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.
The Spring Legion Podcast
2025 Gear Launch + New Learnings from the Wild Turkey Woods
Join us as we reconnect with longtime friend Austin Sills in a bonus episode that marks the exciting start of season four of the Spring Legion Podcast. We share a nostalgic journey through the evolution of our podcast and the challenges we faced while getting back to recording. As we relaunch, we're eager for you to hear some of our favorite behind-the-scenes stories and what we’ve learned along the way. This episode brims with excitement as we prepare for the release of our upgraded Spring Legion Turkey Hunting Pant 2 and Gator 2, along with Black Friday deals that will warm any hunter's heart just in time for the holiday season.
Uncover the meticulous enhancements we've made to our outdoor gear—built to endure with durable stitching and abrasion-resistant features in the beloved Bottomland and Greenleaf patterns. Our new camouflage half mask, thoughtfully designed for turkey hunting, stands ready to enhance your field experience. Coupled with a fantastic giveaway, we encourage listeners to engage with the podcast—all while sharing thrilling tales from recent hunts, including a memorable deer hunt in Arkansas. We also invite you to help us expand our reach by suggesting retail partners, furthering our commitment to innovation and customer satisfaction.
Engage with stories that celebrate the tradition, mentorship, and adventure of hunting. Whether it's the camaraderie of hunting with young enthusiasts or the strategic maneuvers required in stormy weather, these narratives promise to enrich your understanding and appreciation of turkey hunting. We explore the delicate balance of pursuing gobblers amidst life's other commitments and share proven strategies for success in the field. As we look forward to future episodes and listener interactions, this season promises to be filled with engaging stories and valuable insights you won't want to miss.
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Speaker 2:Not a whole lot, just busy. That's crazy. I didn't even know it, or I guess I knew it, but I didn't think about four seasons until you just said it. That's wild.
Speaker 1:Yeah yeah, chase and I were sitting here the other day and recorded what would have been the episode one of this little two-pack. We got going on here for the release kind of just a special two-episode week to kick things off, and he and I were kind of discussing a little bit before press and record. You know how many episodes have we done? Did we want to mention you?
Speaker 1:know, what episode number it was and stuff like that. We didn't really feel like counting them and stuff, but we did go into. We found the first episode which was winging it, like we mentioned, and it was. He said it was like that one was not long at all. And then the one right after that was like eight or 12 minutes long or something like that and I was thinking we thought we were something but still not something.
Speaker 1:But we have come a long way in terms of knowing what the heck we're doing. I guess. Yeah, at least we think we do at least. But I got to knock the rust off with chase and um, first. First little bit's always shaky, you know, you're kind of kind of looking around the room wondering how do I get back in the flow of things and stuff like that? Um, once we started kind of picking up with some story tour, so storytelling, um, things kind of hit a groove, so able to knock the rust off, but going to get another episode with Seals in here. He's on probably 85% of these jokers, at least by now, and a majority of them. We shared a little reel that I had to dig through some of my archives to find Before we decided to do that little vidcast. Last year we had our iphones propped up just in case something really cool was said. I guess I don't know why all of our iphones oh yeah, because one of them was gonna die, or?
Speaker 1:something I guarantee you 90% of the storage on all of our phones is from a 2021 podcast that we all recorded and didn't we get started. And then we we let it roll for a while and then we change our mind about something and and someone has to go to the bathroom or something. Come back and so the the hour long or mostly like a 20 minute long episode would wind up being a literally like a three and a half hour video, which I'm kind of looking back glad we have, because one day I'm going to download all of them and you know, wait the long, long time it takes to re-download off the cloud and stuff and watch them, because there's probably some funny stuff went on in those mean times, you know. But yeah, good to have you back, seals. I know folks are glad to hear from you and everything. We're going to dive in a little bit of our seasons and how that went and kind of pick up where we left off at the end of Season 3.
Speaker 1:But before we do that, I wanted to mention a couple things, because this happens to be probably the biggest week Spring Legion's ever had in terms of the e-commerce side of things, the brand side of things. It's A the return of the podcast, which obviously you all are aware of if you're listening to this, with a double episode week. We're going to have a pile of Black Friday deals and specials at springlegioncom that I'm sure I can kind of dive into here shortly, but the biggest of them all is going to be the launch of the Spring Legion Turkey Hunting Pant 2 and the Gator 2, but the biggest of them all is going to be the launch of the Spring Legion Turkey Hunting Pant 2 and the Gator 2, which is a project we've been working on tirelessly since, probably before the original pant and the original gator came out, was working on getting these, and it's going to be launching Tuesday at noon. So that's going to be what is that day the 26th? Yeah, yeah, yeah. So Tuesday the 26th, central time, we're talking at noon.
Speaker 1:The uh, the spring legion Turkey hunting pants two and the spring legion Turkey hunting gator two is going to be launching on spring legioncom and I encourage y'all to come, run and go grab those, because I don't know this substantially earlier than we were able to release them last year and we sold out of the gators pretty quick compared to what I was expecting to. So, um, we, we kind of um kind of revamped both of them just a little bit, added a bunch of little small tweaks and details and stuff that. Uh, that either we noticed or that we were um you know, other folks who wore them told us about.
Speaker 1:As far as I know, they both held up really good for a lot of folks.
Speaker 2:But as everything, it can always be better If you're kind of sitting complacent with where you're at.
Speaker 1:You're going to get kind of passed, and I think I mentioned that in the last episode. I'm a meticulous fella, so if I can change the thread color on something and I think it's going to better my chances on, you know, kind of conquering the objective of whatever it might be, I'm going to do it if all means, you know, makes it possible. But as for the gators, they are going to be available in original bottomland and greenleaf this year and that is the big hurdle we had to get over was finding the, uh, the means to do that, and I'm very excited because they look really good. Yeah, um, we got, um, we got a set here behind us here. Seals might be the first time seals has been able to lay eyes on them, those and both the, the pants too, the um, the gator. It's got four times more durable stitching throughout and then it's going to this thing right here that's a single rivet lace hook which is going to be a lot stronger than last year's, and the pants has got they're really.
Speaker 1:The only change is going to be the, obviously the pattern back to original bottom land and some abrasion-resistant fabric, little feature on the heel of it, and so those are going to be available, as well as a half mask that we're going to be offering this year, and I'm a turkey hunter and, like I said, meticulous and I wanted to take what I wear anyway and make it as better as possible, if that's even a way to put it.
Speaker 1:So the half mask is, um, it's a camouflage inside and out. No white anywhere on that joker, because I am, you know this, I'm, I'm, I'm panicking about white showing and stuff like that, even if we ain't got a turkey goblin. But even all the way from the, the seam is on the outside of it instead of the inside, because I am very, very meticulous about stuff touching my ears while I'm trying to listen for turkey. So no tags on the inside and the seam is even pointed towards the outside and, um, I really like this. I wore it the other day doing some, um, some product stuff with our buddy devin and, and I was very pleased with his elastic is only on the back so it can't roll up into your eyes and stuff.
Speaker 2:So try my best to eliminate all the possible kind of uh hiccups it could possibly have so it's like a professional version of all your cut, so, tate, shoot, and all that over the years yeah, uh, it's a lot better than those, but but a lot of the altering is now permanent on these Because I am one to alter everything I wear.
Speaker 1:As far as that goes, I keep a sewing kit in my console for most of spring. Yeah, they're nitpicked already. I promise, if anybody's going to do it, I'm going to do it and I'm very, very excited about it. I know a lot of folks are going to be excited to hear that the gators are here in the Ridgeland, bottomland and Greenleaf and they're going to be going live a little bit. So just in time for Christmas shopping.
Speaker 1:I wanted to make sure we got them out in time for folks to get them for Christmas. That was a big thing. We weren't able to do last year and we really, really tried to and they got here. A lot got here like literally the 23rd of December, which I was unable to do. So we opened up a preorder and folks weren't able to get them for Christmas and just kind of got maybe a little voucher or a receipt.
Speaker 1:But now they'll be able to actually get them and they're going to kind of be tied into our Black Friday stuff. They're going to open up, like I said, tuesday at noon these pants and the gaiters and masks and stuff is going to release online at springlegendcom. Their Black Friday special is going to be in effect for that whole week. There's no point in releasing them and then knowing folks are going to wait until Friday to order them regardless. So I'm extending that whole little special.
Speaker 1:So if you get both, if you get the gaiters and the pant, you'll get the face mask for free and that's going to go until you know, until probably Sunday, that next Sunday, which I think is going to be the Sunday after Black Friday, we'll put it that way. But yeah, there's going to be a lot of other stuff too. So 20% off, like T-shirts, 20% to 60% off hats That'll be on Black Friday, those two and going on already is 40% off the new Bottomland pants and shirt that we have at SpringLegendcom now, which was called the Woodson Series last year and I actually decided to defer away from that name of that collection and seem to have hit perfect timing because Mossy.
Speaker 1:Oaks now got a wisdom series and theirs is pretty freaking sweet. I know you know a little bit more about that because you actually have one.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I put the jacket on and it is crazy. Really. It's awesome. It's the warmest jacket I've ever put on, but it's not bulky, which I don't know how they do that.
Speaker 1:So one of them is a. I know they've got merino wool going on. I can't remember what they called the fleece part, but it was.
Speaker 2:I can't either, but the fleece is, like I don't know, windproof so it's warm, but it's not like I said. I hate I get cold now, but I also hate having to walk around like this, so this one's just like a normal fleece pullover, but it's the warmest thing I've ever it's similar to the.
Speaker 2:I guess the. It's similar to the gamekeeper series which they had last year. Okay, and I hunted in it and then, um, just got the jacket in last few days and up those, um, woodsman, it's, it's good pretty slick, yeah, yeah, what they have in mind is probably gonna be pretty slick.
Speaker 1:And I love old school and I love, you know, obviously, woodsmanship and stuff like that and um, and then a couple folks even say, hey, didn't you come up with the wood show, I didn't come up with the wisdom series. You know, at the end of the day, if, if, if it weren't for, you know, folks like you know, the hayes family and stuff like that, I wouldn't be doing this, I'd have a different job. I promise you that, because turkey hunt wouldn't be nearly special to me as probably, and um, and uh, honestly, going back to shoot mr fox and them. I don't know if we have many turkeys to hunt, you know, but um, but not it is not.
Speaker 1:If the and I love, I wish everybody called their series the wisdom series, because reminding folks of wisdom and ship is kind of uh, we got to do that now, you know, um, it's not a given and and I'm sure a lot of folks kind of wonder what that is and if anything, that's that's really why I threw the name legion in spring. Legion was so folks would, and that's a very common question. We get where the name come from and it's an opportunity to talk about the 10th legion and talk about colonel tom kelly and the impact that he had on me and other turkey hunters and and how he was able to, you know, depict what this you know, phenomena is of spring turkey hunting and you know, anything that can kind of disturb conversational wisdomship.
Speaker 1:I'm all for um, anyway, got that going and uh, trying to think of anything else might have missed.
Speaker 1:Oh, we're gonna try to do a couple giveaways and we're gonna get into turkey hunt story in a second.
Speaker 1:But, um, seeing that we're just to try to do a couple giveaways and we're going to get into the turkey hunting story in just a second, but seeing that we're just getting back into some of the things with the podcast, seeing that we're having probably, like I said, the biggest week we've ever had on springleisurecom, I want to just really incentivize folks spreading the word, because we do appreciate it, but there's got to be some reward to it, I feel like, at some point.
Speaker 1:So, if you are able to and I hope you are if you're able to share this podcast to your story, tag us in it, we're going to be giving away a free pair of Gators and Pants the whole suit, both of them as a package deal to some lucky winner who does happen to share this podcast to their social media story of any kind and tag Spring Legion in it. If you're able to do that, we will be picking that probably by the next episode and we'll mention y'all's name in that episode as well, as if you leave a good review or a review. I'm sorry it doesn't have to be good, but I mean, be nice if it was good if we're the ones picking it.
Speaker 1:You're not um, I'm picking. It'll be all at random, but um. But if you do leave a good review on um, on apple or, you know, itunes, spotify, however you know you choose to listen to our podcast, if you're able to leave a review, we're going to sift through those, as well as YouTube subscribers. So if you'll go ahead and subscribe to our YouTube because we are getting getting getting prepared to start releasing a lot of hunt videos, so trying to trying to amp up those, the subscriptions, so y'all, make sure y'all able to get, get to where y'all can see them, so so that's one, two, three package deals will be announced on the next episode. We'll pick a youtube subscriber, we'll pick someone who has left a review on the podcast and we'll pick someone who shared this podcast to their story and all three of y'all will be getting a pair of pants and a pair of gators and you will be able to yeah, we're going to reach out dm wise. So you'll be able to um size and we're going to reach out DM-wise.
Speaker 2:So you'll be able to Size and color.
Speaker 1:Yeah, size pattern, all that stuff you'll be able to pick, and I wish you all the best of luck on that. And I'm ready to see some folks unpack these and get some feedback on them, because I think everybody's going to really like these. With that said, I can't think of nothing else. So I guess we're gonna have to talk about turkey hunting. You all right with that, I'm good with that. So we um, before we get into turkey hunting, of course I'm gonna put the brakes on here. We mentioned seals, deer hunting last time and I kind of blew it off as well. He's deer hunting, he can't be here, but he killed a deer that day, did you not?
Speaker 2:yeah, I did. I killed a, uh, a good deer. So, and that was one of the things where the place we're working on in Arkansas, um, me and Mason went up there and just kind of figured it out. Tuesday, thursday, we were were right here in Vaughn with Devin I think it was the day after he was with you but we were getting ready to get out of the truck in Vaughn for that mid-morning hunt. I was like let's just go to Arkansas because I have an idea. And lo and behold, we were sitting there an hour before dark. And lo and behold, we were sitting there in an hour before dark. Grunt had looked up and, long story short, ended up killing a pretty good nine-point old old deer heavy deer.
Speaker 2:But yeah, it worked out. So I hate I couldn't be here, but it was a.
Speaker 1:You probably shot it while we were recording. Honestly. Because it was about this time.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I shot him, I guess probably around 5.
Speaker 1:Yeah, once. I mean we saw him way earlier, but by the time I get him to get a shot on him about five. So cool, but pretty cool.
Speaker 2:Congrats on that, I appreciate that's the first good buck I've killed him. Wow, I guess it really ain't deer hunting much, but I mean you're gonna do it.
Speaker 1:Might as well do it, but um, that's our deer hunting segment for the year. Um, yeah, probably won't have many more.
Speaker 1:We might have one more, I don't know, but I doubt it no chance we could have a blooper deer store right which we have a couple of those, but my uh, my time's about to be very eat up with orders and stuff like that and then we might dabble in a little bit of retail stuff. So if y'all know of anybody who might be a good fit for for retail stuff, for some of this new gear we got coming out in 25. And this ain't all the gear. We got other stuff that's on the way. Y'all probably got to do a spoiler alert when we do start releasing stuff about these pants and gators, y'all going to see the other stuff we got coming, or some of it at least, so you can kind of get a peek of that on our social media stuff.
Speaker 1:but those all be here in time to get to retailers and stuff which I mean I don't, you know, have a plan necessarily as far as getting into x amount or doing this or that quota wise and stuff.
Speaker 1:So if you got one that you know is a good guy who does sell hunting stuff and and think you know, do well there, help them there, holler at us, send us an email at podcast, at springlegioncom, or shoot us a dm and let us know and we might can get in contact with them. But, um, but I'm being probably probably packing a bunch of orders and editing a bunch of videos for the next foreseeable future, as well as spending time with family as much as I can, and um, but chase and I, so we, uh, and we did this last year. Episode one of the return um was a lot on what we were able to learn from the year before and and I already did all my stressing about how crucial it is to learn from turkeys and how much, how important I think that is, and how, how, um, how pivotal that is usually between good and not good and great, but averaging good and good and great and all the way.
Speaker 1:You know, up the up the scale ladder there, a lot of it is their ability and consciousness to learn in the woods in the moment and stuff like that, but um, which I I try my hardest to and I'm very apparently a good subject, because I do get humbled a lot I feel, um, I get taught a bunch, um, and usually it's not, you know, it's not on the good side, but but more so of of things not to do again and and hopefully I'm crossing all of them off because I I try to get in there as much as I can and I really stress if you want to learn how to hunt turkeys in the rain, go hunt turkeys in the rain. I'm crossing all of them off because I try to get in there as much as I can and I was really stressed. If you want to learn how to hunt turkeys in the rain, go hunt turkeys in the rain. If you want to know what they do in the wind, go hunt them in the wind. It's pretty, it's a concept to a lot of it.
Speaker 1:You know, and all the way down, to which way they're walking, and does this add up to the other times they were doing that? Do they to the other times they were doing that? Um, do they? You know their behaviors and stuff like that. Are they even willing to to kind of strut around and court a hen in this weather, in this time of year at all? So are you wasting time even trying to call them over there? Um, you know all the way down, you know little things but but wanted to, uh, to get a spill on your season how it went. What's up with that?
Speaker 1:and um, because, we didn't hunt a ton together. We a little bit in the early season and then it got hectic.
Speaker 2:You know you had case in hunting a lot and that took up probably yeah, I didn't get a gun a whole lot last year, which kind of, I guess, also hits on the learning yeah, that's a whole new ballgame to learn it's um, you know, we went, we had several hunts that we got close on before he killed and I've never hunted with a kid that young, obviously.
Speaker 2:So it was kind of like a turkey that I think in one particular that we caught a turkey that came up out of the bottom that that popped up as soon as I could see his beard. It's like shoot, yeah, and he's like where, not quite as instant right. So it's kind of like it taught me the the a little bit more patience and taught me the importance of teaching him because you take it for granted like I hear that turkey goblin, I hear him drumming, then I hear him walking, yeah, and walking. I'm pointed that way. I took it for granted that my five-year-old, just turned five, is going to know to point his gun, that way.
Speaker 2:When he came up and I looked down, he was pointing where I had him originally in this comfortable position, that kind of stuff that was learning, big learning. It took us a few but he finally got it figured out, and it's crazy what they soak up to because that has carried over into deer season.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:To where you know. Listen to the gobble, then listen for drumming, listen for walking, whatever, and be looking, facing, ready in that direction. And after hunting with him all year and we hunted a few more times after we killed, and just you know after the oh yeah it got tough where we were at the little place I take him.
Speaker 2:Just turkeys went cold and um, but it's carried over. In the deer season he killed one with his crossbow that first week of bow season and I could kind of watch him. You know, like I say, I think I hear something, or whatever, let him know. And just watching him get up and he'll. When he hears a stick crunch he's looking that direction, had his crossbow turning, so just the whole.
Speaker 1:Already taking steps kind of Right.
Speaker 2:Just soaking it in, and then you know.
Speaker 1:Probably make you have a little more appreciation for old Mr Donald. Oh it does, Realizing what all he probably had to go through.
Speaker 2:And that was another cool thing. Like my dad was with us on the turkey, my dad was with us on the deer, so it's just him getting to see the first two. But yeah it makes me think. That's one thing I actually told him. I was like man. Thank you.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Because as many times as I wanted to beat Case and you know it's one of those things like you want to, just get on him but at the same time you're happy he's enjoying it, and then it all comes together and it's crazy.
Speaker 2:But yeah, so I didn't carry a gun much and I finished my season in Indiana, which that was a crazy story. So I went with a buddy that you know. I say a buddy, somebody I knew, just knew that became a buddy just on that trip. I think I posted something about getting ready to go the evening before I was leaving and Kenny texted me like when we're leaving.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Like tomorrow about lunch. He's like I was kidding. I was like I wasn't If you want to go, come home.
Speaker 2:So he met me at my house, we loaded up and went and we got him on a turkey first um day one and we were only there two days, which is all we had planned on had to come back for something. So we uh, and we had to leave that second day by like 4 pm for me to get home, get you know, unpack and then be ready the next morning to leave. And uh, we got him on one the first day and killed it. And then it was tough. There was people everywhere.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:So finally we got on a couple of the well, I don't even know if I told you about this. Yeah, I didn't hear much. So we got on a turkey. We heard one came all the way around and accessed it from the backside. Just looking at the topography and all that got the turkey within probably 30 yards. And no, he wasn't that close, he was probably 40 yards. And all of a sudden, out of nowhere, that turkey just started running like kind of passed me over my right shoulder and not running, but whatever, he was moving quickly.
Speaker 1:Getting out of there, yeah.
Speaker 2:And we got done. And you know, I walked up there just to he was moving quickly, Getting out of there. Yeah, and we got done. I, you know I, walked up there just to see what was going on. Like and lo and behold, there was an old man standing there, blue jeans and a red shirt, with a shotgun.
Speaker 1:Really.
Speaker 2:And and I was like hey, you know just how are you doing today, what you know? What are you doing here? Well, I'm turkey hunting. I was like turkey hunting. Come to find out. We talked to the. There's another guy that lives right there on the edge of the public, which actually gave us permission to park in his yard and access it from the backside. So we went back to talking to him and he said yeah, that guy's, I think he owns the forest Really. So I think he owns the forest.
Speaker 1:Really so.
Speaker 2:I guess he heard us or saw our truck and was just really trying to mess us up so we were down to like man two hours left and we were riding by and ended up seeing some turkeys in a field and pulled in there and started talking to the guy that lived there and just kind of asked him Super nice, we were trying to like all right let's go.
Speaker 2:And we talked for 30 minutes so I finally finally got back. So, yeah, you park here, this is where you need to park. Anyway, we did that and by that time the turkeys had they were on the edge of a field and they had gone in the wood line little tree line and then come out on the other side of the field, I mean the other side trail in a field another field.
Speaker 2:So I ended up having to crawl in a wet field because it was a hill. They were on right on the other side, so I ended up having to crawl. I got to the wood line and then also, when I got to that wood line, it was thick, but I want to make sure. So I walked probably 250 yards further, came back around where I thought it's a little a little corner in that field. They were in and sat down and I finally called them. It was a pile of them. I finally called them and killed and I looked down at my watch and I was like Kenny, we got to go, yeah, but we got to go. Tell that guy, thank you.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah.
Speaker 2:So we went to tell him thank you. He ended up getting home about three hours later than we wanted to because he wanted to look at the turkey. But yeah, that was. That was that's how I ended my season, but it was probably number wise for me to kill was the lowest in a long time but lenny killed her first turkey case and killed her first turkey. So it was it was probably one of my favorite seasons good trade-off.
Speaker 2:Yeah so, and I spent. Like I said, I spent. My numbers were low, but I spent a lot of time with them two trying to get them something to yield.
Speaker 1:So it was great. Same amount of time spent in the spring woods and stuff which you can't complain about, no, and carrying a gun.
Speaker 2:I didn't carry a gun a whole lot, but just the same amount of time just with your wife and your son. That's fun Shoot yeah.
Speaker 1:I might have mentioned it last time, but I think we were all blessed with some good weather this year, which I'm very thankful for being able to hunt a good bit you know for the most part. I mean, I've dredged through them really wet springs and really you know it's April 28th and I'm still in two jackets kind of deal and ain't even thought about really even turning green.
Speaker 1:It feels like um so anytime you're able to just get out there and and get to hunt a good bit and get to, you know, hear gobbles and stuff like that I'm all for. But but no, and now and that was, you know, finally, kind of just a good segue off of that was you being able to just, you know, postpone the, the, the hard hunting, until the end of it, but it ain't over till it's over, and that was kind of a kind of job, my memory on a particular hunt, but also kind of not the same way. But I, as I get a little more involved with with stuff, with spring lesion and stuff, but a lot of my hunting tends to get pushed and pushed, and pushed. I'm not necessarily just 90 to nothing from march 15th to the end of you know, may, a lot of it is. If I'm able to, you know, kill three mississippi, which is limit mississippi, cool.
Speaker 1:But if not, I'm not just necessarily hanging around here, I'm still kind of hunting on the weekends like I would with a regular job, and sometimes not even on the weekend, you know, skipping a week or two, obviously trying to hunt as much as possible. But this is busy time. But I do get to kind of hit the road or, if you know, stay in the surroundings, stay at the border states at least, make you know, one-nighter trips, kind of here and there towards the end of april and and um, and then once may rolls around and mississippi ain't even open and a lot of those starting to shut down. I'll get in the truck and, you know, kind of do my thing for a week or so and come back and then go do it again for a week or so, um, but but I've come to really love doing that and getting to see certain things and um, and I'm not one of those who's trying to really kill one in every state or kill, you know, as fast as possible. Move to the next one.
Speaker 1:I'm cool with you know, if I got tags in this state and I can hunt it. I'm not trying to hop a state line. As long as I got one in this state, right, especially if the weather's better than the one I'm at or I know where another one is. I'm big on. I do not like leaving a goblin turkey to go hunt a turkey that I don't know exists, right, you know what I'm saying. I've done that before and I've just I've taken that from my learning bank, you know. Just don't do that, um, because I will get obsessed over the fact of it's almost like a FOMO, like a I bet there I bet that one.
Speaker 1:I saw two years ago's goblin over there and wherever, literally two hours away. So the one that I just had goblin has showed up for an hour and a half and I think he did go over, you know, across the property line or something like that. He he did go over you know, across the property line or something like that. He's probably gone forever. You know I better leave and drive two hours and get there at 11 30 am and it's really hard when they're loafing. You can't really crack them out of that you know loafing phase that they're in for the next two hours. And had I stayed, who knows what happened. But but I would. I've learned to stay on the turkeys or gobbling If you've got all day. If you don't have all day, that's one thing, but a lot of times if you're able to just narrow your choices down to the ones you know are there and know are willing to participate and not chase the literal ghost, the ones that you don't know are there at all and the ones that you don't know are gobbling even if you do know they're there, the rate of getting an opportunity started going up when I started doing that, you know, and I was actually. I was in, I was doing some traveling and I was about to pack up and head out and head to another one and I still had a tag in this place and head out and head to another one and I still had a tag in this place. Realism is all that matters in the spring turkey woods and the guys over at Houndstooth build their turkey calls with the consistent realism as the number one priority. Cut, stretch and press right down the road. In Tuscaloosa, alabama, a Houndstooth turkey call has become a familiar addition to a many-year turkey vest across the southeast. Learn more about a variety of friction locator mouth calls today at houndstoothgamecallscom and be sure to use our special discount code slp25 at checkout for 15 off your next round of houndstooth turkey calls.
Speaker 1:I want to say I didn't.
Speaker 1:I didn't kill one the morning before and I was really kind of just trying to find a new one. I might have had to change zones or something like that. I was new to the area to an extent, but I had been there before and years prior, but not this specific spot. So I was kind of not wanting to mess it up, kind of scouting with a gun on my shoulder, if that makes sense, which I'm sure you've done before, not really trying to blow anything out of the water, but wound up. I was calling a couple times and, um, just trying to strike something from a high point, and looked kind of I mean I'm easing down this little row of cedars or something like that, and look, and I mean I looked through a little gap and I see a redhead sitting there and almost kind of like I think no, I think I had my binoculars up and was just moving, you know, going from this opening to this opening, to kind of make sure I had the clear to walk through an opening, thank God.
Speaker 1:I did, you know, because if I would have just barreled in there I would have seen him at. You know, he wasn't, probably 65. But literally, you know, of course, in your binoculars flashes by and there's a big turkey's head and you almost don't know where it's at, or anything like that. You're kind of kind of a shell shock there for a moment and, um, had to double take, make sure that that's definitely turkey's head, you know. You know you can see it flicker and move and stuff. And it does cross my mind I hope that's not someone's decoy and I'm just about to, you know, royally mess somebody's day up or something like that. Or probably had my day messed up too. I didn't know they were in there and I've just, you know, hiked this far, um but um, so I sat down and kind of had already called. So I sat down there for a little while and he winds up vanishing. I don't know. I, in the back of my mind, I didn't want to do much of anything. I don't know how much of this calling he had heard, if he was on his way to meet me or if I had honestly pushed him out of this little row of trees that way and he was just stopping to look back, all I got was a glimpse of big red red turkey head. And then I kind of hit the deck and, um, never saw him again. He never gobbled or anything. But I almost got back up to look and kind of put myself in those same shoes and look back in that same little hole and it wasn't there anymore. Just to verify, I wasn't kind of going crazy. You know, that wasn't just a fence post, it just happened to look like one or something. Um, so I head out and I get in there.
Speaker 1:I'm I'd like hotels every now and then, but I would honestly rather sleep in my camper shell just for the sheer fact of not having to drive Convenience. Yeah, I mean just, you know I'm not trying to like save my spot at a gate or something like that, because I don't think anybody else hunted here the entire time. I was there, granted, just during the week and stuff like that, and I try to pick places that other folks don't usually go to, if I can help it, just to avoid it. All in all, but so, but no, I would much rather sleep in that camper shell than I would a hotel 30 minutes away If it's a minute down the road and $40. And you need a shower. I can do that. You know. I think it's like $17 that it loves a shower. So I'm like, well, for really only like $13 or something like that, I can have a bed too. Some of them I'd pay $13 to not have to sleep there.
Speaker 1:I have slept in my camper shell in a hotel parking lot before, because I'm like buddy, I don't know what I'm going to come out of here with, but it ain't worth, uh, it ain't worth 40 bucks, you know, I'd much rather just just head on out and but the convenience of sleeping there, waking up and getting to go, cuts out the check-in stuff, because when you leave in the evening, you know, add an hour, get there, shower, sleep.
Speaker 1:You gotta wake up an extra hour early and get there, whereas just sleep there. So I'm sleeping in my camper shelf. The next morning I wake up to a gravel truck dumping gravel in front of me. I'd slept through my alarms, which you know is not all that uncommon, um, especially and I learned this if you sleep like go back to being a you know childhood days, if you slept, you and had a sleepover at someone else's house, something like that, and you stay there like you only go into like half REM cycle sleep or something like that, you're very easily woken up and stuff. It's like your brain naturally protects your body by not falling asleep if you're in an odd spot. So when I first start traveling and stuff, wake up pretty regular, but then I get to tacking on miles on nothing but a granola bar and two bottles of water and I'm kind of comfortable in the camper shell. At that point I'll start. I'll start sleeping through some alarms. I ain't gonna lie to you, um, but I do sleep with the window open, just in case. And uh, got woken by the, uh, by the dump truck next to me and I almost really messed up. He almost dumped it in front of me. Thank goodness he had a, you know. He looked in the truck and there wasn't nobody in there, so he was planning on just kind of going around it and all that stuff. But I'd been really tied up, had a knot, so I moved it out of the way and went in there and let's see, I wound up getting down in there that day and came up on kind of a good spot. There was a lot of goblin going on that I did not. I was just like crap. I'm just going to hunt this phantom gobbler I saw at 3 pm the day before across the way and I did and got down in there and I don't know if one of them was him or not, but got on him pretty good or one of them and heard more multiple going back at it and I'm like I'm done, I'm done, messed up, because I was not going to hunt there.
Speaker 1:Had I woken up at the right time and got in there, and then they wind up going on private, go figure, obviously, um, and I don't, and I did have some come up behind me and I think they were jakes. I could have shot. Didn't see a beard and then later, later on an hour or so, realized that there were a pair of jakes and the way they kind of came in there, just lollygagging right behind me, almost kind of scared me. Coming in from behind me, I'm faced the other way. I bet you that was them. Thank goodness I didn't shoot.
Speaker 1:But that goes on, they ease off, I let them kind of reset I needed to reset because this happened very fast and I come in, um, almost head out, come back down and a sure enough storm starts brewing and I get in there and I get down to this creek bottom, going back and forth to this gobbler, and I peek up and I see him out there, kind of where I last heard him. It wasn't far from where I wound up seeing the other one the day before. And I'm doing all I can to not direct him but to really steer him down into it and then come over, because if he tops this and sees me, it's going to be he might conspire me. You know kind of deal if he gets too scared Because he ain't going to see me until right there and I ain't going to see him until right there.
Speaker 1:So I'm trying my best to guide my calls down here and whatnot, and I look back over there and I don't see him and I didn't know what to do. So and this storm's rolling in pretty thick and it's sometimes a hammer right before it and sometimes they shut off. So I'm trying to really hurry in this. I don't. I'm not shy to hunt in rain and stuff. I have a camera with me and stuff, but it's a GoPro. I ain't going gonna mess up, but I don't. This was one of those. I had folks texting me saying, hey, you need to probably get get to where you can get under bridge or something like tornadic stuff, and there was a lot of them.
Speaker 1:I don't remember how many, but it was I was up similar to an area you were, because I was the same way yeah, uh, it's probably the time you were coming back through from indiana, honestly it was and I remember it tore missouri up because I was supposed to be coming through missouri that day and I stayed and I remember it was a lot of folks were were worried about that and it was that same line. Yeah, I ended up. I ended up stopping.
Speaker 2:um, we had to stop for a couple hours. Yeah, off the road.
Speaker 1:I remember talking to a couple folks who made an unplanned night stay kind of literally added four hours to their travels, just to, and I think it was well advised.
Speaker 2:I think it really did.
Speaker 1:It wasn't like a, you know, a false alarm. I think it really did tear some stuff up the whole Midwest, but no, I'm kind of keeping that in my radar. You know, I don't need to really just get. I don't need to get hurt. Obviously I don't need to get down here in a flash flood, just wipe out my my way back or something like that, or get lost. God forbid my phone's soaking wet and die, you know. Um, but I really want to kill this turkey because now we're going on like a day and a half, you know we're rounding into two whole days.
Speaker 1:I feel like and I know, if I play my cards right, I got him and I went back and forth, back and forth and I wound up getting down there kind of, where he had wound up going, and it's a big, you know, kind of a. It's opening with some hills and stuff, some ag stuff on the other side, and he had gone down into the beautiful creek bottom and it almost has like roads and stuff down in the bottom of it. I don't know what all they do up there to their lands and stuff. This looked almost maintained to an extent. So I get down there even with it and this wind starts howling. I'm talking like like it's coming Almost to the point it isn't even worth calling anymore, but I'm just wailing on it, wailing on it, wailing on it and a hen comes out and I thought it was gonna be him.
Speaker 1:By god, I just see turkey moving. I'm like this is working. He heard it like try to position myself to where the calls will go toward, where I last saw him, all kinds of crap, and this hen comes like running, you know, kind of through it. How in the world she didn't see me, I don't know. She went from me to you on the other side of the street. And then she does see me and I'm dead still and she's just kind of doing that curious stuff like looking at you, looking at you, and I'm thinking, sure enough, he's about a good spot to shoot, if he does, because she came out about 30 yards down and then walked to me no, he didn't.
Speaker 1:And, um, I kind of let her go on. And then I'm starting to really, you know, and so I kind of get up and I and I'm like I'm gonna get back. Hopefully I haven't boogered this joker up too too bad where I can come back hunting in the morning. Hopefully I haven't boogered this joker up too too bad where I can come back and hunt him in the morning. So I get up and I'm, it's a, I got a good, it ain't a mile and a half, it's probably more than a mile, but not quite a mile and a half back to the truck and I make it maybe a quarter, quarter mile or so and I top up the biggest ridge. I'm on top and I can see can't see my truck, but I can see about where my truck would be and I can see on the other side of my truck is the line of storms. I mean it's coming to us, but I'm like you know I got 10 minutes. Yeah, you know I'm closer to this turkey than I am to my truck.
Speaker 1:And this is when I started recalling a lot of the stuff. The turkeys I saw the day before were on the other side, got that, you know, calculating in my mind, that wasn't the turkey I saw yesterday. We're getting near the time. I saw these over here yesterday. Didn't hear them gobble. I didn't hear no gobbles over there. So had I not seen that one the day before, I'd have written it off. But knowing that A they do use the other creek too, and where I was at the way the wind was blowing yada yada, they should have heard my calls. If I'm gonna make a 10 minute hail, mary, if I just walk back to where I was and walk up an extra 50 yards, I'll be able to make sure they're not coming to the calls, because everything would have been blowing right down into that pipe. Pretty much.
Speaker 1:Even though I'm faced this way, hunting a turkey that I saw, you know in front of me, the ones behind me, that I did not necessarily hunt that evening or not even that afternoon, it very well be there and sure enough, I slip up there. I look down in there and there's one long beard walking a beeline from where that one was the day before that. I saw just his head. He's just making that connection between the two, the two creek bottoms, walking directly at where I was hunting, at him, and I'm thinking it don't always happen like this, but but if I'm about to do this, I got, I know where he's going. He's going where I just called and I know I can get there quietly without him seeing me, because I just got out of there without him seeing me. I just didn't think to turn around and look back and make sure at the time so I just he's back down, crawl back in there.
Speaker 1:I didn't, I didn't try to get exactly where I was because I would have been risking a little bit there. Um, but I knew if he, if he walks like a Turkish walk, keeping, you know, keeping the height, you keeping high on where he would be headed to and getting to where he can, I knew where he'd probably get to, I knew where he'd probably stand and where he could see down into where I was calling from. And I was able to get there, you know, with about 25 yards from there. And I'm like if he does what a turkey should do and I ain't saying what a turkey will do, but if he does what he should do, I might have just accidentally, you know, messed up right. Yeah, for once. For once it felt like, and that joker did and shot him at 25 yards and he didn't know I was in the world. I mean, he was still like looking down there. He's starting to raise his neck up to get to where he could look down in there. When I pulled the trigger and it took about that was about seven minutes before when I looked and saw that storm. I mean it didn't take no time to get back up there, see him scurry down there, set up and it one minute later he was there.
Speaker 1:Um, but say that, say this it ain't over till it's over, and and. And I say that because I know there's gonna be times you're gonna be cussing me, chase gonna be cussing me, whoever else is gonna be cussing me when we're heading out. And I'm like, well, that one time it did work. You know I'm glad I went back and tried it because otherwise I'd have been soaking wet, I would have got caught by the storm. I got kind of caught by the storm but it was obviously well worth it. Joker had like six beers or something like that. Um, the longest was over a foot and my dad was pretty hot about me not mounting it. I don't have any turkey mounted full body or whatever, and at the time. I'm just thankful for the turkey and I didn't even like really count it or measure or anything like that, and I found that out after I'd cut it off. That was a pretty big turkey, I guess, now that I think about it, over 12 and five more, six more beers on top of that if I don't.
Speaker 1:If I was going to mount one, it would probably been that one, but his beards, uh. I had to take it out because of the renovation deal we had going on in the podcast studio. Didn't want it to get shipped off to dumpster land when we were hauling everything out, but just got to show you it ain't over until it's over, and to keep in mind, when you're hunting a place with A two creek bottoms and two possible turkeys, that the, but the subject of your calling might not be the only subject, if you're not, you know.
Speaker 1:If you're zoned in on them. I don't know how many times this probably happened and either A I shoot at, either kill, miss whatever, or leave and don't go back. If there wouldn't have been a storm there, I wouldn't have went back, I wouldn't have put a time on it. I just said I lost this one. I'll meet back tomorrow, but trying to just milk it for everything it's worth and, mind you, this is at the end of the season. I'm talking in one week I will not be hunting turkeys and I'm going to be really wishing I would have had 10 minutes if I could go hunt turkeys for 10 minutes right now. You know what I do. I mean not not taking one minute for granted at that point. You know that last week, every single minute, and that not to go kill one just to, I get to wear the gloves and face mask and these, you know, boots and gaiters and and hold a shotgun for 10 more minutes. Ask me that in a week when I'm not able to, I'm gonna be wishing I was able to. So that's um.
Speaker 1:That was a another little tidbit.
Speaker 1:I learned it was it really really, really ain't over till it's over? And um, and that for seasons too, not just individual haunts, and I've had turkeys leave and come back before you know and do some I ain't going to say stupid stuff, but some stuff that's very uncharacteristic of turkeys to do. I just happen to not be, you know, halfway to dodge by then, you know. I think I wouldn't say we've gotten more patient as the seasons go, but I have, um, I feel like the times we did hunt this year, we did sit a little longer at the tree and stuff, and we we might have heard one and, and I'm wondering, one of us will mention let's see what he does first, you know, instead of just sprinting all the way to him like we used to, um, some pay off, some don't which, the one turkey we did kill together this year was a was a product of us being ridiculously tired and worn out, remember I'd say just we were resting yeah, I'm back um almost a nap and you didn't believe me yeah, no, I didn't.
Speaker 1:I had that little box call and I mean if it could get a despilator, probably illegal I'm giving it all. I got a storm. Storm was coming or leaving. One coming Coming, yeah, and this was about 1 o'clock maybe. Yeah, shoot, and we didn't move because we did be tired, and just wailing on it every now and then seeing something happen.
Speaker 2:Seeing something happen. I think you heard it first, didn't you? Yeah, I just heard it. I told you, I mean, your exact words were no, you didn't. Yeah, I was like not right, a turkey gobbling. Your exact words were no, you didn't.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I was like nah, not right now.
Speaker 2:We are tired. We second-guessed ourselves so much. I think he gobbled three or four times before we were like all right, let's hunt him.
Speaker 1:We both kind of could hear one that sounded like a gobble, and we, you know, kind of look at each other. We were pointing different ways. Was that him? No, that wasn't, that wasn't one, but but. But I just heard one, no, you didn't. You know, kind of going back and forth that. And then I guess he gobbled one good time and we're both kind of like that's him, that's a turkey gotten closer and he, he gobbled at us at that point and, um, so yeah, that was, that was another.
Speaker 1:It wasn't, and I would have written that whole day off because I thought it was over, because that the way the weather was about to be, the humidity had shot up and all kinds of stuff and we hadn't heard many gobbles since about 8 o'clock and we're at 1 o'clock now and we're at a spot that wound up having turkeys, but we weren't sure of the water situation If we didn't hear one, if that meant a turkey was there or not. Um, sometimes that that will happen, yeah, um, the turkeys will be there and not gobbling and you kind of write it off thinking all the the water rose, the river and they're on the other side must be, and on the whole, turkeys can fly, just because they were yesterday don't mean they are today.
Speaker 1:You know, they might all be on the side of the day not always the case, obviously, but sometimes they're just quiet and have been there the whole time. But if we'd have went up in there, really, you know, making a loop with a box call, I don't think we'd have killed that turkey. It was a pretty old tree. That's his wing on that warhead bird, wherever that warbird head right there. Um, get the white characteristics on the whatever those are. Yep, um and he, he, uh.
Speaker 1:He stood his ground for a long time oh yeah he hit his threshold and he didn't budge, and we couldn't either. We were behind a dirt knoll about as tall as our knee Two grown men yeah, it looked like a big old pretzel. If someone would have just walked up behind us and seen us, they'd have been in disbelief that there's a turkey this close to us.
Speaker 1:We're both, I mean cheeks on the ground, like literally my ears getting bit by ants trying to hide behind this thing, not getting seen and calling back and forth for an hour and a half, felt like there wasn't nowhere else we could go. Um, we were trying to get to a tree that we didn't make it to he. He moved the exact move we hoped he wouldn't make. Yeah, and we got caught and we were I'm like, well, we're here, we. I know he can't see us here, he's already spooked. So we're, we're just going to pack it up right here. But yeah, so, yeah. So a little bit of credit to being old and sitting there a little longer than we usually would have, and then a little bit of credit to a young spurt and going back for 10 more minutes and it paying off.
Speaker 2:Yeah, speaking of that, I'm remembering more and more. I think the reason you thought I didn't hear a turkey is because you said I'm going to call one more time. I didn't hear a turkey is because you said I'm gonna call one more time. We don't hear nothing, we're gone, yep sure you call and I said I deserve a turkey. So you're like damn, we got to sit here and make sure it wasn't right. And then that's how I forgot that's exactly how it went.
Speaker 1:Um, I forgot all about that, but that is what you said. And um, and I and I love hunting turkeys, but I was like because we we had gone a while without really hearing one oh yeah and I was like I'm sure you did, because I just said but I'm like I'll stay anyways, and then it's like I'm like it could have been one.
Speaker 2:We couldn't.
Speaker 1:I mean, I remember one time I was trying, because even I heard and thought and then we were like that's a dog right that's we had agreed it was a dog for a little while and then, and of course we're gonna, let's walk towards it and see, make sure, and this and this because of the ones like the one I just talked about, like if it never worked out, if it never paid off to do the extra mile, to do the extra 10 minutes, to sit the extra 10 minutes, I probably wouldn't ever do it. But because of that one freaking time and there's been more, obviously that's just the most recent, but they will create some havoc when it comes to scheduling events and stuff like that. Because, knowing that that could have very well been a turkey gobbling in that situation and it was a turkey and we wound up coming in, you know it took an hour hour and a half later, but we were holding him, you know, and one took eight minutes later and we were holding him and it wasn't the one I was hunting, it was a different one. But just kind of going back, can you imagine how, how long we've been thinking about that? You know, what if that was? I mean, I might just be crazy, but I would be thinking about that on november, whatever.
Speaker 1:Today is 25th. What if that was turkey seals did here? What if we didn't? What if we missed out on a really good opportunity there? What if we? What if that other turkey would have really been connecting those two openings? That day up in so-and-so area, when that storm was about to roll in, yeah, I didn't get wet, but you know now I'll never know. Yeah, but that would keep me up way more than a few raindrops on the shoulder. But moral of the story, it never tells over. I'm glad we were able to get a little bit of an episode in here today for round two of two for the. It's not the inaugural, it's the round four season opener of the Spring Legion podcast. We got plenty of them. I don't know if you know this, but we're doing them every week now until June. So if you ain't got plans, haul on over here.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, I'll be back. I'll be as much as I can.
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Speaker 2:We've got a whole lot yeah. We'll keep pumping them out. We need to just write them down one day, like sit down and spend the whole day and write just a title. Yeah, because as we start telling them they veer off into another one. Yeah, we've got a lot of good ones.
Speaker 1:And a lot of them happened a while back you know, yeah, so, and I used to have a journal. You did a good job at a journal for a little while there. Yeah, that's the thing. I used to take notes and I used to have a journal so I wouldn't forget those stories. But guess what? You lost the journal, forgot where I put the journal, yep. So welcome to our world.
Speaker 2:I still have mine. Mine stayed in my truck. I just got to get better about filling it out.
Speaker 1:I can tell you where every one of those turkey fans on that wall came from, and every feather in my dash I know which turkey it came from, where that journal of stories is, I have no idea. I have almost a whole book written that I don't know where it's at from from chapters I've had to just selectively remove from the only two books I've written, and there's, you know about enough to make another book If I really wanted to. I just I don't know Where's that. I will look for it one day, maybe I don't know. But, um, if you can remember, yeah, but um, if you can remember, yeah, if I can remember. So, anyway, appreciate y'all for listening. Um, we'll see y'all in, uh, a week from today and then every week from there on till, uh, the summer heat of june hits. So I'm looking forward to it. Thank y'all for for being a part of it. Um, that's a wrap. That's a wrap. See you next week.
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