Fall Turkey Hunting and Turkey Dogging with Gratten Hepler

This week, turkey dogger, Gratten Hepler, joins Cameron and Andy to talk about fall turkey hunting with a turkey dog.

Gratten turkey hunts in the Fall with a Brittany Spaniel. He shares lots of stories about fall hunting with his dog on the show. Gratten also shares some tips that can be used during the Fall whether you hunt with a turkey dog or not. Gratten also talks about how and why he thinks hunting turkeys in the Fall has changed.

In addition to hunting turkeys in the Fall and Spring, Gratten also makes turkey calls. If you are interested in speaking with Gratten regarding some of his calls, then reach out to Andy or Cameron. They will share his number with you.

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They Mark My Steps with Michael T Simpson

This week, Michael T Simpson joins Cameron and Andy on the show to talk a little about his new book, They Mark My Steps.

Michael shares a number of stories with us in this episode. He shares the story of the tornado that hit his house in northeast Mississippi not long after the release of his first book. He talks about the emotions of his first turkey hunts soon after the turkey hunt.

Michael also talks about an exciting hunt in Texas with his wife this past spring where she got her first turkey ever after a long hiatus from turkey hunting. 

This is a great episode that is loaded with stories and a few laughs. Listen in!

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The Story of a Bonafide Swamp Gobbler

This week Cameron and Andy share one of Andy's hunts from the 2024 spring turkey season to help deal with the fact that spring turkey season is still over 6 months away for most of the US.

In this hunt, Andy encounters high water and gobbling turkeys on a piece of property that he had never set foot on before. This was an interesting hunt, that like most of our hunts, involved several decisions that could have turned this hunt into a non-event. The story is a good one, and the hunt audio is brief.

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Piping Hot Turkey Soup

This week, Cameron and Andy share some interesting articles and commentary with a bowl of turkey soup in the hottest month of summer for most of the country.

In this episode, Missouri, Tennessee, Alabama, Louisiana, and Illinois turkeys and turkey hunters are in the news and discussed at length. With topics covered like fall turkey season bag limits and dates, harvest numbers, summer and fall turkey surveys, and even inaugural Hall of Fame inductees are all discussed. 

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Turkey Talk with Billy Yargus

 This week, almost first time guest and 2 time Grand National Calling Champion, Billy Yargus joins Cameron and Andy on the show to talk all things turkey.

Billy talks about how he got into hunting, and shares some fond memories of his hunting mentor. He also shares the story of how he got into competitive turkey calling and some insight into some of the competition that he faced during those days. Of course, we get a few turkey hunting tips from Billy along the way as well.

Billy currently is on the pro staff for Woodhaven Custom Calls and Mossy Oak as well. Billy makes a several thousand diaphragm calls for Woodhaven each year, and they definitely put out a quality product.

This is another great episode of the show, so be sure to listen in.

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The Final Results from the 2024 Raffle Hunt with Mark Hatfield

In late 2023 and early 2024, The Turkey Hunter Podcast raffled a turkey hunt for two lucky hunters in South TX to join Cameron and Andy for a late winter hunt. Over two thousand tickets were sold during the raffle period, and Del Ghia and Jason "Justin" Barnes won the hunts. A great time was had by all and new friendships were formed during the hunts. Best of all, funds were raised to be donated to the NWTF and TFT. 

Both the NWTF and TFT received donations of $2000 because of your generosity. This week, Mark Hatfield with the NWTF is on the show to talk about where your raffle donation money is being spent.

In addition to talking about the projects supported with your donations, we talk about the matching dollars that come from the government and other organizations that helped to make the $2,000 donation much, much more than a couple thousand dollars. The NWTF always does a great job maximizing the spend of each dollar donated, and the donation from the raffle tickets purchased by our listeners yielded the same results by the organization.

Cameron and I are very excited to bring you guys this episode, and we are very appreciative of your support of the raffle. Stay tuned for another raffle hunt in 2025.

This is a great episode. Listen in!

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The NRCS and Wild Turkey Habitat Management with Mike Hansbrough

This week, Mike Hansbrough, who is the Area Resource Biologist in West Tennessee for the NRCS, joins Cameron and Andy today to discuss the role the NRCS can play in habitat management on private property.

Mike discusses a few of the programs, such as CRP, EQIP, and CSP that are available to help private landowners manage their properties for targeted wildlife species. These programs not only help to provide a management plan for a landowners property, but they can provide needed dollars to help offset the cost of performing the services needed to improve the habitat.

Mike is very passionate about his job and the programs available through the program, and this episode is loaded with information that any landowner will find useful.

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488 - A Mexican Showdown on a Turkey Hunt

This week Parrey Cremeans joins Cameron and Andy to share the story of a Gould's turkey hunt that didn't quite end up the way that was expected.

After hunting for several days in the mountains of the Sierra Madres for the beautiful Gould's turkey hunt, Parrey and his group were robbed at gunpoint by members of a Mexican drug cartel while on their way back to the airport to catch their flights home. 

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Turkey Tips from the Window to the Walls with Chris Walls

This week, champion turkey caller, Chris Walls, joins Cameron and Andy on the show for the first time. 

Chris is a winner of the Gobbling competition and finished second several times in the Grand Nationals in Nashville. He also knows a thing or two about wild turkeys and turkey hunting. Cameron and Andy managed to pull some tips out of him during the interview.

In addition to several tips, Chris shares how his turkey hunting strategy has had to change over the course of the past couple of decades because of loss of opportunities.

This is another great episode that you do not want to miss. Listen in!

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2024 The Misses

This week, Cameron and Andy talk about some of their missed shots from their 2024 turkey seasons.

The missed shots are always humbling and are a great source of thousands of questions we ask of ourselves. There are really just a handful of reasons as to why we miss most of the shots that we miss. Cameron and Andy discuss some of those reasons during the show, and they play some of the hunt audio from a couple of their misses as well.

Listen in to this week's episode, and if you are feeling brave share your story, or stories, of your missed shots from this season with Cameron and Andy and the listeners.

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