The Spring Legion Podcast
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River Bottom Longbeards, First Turkeys, and Hunting Tight Lipped Gobblers
We're two weeks into turkey season, and as our newfound buddy Ty from Memphis stepped into the Mississippi wilderness this morning, he was armed with the optimism of a TFT raffle-won turkey hunt and a hunter's quiet hope for a gobble-filled dawn. But as we all know, Mother Nature loves a good plot twist, and she delivered a silent wind whipped weekday that kept the turkeys tight lipped and our spirits in limbo. Journey with us as we unpack Ty's adventure and how the best-laid plans of hunters often find themselves at the mercy of the woods' whims.
Through the echoes of empty forests and the thrill of close calls, this episode is a campfire of shared tales and strategies for the the unexpected. Feel the heartbeat of the hunt as we dissect each strategic move in the river bottoms, the craftiness required to outwit an old gobbler, and the camaraderie that blooms amidst the trials of the chase. We also celebrate young Kason's first turkey hunt, a tale woven with patience and the kind of suspense that makes such stories timeless for every hunter listening.
As the sun sets on another day's adventure, we recline by the metaphorical fireside to laugh about the unpredictable joys and misadventures that come with hunting in Mississippi. From hospitality found in the most unexpected places to the anticipation of hunts yet to come, we share in the journeys that carve the soul of the outdoorsman. So, go ahead and settle in; these stories are the fabric of the Spring Legion Podcast, and they're as wild as the game we pursue.
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all right, take two of this week's episode of the spring legend podcast. We want to welcome you to it. We have, uh, this is the second time we have recorded an intro, but it's the first time we remember to hit record. So here we are again, round two. My name is runner farrier, joining you with austin seals, chase farrier and special guest here today mr ty from memphis.
Speaker 1:We learned that in the first intro that y'all aren't able to hear. And um ty is joining us today as a special guest because he is down here hunting with us in mississippi. Um courtesy of turkeys for tomorrow. We did a I remember we kind of mentioned it a few weeks ago a hunt raffle. They were doing um to raise money for wild turkey conservation and mr ty got chosen and got to come down here and conserve wild turkeys with us today, because we uh we did not kill no wild turkeys today, so that must mean we're in the green as far as that population is concerned. But, mr Ty, we appreciate you hopping on here with us and spending a couple days with us, even though it's been a little slow due to uncontrollable circumstances, but nonetheless the company is much appreciated. But yeah, give us a quick rundown again after we hit record this time.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I'm from a little town outside of Memphis so it's only like a three-and-a-half-hour drive down here, so it wasn't too bad. But, like you said, the first take it was a beautiful morning, but I didn't hear a gobble, didn't much, of any turkey. Uh noises this morning or afternoon, but uh, the woods were alive and well, we know that yeah, it was.
Speaker 1:It was one of the prettier days that I've seen, probably this season, and it really kind of it threw me a loop, I ain't gonna lie. I mean, considering the woods we're in and knowing that there's turkeys up in here and uh, that is till that, wind kicked in oh yeah, once that wind got here, I didn't hear nothing. I'm my ears are ringing from it literally it.
Speaker 1:Um, it went from zero to, I think, 30 miles an hour. They said the gusts were going to be 30 miles an hour, but those gusts haven't stopped. Yeah, it's the thing.
Speaker 2:So it got. It got to the point when it did get a little halfway calm for 30 seconds or more. I was looking around at y'all like everything all right. Yeah, I'd almost gotten used to it at that point. It's so bad.
Speaker 1:And you can kind of notice when the woods are that quiet, whenever the wind does die down for six seconds and ain't nothing happening. You're not missing nothing. Nothing's chirping, nothing's making noise really or moving around and stuff like that, including the turkey. So I was expecting to wake up this morning and the pressure, be you know barometric pressure be above 30 and it'd be a crisp morning and everything but the front kind of either the front or the weatherman one lied because it kind of came through partially and then delayed, kind of progressed on. So the rain part came through and the temperature dropped a little bit, but it didn't drop nearly as much as the forecast kind of expected. And then usually with a front there's a lot of wind and it comes on through. But there was no wind yesterday evening and then just woke up this morning with blue skies I mean see stars everywhere for the first time in a couple days but no, that barometric pressure was still in low 29s and falling.
Speaker 4:So it's still sucking.
Speaker 1:I think the way they work is it pulls it up and then pushes it out. Got a deal right before the front gets here, and that ain't good gobbling condition right there. But nevertheless, man, I figured we'd have bumped into one at least, but we haven't, and that's just how it be sometimes. I don't know really a better explanation besides that. That it just sometimes it ain't a good day even though it looks pretty outside. But that or Seals just gar hold us completely, I don't know.
Speaker 4:That's probably the second option.
Speaker 2:We're all starting to cut them. Eyes towards the hill looking. Yeah, we know, we're joking, we know there's birds here. This is two beautiful woods.
Speaker 3:All three of them today. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4:We think it's like a little honey hole. It really is. It looks like it Three times this year. Yeah, but it really looks like it Three times this year.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but wasn't hunting all today?
Speaker 2:No, and I know the conditions are going to be about the same tomorrow, mm-hmm, but we have talked to several people that were hunting all good woods, all herd birds there previously and I don't think has anybody heard one yet.
Speaker 4:I haven't talked to someone who has. I've talked to four or five folks and haven't talked to a soul that heard a turkey.
Speaker 1:It's just kind of dumbfounded because I really, when I woke up this morning, I thought it was going to be right.
Speaker 4:I was so confident I put my overnight bag, my clothes in it, in my truck. I wouldn't do that.
Speaker 1:That's probably why we ain't heard one that's it, that's it you're doing jinxed this, but you better believe it's gonna stay unpacked tonight. Yeah, all I was going through a couple regimes I do trying to relay some good luck, and they didn't even work, and they usually work. But so we don't have a story to tell y'all about the day. Necessarily I don't think we did.
Speaker 4:We saw one owl sleeping yeah, and he was only 10 foot up a tree Right he was blowing, so hard.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he was hugging that tree. That's what I was thinking. I was like I don't know if we're going to go out there and try to reach one, because it's probably going to do all they can to hold on to a limb. Right now they're going back and forth and back and forth. Even, like I mentioned, the breaks in the wind are just eerie silent.
Speaker 3:Yeah, they are.
Speaker 1:So it's just bad luck, I guess, for the beat of two days for Ty to come on down here and I was pretty pumped. But we're just now getting to halftime and as far as I know we're going to have a good supper and buddies Jordan and new buddy Mr Brent they're going to come back and I hope they heard one Maybe they killed one, I don't know.
Speaker 4:Jordan said they heard us Dang Well, but I am looking at the weather right now.
Speaker 1:If the weatherman's right, it's going to be perfect Well he wasn't right last night, yeah, but it is what it is. And, um, yeah, uh trying to think of some, some stories to uh to relay to the audience so we'll give them some something of substance. We talked about we. We talked about mine and seals, turkey from a week or so ago, I don't think I know we did. Where were what was last week's? Oh, logan's, jason and I did on a whim, yeah, late in the week, yeah.
Speaker 2:But we've been hunting.
Speaker 1:It ain't like we ain't been hunting. I mean, we've hunted a couple times here the past week that have come up short-handed. We had a good or decent opening week. A few people were with folks who killed and Cason killed him in one this weekend.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 1:This past weekend, which was a Miracle.
Speaker 3:Awesome video. Yeah, it's a miracle.
Speaker 1:I wanted to put that video up. It's really cool. Seals, a boy, cason. Uh-oh, we got Jordan and Mr Brent pulling up. Let's see they might be a while.
Speaker 4:Yeah, they'll probably be a while, yeah.
Speaker 1:But yeah, let's see.
Speaker 3:Let's see if they go around to the back of the truck.
Speaker 1:We'll give you all a play-by-play. They're stretching as they get out of the truck. They're not walking towards the back of the truck, not walking directly up in here. Got their tails tucked about like we do.
Speaker 4:Yep, yep.
Speaker 1:Nothing. Nothing coming out of the back of the truck. Nope, yep, looks like a big old goose egg on their end too, yep.
Speaker 4:Yep, yep, that makes me feel better.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean I was feeling pretty bummed too. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that makes me feel better. Yeah, I mean I was feeling pretty bummed, but um, I, I don't. I ain't gonna say I like seeing other folks that go turkeys, but I ain't nobody lying. It makes me feel a little better if nobody else is here in turkeys, right.
Speaker 4:Right.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so y'all get one. Nothing, nothing, nada, nada. Y'all hear more than we did. Uh, we didn't hear, but it's been a rough street on day 17 yeah, see them chase, both are yeah, man, yeah.
Speaker 2:So those that don't know me, and seals ain't shot a bird yet I've been on some good hunts. Yeah, I mean, I've toted a camera. Seals toted a camera a handful of times. Should have had a good one on film that day. Old Brack choked on me.
Speaker 1:Oh, I forgot about that, yep.
Speaker 2:Which we may get him on here to tell his end of the story. But I don't rag him.
Speaker 4:It happens. I don't rag him, it happens.
Speaker 2:It happens. Oh yeah, yeah, Seals, it happens a lot.
Speaker 1:Usually Seals has shot at one by now.
Speaker 4:Yeah, hey, I told y'all yesterday and I shouldn't have because I jinxed myself. I only missed one, turkey in the last two years and then this season.
Speaker 1:Yeah, the 17-day old season.
Speaker 4:Yeah, so two years and 17 days I've only missed one turkey.
Speaker 1:And it was Jordan's fault, really, when he was self-fying oh no, we ain't getting started on that because he was going to be ragging Jordan, which I ragged Chase for making break minutes the other day. Yep, I told him and I still. I mean, I believe he made a miss, but you know, make him feel better. I told Chase if you ever do that, well, I'm sure you're going to be pissed.
Speaker 2:Yeah, told jace, if you ever do that while I'm shooting my piss.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I rushed it and to tell him that as I rushed, I said there you know, there he is, kill him or something like that of that nature and break break wasn't ready to kill him yeah, didn't even have a safety off and you know kind of wasn't ready in that lane.
Speaker 1:He was ready in the next lane and I just you know he swung and shot kind of situation and centered a pine tree and and I've done that before and I know exactly how his progression of in his mind went down and it's if you're moving. He was moving right to left and you're aiming with your right eye. Your left eye ain't looking. Either it's closed or it's not focused or whatever. So if you're following that trigger from right to left, you don't see what's coming up on the left. But you see, you're kind of almost looking at the head to stop and when it stops you you're ready to pull the trigger right. And it's just if that tree's close and it knocks out 80 percent of the pattern it's you only got and you don't see it until the smoke from the tree comes up right it's just that red cedar smoke.
Speaker 1:Yes, yep, I've seen that a couple times and you're just like coming from left right. It never really gets me, but I have shot it Sometimes. It'll still kill a turkey. That is doornail, but I've missed smoothly because it just knocks out so much of the pattern.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And this one was unfazed, practically. I mean, it ran off, but it gobbled. What, an hour later.
Speaker 2:Less than that. Yeah, 35, 40 minutes. Yeah, and we 35, 40 minutes, and then we re-watched the video and it didn't cut a feather on that turkey and then went in there the next morning and he was gobbling again which he just didn't work that day, which I don't blame him one bit. I was just kind of more eyes up going in there make sure he was all right.
Speaker 1:Just wanted to make sure he gobbled again. It's hard to do it two days in a row after getting hot leads in at you. Some of our buddies killed some. There's been good mornings. Logan Cook's been seeing about 17,000 die.
Speaker 4:I'm about to go rub his head and get some love. I told him I'm calling the cops.
Speaker 1:Something's going on, gotta be. He's been on one of them good streets, one likeordan had last year yeah, jordan had a good stretch last year for sure, logan's just what logan's five days from being back in jacksonville yeah, making it worth it he's got.
Speaker 1:He's got a season and a half worth of experiences so far. I feel like, which is awesome because he puts a lot of work into, you know, making turkey habitat and doing good for turkey, so so anyone deserves a good run, as Logan. But Seals and I, we were in a like situation not long ago on a windy it got windy. Chase was with us in the morning and we got on what wound up being three Goblin Jakes that were Hard.
Speaker 1:Goblin Jakes I mean, I'd have bet my last dollar that they weren't jakes, but they, um, but they were, and that's the fact of the matter and they. But it was fun because we had a couple hands going back and forth and those jakes strut in front of us. How far were they?
Speaker 1:15 yards maybe, yeah it was pretty, pretty woods until they didn't leave. And then you know that kind of getting that bind in your foot to sleep and you're, you know, trying not to bump them because it was pretty early in the morning. They hung around about 45 minutes.
Speaker 4:It was longer than that. We didn't get up and leave there until like 10, 9.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and we got on them. What?
Speaker 1:7, 30-ish or whatever. Yeah, I mean, we were close on the limb. They flew down. I watched them fly down, went to them, heard the hens coming to them and stuff, which is, you know, odd, because I wouldn't think that but it could have been their sisters. You know some also year-old hens and they're just hanging out. But we finally got out of there after they used on and, uh, see us now. We went some more river bottoms and did something we don't usually do, which is sit down and call we sat down because we were dog tired.
Speaker 1:That's the only reason I want to sit down. Um, it was what? Two o'clock maybe? Yeah, two, two thirty, something like that we ain't sat down yet and I said let's sit down and we're just gonna call like no, no, somewhat, but we we sat down and just to take a break and a woodpecker sounded off that's what he
Speaker 1:got at first trying to think, because you thought a woodpecker was a gobble at first and that kind of made us stop to listen more, yeah, or something like that. And then I was like, look, you know this one, let's take a load off for about 10 minutes at least yeah, that's yeah and um, and then then we heard the woodpecker, last woodpecker, but then something followed and I was like that could have been a gobble when I was here the whole time yeah, but um, but it was.
Speaker 1:I mean. I mean, you just have that feeling as a gobble. You don't even really have anything to base it off. You didn't even really hear it. You're just like that sounded, just the timing of it came right after, you know almost like it felt right right
Speaker 1:exactly, and so, um, I wasn't moving any of the way because I was still trying to get my feet back under me. I was like, well, if we broke out of Black's call, I mean wailed on it a time or two we heard it again and we were kind of like, well, I might be in the elbow, you know. And then what you said.
Speaker 4:I said how long do you want to sit here? And you smart-aleckly replied two minutes, because I'm not even sure that was a gobble and it wasn't 20 seconds oh yeah that he gobbled me like that. That's a gobble and it's a lot closer than it was last time.
Speaker 1:Absolutely. And he was coming on and it was, I mean, what do you do? And then we were kind of already sitting there. So we were on the right side of the road. This is on the left and it's flooded river bottom kind of stuff. I mean, it's water everywhere which I like to hunt in the water, in the stagnant water, kind of river bottoms and stuff. I've done it a couple times. It becomes a puzzle very quickly.
Speaker 4:I'm going to say it's fun to hunt when you're familiar with how it's going to hold water.
Speaker 1:Because there's certain ways these turkeys are going to get around it and stuff Certain ones will hold them up.
Speaker 4:Certain ones won't.
Speaker 1:It's fine if you can make it work, but it can be very, very, very frustrating and there's usually a lot of palmettoes or those little knolls and stuff around there that you can kind of use to your advantage if you A know where they're at and B depend wholeheartedly on where that turkey is and what he's doing. And, um, this one hung up. I mean, this joker came half a mile and hung up at about a buck 20 maybe, ish, maybe a little more than that, probably 200 yeah, probably between 175 and 200 probably um, far enough for us to cross, cross over the road that was pretty directly in front of us.
Speaker 1:We didn't really necessarily get on into the woods on the right side. We were still kind of hooking that road trying to. I don't think anything was on the right, Could have been, just the water was more frequent there, yeah, Um. So we were kind of had to focus on that left side and that's sure enough where that one came from, and we I mean I'd say 30 minutes or so honestly of him being hung up before we decided, you know, let's do something Because it was wide open.
Speaker 1:I mean it was a pretty risky move, one of them kind of we might bump him, we might kill him, but we're about to find out. You know, we're not going to find out sitting here and we crossed that road and came up and kind of crawled in a little bit and the elevation changed zero inches the whole time and I think it was a little bit. I mean he gobbled a couple times while we were crawling, probably 30 yards, I mean just getting across the road. I mean going down the road. I wasn't crawling across the road, I mean I just hunkered down and then, once we got to the other side, you know we had to cross a knee-deep water hole yeah.
Speaker 1:I wasn't doing that on my hands and knees, I didn't say I don't want bad enough, but I was thinking we can get across it. And I popped up and my binoculars landed on him, kind of deal, you know, just to kind of aim it towards joker being that should be right there because he was. I mean, he just had that big waddles and longs nude and everything was just like felt like he was looking at me already.
Speaker 1:I'm like he is not, he's just mad you know, just looked mean and uh, just real short wings and stuff. Yeah, a lot of broken feathers on them and stuff like that. Real shiny and probably not a two-year-old kind of deal. And he was hammering, had a real raspy gobble, short gobble and I was like this is about to be a tango right here. I can tell that right now. And he was still about 170 yards, maybe 150 at least, and, uh, what much we could do was. I mean we just happened to be kind of closest in Palmetto.
Speaker 4:Well, that, and we luckily behind the Palmetto on the edge of the railway was a little knoll that we were able to kind of stay behind and keep our cover you know, our silhouette down.
Speaker 1:Well, I mean, we had to hunker at that point. You know and this wasn't what this was within 20 yards of where we where. When I saw it, at least, it might have been 10 yards away. It wasn't far. We were slow getting there, but I don't think we gained much ground.
Speaker 4:You know we were just being very, very easy. Yeah, now, once we crossed that, once we got across the road, we didn't I'd say 15 yards as far as we went in.
Speaker 1:Right and you get over there and you're trying to figure out what in the world is hanging him up, and when they're this wide open especially, your only option is a wide open road on the other side of the wide open bottom. There's not much to really trick him with, you know. I mean, what are you going to call him around or call him to? You know he can probably see it all from where he's standing. But we kind of we caught a little bit. We got behind there and we're laying on kind of our bellies at this point. You know we're as flat as we can get and there's a one little bump that we can kind of position between us and hit and if it walks right, we got to kind of slide with it. You know just kind of using that to our advantage.
Speaker 1:And he I'm sure he heard leaves and stuff because he started picking up the gobbles and stuff like that. And we caught a little bit once we got settled. But yeah, after a while he finally broke and I didn't know until he saw him and I wish how far was that when he hooked a right and kind of came down and there was this fallen log and that was hanging him up from coming straight to it. There was water over there, we found out. That was what was originally hanging him up from coming straight to it.
Speaker 1:It was, there was water over there we found out that that was what was originally hanging him up, but I I guess he got around it somehow.
Speaker 4:Yeah, well, I think the, I think the way the water ran, he kind of skirted that water and where we thought, you know, there was a little lane opening, we thought he was going to come up through there and he didn't. He skirted it on down and come to find out. When we stood stood up, that water ran like that. So there was no.
Speaker 1:I mean he would have had to cross a ditch, and when you're high level of the ground you don't see that Right, but he stood out there 55 yards probably, I'd say about 50 yards, 55 yards. And he gobbled 200 times. I feel like and you could see his head and stuff too he's almost like as a poke. You know, if you had a range finder you could just see it say 42, it'd make it feel a lot better, but I mean you could tell it was pretty far it was, you know, and I had my dot on him several times yeah and just, and also I don't know if this is a real thing or not.
Speaker 4:I feel like when I was laying down yeah he looked a lot farther than when I stood up, and made that log.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean, I'm not the best at gauging distances, but you put me in something like that. There was nothing between us until that law, that log was between us. But I was right at him. It depends on how big that log is. I don't know. You know that could be a really a really big one far away, or a pretty small and close, I don't, you know, it's hard to gauge and that was a actually a big turkey, you know. So it was kind of hard to tell.
Speaker 1:Body-wise he weighed over 20 pounds, yeah, but yeah, he kind of he. He. Finally, you know, there there's not much you can do. You can just. I mean, we scratched around, I tried yelping as much as I could, left, I pulled him left. Seals was on the gun and I knew he wasn't going to come over this long, but I figured he'd find a way to get around it somehow and come, you know, look on the other side of his palmettoes and he had found a determined not to do that. So what much he can do, he finally, I mean, if you've ever watched a turkey be hung up, which?
Speaker 1:if a turkey's hung up. It's usually something you've done, it's avoided, it's not really cured, if that makes any sense. You haven't put yourself in a set-up situation that there's something worth him moving. He can see what you're trying to hide from him, so to speak. There's nothing for him to wander, really no reason to move. He ain't gonna move and that's that's what he was doing. We were kind of handcuffed, I guess you could say and uh, but, he, he kind of.
Speaker 1:It's funny, like when they do this they just stop. They say screw it, you know, that's all I mean. I've seen them do it several times. A lot of times they don't walk into a better shot. They usually walk the direct opposite way or walk back where they came from. They're just gobbling, gobbling, gobbling, Nothing, and that one second they've drawn line. They tuck the wings just start eating.
Speaker 2:Walk back. You know it's over with.
Speaker 1:Yeah they call it a day. Yep, just kind of like we do you know we're just sitting there by tree and go all right, it ain't gonna happen, right, you know, and that's what he did. He just happened to bought right seals was seals had a bunch of stuff on his right and wasn't able to, and I was on the left but my gun and my body was already kind of back on the little knoll we was laying on.
Speaker 4:And he didn't ease over there.
Speaker 1:He tucked his wings about the time. I'm kind of I think I was looking down and looked up and he wasn't there no more and I kind of see a glimpse and Seals told me he said you know, he's moving right and kind of fast. We don't know why at this time obviously and I could tell Seals had maxed out. I feel like on his swing.
Speaker 4:I had maxed out, because we had thought maybe he was going to come around that log and come back to the left.
Speaker 1:Yep.
Speaker 4:And he would have still had to come a little piece. I was so maxed out, he would have still had to come a good piece.
Speaker 1:That was our hope. That's what we tried to call him to do.
Speaker 2:And so it just didn't work.
Speaker 1:You know we didn't just we'd had to get got a little lucky on it. I feel like we just didn't.
Speaker 4:Oh, we got lucky.
Speaker 1:I mean we got lucky, it just he didn't do the plan. He didn't he didn't read the script we wanted him to read. Actually, I think I was sliding back to give you room to move. We were starting to draw our line too late. I'm going to bugger him by sliding back so he can move either way. So be it.
Speaker 4:That's right. He'll move either way and then kind of ultimate him there. Because I had a sapling that I got my gun around Well, not a sapling, a twig, I guess you'd call it. But that's why I couldn't go any further yes, I had that sapling there so I could.
Speaker 1:I would have had to bring my whole body back you know, and like lay on my side to shoot because we talked about it and I said but if you do that and he goes left, you want to undo everything you just did? I don't know, I mean pick a door and hope you got the right one kind of deal.
Speaker 1:Because there really was no other, you know, option. And in the process of doing that is when he kind of drew his line. He moved real right and if you've ever had that one little bit of opportunity between you and the gobbler of know kind of blocking you, mind you, I'm my whole body's underneath this little, I mean a foot 12, 14 inches worth of rays in the dirt and my face is on the ground trying to slide back. But you know, so is my going and I came all the way back and then I was able to get on, you know, over seals is kind of. His legs are kicked out and just kind of picked up. I said if he walks there I can shoot that he's just, for some odd reason he's gonna have to walk there and I'll be that gun if he didn't.
Speaker 2:You know which he was angling kind of towards y'all to get around. Whatever he was angling away.
Speaker 1:He came up, but came up where seals couldn't shoot and this was in the process. So I look up and it was him. He had come around the log and came up a little ways and then was headed back.
Speaker 2:So it was about to be awesome.
Speaker 1:You know, she was about to roll him at 15 yards. I thought when I looked up and he was still facing us, he just had stopped and I don't know, he never saw us or nothing. I mean he wasn't bumped. I mean, right before I shot him he was picking bugs and stuff you know, Moved on with his day. Yeah, he was just going mosey on. He was just getting around that long he wasn't even coming to us.
Speaker 1:I don't think and once he got around he was. He might have been walking back to that road as he was pointed out at the end. Yeah, I think that's what he was doing maybe didn't make you know sense of time, but I think that's what he was doing which was would have got us right handed at that point if you'd have got that road, because there wasn't nothing between us and that road at that point.
Speaker 4:No, it would have been done. I mean, the only shot we had was, yeah, the one you took, and it was either that or we go home empty, yeah and and hunting, maybe on him again, I don't, you know.
Speaker 1:Looking at him, you know, up close, I don't. I think he's pretty old, you know. I think he was real wrinkle, wrinkle, waddles and everything. He was pretty heavy, decent spurs and stuff, but he'd seen anything or two already I feel like but and we we had. We throw a kitchen sink at him with nothing but a freaking palmetto limb in front of us.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:So he wasn't going to fall for much for a little while, but sometimes it do you know?
Speaker 2:Yeah, you never know when they will.
Speaker 1:But other than that, the only other wild story I had was yesterday morning. I had one hammer at me 60 yards from the blacktop and there ain't much you can do there either. So I was sitting there kind of feeling like an idiot listening from the blacktop, but I was like it's turkey should be in there. I should be able to hear him if I get there early enough. But I'm kind of finicky about where I park and stuff. I don't want people to see it and then you know they're on their way to work. It's a weekday, they're. They're like well, saturday comes I know there's a turkey there because the guy with the camper shell is parked there and he must start hunting turkeys and he'd know where they're at, because that's where I think sometimes I hang a lot. You know this is a pretty well-traveled road and I don't want to be the one sitting on my hood in the camouflage and look like an idiot trying to hear one from there one that gobble right there, so what much you can do there?
Speaker 3:he flew down like 631 super early.
Speaker 2:Yeah and uh, that's up there what did I do there?
Speaker 1:I did not kill that one. He flew down and I'm I'm just on my knees, you know I'd crossed over and got down in there. I'm trying to get, you know, 200 yards at least in there. I don't even know what the legality is, but you can't shoot one like 60 yards from the road. So I gotta get on the other side of him somehow, and I was really planning on doing that while he was in the tree and he flies down. So I just kind of sit there and watch him and, uh, he's going down and do a bottle with some hens. And I called a couple times after that and didn't get him. And then we had plans to meet back here at noon.
Speaker 2:I just watched the three-legged dog try to jump through that and it was quite comfortable.
Speaker 1:We've got a little dog house here, pretty cool little shop we're in. I ain't going to lie, oh yeah.
Speaker 4:I like it a lot.
Speaker 1:There's like this really innovative shop door halfway it's got some studs built in with some plywood wall and a couple of dog doors. That kind of have them a come as you please door kind of deal.
Speaker 4:It's called a doggy door.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, one of them. It's got like a flap on it and everything. But, um, yeah, so've got some company over here. Three-legged dog, that's some good company. But yeah, what else has been happening?
Speaker 4:I've had some Me and Mason killed one or Mason killed one.
Speaker 4:I got it. I videoed it. That was a weird hunt, kind of like this morning I guess we went. No, that morning we did hear a bunch of gobbling and had called three in across the creek, got them to pitch the creek. We were going to try to get across the creek and they were too close they ended up pitching across.
Speaker 4:It was three longbeards. They came in and they probably weren't 35 or 40 yards, but of course the route they came in it was just a wall of thick stuff. So they got up there, didn't see nothing. They eased on kind of the same thing. They were done. They gobbled the whole time they were walking off. Then the last time we heard them they had already crossed the property line. So we backed out and went to a little place right there by our house and walked, called anything we could to get one to gobble never could. And on our way out this probably wasn't 150 yards off the road. We stopped way out, it's probably wasn't 150 yards off the road. We stopped and me or mason one yelped and we didn't hear a turkey guy.
Speaker 1:But we heard hens just go crazy.
Speaker 4:So we looped around and I said we'll give it a shot. And we sat there for probably 10 minutes and I could have sworn. I heard drumming. But we were on the edge of a road not on on the edge, but there was a road probably half a mile to our south and I thought I heard drumming. I was like that's drumming if a car's hitting a bridge and whatever. And finally I was like that's drumming and I told Mason he's like, I heard it too, but I didn't want to sound like an idiot. I was like, okay, well, we're both on the same page, but that was. I mean, it was a pretty quick hunt from the time we set out to probably 25 or so minutes. He was, we had killed the turkey, but he came in and did not gobble a single time really I saw him.
Speaker 4:I could see a little further to the left and I saw him. Well, first I saw the hens come by and I saw a male turkey. I got to look and I said, dang jake, well he. First I saw the hens come by and then I saw a male turkey. I got to looking and I said, dang Jake. Well, he walked by and the lawnmower was right behind him and they walked back and forth two or three times and finally the hens came out towards us and he followed them right out and killed him. But that was good, that wasn't an eventful hunt.
Speaker 2:We had a.
Speaker 4:Cason's hunt was yeah, it wasn't an eventful hunt, we had a. Cason's hunt was yeah, it was eventful. It was an eventful weekend. So we Friday I took him, me and my dad, and it's hard to get him through the woods like we do, so I rigged up a fanny pack to where he could sit on, the fanny pack on my back to where.
Speaker 4:I wasn't just having to hold him. So we got here, turkeys gobbled. We went to where we needed to be, kind of a little further up, maybe 30 yards up from where he killed Saturday. But sitting there and had a turkey gobbling he came up after after he gobbled good, so it was it got him excited. But he ended up coming on to us and poked his head up I could tell it was a long beard and he gave us like three seconds and he kind of went back to where he was, where he was at and he's.
Speaker 4:He still gobbled till we left, but he was, was never, he wouldn't he didn't see anything.
Speaker 2:Right, he came up there looked, didn't see a hand.
Speaker 4:Right.
Speaker 2:Went back to doing his business.
Speaker 4:So the next morning, you know, ended up in the same place, just 30 or so yards back, and had three turkeys gobbling and all of a sudden I heard drumming, and it was one of those.
Speaker 4:like there's no question yeah, right so I had casein between my legs or whatever, and I kind of cut my eyes to the left and he was like seven steps and I was like I said casein, don't move. And he said okay, and the turkey kind of eased around and I got the gun, or the gun was up, I kind of got him on the gun. And all this happened quick too.
Speaker 1:And when we sat down.
Speaker 4:It was like you know, by the time you get him situated, I had the camera, was filming it by myself.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 4:Our two different cameras. By the time I got everything set up I clicked the red dot on him so that long beard never really spooked. But again he didn't see. So he kind of cut back in front of us. But he again he didn't see. So he kind of cut back in front of us and he was like at 20 yards and I was telling case, I said put the dot on his head and shoot him.
Speaker 4:And case, I could see him looking down, looking up and looking down and finally, by the time we got it figured out he had crossed over the bridge, went to the bottom and, uh, what it was was when I clicked the red dot on.
Speaker 2:I clicked it once and it had the biggest dot.
Speaker 4:So after that turkey had eased off, he said, daddy, when I put the red dot on him it covered his whole head I couldn't tell where on his neck.
Speaker 4:I was putting it, I was like well, I guess it better be safe than sorry. But so I was still looking at the long beard right down here to the right and I was trying to click it down. I was trying to keep him settled down and finally got it down and he said there comes three. So I looked up and from the turkeys I guess we were actually set up on. Yeah probably was Started coming out and he looked at me and said that's boys, turkeys, we can kill them.
Speaker 4:So they came out, three of them, the back one strutting gobbling. I mean, he got to hear the gobble like while he was watching. I could hear his, I could feel him getting shaky. And they came out and I told him. I said shoot. I told him which one to shoot. I said shoot it. I was like no, hang on, because there's trees out there. So I'd get in the open. I'd say shoot him. He'd take a second.
Speaker 4:Come to find out what he was taking so long for is when we were practicing shooting. Well, you know, we started shooting the paper. Yeah. Then I stuck those little eight ounce red coat cans all through the woods for him to shoot, just to make him find it in the woods, find it through his dot and shoot. So what he was doing is he was taking his. When I was teaching him to shoot, he was taking his two deep breaths and holding the third one, but he was taking him like, and then so his two and a half deep breaths took 20 seconds, yeah, so, as it was taking them like, oh, and so his two-and-a-half deep breaths took 20 seconds, yeah, so that's what was taking so long. And finally I got one to stop somehow and now also keep this in mind. My dad was probably 60 yards behind me.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 4:And he was calling he couldn't see. So he was calling Blind calling, right? Yeah, he was calling based off of their. So he was calling blind calling, right? Yeah, he was calling based off of their gobble.
Speaker 3:He didn't know we could see him.
Speaker 4:So he was calling. They were starting to skirt us and I was over there trying to call make them stop like yeah they were.
Speaker 4:But finally, like I said it, it worked out. He um, he got up on him, so we were in a he's long, he's big enough where he can get the gun on his shoulder and squeeze with the correctly when the gun's facing the right way. By the time we got a shot he had to move around to the right, so he was kind of in a bind and he couldn't get his right hand up to the trigger. And I didn't know this until we went back and watched the video. But since he couldn't get all the way around, he had the gun kind of between his bicep and shoulder and I don't know how it didn't hurt it never works.
Speaker 4:But he got down on the red dot and I was watching the video. He pulled the trigger with his left finger and when he did, turkey folded, oh yeah, and he was beside himself.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, he went to hooping and hollering.
Speaker 4:He went to yeah screaming and hollering. As he should, though. Knocked the camera down, he took off.
Speaker 3:You said your dad was there 60 yards behind you. He got to the turkey first, didn't he?
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 2:It's hilarious.
Speaker 4:I look back and he's just trucking it.
Speaker 2:You can see I still show me that other day. They get excited and high-fiving and stuff and you just see a blur. You know, across the back of the screen, Donald coming through my Mr Donald's a pretty athletic dude.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, he can roll.
Speaker 4:And that's what he said. After he said I don't know where I was running he said I couldn't see where the turkey was or anything.
Speaker 1:He said I just was running, or his gun style yeah.
Speaker 4:But no, no, that was, that was probably.
Speaker 4:I don't know that I ever have a hunt more special than that yeah, being his first one and being able to do it with me and him, my dad, was something special. Yeah, it was. It was awesome. And, like I said, I I think I was telling you, hunter, that I would hope this year that we could get him on you know, know, get him on a turkey, let him see some close, hear the gobbles close. But I honestly did not think that we were going to pull it together. But I do mean I wish I knew how much money I spent on shells and.
Speaker 4:Coke cans, but it all.
Speaker 1:It was worth it.
Speaker 4:And it all worked out. And you know he hit the turkey. You can go back and watch the video, exactly where he was aiming. It was. He folded it. Yeah, and that was one thing I told him that you know, because I told myself I was not going to take him until I wasn't going to force him into it.
Speaker 1:Too young for where he didn't enjoy it, and when he asked me.
Speaker 4:I said I mean I'll take you. I said I'll take you. I said, but you're going to practice, we're not going to go out there and just wound turkeys and all that I said you're going to figure out how to shoot the shotgun, where to shoot it, when to shoot, and all that he did it.
Speaker 2:It cost a lot of money, but he did it. It all paid off, heck yeah, and he can get out of a bind too, Swapping trigger fingers and stuff Most kids would have never thought twice about that.
Speaker 4:I don't know that. I would have thought about it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I know.
Speaker 1:It would have put me in a bind. I didn't even know that was physiologically possible.
Speaker 4:It wouldn't be, unless I mean with his gun sitting on. The rest was the only reason that could happen.
Speaker 1:Yeah Well, it worked out, I wouldn't change nothing. No, yeah well, it worked out, I wouldn't change nothing. No, it was worth it. But Ty ain't got to tell us no stories yet. I know he got to. He told me earlier he got to come down Mississippi already once but, like many other folk, got one of them draws for the opening two weeks or whatever two days of the two weeks from Mississippi and got to participate in that corralling. It seemed like which. I don't know which days you did get drawn for, but it could have been really good or really bad. I don't know how. I know we've had a little bit of everything going on these past couple weeks in Mississippi. I know we've had a little bit of everything going on these past couple weeks in Mississippi, but did you come opening weekend or?
Speaker 3:the second weekend to In Mississippi. Yeah, opening weekend, it was opening weekend.
Speaker 1:So you got the rain weekend, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3:I didn't even go opening morning. Yeah, it was thunderstorming, so I just waited until the afternoon.
Speaker 1:You made the right move. Yeah, me and Chase went, went, we did not make the right move. Nope, I was like I'm gonna sleep into about nine o'clock that's best, uh, best, uh strategy I've come to find you can, especially if you're coming from somewhere and you can just get there and wait it out and sleep in and just hang out and do whatever and you're close by. Yeah, you know, it's a game changer if you gotta drive an hour and a half yeah, I mean, you know where I was hunting.
Speaker 3:It was about an hour from, you know, the walnut, mississippi. Yeah, so I was. You know, about an hour drive from where I live yeah, time of right.
Speaker 1:You can get there just in time, and even that day I don't know how it wasn't up in north mississippi, but it was pretty daggum rainy. I do know that chase and I didn't kill enough time that opening day. I don't think, did we?
Speaker 1:yeah, yeah, yeah, it wasn't much we did run into a drunk guy named mark who offered us a chance to come kill the turkey in his backyard yeah chase is awful. I was, I mean at first. I was chase wasn't picking up what I was trying to put down and like this guy can kill us.
Speaker 3:Yeah and chase like oh yes, sir, we want to kill that turkey, that's all you were thinking I was just like we had to wait on chase.
Speaker 1:He flagged me down yes, coming down public road and um I turned the other way chase and chase the other way. Yeah hunter, I was gonna go check some some more pins I probably wouldn't have stopped if I'd have known chase wasn't really behind me. Yeah, but um, the first thing he said was um, you don't want to go kill turkey, you know it's like. It's like driving a white van, like asking a kid you want some candy or something.
Speaker 4:Yes, sir.
Speaker 1:You got any. You're following me back to my house. I don't even care what kind of turkey, I just want to get one.
Speaker 2:And we followed him back to his house. Yeah, I mean.
Speaker 1:I sat there with him for 20 minutes and I texted. Chase told him I said I think he'd been drinking. You know, just a heads up. You know Chase didn't have the opportunity to pick up on it as much as I had. But I mean, I wanted to kill turkey, so I was like well, go to your house, mark.
Speaker 2:At least look at you.
Speaker 1:You know worst comes to worst. We just won't turn in if it looks pretty sketchy. I mean it looked pretty sketchy, we still turned in. I mean I really want to kill turkey, yeah, but he was describing he knew how many acres the place was, how you know every road name.
Speaker 1:I'm like he really did grow up here right this ain't just some rando out here, just, you know, high off his rocker, kind of offering us to get, take us to somebody else's house to shoot a turkey he saw the other day. I mean he, he was, you know, legitimately grew up in, you know, on this forest and knew the place. And Enough for me, you know kind of deal.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean, I like Miller too, man, give me one at 10.30 am if I need it, you know. But yeah, then he reached in the cooler and started grabbing more. I'm like, oh yeah, he is drunk. So guard was up, you know, put pistol in my pocket, kind of deal. For first chance he turned around or anything like that. Just to not one of those you want to like kind of flare anything up and make it look suspicious like I don't trust you at all, so I'm gonna put a handgun where you can't see it, kind of deal. But you know, also want to live so right, being smart about it, intelligent and not going to get, you know, boxed in which chase did not catch on to that.
Speaker 1:He kept parking behind me and said not you know, I can get out I know you could, but I couldn't, um, but now we went up there and I mean he showed us around his little 12 acres. Yeah, 12, 11, 12 acres and six of it was a pond. I'm like that's nice fun, you know then we got to talk about coming bird fishing and yeah jace is loving it, jace, Jace is like oh yeah, you know, this guy and all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1:We're parked on the pond dam. This guy's in front of me, I'm parked behind him, chase is behind him. So you can't turn left because you've got a pond dam. You can't turn right because you'll go in the water. So I'm like this is the last place, but and he's all, it's pouring rain and this guy's standing in it talking to us the whole time. My truck is getting soaking wet and he's just like handing me paper towels to wipe my door off with.
Speaker 1:I'm like that ain't going. You know, fix the wiring that's soaking wet anymore. But thanks, fella, about that turkey. Let's get on this subject again. Talked about your divorce, enough. Yeah, we had. We had a bunch of conversation which sounded like he came out on top of that. You know, yeah, you know, he's doing well allegedly. Allegedly yeah, but yeah we didn't go back the next morning like we told him we would.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I kind of stayed off that whole corner of the public for a couple days. Well, I saw him again. You did.
Speaker 1:The next day or that evening maybe, and I was trying to kind of avoid, you know, a follow-up combo with this guy if I could help it. But I was leaving and I went to go um try to hear one roost, and I was. You know, you know on the on, you know in the place trying to hear one not just like from a road.
Speaker 1:So it was eight, eight o'clock, 8, 30 or something. When I'm kind of passing back down the main road and I see his headlights like in the road, I'm like this guy won't get over. I'm like I know who that is yeah, and it was just like not moving vehicle. I'm like, yeah, but I know that is kind of his high beams wrong blinding me. I'm like I can't tell this truck's coming at me or not. So I finally I think I flashed my lights had to honk the horn all of a sudden.
Speaker 1:It's almost like he woke up and he's like oh, just pulled back off and now that was that, was that guy? So, dude, I mean over 24 hours, yeah, because he was. I mean he was pretty intoxicated at what 10, 30 am that morning so he's been up throughout the night and still rolling at 30 pm. So hey, more power to him. Rock on, brother, hey whoever does, somebody might know him and be like hey, he had a trick right there and I killed it yeah, he said he'd like to find somebody every year and get him to kill that one turkey.
Speaker 1:I'm like I don't know if his turkey's really yeah, there or any thoughts, but but I will say he knew where turkeys were, that I'd hunted before and I'm like okay, now you kind of got me, because I know not many people know about these turkeys and you know how you know these turkeys so yeah, he started naming off, he don't turkey hunt.
Speaker 2:He just knows roads yeah, I mean, I think he just rides around and drinks all day on those dirt roads he told me he did yeah, when he comes back from offshore occupation, heupation he's got whatever it was.
Speaker 1:I can't remember what it was.
Speaker 2:It was something to do with oil. He's the boss now. Yes, he did tell us that.
Speaker 4:Anyways.
Speaker 1:A lot of work, a lot of money to buy 12 acres.
Speaker 2:Hey, tees are on. Bud Light ain't cheap, though Bud Light ain't cheap. I did want to ask Ty some questions about the TFT side of things. Yeah, just how the raffling process went. I mean, I didn't.
Speaker 3:I heard a little bit about it. Didn't they do it live? Yeah, they did it on Facebook. That's what it was, yeah.
Speaker 2:It was a pretty cool deal. How many tickets did you buy?
Speaker 4:I just got a note, I think.
Speaker 2:I bought. I hope there's one. I think I bought. I hope there's one, I think I bought seven, seven I think. I think they sold them in packs of three and then a single yeah, that's what it was, so I bought two packs of three, then a single sweet yeah, I mean, I heard a few people buying them and you know they were chit chatting with me yeah they saw it in our.
Speaker 1:DMs. Come on with it, I'm not drawing.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I can't help you here, bud, but yeah, so I was curious how many you bought and how it kind of worked out.
Speaker 3:I actually forgot I had my Facebook alert on for the Facebook Live to get on it. I forgot all about it. The next thing I know I get a DM from some guy on Instagram saying you won. I'm like what did I win?
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 1:A knife on instagram saying you won, I'm like what did I win?
Speaker 4:right like a knife? Oh, you get to go hunt with spring. Oh wow, yeah, hopefully it's a good weekend.
Speaker 1:Y'all sure y'all ain't got a cooler or something yeah decals maybe. Um nah, we probably.
Speaker 3:We still had a good time but yeah, it was fun out there, mean it was a beautiful piece of land out here.
Speaker 2:And we still got another. What day yeah?
Speaker 1:We'll get up in the morning, see how it goes. I don't know if we'll be able to do another afternoon. Especially the winds are going to pick back up.
Speaker 4:I was about to say last time I looked after about 11, it's going to be worse than what it was today.
Speaker 1:You can kill them in the wind. I've killed them in the wind, but they're in all the places that we've been in today and they just weren't there or you weren't going to hear them. But, I mean there's always a chance. You never know how many turkeys you bump. That you don't see.
Speaker 4:I was telling one of them that earlier that if you're walking, you don't ever know.
Speaker 2:Unless they putt but, they're not going to do that.
Speaker 4:If they did today, you wouldn't hear them.
Speaker 2:No way. Yeah, if you bumped one today, you'd never, never have a chance.
Speaker 1:I don't think they were gobbling and we weren't hearing them. When it's this winter, they know. I mean gobblers want to be heard. They're not going to waste their breath, even if they hear a hand acting very abnormal like we would be doing. If we're just calling all over the place, which we were. We called a lot but it was. We never sat down. We sat over 10-15 minutes all day. I feel like we were strategically calling in this spot and then on a, on a still day, you can walk good 150 yards and call again. You know you're calling down this one spot on this ridge. You see one's there and you can walk up 40 yards and call down this one little spot on this ridge and you know, really a bunch of mini Hail Marys is all you're really throwing and percentages are probably less than 1 in 40.
Speaker 2:I agree.
Speaker 1:Because I think we threw about 40. So it's definitely less than that, but that's why I keep doing it. So I don't know what we're going to title this episode, because we just talked about it and everything under the book and it seems like a lot has happened in the past week, but I feel like you know we ain't got a lot to show for it. But that's how it is. We're going to start traveling soon, so I am kind of looking forward to that, getting the truck ready and stuff like that. I know Seals and I and then Lake and Logan and anybody else going to the Texas thing.
Speaker 4:Our wives, our wives, that's who it is.
Speaker 1:Yeah, our wives are coming, so this is going to be awesomely fun.
Speaker 3:I think I'll be down there, be out there the same time y'all are.
Speaker 1:Really.
Speaker 3:That last? What when? Awesomely fun.
Speaker 4:I think I'll be out there the same time y'all are.
Speaker 1:Really, when are y'all going? We leave next Wednesday, yeah.
Speaker 3:So 13th or 14th I'm going out there. May Okay, we're going out there in a couple weeks. I go last weekend out there.
Speaker 2:Oh, okay.
Speaker 1:We were off a month.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I ain't been to Texas in a long time.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I hadn't either. We were discussing that the other day because I was debating going with Dad and Breck and now I got a bachelor trip that weekend. Good old turkey hunting buddy, done bachelor tripped us up into.
Speaker 3:April. He didn't get married in spring, did he?
Speaker 2:No, he got that pushed to June or July or something like that. I'll have to look at the invitation. Hope he doesn't listen to us. Apparently, I'm kind of in it too and everything. So yeah, it's going to be. I told him, as long as it's after June 7th, we're good.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And it's like I honestly think it's June 8th. Is it June 8th or July 8th?
Speaker 1:I could be way off. They're both the same. They work plenty good either way.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but yeah, we actually were discussing going to New Mexico at some point late April. As soon as we get back from his bachelor trip. Just stay in the truck and come on through and slide across. His old roommate or something from college has a big place property out there that we can just show up. They've got a house there and everything so might as well just slide over there for a couple days and see what happens, and then once May hits head north.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we'll be all over the place. Really, after Texas, we're going to be all over the place. I'm looking forward to that. I am trying to get another hundred or two in Mississippi, then moving on to new scenery. I've come to look forward to that just as much as hearing the gobbles and stuff, seeing stuff I've never seen and revisiting places I've seen year after year. It's funny. There are certain places that I've been to, probably the past three years, that I don't know what they look like without this shade of green of leaves. It's always spring at this place because it's always in April when I'm there. It's the same. I remember this tree being there and having to get around it last year.
Speaker 1:Here's my dang ruts from getting stuck last year the place probably went under six feet of snow accumulation in the meantime of that and this and leaves changed colors and grass got real tall and got mowed by some county worker and stuff, and like I, come back and it looks the exact same as it did the year before, like nothing ever. It was just timeless, which is cool. I've grown to really like that about the traveling aspect and stuff and from the accents to the food to the, you know different shape road signs, you know.
Speaker 1:I find kind of intriguing you know little sightseeing stuff here and there to be some of the best parts of traveling turkey hunting. It's pretty cool places that a turkey will take you and the folks you'll meet because of that. So got some stuff look forward to and um, nevertheless, the spring, so hard to have a bad day even if it is 30 miles an hour, winds and allergies kicking your butt, which they are kicking.
Speaker 2:I know mine. Right now I can barely breathe. Y'all heard me hacking over there. Thought I was going to throw up.
Speaker 1:My left nose hole is broken.
Speaker 2:Left nose hole yeah.
Speaker 1:It ain't working right now, never mind. We're going to take some Zyrtec, get a game plan for in the morning and we might have a little time. I'm watching these leaves. The leaves did die down. I've been watching that the whole time. I might, we might, get out there. The wind has died down.
Speaker 4:He's about to turn the fryer on for some french fries and grill some elk. So while that's going, we may sip out. That's how I'm going to try to roost one Sounds good to me.
Speaker 1:We appreciate y'all listening to this podcast.
Speaker 3:We appreciate y'all listening to the Sprint Religion Podcast. Tyler, we appreciate you joining us. Hopefully we got a good story to tell next week that we're going to make tomorrow, but if not, we've had a daggum good time. Absolutely Appreciate y'all having me out and appreciate TFT for putting it on.
Speaker 1:Thank, you Absolutely. It's been a heck of a time so far. It's not over yet. Oh yeah, we got stuff to do yet.
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