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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Opening Week in the Turkey Woods - A Recap of Hunting the Early Days of Turkey Season 2024
Battling both the weather and turkeys seemed to be the storyline until it wasn't for Mississippi's opener. The early days of spring are here and we've got turkeys on the ground and over the shoulder to talk about this week - Finally!
So, whether you're drawn to the camaraderie of the chase or the silent anticipation that fills the woods, these stories carry the heartbeat of the hunt.
We're not just chasing turkeys; we're capturing moments, balancing the raw intensity of the hunt with the craft of storytelling through our podcast and online presence. From the rare color phases of one-of-a-kind turkeys to the shared laughs and lessons learned, we're wrapping this chapter with a bow made of turkey feathers. And as we close, we not only invite you to share your own encounters with the wild but also to join us as we prep for the next call of the wild on the Spring Legion Podcast.
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What's going on everybody? Welcome back to the Sprinlage Podcast. I kind of turned that intro down a little fast there, got a little overzealous, but good to have you back. We apologize for missing last week, which happened to be the opening week of Turkey Hunting over here in Mississippi. Had to tend to some business, so to speak, when it comes to hunting turkeys or recording the podcast, it was on the list that we just didn't get to it.
Speaker 1:I'm your host, tony Fairier, joining you again with Chase Fairier today, and good news is we got some stuff to talk about. Finally, it doesn't involve 2023. Some current event type episodes are going to be kind of rolling out here shortly For the next four. I was going to say foreseeable future, but I'd say until June. At least we'll have stuff to talk about. Might not have no turkeys on our lap to talk about specifically, but we'll have some hunts. So, yeah, we got a couple we're going to talk about today and kind of what we learned, what we've seen, what we've observed in the spring woods. Everything changes from year to year. I feel like some springs come earlier than the prior spring and here, more gobbles this opening week than it did last opening week, and it's greener, it's not greener. More hend up, not as end up. All that good stuff. We're going to kind of dive into it a little bit.
Speaker 1:Today Morning has not got a couple updates before we dive into the stories, and one being one that we just actually uploaded to springleagincom. So a little special we got going on. It's pretty big special actually. It's going to be 50% off the Gators, which has been kind of flying off as of recently, but we got those well before the Wisdom Series shirt and pants. But so you can get 50% off that's half of the Gators if you buy the complete set of the Wisdom Series, the shirt and the pants. So we got those, got a more stock of the shirts and pants because they came in later than we do the Gators. We're trying to keep them even so, just a little incentive to complete the whole set and that's the objective. We're not too. I mean we're pretty transparent on some of these sales. You know the purpose behind them, but that is it.
Speaker 1:And yeah, if you all go in there and go ahead and buy both the shirt and pants, which actually first time I got to hunt in them, I got to wear them a little bit before we, you know, brought in them to where the Gators are going to take on the actual seasons worth of hunting and test them out and stuff, because we had a lot more hands on that. You know little manufacturing process and designing and stuff. The shirt and pants, I mean you know kind of no pretty cut and dry shirts, the shirt and the pants pants, but the Gators had to be critiqued a little more. So. But as for the certain pants, this is my first time wearing them hunting and they are. I mean I was surprised I ain't gonna meet me and you both, you know I ain't stopped talking about them.
Speaker 1:Jay's loves pants. Yeah, cause I've always just worn the, you know pick cotton cotton pants and shoot easier game changers, yeah, um, as far as hunting all day and just hunting hard, walking a lot and stuff like that, like I've been doing this last week, I mean shoot, I mean I'm still wearing mine at nine, 10 o'clock at night. I'm a air almost every day. I mean I pray for everybody around me cause I'm things ain't. You know I don't wash my hunting camouflage but about once a year, um, but uh, yeah, somebody. I went and did something with a buddy of mine the other day and he's like why are you still wearing your camouflage? I'm like I didn't even realize it was on, almost you know. I feel like I'm wearing sweatpants and a oversized T-shirt, laying on the couch, relax, and you know. And uh, sounding a little chickish, but you know what I mean. I don't, I don't do that for those listening. I don't put a nervous T-shirt on sweatpants and wash TV on the couch. But Jay's might. Hey, I may, I may not. I'm just kidding, but um, but now the the, the pants are, it's called active flex or active stretch. I don't call it four-way stretch. So they, uh, they've been off types of ways. However, you're going to be moving and stuff. We've got to do some maneuvering and twisting and turning this first week to really put them to the test. And they held up, I mean really good.
Speaker 1:And the thing I like about the pants is the material part. It's hard to explain to folks who aren't holding a pair, but they're not as we think, like you know, moisture wicking, quick dry and stuff, all the stuff that it is, and or any kind of like tech gear kind of material which I'm not a just huge, huge fan of. I like, I mean I liked denim and cotton and stuff like from the 80s and stuff. But some of the newer stuff is not. It's got a little polyester in there and it's it's not quite the same. And these actually it doesn't feel the same. You know, when the, the wind blows and stuff in your leg it's cold and the, the uh fabric touching in, they get water or they get wet or something like that and they just hold that cold. You know material.
Speaker 1:These, um, the pants are like the inside is not like the outside. I don't know how in the world they do it. I didn't ask questions, but what you see on the outside and feel on the outside is not what you feel on the inside. It's got some kind of grid system in there, that kind of I don't know, but it feels like you're wearing cotton pants and and you're not. They're ridiculously, you know, stretchy and flexible and durable. They're thicker than what you would think of. Oh yeah, I've put mine through a freaking a couple of showing off thickets and they're holding up pretty dang good. I mean a very, you know, almost surprisingly good. I mean I'm kind of knew they'd be a little more durable than we were expecting, but to have gone yeah, they're not just like a fishing shirt, material, pants. You know, they're made to walk and go through and crawl and do stuff and you know all kinds of stuff.
Speaker 1:And the other thing that I really noticed on cause this we've had a few pretty chilly mornings. Um, I mean it ain't been cold as last year's open morning, but I mean very chilled and I'm a very cold individual. And a certain pair of pants I had what last year? I knew that every time I'd walk around or like sit down in the fabric that wasn't necessarily touching my legs before would touch my legs. Goodness, I can chill, yes, and I mean it felt like you were holding, you know, a refrigerator door to edge my leg, you know, and I'm like goodness, um, but these don't do that as bad, they hardly at all.
Speaker 1:Um, really, but uh, that was the thing I liked the most about it my knees didn't freeze all day like they used to, cause that's one of the first things I know is by my like, when they, when they touch my leg, I'm not freezing or you know, notice it how, how it happens, I don't know, but something to do with the, how it's stretching or where it's stretching. So just be, doesn't let you know, even when the breeze is blowing, if it's cold outside, I don't really feel it, but somehow, or another, when I'm. I mean, we walked miles and I was wetting, but then you sit in the truck for seven seconds and it's dry. I, you know, I don't know. I mean I waited a creek in mind the other day and you know, by the time we got on that turkey, I was in the pants, for dry socks were still.
Speaker 1:Now, the shirt is thin. Yes, I like wearing a T shirt on my. Yeah, I do Like I like wearing a T shirt on mine too. I might not, you know, when it comes May 28th or something, but, um, but, and a lot of. I wanted to finish that I could get in that, because of how I wear a leafy suit, a lot of folks wear, you know, some type of pullover. Um, I used to wear just the button down and six pocket pants a lot, but I don't, you know, I don't do that as much anymore. Yeah, I'll, I'll, I'm more comfortable to layer it up a little bit.
Speaker 1:And and those cold, a couple of cold mornings, I like to throw a little, you know, not to say a long, john, but a little jogger underneath them and I mean that's just cause I'm a cold natured individual and that's kind of the purpose of the. The button down was to be more so of an undershirt for that, because it is perfect for that. I was very impressed with that. And I'll tell you what not to wear is one of those flex tees we got. Really I wore one of those under a North mountain gear or whatever.
Speaker 1:And if the wind blows and it was kind of misting and raining and stuff, so it was like having a cool sale, so like if the wind blew, it all, I was just had like cold air coming through and I'm like I want to be better off just not wearing a shirt under this thing. At this point I was freezing but seals had on the button down. He was like perfectly fine. And um, wait, you're saying you had a flex T on no woodsman. Yeah, I didn't have the woodsman on, I had the, you know the under armor material or whatever stretchy, stretchy kind and it got wet and it was freezing. When every time the wind blow, wind, I don't even know the wind was blowing half time Like this, you walk, me, walk.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean just me walking. It was it made it so cold. But, but, um, but the other, uh, the button down is pretty. It was up good, and then it'll come in handy cause I do shed layers left and right, but turkey ain't necessary. It'll be 120 yards away and I'm like this is an opportunity for me to take a layer on underneath off. I'm going to do it just cause you know I don't, you know I don't want to get too overheated and cut them out and stuff, and if I, if I can help it, but beats having to tow the big jacket around and stuff. So no, I agree, very impressed with those.
Speaker 1:Y'all. Go ahead and get your set and, while you're at it, get a set of Gators half off. Got the loading and the bottom one and the Gators still got some of both of them. They are getting a little low, but is what it is. Um, won't be getting no more till next spring. I don't. We think you gonna come up in August and get a pair randomly, cause if they're out, they're out. Um, let's see. I think there's one other discount. I know we really got on a tangent there, but there's.
Speaker 1:Um, we got the uh, the three pack mouth call set that we do with rolling thunder. We did it last year. It's called calls for conservation. It's an effort. The rolling thunder is kind of headed up and they do this and, um, I think it's 15% of the sales from these go to the Mossy again keepers grant, which benefits wildlife obviously. And I want to say Spence told me last year it helped raise them over $40,000. So pretty good little effort there and I kind of gives back to the resource and we've got those on our website.
Speaker 1:Uh, got to go to cut, combo cut and uh batwing. So Josh Gresham, michael reached out I think it was last year and kind of got Chase Seals and I to design what calls we would want to use and stuff. Got to try a few out, sent back what we did like or sent back the numbers and tension numbers and read thickness and stuff like that. So he went with them up and sent us back and said he's good. I said heck, yeah, they've got a little three pack and they've sent us some and we're selling them on the website now. So if you're a code gamekeeper, if you buy them at SpringLegioncom you get an additional 15% off. So 15% of those 15% of that sales is going to go to my CO gamekeeper grant and then you'll get 15% off yourself. So pretty much a double whammy there. That's not going to last too terribly much longer, and the 50% off the getters probably ain't going to last for a long at all. So y'all go ahead and hop on that if you're going to. That's all I got, unless you got anything else. Springlegion affiliated for the SpringLegion podcast. All right, I want a turkey hunting then.
Speaker 1:So if you if you in the South, you know this this past week has been a Tulsa weather wise. I mean, you can live in a different county and it was different than it was in Mississippi. We were unfortunate in our county, right, yeah, we were unfortunate opening weekend, very much. So what was it? Did? Open on Friday, I think so. Yeah, friday through about Sunday, chase and I I felt like a rain cloud was chasing us because we were seeing, you know, folks hunting and it would be literally blue skies, yeah, and I know where they're hunting and I know that place and I know that ain't. But an hour and a half away, chase and I are getting drenched while we're seeing these, and it rained everywhere. I feel like the first day and then the second day, maybe it was just a squall line of thunderstorms going horizontally and we just happened to be right in the middle of it. No matter where we went, that thing drifted towards us and it just lasted literally until like two o'clock. I feel like, yeah, multiple days yeah, and just couldn't catch a break there, which is part of it. We still went and everything I want to say we, uh, day or two non draw.
Speaker 1:Then I had to draw to a place in Mississippi that we went to and it also it wasn't great weather that day either. No, that was the first day of the draw. We were in sure enough rain. Like the first day that we got caught in the rain. It was, you know, it was hit or miss showers, right, one or two, and it just happened to never miss. That's what it was. Yeah To what it was. It was like 50%. You know, toss up, hit or miss, it's gonna.
Speaker 1:You know, some places, literally, that we could hunt on, that same block of public was dry and we just kept picking the wrong ones, thinking it was going. You know, if the radar's right, this is moving out the way. Yeah, we go there. And the radar popped one right back After. We're 1000 yards deep in this place, um, but now the draw hunt. We, uh, yeah, it was pretty much steady rain the whole time we were on there and it was supposed to end at six. Yes, we were on the very, very bottom of that little strip of rain and it didn't end until about 2pm. Yeah, it's still. I was like any second now, any now. It hung around, um, we hung with it long as we could, right, but go that.
Speaker 1:Even that hunt and we'll backtrack just a little bit to listen and chase it went out to this place to listen. This is a place I knew. Hail turkeys. I'd heard them there once before. I'd seen them there, not during the season. I was scouting, like for a season a couple of years ago, maybe I don't remember, but, um, I knew they were. They hung around this creek and I was like, well, I went somewhere else to listen. This was probably late February, maybe early March. Drop the pen for chase, I could just go park here, walk here, listen. Let me know.
Speaker 1:And you know he told me he heard one or two, I think. Maybe I knew for sure One wasn't pretty positive to what's the one of them you told me, didn't it? The volume of it was kind of odd Right, right. So I was, as soon as I parked, I walked down, you know, 50 feet from the truck or whatever, just to get away from my truck sound. You know the tink, tink, tink that it does whenever it cools off. Um, and I heard what I thought was one and I'm like man, that's her in there. And then, so you know, I'm sitting there and I'm I heard it multiple times he got what a lot If it was a turkey, and I'm pretty positive it is now at this point. But um, you know, just didn't sound a hundred percent. It sounded quiet but it sounded close all at the same time and it was really throwing me off. And then one lit up, closer towards the truck side or the road side, and, uh, he hammered one good time and I was like that's what a gobble should sound like. So I'm like, was that even a gobble? You know, second guess and everything, but anyways it, I'm pretty positive. It was, um, just a weird sounding gobble. And then, but then we, he told me that and then we went back.
Speaker 1:This is when we were hunting actually on, you know, the first day of that draw, two-day draw, um is rain and I got a hood on. You get a hood. I don't know you need to have a hood on, but you know it's kind of hard to hear and we're both simultaneously walking and both would stop at the same time Like is that a gobble? You know we can't really hear anything but the rain, but it didn't sound like a gobble at that time either. And we take our hood off and listen and couldn't hear nothing and we get to walk it again out here.
Speaker 1:I'm like it sounds like it's, you know it's right there, but it's it's not right there. I couldn't, you know, couldn't describe it. You could just hear the front end of it, maybe. Yeah, you could just hear the breakup, something and, um, and just where it should be, you know where. I've heard it before. So I'm thinking like I mean, maybe it is. And then we couldn't find it. You know it had moved up. We thought, cause we had moved. And then we heard it again and I'm like, well, maybe it's walking next to us. I don't know, we only heard it when we were walking Right. So, um, long as we're short and they can get on, nothing didn't give him a gobble at anything where we can pinpoint it or even hear it again, honestly, um, I come back.
Speaker 1:I want to say that afternoon this hadn't neither none of these dots are connected until I'm down in this bottom and I was just trying to just I mean hardcore slipping around, you know, clucking and burning a little bit here and there and seeing what it was like down there, cause everything is now holding water that wasn't holding water, and I'm waiting through stuff left and right, not really waiting, but you know, ankle deep waiting Right. Um, this on top of, I can see scratching from not long ago underneath this water. This water has not been here very long, probably within a day or two, but so it's probably got the turkeys a little out of whack, I would say. But, um, I'm in there and then I'm calling here and there, and then I think I don't know if it's a crow or something, but I hear this weird noise and I'm like that sounded like a gobble, but it didn't sound like a gobble and they kind of started clicking with him Like there's the turkey in here.
Speaker 1:This guy's something kind of jacked up with it. You know, cause Chase has heard it. We both heard something and then now I'm hearing this something again, like that's probably is Turkey. Um, I mean, I think we we YouTube like, was a hand sound like when it tries to gobble? And I did YouTube what an Eastern sounds like? And it does not sound like that. Um, well, we were hearing an Eastern hand, yeah, cause Chase found a video of like a Rio hand goblin. I'm like, well, that sounds like a Rio gobbler halfway, you know. So I was like maybe he does sound like.
Speaker 1:This is hard. I mean, I can't explain it how it was sounding. It was just like a. It wasn't like a caulking, you know, like a that that. That it was just like a, a roleless, role, less gobble. It had like one, two notes to it and then just kind of like fizzled out.
Speaker 1:But the volume is so weird cause it gobbled twice and that's when I knew I sat down as if it was a real gobble. Yada, yada, I call. I hear wing flaps coming across one of these creeks. I'm like it's a Turkey for sure. Yeah, um, coming to a Turkey call and I got I feel like I could hear lesion stuff too Kind of moving left and then the direction that I heard those wing flaps and then the stuff, stuff moving through some. You know they could not take it but burnt twigs. You know what I mean? Those little knee high things that are everywhere. But um it, uh, it gobbles again and it's. I'm telling you it probably wasn't 85 yards, but it sounded like a mirror.
Speaker 1:You just kind of like at you know, inside voice tried to gobble. I mean it's already a real gobble would have rattled everything, and this one didn't. It sounded just like you played it on a speaker almost, but it was just like a pop, yeah, like it's a gobble. I mean that's a, whether it's Turkey got shot in the neck, bit and die or something, like I can. I can't think of any reason for it to be like a half gobble like that in the ball and to be, unless the joker's toting some daggers in there and he's six year old public landlord who just knows how to control his gobble and he gets closed and then gobbles just enough.
Speaker 1:Um, I mean, cause, some of the older acting turkeys I've killed have a very short gobble and a lot of folks think they're a Jake and I'm like could be, could not be, could be the exact opposite. It could be a stud, yeah, but but it also didn't sound like a Jake. You know, quote, unquote Jake, right, um, yeah, I mean, I've heard of Jake's gobble and I know what a quote unquote Jake gobble is and this was not. I didn't even think that, if that makes sense, um, but only time I've ever heard of them in my life and I hadn't heard since. So I don't know what it is, can't tell you. Yeah, thank you for the next day. And didn't even hear it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I had a guy walking on me after I'd slipped in there all day under daylight. I did. I had finally got where I wanted to be and didn't make a sound. It didn't crack a branch, didn't nothing. And then he hit one of the most wonderful box call you helped you ever heard, if you could imagine, and then instantly followed it up with about a nine note crow call and then instantly followed that up with about a 14 K that's your mouth call. That sounds like he has never put one in his mouth. Anyways, that's okay. The door, yeah. And then slam the door, yeah, and walk through the biggest opening area in this thing that this whole hillside could have seen. That I was trying to hunt, yeah, with assumption of there was a turkey in where the turkey should be. So I made a very large loop To come in from the other side Right. Should have just walked in, like your buddy else should have, but still never heard nothing. Yeah, all good is what. It is Public land, welcome to it. Yeah, and it was.
Speaker 1:It was a slow couple of weeks. I meant we got to kill a couple of this week and got to, I think I guess a day after the draw went hunting with my buddy, logan Logan Cook. He punts for the Jacksonville Jackalires and you know, probably heard him on here a couple of times. He's been a little guest appearance here pretty often and he's a turkey hunter dude. I mean good old guy, yeah, I mean he he owns everything, but he's a turkey hunter, you can tell. And he's from South Mississippi and went along with him. He's got a little show on YouTube and used to be a musket gun. I don't know if it still is anymore, but it's called off days and good, good, awesome hunting content right there. He's a cool guy and a good friend and went down there with him to some land I don't know if he's hunted it this year, but I miss him some land that he'd had access to most of his life and stuff where he grew up and little little block of woods Honestly no more than 100 acres, I think but wound up getting on three off the deck.
Speaker 1:I'm in this point. Aside from whatever that is we heard, I ain't heard the turkey gobble. I mean, I've listened a couple of times, and the days I was able to hunt wasn't able to hunt much or hard, you know just. We got a lot going on right now, and this early spring my days are a little more selective when it comes to not tending to spring legion business, so to speak, and not to mention, got two daughters birthdays and stuff like that in March, and we got a good old jumping party jump party thing coming up this weekend for one of them. So that's going to wait about a day. I'm all right with that, though.
Speaker 1:So I went out on the air, got to a Tackle on with Logan, and I'm like I mean, he knows, I ain't heard the turkey gobble, real turkey gobble yet, and, um, we're expecting these turkeys the hammer off on the ridge or a holler or something like that, and they are, I mean, 85 yards from where we're standing, you know, blow you off your feet, kind of gobble. I'm like, oh, that'll, that'll suffice, that's where that's a gobble, that's real gobble. It felt good. Finally, you usually I get one in late February or something like that, listening, that's less than a civil spudging didn't hear one. Yeah, I mean I'd only heard one bird Mm-hmm, a little private block. Yeah, I had permission to hunt, I mean you know, but yeah, so I mean I and this day Still on my low count, right? Yeah, it wasn't for that day. I mean I'm not one of here.
Speaker 1:A couple of your past couple days for that first week, he, he wind up Shoot. One of them is a fun hunt because they, they flew down and strut it with about 10, 15, he has probably three long beards and we got to watch them strut around and stuff is opening and um, for probably nine and a half. Honestly, I thought they were about to fly down in our lap. Yeah, you know, I mean we were sitting in with the open in front of us and I'm like they're going, they landed, the middle is game over. They landed, but they kind of landed on the opposite side and they'd walk to the middle and they walk. Probably A Couple of them probably flirted with 55 yards and we I mean it's kind of one thing, what are you gonna call them over here for our backdrop, what great and stuff. And you know there was no real reason for them to leave where they're at, for where we were and and him know in the place, he knows if they're over this either probably gonna head this direction, and if they do, I know how to get around them. So we hit, play very conservative there and and, um, fortunately it worked out exactly kind of, you know, in our favor.
Speaker 1:They did take the. The right instead of the left is like a log and road behind them. And as soon as they did that, last turkey, you know, cleared eyesight. We, I think we hopped in his truck. Actually we were gonna walk and we're like, well, you know, we can just pull around and then walk up the road. There's another road it comes off of and we did that and we pretty much get there.
Speaker 1:And, and the hottest thing, we bumped some hens out at the tree Walking up the road and we're like that's, you know I but Kind of glad we did because a turkey gobbler, that one of those hens flying over, and they were Pretty much for this little road, intersex, the road that they were on that we're trying to get in front of. I guess they just they didn't check up once they left right, as long line of Turkey is probably 65 yards worth of eyes moving up a road and I miss some thick stuff on either side. From what I was able to see it was so really wouldn't know where they're just gonna cut into the woods at and stuff like that. So they're all kind of just moving down this road in the line. But you got three plus 15, you know 18 turkeys spaced out evenly. It takes up a good chunk of road.
Speaker 1:So we get up there and he's a One of them's hammering at these turkeys in these trees flying off that we're bumping and I'm and I'm like I guess this is a good thing, not a bad thing, and good place to be. Oh yeah, we sat down and again, you know we're not far into this little road and nothing's really behind us, but you know a road, so to speak, and no real reason for them to leave where they're at and walk through some of this thick stuff to get to. So we get up there and just inch and inch and inch and then we start noticing these, these hens are flying up in the tree One by one, by one. I'm like crap, we waited out. Do you remember how many hens we saw earlier? We might be just waited out until there's two or three left and and then do some calling. We'll have a lot better shot.
Speaker 1:But Now we're able to kind of we start the once they've worked down the road and they're probably, I'd say, 50 yards from us as a crow would skip, not fly, coming in a par, but there is a wall of you know, just south as a pine thick between us and it's thick and Um. We can hear drumming and then we kind of make the look, all the courses drumming until it gets and there's a couple of little. You know, honestly, the deer trails that we're able to. You know we could move pretty good in there until we got pretty close to the road and then you know just really step-by-step every time we hear drumming, walk towards it. You know, trying to time it right, because Last thing we want to do is get up there and be in a point where they can see us and the gobbler's being the back and they're you got a wait for 15 sets eyes of hands to walk past you. Not a great Chance there.
Speaker 1:So we wanted to time us kind of coming up into shooting range when the, when the drumming got there. But, um, so he's going up and I stay behind him and I can see it Probably I think I was on his right and they're coming from the left, so I can see the turkeys before he could, and the window to shoot is very, very slim. So that last drum, he kind of looked at me like I'm gonna make that last little Move to get up there to to shoot, and um, and he did, and, and what we didn't consider was the, the, uh, the one drumming might not have been the first gobbler, so I think I don't know if he shot the one drumming or not, but, um, they were kind of working that way. He cut at him or something like that, and they brought him on over into Very, very narrow shooting lane. He had, I mean, 20 yards tops, maybe he was 18 where he shot it and brought him over there looking, and I saw it and he's, he's, and he's not shooting them like See, now, see it. But I forgot I'm on the right, so I took it. Take one more step. As soon as he took that step I saw Logan, kind of shit. So so it was quick, man Bam, but that was really cool.
Speaker 1:And then I was, fortunate enough, logan's good buddy, let me kind of go in there to. Uh, it's really, it's on the same less than 100 acres of property able to go down in the bottom where we thought we were going to start the morning, and, um, we got in there. We went and they launched stuff, hung out with his mom and dad real quick Um, also good people and we, uh went in there and he was. I mean, we had a good time driving down there just talking about turkey, hunting and stuff you know we've seen and done and all this good stuff and, um, we're just kind of, you know, messing around, talking and stuff like that, not really in a rush for any reason.
Speaker 1:It's a beautiful day, first pretty day I've seen Since turkey season been open, and we get on his bottom. I think we left struck at one o'clock maybe, um, and we Just, with the intentions, act like a turkey. We're in the bottoms. You'll see turkeys in the bottoms a lot and we on windy days or Extremely hot days or something like that, and it was neither. It was a beautiful day, so they could almost be anywhere, I feel like.
Speaker 1:But, um, I like hunting in the river bottoms and so does he and he. You know he's killed him in there before, so I know they would go in there. And we get around, we start seeing scratching. So we're Just walking very at the pace of a turkey, which is something that, if you haven't studied, I advise you to, because, um, I try to do that as much as possible Don't walk faster than a turkey, don't walk slower than turkey, and turkeys walk a little faster than you think they do. If you really listen to a turkey's footsteps, um, it's hard to slip. And also at a pace of a turkey. And, uh, just burn here and there clicking here and there, small little, you know, yelps in there.
Speaker 1:Um, every now and then I get a little excited with the aggressiveness of the call. Which aggressiveness is? Like how you know excited the call would be not necessarily how much calling you do, but you know, instead of like you know something quick, um, try to get a gobble out of one and, um, we do that for about five minutes. You know, I probably made three little Stopping calls and we'd go back to kicking leaves. If, ironically, dry as much as his brain it was, those leaves were so dry and crunchy, um, so every step we took, we made it try to sound like a turkey kicking leaves and stuff and the cadence of a turkey scratching. And then I hit one of them, aggressive notes um, I think it was a box call actually, and it's first time I got loud, said the the resident on the mouth call or something. Maybe it's late call being real soft. I got loud and two of them hammer about 60 yards and we're oh crap moment. You know, luckily Logan had already picked out a tree as soon as I started raising from the box call, which is a good you know tip to have.
Speaker 1:If y'all didn't know that, before you call, if you're going in blind, like your mask ain't on, before you touch the call, in case this exact thing happens, make sure you got a tree. Sip, I don't walk out another food plot and do it, and one hammers at the edge of the food plot and there's nowhere you can go, or same goes for bottom or any opening, or you're in a thicket and there's, the trees are up a little bit. And another thing I'm very, very stern on. You know, if we're hunting together or something like that, if you're gonna call, calling a shadow, don't, don't call because it's gonna make a turkey look at you. You know, like if you call, you want the turkey to look and not be able to find you, Right, don't be standing in a place where he can see you, because he's gonna look exactly where that call came from. If you ain't gotta move a lot of times, especially if it's first call, make sure you're in a shadow. So we're in a shadow and and hit a call and Luckily the spot Logan picked out was right there as we make two steps and sit down and three minutes later there they are. You know, yeah, quick, just like that.
Speaker 1:Two very, Very typical south Mississippi hunts. I guess you'd say In one day, within a matter of hours. I'm not here in gobble to. Now we've gotten, we've heard two gunshots and heard a lot of gobbles and stuff. One of them was very monotonous. Approach to a course in drumming through thicket and stuff like that took Probably three hours, I'd say total to. Before we shot down they flew down. Second Took three minutes. So you know that's how it happens, or as you can really predict it. So but it was fun. Nevertheless, we had a good time and you know it's good to be back feeling like drinking, you know, smelling a little borax in the office and felt good for the first time and we are getting in swing, things getting some calls broken and stuff like that, and it's been this first half of this week has been pretty good. I say first half of this week is Monday, but this past weekend has been also very good. Turkey on weather, saturday I think was a little windy, but no, it's been good and looking forward to what looks to be a good week.
Speaker 1:And I know Alabama is open, since Florida, south Carolina, I think, open maybe today or yesterday or something, I don't remember. But South Texas, yeah, is it one of the Arizona's or Mexico's? One of the ones out there I think is open? Yeah, I think Arizona was opening up or draws or something. Something was open. Arizona's of odd state yeah, trying not to get too lost, trying to start Right, I think it's one of those. You got to have a draw, maybe, I don't know, but one of those out there is, not remember which, one gets them confused. But it's been a good, good opening week, I'd say towards the end of I feel like I was talking to chase earlier.
Speaker 1:I feel like we've hunted a season worth, you know, compared to what I'm used to. It has been practically a season worth of hunts Just because I used to have to. You know, weekend on, you know I don't get to one day or two days, a weekend or a week and I mean I think I've missed two days and I feel like I've missed a month and I hunted three and it's been what? A week and a half. We hunted seals the other day and had three hunts in the hunt and I'm like total number of hunts. I feel like there's a lot, but it really is just one day.
Speaker 1:We put it in there and it's. I mean, the only reason we're not now is we got to catch up on stuff like this. Yeah, it's, we're trying not to forget about the main thing right here being the podcast and then the website and Instagram. If y'all follow Instagram. I don't think we got to apologize for it, but we are sorry. We think it's been a week since we posted something. Maybe we're seeing we're seeing the messages and stuff like that and sharing stories of folks who tag us. We encourage all tag is. We're trying to share every one of them if we get around to it.
Speaker 1:A folks were in spring legion out there in the woods and stuff and yeah, but we got, we got a lot of content to put out there. We just got to chop it up and make some videos. We're good at getting it. We're just not good at keeping that in our mind when the next turkey gobbles or something you know right, it's kind of in the past now. So, but yeah, that's what we got to get better at. We're gonna get better at that. Post some more real stuff. We got some cool stuff you know, even filmed already. Honestly, yeah, I mean some some good, some good stuff to folks put eyes on some stuff we're gonna be talking about the next week or two, probably. Yeah, yeah, I agree, I think I've told you the camera more than I've told you to go in really honestly, which is per usual for me. But we have, we've got some decent content out it, or to put out at least.
Speaker 1:I mean, I've been on. I've had a lot of you had a lot of days. Yeah, you were with it. You watch the turkey die, yeah, but I went with the buddy of mine, justin, which I think he's actually been on the podcast, for he's the one that killed that red phase or white ish. It was like a, it was like a mixture phase, like a copper, yeah, like really cool, where it's supposed to be black, it was kind of whitish double copper and then, like you had a bunch of copper all over and beautiful turkey, Nothing I've ever seen but went to a piece of his land that he's actually just bought. I think it was like the morning of closing on it. I mean, he's been able to hunt it for a little while now and he went out there and I think he worked some birds a day before or something of that nature and kind of had an idea where they're at.
Speaker 1:They were across a little creek and we ease up to edge of a field and hammers were like and that was like first good gobble I've heard since season to dope and and you know that was probably two or three days in at least, and we ended up kind of having to set up quick it was me, justin, and one of our other buddies, peyton, and ended up, you know they flew down where you ended up being like 50 yards from the hands and didn't even know it, and so after we kind of felt like we walked under them, we kind of assumed that they would kind of hang out where they where, they flew down and they did and eventually, you know, after 15, 20 minutes or so we are probably longer than that we dropped back in the creek and waited the creek down, about 250 yards to where this little privet section between us and them kind of opened up and met a little end of a food plot. You know food plot was out there 100 yards or so and we assumed that they were being the top of that, top of that hill, of that food plot. And about halfway through our walk we ended up. The bird went silent and we kind of looked up. We were kind of in our opening kind of the direction the turkeys were at. We're like dude, they, you know they might have picked us off. Yeah, and I know Justin was like we screwed up, we're all just calling on. The almost kind of was like you want to call it or you want to keep trying. I was like man, we can still keep this, this right, this going, even if they did see us. You know we'll find out. We'd heard two or three other birds in the distance, but anyways, we sit down and I yell one time and he answers me.
Speaker 1:Good, and I didn't, I kind of forgot about the gobbler at that point. I just went to trying to to call him to a hand and shoot. We're sitting there 15 more minutes and I think Justin and Peyton kind of lost interest for the second night. I was just sitting there looking and all of a sudden red head pops up about 35 yards and I'm sitting a good little ways from him. I'm like turkey, turkey, turkey, turkey, turkey, turkey, turkey, turkey and I'm going to scramble to cut my little camera on to try and attempt getting this footage of it. And bird walks in there to you know 20, about 35 and strutting one or two times and I'll get one more time to try and pull him out. I was trying to get him gobble to see because I lost him at that point. He's behind a bush to me and I didn't know which direction he was going. So I want him gobble at least one time.
Speaker 1:I didn't know it, but Justin and Peyton both had a clear day sight of this turkey this whole time. I was just in between both of them and just have one seeder, a privet hedge bush, right in front of me, kind of blocking a little bit of it. But Justin Kio didn't. We walked over there and he didn't even notice. He said man, it's got one spur. You know, that was kind of a eyeball thing.
Speaker 1:I walk over there, flip the bird over to look at it. He's got three black bars on one side. Wing wing bars solid, what do you call it? Because wing feather, I'll. Wing feather was black. Not, yeah, there was no bars on it, it was solid black. Right, it had three solid ones on one side, one solid one on the other one and then the gold feathers up in the armpit of the wing. I guess you would say a little shorter feathers are normally white, more white than the, than black. He had three solid copper ones there, so it had a hint of red phase and the black wings and one spur.
Speaker 1:Very unique bird, you know, and we were all joking, you know. Of course we gave him a hard time about it because he just killed a white one last year, year before, and you know, here he goes killing another one in a million, turkey kind of thing, and I've never seen one. Oh yeah, I never even seen a color phase, turkey. I mean I've seen like a smoke phase in off the timer tube Maybe. I've seen one that I think was borderline red phase was that one break kill with me and we didn't really notice it it was. But like, looking back at the pictures and stuff, I was like that thing had a ton of copper color to it and I guess where was a Rio, in Mississippi, and it was like gold. Yeah, remember that. It was a couple years ago. Yeah, I remember you saying something weird about it.
Speaker 1:I'd seen it before you weren't with me. I'd seen it before and noticed it like three goblers hanging out like what I'm like very light colored, it looks almost like a statue of one, so to speak, like just a copper color, bronze, bronze. You know, yeah, but his back feathers just for everything, but his, his fan, and when they were all strutting I'd seen him before I even hunted, had the very, very light. I mean Easter's can have like tips. You know, almost if you just hold the tip of the feather up against the Rio's, or Rio's and Easter's, it'll be identical. It's kind of the secondary color characteristics and stuff that can really you can look at that and go I's a Rio and that's a Eastern. But I mean Joker, look pretty weird. And one of the three had a weird gobble to it. You know, I'm like, I'm like 19. I'm like maybe this is a Rio. I'm got a doubt or something. I don't, you know it wasn't. But more I've Eastern's I've killed, more. See how much they vary. They can vary a whole lot and I kill one of the days like almost a maroon. Everywhere is purple. It was really cool and he had a little white tip.
Speaker 1:Feathers and stuff here and there look kind of. It was definitely odd. I've never seen it before. It wasn't. I wasn't gonna say color based, obviously, but right, just a little cool, little unique, yeah, and I mean that's the thing about them. They're one of them's different.
Speaker 1:I ain't got, I ain't got two fans that look alike. Either they got a dark bar across the top of the fan or, you know, some of them don't even have a bar across the top of the fan and half will be this way, half will be that way. It's crazy. That's why I inspect every single one of them, just like, why, I don't know, maybe a kid at heart. I just like I'm fascinated by every single little difference and stuff, and some of it's like a broken feather. That can happen any of them. I'm like that's cool, right there. You know just how wide the barring on the wing is, or how shiny these feathers are in comparison to these, and I do like Eastern's the such a broad spectrum of chestnut, brown, gold, maroon they can be. They can look really different next to each other. Oh, I agree.
Speaker 1:But but hunting early season is fun. I think I said last week I like hunting in the early season. You get to hunt, hand up turkeys, which is part of turkey hunting. You know, I mean I get frustrated, he is just as much. But I love being able to like interact with them, and even the Jakes. You know, even when we have some Jakes come in on us the other day and put on a show at 17 yards for an hour and a half, two hours, and we're like all right, you can leave, you know. You know, trying to do everything we can, just really regretting that one help that made them come over here.
Speaker 1:Didn't know it. Yeah, had a full goblin. Oh yeah, they got their heart rate up, that's for sure. One of them had all but the bottom two tail feathers were a little shorter and the rest were full. And I still said he saw his beard and it was he's like have a bush. He said it wasn't really hanging over. Yet I was just digging out, but it was. It was close, you get. Had it been with some long beards, I don't know, you know, would have blended in a lot better. But it was saying that with two dinky Jakes that had an inch long beard he was definitely running that show though. Oh yeah, and that little chump, yeah, it was fun.
Speaker 1:But getting to hear all that and see all that, I can remember vividly a season or two that I didn't get that, that I hunted and might have killed a couple long beards, I don't know, but I didn't get to hear hens go back and forth, I didn't get to hear them on the limb and I get to hear them flying down, interacting and stuff like that. And then last year we had that, you know, I mean once in a 10-year experience up there with began that we heard 18 different hands, 17 different shakes, 14 different gobbles, you know, just acting like turkeys. In that. I mean, that sets the tone for the rest of the year. I feel like I can. I Can, I know how to call and sound like a turkey, but I like to hear, as recently as possible, some turkeys interacting on their own. So you can kind of mimic mimic it Right and I remember a couple seasons where I didn't get that and it was, you know, on into April.
Speaker 1:I'm like I Need to hear one, I need to hear you, I need to call in the hen and get cutting back and forth with her and stuff like that, and that's how I mean I wind up killing a good bit of long beards is, you know, bringing in the hands. That's kind of my objective. I think I told you yesterday my my name is, he was I don't remember but I was telling you know kind of the spill and what we're about to do. What do this walk around call? I'm like I'm trying to get a hen to cut back. Ain't trying to necessarily get a gobble, I'm trying to get a hen to answer me. That's what I'm listening for.
Speaker 1:And if you go into a bottom or something like that and you're just listening for gobbles, you're gonna miss some turkeys, because you got a listen for scratching, you got a listen for drumming, you got listen for hens and not Yelp and I mean you know there's turkeys standing there, being, you know, and around and stuff. You'll hear that way more than you'll hear the gobbles. You hear the gobbles further, obviously. But if you go in there not with the mindset of listening, for that you're gonna lose drumming in the Roads behind you and you know the wind and stuff if you're not actively listening forward. So I try to kind of, if I'm on somebody, make clear what I'm. I'm listening for hens in here because it's wet and I can't hear scratching and you know you hear drumming. Let me know kind of deal I'm gonna be listening to.
Speaker 1:But the purpose of the call and it's and we had a turkey drum at our Drumming. At the calls the downmer filled the ureum but I don't think it was a logan. He called a couple times and he mentioned it to and I didn't really. I think he mentioned it like I knew that already. I must have Accidentally insinuated the deal, but I'd never really seen it either. But a turkey adjusting, like, the volume of its drumming, definitely a thing, because we've watched it happen and I was, I don't know if he knows the first time I'd seen it too. Yeah, you hadn't talked about that. Yeah, it was pretty cool.
Speaker 1:This is three out there struggling these hands and stuff and they're drumming and drumming and I could see them again. Different scenarios, same turkeys, but the first set up right off the roof. When we hear them drum pretty good, they're very, very close and and when you can watch them strut, you know when to expect the drum. So you know you got an ear for it and he called a couple times. Couple we up seeing maybe one split off. You know didn't want to. You know really bump anything necessarily first morning down there first hour of the hunt. You don't want to mess it up. You know the whole properties in front of you. Practically they go anywhere Away from you. You're honestly in a better spot and can reposition.
Speaker 1:But, um, he caught a couple times in that drumming went through. He's like they're coming in. I'm like he's saying spot, he's just getting louder with the drumming he and but that turkey with drumming, then look like he'd be god, like a goblin, look, you know He'd sit there and he'd look for a second. He'd get the pecking around and he drum kind of softly and he tells you like talking to that hand over there and then he drum real loud and Logan, I can see him kind of like shift, like thinking one's coming in. But every time he drum real out he look over here where Logan last call. You know he's drumming at him and honestly I've, you know, I've kind of picked up on that over the last year or two.
Speaker 1:I've really watched it and I I think that's that's a very true thing and I mean, even with that Barre, justin was on heat, he's trotted out there 30 yards from us and I never heard your home and and I mean we weren't near any highways or roads or anything, I mean, and I didn't know he's, he strutted until Justin was like, yeah, man, when you hit that call, you know he boom, blew up instantly and stood up looking and blew up again and looked and I'm like, dude, I had no idea none of that was going on and and you know, obviously could have heard the drumming. Yeah, that close, I would think. Now I mean I may not have noticed it because I was in the moment a little bit too much, but I've noticed it get louder and quieter and louder and quieter. And now that you say that it makes a lot more sense, you know, kind of to me, and I don't know if anybody's ever broken down the Physiological side of drumming and what it really is, what it's coming from, how they're doing it, but I do think the younger turkeys don't drums loudly. Not necessarily they can't, but they don't. That's that's also what I was gonna say with that thing.
Speaker 1:We think that was a satellite turkey. No, I think it was the one, because he kind of came in a little bit like he never gobbled. I mean, if he were assuming there was two turkeys in there with those, that group of hands and he was the Non-dominant bird, slip down there just to see that one hand, because if it would have been the dominant bird we would have thought he would gobble some more. But Also, that bird never gobbled either. We just assumed he was breeding hands. I don't, we don't know what happened because they were out of sight, but you know he didn't have Sawed off wings, yeah, like he had been strutting every day for the last month, right, which I mean I just said.
Speaker 1:I mean I've killed some that I know are older, because you can look under heads. You use their wrinkle Does all get out there, miss their, you know, got battle scars everywhere. They're heavy, they're, I mean they're old turkeys, regardless of spur length and most of them do have longer spurs that you can tell where longer at some point had been. Well, you know, broken down a little bit. Actually their wings are about half Off. They've they've sold them off for almost and and they're drumming. I remember just being so deep and loud and they can almost like hold it and then drum Randomly on their own after they spit and stuff.
Speaker 1:But we had some jakes in front of the other day and I was kind of noticing this one. They they're doing, they're like, yeah, you know, it's real like immediate, soft, you know. And some of the mothers like, and that should be long, deep, and I'm like that you know Correlation, causation, all day long. But I started kind of wonder that, or the heavier turkeys at least, and I think that's a little bit of a characteristic of the older ones more More I grab on to them, some of them lighter ones, if they haven't ancient half hooks. I'm like, yeah, turkeys head don't look quite that aged and it's pretty light. It's probably just a you know good, good chance. I mean a good strike of luck on a good spur to make three-year-old turkey, I don't know.
Speaker 1:But but not early season stuff is a different which I think we've talked about it, probably in the past couple weeks too. But yeah, I like to give them as fired up and then try to get them between them, if you can. If you can't, learn to be patient, because it's gonna take a while and and and we've heard a lot of reports and we've seen it as well the whole a hammered on limb. They hit the ground, shut up. I'm doing what they're created to do. You know You're trying to change churches. Turkeys mind not try to. You know, change God's intentions.
Speaker 1:And you still got to play. You're a part of that. You know it's not just the turkey and you. If you can get in the game with one, then the game starts. But until then, just hearing one is not always doesn't mean the game has started quite yet. You want to wait until it's your turn to play? Yeah, and that's big thing.
Speaker 1:And then we you and Breconyne, I went in kind of one yesterday Did we couldn't believe. Yeah, we go in there tight. And he got closer and we thought and and we get in within 100 of him on the limb, in a Pine needle floor place and which is very quiet if you never walked on pine needles, virtually silent. You can slip anywhere you want to, but soaking the turkey, yeah. So we get in there to a couple, three yellows, answers got down to and he's lighting it up now. I mean, he's probably by himself. I can tell you know, we give it to seven to 15 coming around, seven, 20, 25. He kind of shuts up, not abruptly, but just. You know.
Speaker 1:I call one time, I think, and he didn't answer. I'm like all right, and then he did call, we got for one. I hope we didn't see, you know. But then I could hear drumming every now, and then I was a turkey drum and then he gobbled it something. I don't remember what it was. I'm like, oh, he's still there.
Speaker 1:We didn't, we didn't scare him. You know, yeah, and I'm sitting there waiting and you know breaks guys going up and you're right behind brick and I'm a little to the left of y'all and I'm I'm not calling them more really and I'm like, all right, you know, should be any second. Now, yeah, we're expecting me to pop up. Something's going on, both walking away from right. I'm like this guy will. Here's gonna be 100 yards or 20s to be ready. Yeah, and never came, never came, never came.
Speaker 1:This eight heat, 15, 830, I think. And we're like all right, let's go like, yeah, he ain't there. You know he wasn't the other way with hands. I heard no wings, no steps, no putts, no yelps. That could be with him. No, no further. God was nothing.
Speaker 1:We get up, make a loop, you get back to the truck, us going back to the truck. Stars up and dogs in the neighbors place. They bark. He got, was it? He left the tree. Yep, he's still in the tree. Same tree, I mean like a hundred yards away from the truck tree, right, and wow, maybe what it is is. He saw us pull up because we didn't expect him to be Roosted that close to the truck. I mean, I wouldn't think you just sit there and hammer and hammer and hammer like that If he was a little nervous. No, I said I'm still scratching my head on it. I mean, I don't still in the tree. I bet he may still be sitting there a day and a half later.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and it may be a jake, and the reason he shut up that's that was a thought of mine is either Jake or very old bird, one of the two, but like a non-dominant bird just looking for anybody to hang out with. You know God, when as much as he did, he's alone. He was looking for a group to get with. And a bird may a goblet out of our ear shot, right, that he could have heard or, you know, Him, being up in a tree, could heard and that's why it showed up and it or he could have seen us. You know there's a thousand questions I asked myself, since here and there, and that's been the reoccurring question of that. Myself, I'm like I wonder if he heard the dominant bird in that whole area or something that nature that we didn't hear. And that's why he shut up and stayed.
Speaker 1:Like you know, I didn't want to get his butt and I think they can be old birds. I mean, you don't, if that's your daily routine, you gonna live a long time. You know, I was trying to explain, to break them up. They got three things to do, you, and that's eat, breathe and not die. That's just him not dying. I'm standing there, bodies entry. He's not dying. You know he's not hungry. And they don't wear wrist watch, right? You know they don't care what I was to be if they don't want to be there, if they don't want to get down, they ain't got to get down and and this is a lot of folks have have Been not worried, but they're, like you know, burge, active, funny.
Speaker 1:You know I'm hearing some gobbles and they get on the ground they don't gobble. I'm like, well, that's every year they're end up, but it sometimes I can see how it's even less than that. Right, and I was talking my buddy the day. I'm like Nothing. I've seen this year, a little bit last year, but more this year's jakes. I've seen a lot more groups of jakes this year for Mississippi because we usually we don't you know, y'all know, turkey population deal going on right now. I haven't seen a lot of jakes in the past couple, you know handful of years last year or so, more than I had the prior years, and this year I've already seen a good bit.
Speaker 1:Just makes me wonder, like I think they're. You know, these single goblers and stuff like that Probably aren't gonna be as vocal if, if not needed. So just be there, not communicate gobbles. And there's much with a bunch of jakes around that they might know about that you don't know about, right, that can't gobble even honestly, jakes can't even go yet. So you've never even heard or seen them, right, you know there's to themselves a little more being reserved and not trying to get the butt kicked by a bunch of teenagers. It seems like yeah, or just aggravated by maybe not even butt kicked, just yeah, I mean those jakes will run off a lawn beer and heartbeat. I mean, if you get more than three in a group, shoot. I've seen it happen a lot. No, yeah, I mean I have to. I'm just saying sometimes You'll just see some jakes out there just being goofy with them and it's just like you can tell that guy they're just aggravated with them, like you know, like it's a bunch of teenagers.
Speaker 1:And the other thing we were talking about the other day was, you know, seeing jakes with hens, stuff like well, jace came breed here, we're gonna let this hands might get breed either. Yeah, I think, I think I actually brought that. Yeah, those are genies or whatever they call them. You know, I don't like, just because I've been seeing him, I've seen a handful of a lawn hens with no goblers right and they're always kind of smaller looking and stuff like that. I'm like you know, that's probably, yeah, you know, pulse from this past season and they're probably not even good breeding cycle.
Speaker 1:I don't know the physics of that on, the scientists stick it if a genie can Breed the next year or not. You know, I know Jake doesn't really do much breeding, if any, you know, effectively, effectively, yeah, that's the word I was looking for. So I mean, I don't know if that's, if a gobbler Long beard is even interested in a genie. Yeah, I mean, we can tell the difference in a two-year-old Turkey and a one-year-old turkey because it's a beard right and the fan, I mean it's in the next to another growing here. I don't really, I can't pick it out, you know, just standing by itself and nothing to bear it to. Yeah, it's just one of those thought of it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, just kind of hit me one day. I'm like I wonder if these are all just little right, sisters, turkeys, yeah, you know, why are they not fired up right now? Why is there not a gobbler with these turkeys, you know? And I was like, oh, I mean you think about mm-hmm to your. You know your lens Dries in a field by themselves all day, every day, in a book. Don't ever come by to check them. You know, make sense, yeah, which Explains a lot. But you know, there's much a Houdini in going on. Bunch of ghosts down here, still Mississippi. So, yes, that part ain't changed, that's for sure. And some of these days We've been like I bet nobody killed her. You know those days everybody's killing turkey, yeah, and some of the days real pretty, we get on some and nobody like I can't get one to go like man, they shut up over here, right.
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