The Spring Legion Podcast
Welcome to a year-round discussion on the wild turkey and those who hunt them. Hosted by Hunter Farrior, founder of Spring Legion and author of Ballad of a Turkey Hunter, the weekly podcast is geared for all outdoor communities and dives deeper than the usual tactics and calling tips. Holding true to the brand, topics are built upon respecting the heritage and challenges of hunting, with a never-ending appreciation for all that the spring season provides. Enjoy insight from special guests like Dave Owens of Pinhoti Project, Cuz Strickland of Mossy Oak, our friends at NWTF and Muscadine Bloodline, and so many more widely known for their impact in the turkey hunting community, as well as the deer, duck, and waterfowl realm, who exhibit the obsession of which only a real turkey hunter may truly understand. Thanks for listening.
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The “What If” Factor of Turkey Season and an Untold Misadventure
Buckle up for an exhilarating ride through our latest podcast episode where turkey hunting tales take center stage! Join us as we share our personal stories of both success and lessons learned while navigating the thrilling, yet unpredictable realm of turkey season. With tales that range from triumphant encounters to comical misadventures, we reflect on the intricate dynamics of turkey behavior, the importance of preparation, and the gear that helps us bring home the prize.
Together, we'll explore the insights gained from past hunting experiences, touching on themes of patience, resilience, and the love for the sport that keeps us coming back for more.
Anecdotes and tales draw attention to the beauty of being present in the woods, waiting for that fateful gobble while embracing the what-ifs that often accompany every hunt.
This engaging discussion is as much about the laughs as it is about the lessons, appealing to seasoned hunters and novices alike. We invite listeners to reflect on their own hunting stories and join us in the conversation.
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Speaker 1:If you're like me, I think the first time it really gets me is when I see I think, uh, I want to say marcus lashley, maybe one of the one of the biologists or the you know, the really, really smart people about turkeys. I don't know what their terminology is and what to what to call them, but they are, um, I think he's in florida yeah, I think so.
Speaker 1:University of florida, maybe he uh, when he posts like trail cam pictures of research they're doing or something like that and and the turkeys are shining now, yeah, and it's like early february maybe, and I'm like that's a 2025 gobbler. That's like kind of acting like a gobbler right now. Um, that just gives me good more than anything. But we're past that obviously. We're in march now and you can go listen for them and probably hear one and probably see them strutting along the road and stuff now.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I've been getting quite a few Snapchats this week, really, of them starting to act right, yeah, or starting to, you know, get a pecking order in line. Guy I work with he's been leaning that phone over a time or two every couple days and it just makes your day go by a little longer.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, there's a period there where I'm like is this a 2024 gobbler? You know, this reel or TikTok or whatever might be coming across my page, but now I'm like no that's happening right now. Yep somebody somewhere which is awesome and yeah so everybody down in South Florida. I hope you all got after them. That's happening right now Somebody somewhere, which is awesome. Everybody down in South Florida. I hope you all got after them. Best of luck if you're headed down there to get after them.
Speaker 1:It looks like it's been pretty good so far. From what I've seen online and stuff like that. I want to say last year was really standing water everywhere. Everybody that was the the uh moral of the story was like bring a boat. It seemed like stuff, I don't know, I don't know why, or you know how often that happens or if that's kind of a usual every year.
Speaker 1:I'm not that familiar with the south florida stuff, but uh, but I feel like I've seen already, compared to last year, more successful hunts, so to speak, in respect to last year maybe, but I was in South Florida last week remember? Yeah, yeah, I didn't forget about that, did you? Yeah, I went to Disney World. Yeah first time ever huh. Yeah, it was exactly what I thought it was going to be like. Yeah, I'm not going to lie to you.
Speaker 2:We can check off Disney adult as as things, I'm not but we had a good time, you know it was.
Speaker 1:It was cool to uh, to experience and see, and we're good for 15 more years at least. It's gonna take that long to replenish the bank account probably. I couldn't imagine, um, but no, it was. It was cool driving down there and we drove. We were planning on driving through the night but wound up leaving way earlier than I planned on. So obviously it was cool driving down there and we drove. We were planning on driving through the night but wound up leaving way earlier than I planned on.
Speaker 1:So obviously it was really rushed and it was still a. It wasn't. It was getting dark around North Florida area and I started like recognizing some things that I did pass when I would go to, you know, south-central Florida, north of 70, but still going to Huntington Florida a couple years ago and the times I have been and and then, um, and then driving I don't know what interstate that is, but but going down that way and really recognizing some things that I was like, oh, that's the exit I took and I'm like I know they're, I know where their turkeys are down there and then it kind of started clicking to me like they're, they're gobbling right now.
Speaker 1:This is a. This is about the time I went down there. Um, this was before we we got too south, which I guess it would have been technically probably mid-march when I was down there, but I knew they were gobbling and I knew I was three miles from a goblin turkey at that moment, because I haven't really been, uh, mentally here I they're probably gobbling mississippi. I just haven't had the time to breathe for the past two weeks.
Speaker 2:Right, but I think that goes for both of us. Yeah, I haven't been listening, no, and I feel like I'm a month behind and it ain't even started. You know what I'm?
Speaker 1:saying I'm right there with you.
Speaker 2:Just been busy.
Speaker 1:I was thinking today. I was like that was my promise to myself was be more prepared for turkey season this year than I was last year, and I promise you that I'm less prepared this year than I was last year Same here and it almost happens every year.
Speaker 1:The longer this little gig goes on, yep, but the past couple episodes we have been hitting you all with some tips and wisdomship not facts, but observations and lessons learned the hard way and stuff like that and some public land intel and insight from a good buddy land a couple of episodes ago, and then last episode was all about wasmanship, esque type of a a theme there and a rules of thumb and whatnot and, um, probably probably out of them. So I don't, I, I kind of I feel weird listening back to them or hearing them when folks share them to their stories and stuff. I'm like I told people that, yeah, I wasn't supposed to leave here, but not. So I think it's been a while since we did some storytelling. So this week we're going to try to, and we just came up with this idea about 11 minutes ago and this broadcast has been rolling for six of them Y'all can do the math there so it's a little shorthanded on the preparations, but we uh, there's a lot of stories that I haven't been able to tell yet, yeah, and they're the ones I keep mentioning, and then we'll get to that on a whole episode one day, and we never do and they're building up. So I figured we could tell a few of them and I'm sure they'll wind up doing.
Speaker 1:You know, like every story, we tell bits and pieces of info and stuff we picked up on and things we might have noticed or did wrong. And you know, hindsight is always 20-20 or the reason it worked, so to speak. You know you can find a tip anywhere, as long as you're looking for it. That's the biggest thing in turkey hunting If you ain't looking for it, ain't gonna find them. Just like if you don't know where you're going, you ain't ever gonna get there, and if you don't know what you're doing, you ain't ever gonna do it. But if you ain't looking for no insight or intel, you sure as heck ain't gonna find it. And I try to always be doing that when I'm in the turkey woods, but also while I'm listening to other podcasts and I did my best to bump gamekeepers up to number one, the whole drive down there I was like I'm gonna get them there.
Speaker 1:I'm gonna get them there single-handedly. They've been hovering at three and two in the charts and I'm like I'm gonna top them and it it didn't, they're still, but not, and I want to. I do want to say that I appreciate y'all for getting us in the top five absolutely yes, big, big thank you to that that was cool.
Speaker 1:We've gotten the number five a couple times, but we're holding around there now right, which is which is good, and I'm really looking forward to a season where we're going to have episodes after march 15th we say that I have to this year does that sound like a broken record? Haven't we said that before this year? We really are. Someone shared a story today of listening to our podcast, like just getting by until the opener. I'm like, oh yeah, he probably thinks we're going to stop on the opener, like we do every year. But no, we're not. We're going to keep rolling.
Speaker 2:And.
Speaker 1:I do appreciate y'all, as always, listening and stuff like that, and we're going to be in West Point this Saturday. Yep March 8th.
Speaker 2:Turkey tailgate Yep. I think it's 9 to 5. I think is what I saw just a minute ago.
Speaker 1:I'm sure we will probably go up the night before just to hang out with folks and stuff like that and see everybody and share a few turkey hunting stories. And that's always good, because everybody this is it, we're in it, we're almost there, and this is when everybody's giddy as all get out and everybody wants to talk turkey and everybody wants to talk turkey back.
Speaker 2:That's always the first when it turns to days. Yeah, and everybody talk about is you know, from weeks to days, and that's it's normally youth is is you know, from weeks to days, and that's it's normally youth weekend, you know, in mississippi. So therefore, that's that's our mark of like week to days you know, and now we're, we're full throttle, we're in it, you know, for us here.
Speaker 1:I remember last year seeing a kid in camouflage and thinking like that kid went hunting. This morning that's awesome. You know, like we going to be doing that soon, but yeah, we'll be there in West Point. They're going to have the full foliage available there, as well as the new strap vest that they just released at NWTF.
Speaker 1:So I think, as far as I know, this is the first time, since you know, if you didn't get it at NWTF convention a couple weeks ago, this would be your first crack at it, and then after that, I think you've got to wait two days to get it on March 10th, once it goes online. Nevertheless, looking forward to that.
Speaker 1:And I'm going to be buying some of that because I wasn't able to in Nashville because y'all bombarded our booth. I'm just kidding, but we'll be there. And then didn't want to mention one little uh, little quick uh update, or so I guess you'd call it for the for the website. Uh, we, we have a recount and we've been counting and recounting and adding and all kinds of stuff, trying to replenish everything from from the convention. It's all settled. As y'all know, everything is not everything is back in stock. Everything that we have on hand is on the website.
Speaker 1:There was a little while there where I thought we didn't have any excel jackets and we found the box of excel jackets and then we found a box of this and that and the only thing I wrote pat. So I didn't know we had probably had been online in a year and a half. Um, so a lot of that's been added and counted and corrected and stuff. And then, um, we are running a little deal through um the end of March as of now, for 15% off all bottom land headwear. So original bottom land. We might have some new bottom land hats on there. I'm sure it'll apply to that. I'll make sure it does.
Speaker 1:The code to use at checkout is going to be BL15. Bottom land. I know it's one word. I thought of that as soon as I wrote it down. But for 15% off all of our Spring Legion bottom land headwear. But for 15% off all of our Spring Legion bottom line headwear and use that code at checkout. It's not going to say the discounted price online. You have to get it once you put it in the cart. But that'll update once you do that. Add the code and that's about all we got.
Speaker 1:But building off of this week's YouTube video is a story that I believe I told with Seals video is a story that I believe I told with seals. Only episode seals was on uh, this past year. Um was about the six bearded turkey that I shot, wound up being the biggest turkey I've ever killed. Right, I didn't know that at the time and didn't. It didn't sink in until I was probably halfway home I didn't know about it for till july?
Speaker 2:yeah, probably, honestly. I finally saw it laying in the uh garage. I was like when'd you shoot this yeah?
Speaker 1:it looks like a daggum hand sitting out there, because the the biggest beer was 12 and a half inches, really. Um, yeah, I didn't know that either when I was sawing it off in a hotel parking lot my dad was like you should mount that. You should mount that. I'm like no, no.
Speaker 2:You dodged some weather. It looked like in the video.
Speaker 1:Yes, it was tornadic, to say the least, in trying to beat it, and I think I've told the whole story on here before, so I'm not going to go through the whole story, but just the gist of it, just to kind of segue into what we're even talking about this week. Our intentions were at the beginning was, uh, to sum it up, pretty much sure enough, squall line was moving through where I was at and I just as of recently gotten permission to hunt the private land. But at the public land I was hunting there was five lone bears in that ag field that morning.
Speaker 1:I mean lighting it up left and right, there wasn't much I could do. They were in the middle.
Speaker 2:There was hands involved that you were hearing from the public. I'm going to say yeah.
Speaker 1:I mean, my only chance was to call them into public. And what I do in those situations and it does work sometimes is you get on the line and try to call them and you usually can see them and once they break or once you've sure enough got their interest because once they you've sure enough got their interest, they're making their way. It might take them on, you know, when a turkey's moseying on over or something like that.
Speaker 1:um, once you get that, if you can lay out, and then I get back yeah, 50 yards, then 100 yards and you know, just pull them on the public, um, but no, so I'd pretty much I was trying to beat the storm and I get permission go back up there to hunt kind of the same area. And on the way up I took a gobble about 120 yards in the corner of that ag field. Yeah, peek up and see him. He's, you know, a good distance out there, but callable, send a couple calls his way, he makes his way to the wood line and then it's. I mean, it's like like coming on in.
Speaker 1:you know the wind you mean he makes, uh, the the right decision and just kind of drops off into this woods. I go back in there side of the woods try to see what I can do with him and I'm like you know I'm calling loud, I'm doing everything I can. I don't know if you can hear it. I think he can. I don't blame him for not entertaining the thought of a hen I know there's another hand because he walked two feet by me oh really you know.
Speaker 1:So he probably had more hands down there and I was like I'm getting some trouble being out here in the middle of a wide open field and I can see lightning everywhere. I'm like don't be dumb get out of here.
Speaker 1:So I go to get out and I kind of get back on top of this ridge and I see the storms further than the radar saying this should be here in two minutes. It's really about 15, 20. It looks like I'm not a meteorologist, but so I turn around like well crap, there was more gobblers here this morning and I was just focused on one you know I'm not quite used to that.
Speaker 2:Right, you knew there were five in there and you had just seen one of them.
Speaker 1:I'd forgotten there was five in the moment, obviously. But I'm like you know what if some other gobbler had been coming to it or whatever? So I sit there and I look at those clouds and go, hmm, this is later season. So I'm like you want to hang on to every minute, obviously, and I'm like what I would do for 10 more minutes of turkey hunting in a week or two from now, when I'm mowing the grass in June. I wish I could hunt for 10 minutes. So I turn around. I'm like I can't do this. I'm not gonna sleep tonight if I don't. Um, turn around, go look and sure enough, there's a long beard heading right down the edge, headed right to the freaking tree. I just left 10 minutes for luckily I was able to.
Speaker 1:I knew I was like I know where he's going you know he's going to where I just was able to kind of I mean, he never knew I was in the world came back down, came back up, you know, got 30 yards from a little the path of least resistance. I thought he was gonna walk. It was wide open on the other side of me but you can kind of pick up usually those it's not a knoll or a higher spot but there's a. You can tell that makes the most sense for them. If you're, it's just wide open but obviously there's a, an animal magnet underneath it, almost like they always walk the same spot, kind of deal right, um, a lot of times it's a little, it's just a little knoll or it's just a slightly higher or something, and I could see him. So I mean, unless he just all of a sudden takes a right angle or anything, you can make your best guess there yeah, and um, which you have to look good, but a wind cover obviously to move around.
Speaker 1:Yeah, no, it was a ton of wind. I wasn't, I was standing straight up, thicket too.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it was I mean, you could move around in there pretty well yeah no, I.
Speaker 1:I was standing up when I saw him and just took a few steps back and came back down and got on me and was able to get situated right pretty much and he's walking to my left, right but at an angle quartering towards me.
Speaker 1:that wouldn't be my only kind of variable there is, if I was too far, say I'm moving by moving down, I move right, I move right down the path, retracing my steps. But if I set up a little too soon, that quarter wouldn't have closed. You know he'd been about 65. That would have been a little. I wish I was 15 yards down, but I could have swung and probably shot as he kept getting closer. It just wouldn't have been. As you know, I'd have had to move.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Who knows what would have happened. You know those all it depends kind of stuff. But that didn't happen, so that's irrelevant. Shot him probably 40. Yeah, but it was really cool. Didn't have much time to look at him and everything. But yeah, joker had six beers, a really long one for the main one.
Speaker 1:Yeah, cut it off in the parking lot of a motel. When I figured it out I thought he had like five and then I saw six and that's a pretty good bit. It might be seven, I don't know. I don't know where it's at. I'm not going to lie to you, it's somewhere. I tried to put some toothpicks and make sure it stayed right. What I did with it, um, but what we were talking about before we pressed record was kind of right place, right time, and how some folks always seem to be in the right place, right time. Yeah, and a lot of times they are, and a lot of times they're just, you know, good at picking the spots that make the most sense and stuff, and I mean, and a lot of them just never got up that's a big thing, you know if I hadn't got, if a storm wasn't coming and I sat there and was just sat there sulking in that.
Speaker 1:Why is this turkey not? Why do I suck? Or why? Why am I not? Why is this turkey not doing anything?
Speaker 2:that turkey would have gobbled 30 yards behind me and scared the fire out of me kind of deal and I just won't shot at him and it's a, you know, a lot of those times it's a different, totally different turkey.
Speaker 1:That, yeah, that's what you're trying to say there yeah, the first time that ever happened to me was I was just getting in turkey hunt by myself and I remember this very vividly. I shot it with a brown and gold. Um, I had an 11 and a half inch beard and I was pulling about it yeah which makes, you think, feel disingenuous to a turkey with, you know, a really long beard. Um, that's only the second one I've ever killed with over 12 inches.
Speaker 2:And I don't know if I've ever killed one.
Speaker 1:I ain't killed, but a handful of 11 that I know of you know.
Speaker 2:I've killed a few 11s. You know I mean, but I mean heck half of them. I ain't even put a tape on you know, or more of that, than I didn't even put a tape on. But yeah, there's a few that I've had to know, Right, what is that actually?
Speaker 1:you know, mm-hmm.
Speaker 2:So you know, because the conversation during target season goes like if somebody does ask you know, do you have a good beard? Oh yeah, about 10 inches you know, about 10 inches.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean, that's just kind of the average. I go 9, 10, 11 usually, and if he's really big, 11 and a half. But I've never that's what I'm saying I might have killed more than two out of 12. Right, I'll call them all. If it's really long, 11 and a half, 11 and a half, yeah, if it's pretty short and he ain't really run much off, nine all day long. Right, that could be eight or ten.
Speaker 2:I have no idea but I'm calling turkey hunting with a buddy of mine the other day and he had brought up beard length or something and I said I forgot about Brian killing that turkey with the like 15-inch beard or 14, 15-inch beard 14 and a half or something.
Speaker 1:It was over 14 inches, it was over 14 inches.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because, like it was the whole debate of like you know, everybody said you know, whatever, whatever. And I'm like man, I ain't never seen too many beards get over 11 and a half.
Speaker 1:Me neither.
Speaker 2:Because they just get rubbed off. That's just how it works. You know, turkey's beards would grow forever. They'd be, 100 foot long if the grass and stuff, whatever they're in, didn't knock it off. Some people don't know that True.
Speaker 1:I just want to throw that out there.
Speaker 2:yeah, um that's, but that's what determines it right that's why I like turkey hunting you know it ain't 180 inch deer versus 120 inch deer. That's why I love it. Um, but yeah, he killed one with like a 14 and a half or 15 inch beard, but it had one leg and so the thing could never bend over. It always stood up. So you know, I just I've remembered that and I found a picture of it on my phone and sent it to whoever I was talking to.
Speaker 1:I don't remember who I was talking to, but it was crazy to see that again, because I mean it looks like your forearm weighing out there and that turkey weighed like 11 pounds yeah.
Speaker 2:We'll find a picture and put it on our Instagram or something like that.
Speaker 1:It's kind of weird to see.
Speaker 2:You know it was just before photoshop.
Speaker 1:It's probably hey could have been 10 years ago.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean by now.
Speaker 1:Oh, it probably more than that yeah, I know, I know I had, because I pull it up pretty, not often, but I think I screenshot it, so I should be able to find it pretty quick anyways but yeah, so, and I think if I ever hear of a turkey having a, really, you know, usually something's a little mutated or messed up with it. And this one obviously had just beards going everywhere and it was literally tangled. That's why I didn't really know how many it was, because I couldn't, I just knew it was multiple, but I was thinking two, maybe three, but they were so intertwined and stuff and I probably had something to do with it was picking up half of it, so those strands were way longer. You know, it was literally tied to something that was three inches above it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, matted into it almost but yeah, I remember. But but brian's it had like a one leg was four inches shorter than the other one or something we had seen that turkey several times down at that little place we were hunting with a buddy of ours. You had hunted down there a lot too with seals, mm-hmm, and it was always kind of a running like somebody going to get.
Speaker 2:Well, they had a little nickname for him because he like hobby hobble. You know, because he would hop around hoppy or something you know, because he could just hop around. People would see him during deer season and just be like deer season, like that thing's got a huge beard and whatnot and we're like yeah, whatever. I never laid eyes on him, yeah, but uh, he lived in a briar thicket turned out, and they would. He wouldn't respond to calls because I mean he couldn't fight, he couldn't balance. Yeah you know he lived.
Speaker 1:I don't know if he could roost he's just trying to make it to mar yeah, I mean, but they had seen him for like three seasons three deer seasons.
Speaker 2:They'd seen him during deer season, but not a lot during turkey season, because I mean, you're obviously looking for the goblin turkey and I think they just like ended up or set up on another turkey and he just like tried to cross the road or something. I don't even remember the story, but just all of a sudden it was like well he's 20 yards from us.
Speaker 1:All of a sudden shoot him.
Speaker 2:And that was Brian's first turkey. It was his first turkey Yep, sure was Because we had been trying to get him one for a few months, either that whole season or something.
Speaker 1:I don't remember what it was. That was also a first turkey deal. I mean, you ain't never going to kill one as big as your first one half the time. I don't even think he kept the beard on it, if you wanted it to be okay.
Speaker 2:It would have broke if he was worried about state records. I mean that obviously would have broke something. Yeah, I would think lightest turkey with the longest beard or something but I mean I ain't no rule book kind of guy, but I mean not rule book record you ain't no rule book easy, yeah, y'all don't flip that, yeah just don't do them rule books now I ain't worried about that, got time for them record books.
Speaker 1:Let's just clear that air right now I'm glad you caught that, because it went right over my head. Um, but no, the turkey I was talking about. He came in from behind me and I was I was hunting a different one.
Speaker 1:I had to been 15 at the time, I feel like I don't. I was in high school, I think I'm. Yeah. I was probably junior, senior, high school and I was hunting another one and it was coming around and this is my. I've killed one or two under my belt. I felt like by yourself that I did something to kill them, not necessarily like went where me and my dad went hunting before and I sat on the same tree and just kind of replicated it, you know.
Speaker 1:I had to like, do something to make a turkey leave its situation and come check me out, and you know, had to use your own imagination or thought process or whatever I impacted it myself more than anything, um, so I thought I was kind of I was it, I was I done, figured it out. But I was calling one and it was moving on me and I was kind of rotating and one fired off 45 yards behind me up the road. I walked in on. It never registered. Another turkey could live in the same world.
Speaker 1:You just don't think of that yeah, you're focused on one thing, I mean I jumped so far and swung around, wound up shooting him and I just remember looking up there and like somehow, even after he gobbled, thinking there was not going to be anything in that road, and how just huge and big and surprised I was to see him just standing there and like, did not have that in my, on my bingo card kind of you know, just um right place, right time I was, I hadn't wasn't trying to do anything with that one and wind up shooting him um, but that happens pretty often, you know honestly.
Speaker 2:I mean, that happened to me two years ago. Very similar scenario, that one that tick tock we have of me jumping, so exactly that's a good example.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you were. You're hunting like a.
Speaker 2:I don't know if it's a different one, but I was hunting one in front of me and at first light I'd heard one, three or four hundred yard, you know. As far as you can hear one, I'm like there is another turkey there, in case this one doesn't work out.
Speaker 1:Think about going down that direction and and most of them happen when you've kind of hung it up yeah, I never thought that turkey had would have made its way in silence you're just kind of sitting there yeah, I was literally looking at my maps, looking for a route to go four or five hundred yards down to try and start hunting that turkey and and I think the the connection you can make is if you sit a little longer than you plan on, if you pack bags, get ready to get out of there and just don't stand up for another 10 minutes.
Speaker 2:Yeah, if you ain't got nowhere to go.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean you'd be surprised if a tornado ain't coming at you or you're late for work right, you know something of that nature I would. I would not have left if not for the weather. But you know, and got there and realized I've got 10 more.
Speaker 2:That brings up the whole. You know, don't go hunt a turkey you don't know exist. You know, because 90 of the time when we leave one, oh yeah, we're going to try and find another turkey that we don't know exist, you know I ain't no more.
Speaker 2:I stopped doing that um, I've, I've killed several over the years that were thought thought that was over, and then you know whether it's. You know, pulled up my phone or something was catching up on text messages. I ain't, you know, read an hour or two, since you know I've been sitting there with it in my pocket or whatever, and and honestly that's why I was still at this place really was because and I and you probably got that from me saying drilling it, have to drill it.
Speaker 1:Into my own head. It was no, no, no. We're not going to hunt a turkey we don't know about. If I know, another turkey is like I don't want to leave a turkey I know exists if I hadn't bumped him you bump him, that's one thing if you two walk up and you shoot one and yeah, it exists.
Speaker 1:But yeah, your chances might be better hunting one you don't know exists at that point. But right, but crap, when you got five of them in the same field, which I'm not used to, yeah, I, it crossed my mind. Do I leave and go try to find somewhere? You know, drive through the storm and find a random piece of public and hope the turkeys on it could have? But you know I'm not gonna do that and that's why this is my third time hunting this place.
Speaker 1:Okay, so yeah, you know and I mean something, I mean being amongst them being paid a big part and just being out there and that's the number one. I would say if sitting along as number two, because number one is just being there, period right being where they want to be or have been, or whatever you want to say that's yeah, that's the hardest.
Speaker 2:That seems to be the hardest part finding one, or finding right, yeah you know, to hunt and then, uh, getting in there clean. That's the hardest part finding one or finding a few, you know to hunt and then getting in there clean.
Speaker 1:That's the hardest part. Yeah, obviously. And then yeah, but no, so that was going to be well. It's almost 30 minutes now, but I was thinking that was going to be our topic, and then we'd wind up retelling a story or two.
Speaker 1:So then we started thinking about all the stories that we hadn't told right and um, the main one I wanted to get to the past two years has nothing to do with killing. One has to do with messing it up and I just, I remember I like this is the only silver line and I'm getting from this experience is being able to tell y'all about this, because it's not, I mean, it's not that big of a deal. It's not like something wild and crazy happened. It's just, I was in, I was in a such a slump for almost a whole week and I was like, well, at least we're getting good podcast stories out of it. I was up north and this was towards the latter part of the season a couple years ago and, um, I had missed two or three. I feel like I had been shooting a whole. I think I went through a whole box of five shells and finally said, hey, it might be the shells.
Speaker 1:You know, I don't remember, you know, but they were really old and they were like almost oily, Like I had dropped something in a bag with them and just put them back in there, which is very possible you know, if you ever tell a whale hunter. Yeah, if you've ever seen my console?
Speaker 2:yeah, never. Yeah, I ain't getting on it. Yeah, hunter's not the best with shells right having them is a is a difficulty. We're lucky if he has one. Um, he's bummed a few off my off before I've taken them out of my gun to give him at least one shot before.
Speaker 1:Very rarely do I have three. Yeah, that's almost unheard of for me to actually have three shells Usually two or one, and I've been in binds before where I shoot three in the span of a few days yeah. And I don't have any and I'm just hunting.
Speaker 2:I'm like well, I don't get the console. Dig through the toolbox real quick and then I'll find one in the console.
Speaker 1:I'm like I don't that'll shoot, yeah and um, but I think this is what happened. The whole box was like that whole box inside and got wet or something um, so I'm not having a good time, so to speak.
Speaker 1:Miss, miss, I think it was three turkeys, but five shots total, yeah, and they were chip shots.
Speaker 1:And then I'm there getting the hole in my head like, well, might as well shoot them, all you know, get them out, because then I'm gonna grab one in two years and miss it and it's gonna be a huge one, or you know, something like that, and at least, at least I've been kind of expecting to at this point. But now then I'm trying to think of when I did and stuff it was a variety pack of stories of finding them and stuff. And then, of course, when you get kind of heated up like that in the opposite direction unheated up, I guess you'd say angered, heated up you start making poor decisions and stuff like that and jerking the trigger and whatnot, and that's what I was doing and um, but there was this particular evening that it took me a long time to find access to a place with turkeys, period. And once I did Since I did, I can't remember oh, the whole point of me hunting it was, I was hunting what was it?
Speaker 1:An osprey or something of that? Another big bird that I'd seen? That was not a turkey so I'd seen it. I was kind of like so.
Speaker 2:Wait, what I was so.
Speaker 1:You're hunting an osprey.
Speaker 2:I saw a bird, you saw an icebreaker, and I was so just out of my mind.
Speaker 1:You know, just like there's turkey, there's turkey goos on it.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Went around the world. Found a farmer like drove my truck into his field trying to get him Like I need to hunt this turkey, you know, kind of halfway crazy right now. You know, just in one of those not panic, but I'm just like kind of going out of my mind.
Speaker 1:You can probably look at me and go like he ain't, he ain't right right now, you know, in a sure enough slump and, uh, very low on nutrition and sleep and sanity all at the same time. Finally finally come across a turkey and I'm like, oh my gosh, freaking landowners literally in in the field, across the street. I can get in touch with him, I can go hunt him right now and do that. Go back. The bird is not there, no more. But I'm like, okay, he's in an area and I was having a hard time finding turkeys right this week and um got to go ahead from him, go down there, and it's a 300 yard walk and very slim cover so it takes me a while to get there. I'm dehydrated, I'll get out and everything and I get there and I don't ever see it.
Speaker 1:But I I can see the tracks of what this is, this is. This is what I saw and it was like droppings on the ground, similar to like an owl's, and I'm like that's a weird-looking trap. It's not a turkey trap, that's not like a goose or you know one of those sandhill cranes or anything. Right, that's an odd track. And then I see like a half-eaten dead rabbit or something. I'm like you've got to be kidding. And I see like a big like eagle's nest. Two trees.
Speaker 2:I'm like that was a freaking.
Speaker 1:Yeah, whatever, you know, it wasn't a bald eagle, it was a big bird and it was a predator bird, you know, obviously, to have a body like a turkey, but yeah, yeah, so I was hunting not even a turkey there. So I'm really heated at this point, just kind of like what, what is life?
Speaker 2:you know what am I doing I wrote a book about this.
Speaker 1:People bought it, and I still can't figure this out. I'm'm hunting a freaking bird you know, not even a turkey.
Speaker 2:Something you can't shoot. Yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 1:I can't even find it now. And I'm at its house, literally. But long story short and honestly I don't remember the in-betweens here, but making some big loops, calling nothing, nothing come back and I'm now. I'm on the other side of this field. I went on those other road, those other property, into the woods, down the creek of those, I agree, everything in between all these times. Now I'm practically where I started. Yeah, my truck's still really far. I've done all this on foot and um, get down there and lo and behold, it's freaking turkey strutting. No, I didn't know it was turkey strutting.
Speaker 2:I thought it was the osprey at that point you were convinced nothing was a turkey then correct.
Speaker 1:And this turkey had no fan zero tail feathers. So it's a ball. I'm like freaking birds down there with those. Why is he with hens? Why is it with another turkey? You know this is. This is not the same field, far enough to Right. It was definitely not a turkey. I was on it another time. I'm not saying like, are you sure it wasn't a turkey, it definitely wasn't. I want to say I did wind up seeing it flying around, but this was a turkey. It was a long-beared turkey and he had zero tail feathers. It's just a ball. It's a black ball down there. Yeah, I saw him probably 500 yards away through binoculars, honestly, in the middle of a dirt field.
Speaker 2:So it was pretty easy to see.
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Speaker 1:And I'm I'm slowly dying the battery's on everything on e and um. I get down, I'm trying to get, and what I've typically in the afternoons is, if I don't like hunting afternoons, I really don't like hunting evenings. Oh yeah, I don't like messing with roosts at all. I don't like. I just feel like I'm messing everything up. Then they're gonna know about me somehow or another. You gotta get out of there. And then, even if they don't fly off or make a noise, I'm paranoid that they did see me and it starts affecting my decisions on where I'm gonna see it. I'm like, well, no, that was too close to the way I walked out and that you know, stuff probably didn't happen. I'm worried about right. So I don't like being there in the evenings. I'd much rather leave at four, if I can. You know, that's kind of a cut off. I don't like just doing anything but being in a truck and maybe hearing one from the road maybe um, not this time though.
Speaker 1:I'm like I'm gonna see, if nothing else I can get, where they roost and I'll know, and I'll come back in the morning, get to sleep on it and, like I probably the only sleep I'll get I know'll know where a turkey's at.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 1:First time's happened in a while.
Speaker 2:And I should be on my sixth shell by now.
Speaker 1:So now I'm back in a good box, I've got a little confidence there. But yeah, so I'm sitting there and I'm trying to call them over. I mean this is probably 2.33, honestly, I mean I'm just building up to to the end. I'm telling you why I'm telling you all this. So I'm sitting there and and I'm calling he's answering and then the hands are kind of answering back at me. I'm like, okay, we got shot. But what I have noticed in the afternoons of what I was getting at was they'll they head downhill a little more.
Speaker 1:I think they'll get kind of uphill and then they'll kind of run, run downhill to fly yeah toward to the end, towards the creek or whatever. Whatever is the best side for them to roost on. A lot of times the ag fields are around creeks, obviously for, I guess, irrigation. I don't know why um or maybe it's just declination of land rainwater, you know um regardless.
Speaker 1:So I'm trying to get myself there to where it'll be easier for them, to his entourage, to want to go there anyway and if I can get it, get close enough, I might can peel him off or something of that nature, maybe the whole flock who knows um. So I get where I think's best and I think I still think it is best the spot I got and I have to wind up for some reason or another, lay down over a log like kind of underneath my shoulders here and I'm propped up over it and then my gun's resting on something else. I know it's gonna be a while. It ain't like. I'm like sitting where I think they're gonna roost, is they're? They're headed from my right to left and I'm trying to pull them off and they're about 200.
Speaker 1:So I mean he's got to come a good ways. It's my best shot, practically, but it's a shot at least. And um, he starts working, and then they start eventually, and hours go by and and they're, they've kind of left and he's just stuck in the middle, goblin, no fan or nothing. Looks like an idiot out there. I mean, half the time I don't know if he's facing me or not. Yeah, um, but he is hammering, hammering, hammering, hammering, hammering. Just a ball with a neck sticking out every now and then and a good long beard, though.
Speaker 2:But he ain't budging.
Speaker 1:I mean, I don't know why he would, why I thought he might. The width of the wood line I'm in is about nine feet. Oh gosh.
Speaker 2:I mean, you can see.
Speaker 1:You're like like a fence row.
Speaker 2:Yeah, literally, I mean, it wasn't a fence row, but it was about that width.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you can see the other opening behind me from that field so I mean, what are you talking him into? Kind of deal exactly. But I was right over a little a roll, kind of like. It wasn't the highest point, but there was a roll.
Speaker 1:I couldn't see to my right very far, maybe 20 yards maybe, because the field went up and then kind of plateaued and I was just on that first little declination okay um, I'll tell you why I'm in a second, but so I'm sitting here calling him, calling him, calling him and and for the first time, and I don't know how long, an hour and a half maybe he starts breaking a little bit. I'm like, okay, like he has to have forgotten. He, he does not know where these other turkeys have gone to. They've all left.
Speaker 2:Yeah, an hour ago he's looked up and kind of realized it all. That's what.
Speaker 1:I'm thinking is going to happen, yeah, and he kind of does and starts making his way and I'm thinking he's cut it to 100.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And he's coming at me now and then, um, I'd say he gets to about 75, yeah, and then a freaking gobbler rings out seven feet to my right. He topped that. No, or whatever is going to look for me too, and then I'm gonna buy and I don't know. Yes, and I've never hated a turkey worse in my life. And I'm looking out the corner of my eye and seeing I'm like, um, ever like because you're gonna see me. Yeah, in about three steps, you're gonna ruin this this one.
Speaker 2:Who is about?
Speaker 1:68 yards right now, I mean yeah he's about 15 steps from me, being like that's close enough right you know, I can definitely do that.
Speaker 1:I'm going to get one shot at him because if he takes one step on the other side then it's probably too far, and I'm thinking maybe he'll sit there and just gobble at him, you know, and not keep walking, yeah, and so that one stops him in the field and starts gobbling back at him, and they gobble, and they gobble, and they gobbling, they gobbling, they gobbling back and forth each other and I don't know what they're saying, probably telling me like an idiot when they're tail fan and um, they gobble probably 40 times a piece, back and forth, back and forth.
Speaker 1:And I'm underneath one of them. I'm mean from here to the door and he's hammering. Nothing's on film. Every battery's dead. By now I think I might have the film of me getting down and maybe the first 15 minutes and my gopro died and everything else I wasn't reaching to get it. And then that one, that one starts moving behind me, he gets in the woods line, so he's about to walk, he's about to step on my feet, I feel like.
Speaker 1:And the other one's still hung up at 75 or whatever, like so now it's in my mind like are you about to just let one walk over you and not try after that? One hasn't moved in probably 15 minutes, and it's starting to get a little dusky now. So now I feel like their decision make is going to be much less.
Speaker 1:Go breathe his hand, but go get in a tree get where I can, you know, get where the other ones are and where I'm supposed, you know. Kind of like a curfew kind of deal, like I better be smart, better not blow this and go get with the other 49 hens I had earlier. So then all this is going to mine and I'm like you got 30 seconds to figure this out, yeah. And so I'm like screw it. He was starting on my right and now he's kind of behind me and I'm listening to his footsteps. I'm like he's about to be on my left and I'm right-handed so I can pick up and go and I'm a ding. But if there was ever a camera on me, I wish it was now, because I've been laying here for three and a half hours at least, probably without moving and my brain's working, but my body has been checked out.
Speaker 1:Yeah, dropped the card off at the desk and left, kind of deal. And so I'm sitting there and I'm timing the footsteps. I'm like, all right, as soon as he gets to you know 7 o'clock and my mental right here I have enough leverage I can pick up and swing and shoot Royally, going to bump the turkey in front of me. He gone, he ain't ever coming back. Yeah, but this one's going to be dead if it all goes planned.
Speaker 1:So I get there and I got my gun ready and I pick up. I'm like one, two, three go and I'm going to move and my whole body just jerks, but my arms don't move. And so I pick up and like I'm telling you my, my shoulders would lift, but everything underneath them was numb, as I mean couldn't even grip the gun, oh god, asleep. And of course turkey sees something. I mean he's saying like what in them? I don't know if it's like what is that or what are you doing? You know I'm sitting there looking at him and I, like you, better hope I don't get feeling in these arms.
Speaker 1:You know, as soon as I can pick this gun up, I'm gonna shoot you it was all I'm doing, I'm just looking at him like you just wait, don't move, just wait, please don't wait, please don't move.
Speaker 1:And he's just kind of like but but you know, and he's kind of like making his way back and like not even scared, but and just kind of like I know you can't I do know you're there, by the way, if you didn't and I finally got him, I just like literally started, just like throwing it as high as I can get and finally getting him like a stick and lowering my head down, miss him three times. He was right there. You don't even have like I'm surprised. I think the recoil itself shook the shells.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Because, yeah, I mean, he was gone and I had to miss three times before I could ever really feel my fingertips anymore. I'm just sitting there thinking and I don't know if I had any more shells. I think I had to go. My buddy Walker I was kind of with him on the same little swing or whatever, and I think I had to get one or two from him. I don't think I told him why, but that was why, walker, if you're listening to this, your. But that was why, walker, if you're listening to this, your ninth missing. Yeah, so that was, that was a. These were new shells. These were not the shell fault. Obviously it's my arm's fault, but I was like, if anything, I at least get to tell the podcasters this story this was two, two and a half years, three years ago.
Speaker 1:This was when we definitely weren't telling each other stories yeah, so, um, yep, wanted to make sure y'all got to hear that yeah.
Speaker 2:I've never heard that either.
Speaker 1:Yep. And then I wound up shooting a turkey the next day because I ran into a guy at Casey's. Really, yep, I was leaving, I was going somewhere else, I didn't even go that morning you were probably going home. No, I wasn't going home, I would have been. I'm about 19 hours from home. I'm like I'll find a turkey before I get home, but I didn't know where to go.
Speaker 2:I was saying you're bad luck.
Speaker 1:I couldn't go there, so I had nowhere to go. I was in line at Casey's. I was wearing camouflage, obviously. This dude getting caught in front of me was like obviously you going hunting? I'm like yeah.
Speaker 2:I guess you can call it that at this point. Yeah.
Speaker 1:Didn't really want to tell him you were point. Yeah, I didn't really want to tell him you are, you're gonna think I'm smart, ellie, but no, it's just all I have.
Speaker 1:You know, I kind of quit that yesterday um, I was like, yeah, I guess I'm gonna try to find one or whatever. And he's like, well, you tell it wasn't from around there. I'm wearing granges too. He's like you look like you're from the south kind of deal. Um, I figured you would have found one by now. I thought y'all were good at turkey hunting down. There's kind of how he, his voice kind of struck me. And then I mean he was wrong apparently. But he was like nah, I, I shot my, I think I'm gonna kill one up there. Maybe wherever I was hunting was, I don't know.
Speaker 1:Um, but he's like I already shot mine, he's like, but I know there's another one there at this place. And he gave me like napkin directions, like not written down, but like you take it right here, left here. Didn't give me the name of the place, smart guy. Um, he's like it's up to you to find it, but I'm gonna tell you where you, where it is. At least he told me that like three, three rights and two lefts, and see a cemetery, pull around around the back and there'll be a gate there. And sure enough it was, and I would dang there wasn't a turkey when he said a turkey was going to be. And this dude was like wearing the blue suit, getup like I don't know, with a name tag on his shirt.
Speaker 2:Oh, like a mechanic outfit, yeah, something of that nature.
Speaker 1:Jumpsuit Did not strike me as a. I wasn't like hunting actively or whatever. He was just kind of telling me as he's walking by you know kind of like hey, how you doing good you, you know like yeah, you just kind of draws out and it just kind of fades off and I'm like three rights left, three, three more or less, and I'm like yeah I'll give it a shot and I'm I'm like gunning it yeah sure enough, dude casey told me where tricky was, and it was was there Been there, worked him, shot him.
Speaker 1:I'm like I'll never see that guy ever again. Yeah, he'll have no idea that I actually found it and there was Turkey there. So, guy, if you're listening to this, thank you. I got a six-pack of whatever y'all drink up there waiting on you, but that is how that trip went. Waiting on you, but that is how that trip went. And then I can't think of then. I only shot one or two more that year, I feel like, but that's so. This year we'll be able to tell more stories like that in real time.
Speaker 1:I know this wasn't the best of episodes of just here's what you do Right.
Speaker 2:And not forget half of them in between, Because we sure have. Yeah, we were sitting here thinking about it earlier and I was like man, I know one that I can talk about, you know, but I only know about this much. And then I was like you know, I already halfway had to tell you the story, to remember half of it, you know.
Speaker 1:Yep, I feel like.
Speaker 2:I got a lot off my chest.
Speaker 1:Now that's the only story I remember, that's the only one that ever comes to mind. I'm like, oh hell, it's ain't a good one to tell it on.
Speaker 2:Yeah, which? Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1:We're gonna have them live here in a minute and that's gonna be nice, yeah and and there was some things, things that are not necessarily related to the hunt, that I'd forgotten about until we were just talking about getting cussed out, door knocking or something that will be a little easier to keep up with. That are good assets of the, of the experience and the journeys and stuff like that that we're doing and the bad days, right.
Speaker 2:You know what a weekly recap of the of the the week with that that was a long way you don't? Don't you know what I mean? Yeah, um, a weekly recap will be pretty cool, I think you know, or easier to do, even if we are in a slump. Now, if I come on, here and I'm just one word in it. Y'all just know how that one's how my week's going.
Speaker 1:Y'all just send me some peace and blessings or whatever you want to say yeah, I don't know If it's anything like last year, that's. Chase is going to have a good year this year. Shoot, I don't Mark it down right now. Don't say that he's going to kill him. Please do not. He's going to kill him on opening day. Stop saying it.
Speaker 2:Geez, I have to get on Jeremy all the time about this. Do not say we're going to suck in every way.
Speaker 1:No, I'm a little nervous. I had a couple good years in a row. You don't know if you break it down, it's about par for everybody. But I'm big on Wild Trick of Voodoo.
Speaker 2:Yep.
Speaker 1:When you got it, you got it, and when it's against you, it's against you. Boy, was it against?
Speaker 2:me last year. Mm-hmm, I didn't. Yeah, I had people suggesting I go to a therapist. No kidding, yeah, I think I've already talked about that.
Speaker 1:You don't want to be my therapist?
Speaker 2:during them times. It's not good.
Speaker 1:It just fuels it more. That's as much, if not more. The addiction to turkey hunting is actually killing one. I think I said it. It's not the killing of the turkey, it's the chance of killing a turkey. That is the addictive part. It's the obsession, the root of the mind, consumption and the never-ending. You know you're always bound to go. You're bound by something else and it's a big. What if?
Speaker 2:What if he did? What if?
Speaker 1:it's there.
Speaker 2:What if it didn't work? Yeah, what if? What if he did?
Speaker 1:what if it? What if it's there? What if it didn't work? Yeah, you know there is one and I would have not turned around that day. You know, shoot that one that was on the video this past week if it, if I knew, I would have been able to sleep a wink that night. I just wanted to go see if he was there. I was. I was almost hoping there wasn't a turkey there, just so I could cross it off like, yeah, okay, he didn't, I didn't call another one in and he wasn't a turkey there, just so I could cross it off like, yeah, okay, he didn't, I didn't call another one in and he wasn't like sitting there wondering where I was while I'm sitting in a truck cab with dry shoulders. You know, I was like I'd get wet shoulders for it right about now, you know and that's.
Speaker 2:I think I talked about it last week or week before. Just quick, like if I'm walking a place making a loop, oh yeah, that's. That's kind of the same. The reason I do that right is because of that. What if one did walk up to one of my calls in the past so like if I walk in on the right side and come out on the left back to my truck. I don't do that anymore.
Speaker 2:I walk to the you know whatever three quarters of the property, then walk the same loop. I walked in back out if I was calling yeah, and you know and that was just one of those. What if it? What if one was out of earshot? Or gobbled one of that truck past or something and I didn't know. He was trying to get to me and I took off walking. I didn't hear him because I was walking you know, that's just.
Speaker 2:You know another one of those things you know that the what if factor, that's still sticking with me a lot of day.
Speaker 1:You know a lot of years what if you wouldn't have turned around?
Speaker 2:what if I would have kept going forward? And that struck another new bird? Yeah, that's what I wonder when I get back to the truck and without there's always the other option, yeah I probably should have just kept making this work yeah, that's the guy's first thing.
Speaker 1:I think I was like what if you would have just walked 10 more steps? Yeah, in the right direction right now I'm walking away from that call.
Speaker 2:I mean, you can't cover them all, I know.
Speaker 1:But that one, what? If that works just in this scenario, is going to ruin several plans of mine, because I'm going to stay later, I'm going to stay longer, I'm going to go further. I'm going to go those 10 more steps, 10 more steps, 10 more minutes, so many more times in probably the next 10 years, because of that one, turkey, who did do the what if you know he did what.
Speaker 1:If that turkey heard me and was going to come to that tree after I left, I better go look and risk getting literally sucked by a tornado just to lay eyes, because I'm not going to be okay if I don't. And if he's 200 yards out there, cool, I know where he's at. I know he wasn't on the way. At least, right, I'll walk away. If he's walking yards out there, cool, I know where he's at. I know he wasn't on the way, at least right, I walk away. If he's walking the other way, walking away. If he's not out there, walking away. But if he's out there 100 yards walking towards the tree, I know he's going to be walking towards. I know where I want to get and he just happened to be right. And that's going to be in the back of my mind every single time when you say, like, all right time to go, hang it up, throw it in the towel, and I'm like but what if?
Speaker 1:yep so, but it wouldn't have it any other way, and that is why I am so obsessed by this phenomena. Yeah, you know as as those exact what, ifs and stuff like that, that anything can happen. That's why the second book's named Indie Given Spring Morning, because it can literally happen anywhere, anytime, but you gotta be there. The moral of the story is being there to accept the offer, so to speak but yeah, and when we see y'all again it's gonna be.
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