't no like no.
Speaker 2:I know what we were glad because we knew where the turkeys were, because we were there the evening before and we know where he flew up Kind of roosted. Yeah, that wasn't the obstacle, it was the six pit bulls of those residential houses.
Speaker 1:We were trying to be quiet because we knew hey, there wasn't a fence there.
Speaker 2:Oh, dad and Rick heard one. God, well, we, we walked out and we knew where they would probably. We got out of there before that group flew up because I mean, they had to fly up where on the public they might fly down and work to private. I know they're going to fly up on public, it's only trees or water.
Speaker 1:And they were waiting on us at the gate, at the truck, and they came back and waited at the gate.
Speaker 2:We didn't know they were there at the time, but we had to walk down that big old ridge to come back down, uh huh. So we didn't get out until I mean, an hour and a half after it got dark.
Speaker 1:Oh, it took us a very long time, which is like 11 pm. Oh yeah, out there, yeah yeah.
Speaker 2:That's why the casino was a blessing, because it would have been about one 30 to get to this other spot that had a hotel actually in South Dakota and very far from where we were, and come back down would have to leave it like two 30. So we had an hour worth it?
Speaker 1:You know, 120 dollars an hour by any means.
Speaker 2:So this one, being, you know, nearby, was a blessing, right and um, but yeah, so we get to the truck and we didn't hear gobble. They heard it gobble and they said it's.
Speaker 1:Right, pretty decom clothes. This is the night before.
Speaker 2:yes, yes, and so we're trying to get up in there. But we also know there's a lot of dogs at this little residential strip of houses here and we're like whoa.
Speaker 1:I don't want to wake them up, you know.
Speaker 2:Just to you know, make them dogs a wake up and bark like crazy and be. I don't want them to not bark at all and come over here. You know that is. I mean, we're good 75 yards from it. We're not hunting by, we just got to walk past it to get on Other side of that corner, like we're talking about yeah that's why we're trying to tip to through this water. They were like the whole time like please don't be too loud, which I had rubber boots on.
Speaker 1:You know I don't think you did, I didn't that Following the water was a straight up. I Mean, yeah, the tree I was standing by was full grown and it was still about three trees to the top, if that makes any sense, three trees of that height to the top, and I mean it's like Looks like it should be about 85 yards from me. It's that steep, you know what I'm saying. Like it is just straight up, and it's like sandy Mm-hmm, I mean me we were physically grabbing saplings, just.
Speaker 1:Keep holding it, you know, grabbing saplings, pulling three feet at a time, the whole way up there pitch black, dark, no lights, no, nothing Just and and try not to wake up these dogs.
Speaker 2:Try not to get mauled and try not to bump this, because if this turkey goes any direction Opposite, we know where you'll wind up. Is on private on the problem over with. Yeah so we gotta have him come towards us this whole time.
Speaker 1:Mind you, hunter's been there the week before. I didn't hunt this one. No, no, no, you'd been to that gate. You saw the dogs. Oh, yeah, I didn't see the dogs. Yeah, I'm like you. When we're doing all this, I'm and I'm feeling like I have COVID on top of the flu.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm like, and I don't think these dogs are real and hunter is just Just making it worse, just how can I get chase to be real quiet, cuz I know I'm about to get real close to this turkey? Yeah, yeah, if you make a sound, these dogs Most like what you would tell like a six-year-old, like you don't want some dogs getting you now? And I think that's what got me on the truck like you gonna sit here on the tailgate.
Speaker 1:My truck's gonna feel like there's six pit bulls live right here, mm-hmm, and the guy's probably crazy. Yeah, I saw him out there whooping on some yesterday or last week.
Speaker 2:I'm like Stay in the truck, you stay in the truck.
Speaker 1:Oh, anyways, that was a long way to go around this one turkey on. Anyways, turkey gobble went the other way. Ended up on private way. You know, we tried to stay a couple hundred yards back and pull him into the ticket.
Speaker 2:It didn't work.
Speaker 1:But, and that was one of the things right out of that one. We should have thrown a hat in that one way faster than we did, I think we went back that afternoon.
Speaker 2:We went and hunted the rest of the property wound up getting to them and trying him again, because we didn't wait.
Speaker 1:I don't guess we heard another turkey that morning, or did we?
Speaker 2:then you want to kill in a turkey that day.
Speaker 1:That was the same day. Yeah, man, I feel like we hunted four times that day.
Speaker 2:We hunt four different spots and there were new ones every time. Yeah, okay, no, that's what I'm saying. We left out of the next day. No, no, that's right, that's right Um yeah, we had to go back through all these hills to get back to where we were because, it's spot where I bumped them so many times.
Speaker 1:Right, yeah, so so hundreds, yeah, 100, hundred. This, obviously, the left side of the property was almost totally different than the right side of the property.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean it was like a ridge, and then it's two different county, you know, two different states on each side. I felt like, so we end up, you know, getting our butt whooped all day. We end up, you know, resting or whatever. And I mean it was later in the evening, it felt like. And we, you had said, alright, there's a turkey over here. I've bumped twice, he has seen me twice and I was not able to kill him twice. He, you know, as a Hail Mary, we can go over there. Yeah and cuz, because we knew that Mary and what, no come, could we hunt him today or that the evening before, and that that moment he was out.
Speaker 2:He was out, he had hands and he's on private no, no, so we just set up and this is a new area.
Speaker 1:Right, we went to the top of this big ridge. You can see we glassing all day trying to find holes that we could look, because you had seniors from so far away. We're trying to do the same thing and ended up we I remember it was like a long straight away on top of this Ridge mountain, whatever you don't call it. It was real thick on the edge. We were hugging that thick edge and you stop me and you said, alright, about 30 yards up here this thick stuff stops and it turns into river. Bottom is kind of pretty, I don't know cotton woods or whatever they may be.
Speaker 1:Whatever oak trees that's in Nebraska and he said it's a good little opening right there, we'll get up there, we're gonna sit down and I'm like, all right, cool and I'll be dog. We round that curve and we've been slipping for two hours.
Speaker 2:It feels like and probably you forgot about that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I did and like hunters just steadily remind me like I just just be ready to hit the deck cuz like we can't see them, they can see us if they're staying. If they're in that little cool creek bottom, because it was hot and warm that day and stuff, you know that they'll congregate in those little creek bottom to the shade. You know there ain't a lot of shade out there a lot of them.
Speaker 2:But if you don't get within column this is, you got to get up in there with them, to be up in there with them. I learned that real quick too.
Speaker 1:And we round that corner that fixed up and all hell breaks loose. About 60 cows were right there, 60 had a cows was barrel through that barrel just every what go ballistic.
Speaker 2:Chase is about to die and yeah, I'm still recovering from.
Speaker 1:My everything that I was dealing with, and I'm just looking hunter, I'm like well, or actually you looked, really you. You got like ticked off with it and I can't yeah you were mad. I was like I'm all right with it. And you were like what do you mean? You're all right with it? I'm like, if anything, if they were in a flock in there there, I'm like I liked to Kiki. Yeah, it's gonna be like winter, like whatever everything. What's his name at Roland Thunder? The fall turkey out to life.
Speaker 1:Josh grossing by everything me and him have ever talked about. With the fall turkey hunting, we about to pull some cards and I'm just thinking, boba and Anyways, you yell. Nothing happens. We sit by tree, we just start chit chatting about a little bit of everything over the last year. We are back and forth in it. We're, we're chitchat, we're we've kind of forgot we're turkey hunting at this point Just reflect the gnomesman.
Speaker 2:You know stuff All the way back to times where a kid's hunting, that we'd never really sat by a tree together that I know of, and Just turkey hunted together, right since we were probably six years old, I feel like and just finally got the opportunity to do that from. You know circumstances and spring legion, opening up some doors and stuff like that and just kind of it's pretty cool yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so we're sitting there and I finally, I Think you said or I said, let's yell one time and we've been there a good top minute, and it's funny to see on the on the camera, because I got one facing us. Yeah like I just reached everything. Clicked it on because I'm like I know this is the last time like we're not wearing mice. You can't hear none right.
Speaker 2:Anyway, we mentioned before that kind of just. You know that's not like. You know when you put your vest on this morning. You know that was last time probably.
Speaker 1:Yeah and and you know, we were just reflecting when we were sitting there we kind of got plump sappy about it, almost in a weird way. And I think you reached for your Cody and I said no.
Speaker 2:Did I say no or no? I said no, yeah. When we mentioned Colin, I said I'm not. He knows that, cody, he knows my call pretty good, I'd say, because I've seen him twice.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:And you know.
Speaker 1:And you had called on the Cody right before we sat down.
Speaker 2:Right and got.
Speaker 1:Just in case, yeah. You know, so I yelled on the mouth call and pow. And it's hilarious to watch video because I choose mask. Good, I don't have my mask on. I'm head on, you know, on the bead instantly, because this turkey gobbles at what? 75 yards probably, and hunters over there just be bopping around on the, and I didn't know none of this I'm looking at my be like where's he about to pop up?
Speaker 1:he's about to show up and hunters over there looking for something in his vest and spit his dip out and text dad like we heard one gobble like, because that was like a big deal at that point in the afternoon like hey, we have a turkey to hunt, you know, and the whole time. What are you thinking?
Speaker 2:I'm like I know what turkey that is.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And that's the turkey. I about stepped on three days ago and he is on that.
Speaker 2:No, I know and always on, he ain't coming off of it, because the last time he came off of it he about hit me. Yeah, you know Twice I'm thinking yeah, this is a same. I know for a fact, same turkey. I bumped twice Incidentally about ran into trying to barrel up this thing trying to do some film with something, and that's when I started throwing the camera and getting real mad at everything. But right, I know this turkey has seen a human eyeballs past two days, or not two days, been about a week, probably right. But my faith in this turkey crossing this creek, coming over here for somewhere that is zero is very, very, very slim. So I'm not worried about this, ain't right.
Speaker 2:Caustious but not right. I don't expect much to happen. I don't have the heart to tell chase, after we just got through talking about this being his last time, potentially and he is fired up at this turkey gobbling, but I'm my faith is not in this one yeah, you feel been behind us.
Speaker 1:I've been thrilled, but right, I know what turkey that is, and watching the video you can tell hunters just like yeah, it ain't gonna happen. You know not this one.
Speaker 2:I wish you'd rather not hobble. Don't break his heart, yeah don't put him through this on the last one of the year and shoot.
Speaker 1:I yelp again and that suckers like 35 right on our side of the creek, everywhere, and I mean it. It came together all in a flash, um so I'm back up, yeah yeah, yeah. So it came together all on a flash and shoot.
Speaker 2:I mean it comes to the left, yep, and we think he's gonna come to the right he comes to the left and then you're this is when you're in the zone and everything and I'm kind of like I hate to break it to you but, that's the one we. I hope we wouldn't get on before he got the second time. Exactly that's what I was gonna say. Don't forget, he got up on another time in it. No, I just said.
Speaker 1:I'd yell out dealing with that. Yeah, you're dealing with that so yeah, anyways, you were nonchalantly getting ready, um, and I'm face down, facing in front of us, and I had a cedar tree to my left, you know two feet in front of me where I can't swing my gun to the left.
Speaker 1:And it's beautiful right there, 35 yards a little flat right on this side of the creek. I'm like he's gonna pop out behind them, bushes, it's just textbook walk right there and I'm gonna kill him. You know, and I'm thinking all this and you're not thinking any of this and I yelp again and he hammers and he's to the left about to come out.
Speaker 2:He's cross creek, he's coming to, he's across the creek. He's like parallel.
Speaker 1:He's level with us on our side of the creek, like he's about to be in us and in the opening that we're kind of in we're on one tree on the edge of the opening anyways.
Speaker 1:So he I see a glimpse of him after he gobbles, then he turns and goes right and I've already shifted my gun and I'm like where, where's he at? And I guess you saw a glimpse of him or something and you grabbed my arm and ripped me back and pulled me in like a little six year old you're still up with a six year old here and I go back and I'm like all right, why?
Speaker 2:why do you do that? And?
Speaker 1:this whole time. Hunter ain't got the camera figured out yet it's all yeah but it's facing plumber right. Yes, and um. Anyways, turkey bout runs us over. I think I shot him at 11 steps mm-hmm, because I had a big tree out there about five, eight yard from me and he went behind that tree and never came out and when he came out, yeah, and that's when he was going to my mind.
Speaker 2:I said there ain't been one other way he can come out. At that point I know you're thinking where, where's he gonna come out?
Speaker 1:and I'm like there ain't but one other way. He's right there, you know that's when I grabbed you.
Speaker 2:I didn't have time to tell you. I'm like no, no, no, no right there.
Speaker 1:Point towards that. Bush right now, yeah, and as soon as you're going right there.
Speaker 2:He right on the top of it and it was.
Speaker 1:It was right there, oh yeah, and it was.
Speaker 2:I mean night from you know downright about the press talking about this being the last time you know we're gonna get to hunt, first time we've gotten to hunt together in a long time just some circumstantial stuff that's going on for us to be able to be in that position, right, um, you know, just he helped me out a lot being in Georgia you know, taking care of a lot of spring legions stuff, and I'd helped him out in the, you know recent, you know a couple months of stuff getting reestablished and stuff and new new deals and whatnot, and you know, just talking about that last thing we kind of were thinking of was turkey hunting and lo and behold, you know all in two minutes, and about two minutes later we're standing over in Turkey, you know your heart's pumped for another three hours after that right right now.
Speaker 1:I remember letting text and dad that we well, we killed, yeah, and he got fired up. Goodness, I want to hear his whole side of that. That's.
Speaker 2:That's something totally I know you wouldn't expect it, probably, and but that was. That was a, you know, one of the more special ones I was able to be on, for sure you know, in a long, long, long time, but.
Speaker 1:I didn't feel too bad after that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I was like having my legs filled in. Well, I walk out. You're pretty stupidy uh, hitting back.
Speaker 1:I knew I was.
Speaker 2:I ordered some dang hiking boots, that's for sure, after that trip makes a lot more sense now, and I was wearing them prototype gators. Yeah, you know, put them through the daggers ringer. That's some some proof if y'all want to go buy some of those turkey hunting gators we're selling that's the same ones. I was wearing and they went through that stuff time and time again and and appealed the whole time. So that's what I knew. I was like we'll take them give me a couple thousand, that's.
Speaker 1:That's the one, yeah but oh, that was.
Speaker 2:I'm glad we got to that because we are on about zero percent of every camera we've got yep, yep and even the. The backup here is not great. So if this thing cuts out, we appreciate y'all listening, but do want to remind y'all that um, that we're gonna be pumping these out left and right from now to turkey season and it is a weekly show, but there might be some bonus episodes and might be multiple bonus episodes in there, especially on stuff like this. We got to cut these you know certain stories in half in a couple 30 to 40 minute episode. So y'all check them out. The, the vidcast, is on our youtube. It'd be easy to find a spring legion channel.
Speaker 2:Um, a lot of these hunts are gonna be kind of coming out. Could be same day, could be a few days before or after, but some of these hunts that we're talking about are gonna be on the youtube channel for watching. I encourage y'all to check them out. Put a little visual to some of the stuff we try to talk with our hands about and um, and then, of course, on the apple. Spotify is not stuff.
Speaker 2:You can find us at spring legion podcast and um, we're trying to incorporate tiktok and reels on facebook and instagram and some of these vidcast and finding the good clips to put on there for y'all to keep up with as they come out, and some stuff that didn't. Might might not make the actual podcast or might not make an actual hunt, but it's a cool little something that folks you know might get a kick out of or might enjoy watching or something. Might be a teaching moment or something not to do, but, um, but we're gonna be uploading those. So, yeah, yeah, we appreciate y'all listening to our long winded conversations about turkey hunting and I'm looking forward to a lot more in the coming weeks. Thanks for listening to the spring legion podcast. Jason, you want to clap? You can clap there we go there you go.
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