Dr. Marcus Lashley is a wildlife biologist and ecologist, that has done extensive work dealing with wildlife management, wildlife conservation, conservation biology, disturbance ecology, and much more. In this episode we focus on the practice of trapping and habitat improvement, and how both correlate with wildlife management. 

Aaron Warbritton is well-known hunter and conservationist, most widely recognized for his work with The Hunting Public on YouTube. In this episode we talk with Aaron about the most recent fundraiser they put on to raise money to start up a research project that will be headed up by Dr. Mike Chamberlain, otherwise known as the Wild Turkey Doctor. We also take the conversation into deeper detail for the reasoning of the fundraiser and the growing concern about wild turkey populations. 

This episode is bittersweet. We discuss the ending of the Mississippi turkeys season, as well as our latest trip to Iowa. The midwest has becoming a team favorite in the past few years. The amount of turkeys we're able to see and hear is nothing short of remarkable. This year's trip came with a little bit of twist, with Jordan drawing a muzzleloading shotgun tag. As always, a huge thanks to our friend Tommy Nails with Whiskey Ridge Hunts for putting up with us and giving us a great time! 

This episode contains a turkey tale that took place this very morning, with Brad and Jordan. We also cover the hunting action from Kudzu Bluff last week, and pick apart the factors that made each hunt work. We talk specifically about the dangers of yelping to a turkey that's within eyesight. Lastly, we talk about our plans for heading west, and our strange addiction with turkeys that most folks probably wouldn't understand. 

We are joined in the first part of this podcast by John Cassimus, who is attempting to break the world record for the fastest grand slam, and he is doing it all in name of raising money and awareness for the NWTF. Needless to say, we're eager to follow along with how he does in this crazy adventure. Troy and I go into a long discussion afterwards about all the action and hunts that have taken place at Kudzu Bluff in the past days. Believe me, there's no shortage of action; gobbling turkeys, strutting turkeys, turkeys in range with no shot, turkeys almost getting away, my full-blown case of the turkey yips, how we used the topography maps on OnX to save a hunt, and much more. Check it out!

Fewer things in this world are known to make a turkey hunters' skin crawl worse than the thought of missing a turkey. If the thought of that scares you, just imagine missing two, in back-to-back days. In this episode we hear the sad, but funny story of how I managed to do all of this missing. Despite the subpar marksmanship, there are still a few things to learn in what it took to get both of them into range. 

Prescribed fire has been a known management tool for wild turkeys. In this episode, joined by expert on the subject, Marcus Lashley. we take a deep dive into this topic; covering the benefits, timing, and even the breaking of some old beliefs that may not be true. 

To say a lot of action has taken place between this week and the last would be an understatement. Fortunately for us, the action on our hunt with Dave Owens picked up significantly. We were treated to one of the finest spring time spectacles a turkey hunter could ever ask for. Y'all will here the full story of that unfold in this episode. Y'all will also hear from our latest action in Alabama, including the story of successful hunt that just took place this morning! 

This is about as much live action updates as you can get without doing a full live-streamed podcast. Today is Monday, March 15, 2021; opening day of spring turkey season in MS. This morning Jordan, Dave Owens, and myself headed out and made a morning hunt with plans of recording a podcast about it right after, and thats exactly what we did. We discuss the action that took place, things to learn from that turkey encounter that can apply to most all early-season hunting, and end the conversation with our favorite hunting story from last week's South Florida trip!

I don't think there is a piece of hunting clothing that gets more thought out and loaded-down, than a turkey vest. Every turkey hunter is different. Every turkey hunter seems to have that one thing that they just cannot go into the turkey woods without, but one way or the other, every single one of those vest pockets tends to end up filled. So the question is, what do you carry? We break down all of our turkey gear that we walk into the woods with; calls, binoculars, snacks, decoys, and everything in between.