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 s ..read more

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.  Listen in to the story! Buy some merch and great sounding The Turkey Hunter diaphragm turkey calls from our Shopify store by clicking here: https ..read more

2024 Turkey Hunting Goals - Successes and Failures This week, Cameron and Andy talk about their 2024 pre-season goals and whether or not they accomplished those goals.  They discuss their failures and a few of the things they learned from those failures. They also discussed how those failures do not define them or their turkey season. Listen in! Buy some merch and great sounding The Turkey Hunter diaphragm turkey calls from our Shopify store by clicking here: https://theturkeyhunterpodcast.myshopify.com/ Join our Patreon group and get additional content, discounts on merch, and other ..read more

Pheasants Forever This week, Cameron shares a 2'fer with us as he shares the stories and audio of two of his turkey hunts from this spring.  The moral of the stories are that we, as turkey hunters, need to be adaptable to be successful. This is a great episode with some awesome turkey hunt audio. Listen in! Buy some merch and great sounding The Turkey Hunter diaphragm turkey calls from our Shopify store by clicking here: https://theturkeyhunterpodcast.myshopify.com/ Join our Patreon group and get additional content, discounts on merch, and other great perks by clicking here: htt ..read more

2024 Mid Season Update This week Cameron and Andy share an update on how their 2024 turkey seasons have been going so far. There have been quite a few turkeys that have been taken so far this year. You'll hear a little about that as well as what both Andy and Cameron have learned during the season and what the highlights of their seasons have been so far. Listen in! Buy some merch and great sounding The Turkey Hunter diaphragm turkey calls from our Shopify store by clicking here: https://theturkeyhunterpodcast.myshopify.com/ Join our Patreon group and get additional content, discounts on ..read more

Beau Brooks Seminar from the 2024 NWTF Convention This week, Cameron and Andy replay the seminar about hunting western wild turkeys that Beau Brooks put on at the NWTF convention in Nashville. This is a very informative seminar that I feel like everyone can learn a little something from, especially those of us east of the Mississippi River. Beau is a phenomenal caller and natural voice caller, and the presentation is very entertaining as well. Listen in! Buy some merch and great sounding The Turkey Hunter diaphragm turkey calls from our Shopify store by clicking here: https://theturkeyhun ..read more

Results from the TN Delayed Season Start Study This week, Dr. Craig Harper and Dr. David Beuhler with the University of Tennessee join Cameron and Andy on the show to discuss their recommendations from their 7 year study regarding the effects of delaying the start of turkey seasons and the potential for increase in poult recruitment. The results of the study showed that moving the start of hunting season to later in the year did not greatly affect the initiation of nesting or the start of incubation for wild turkey hens. Drs Buehler and Harper share the details of the study and upcoming vote t ..read more

Turkey Talk with Mark Prudhomme This week, Cameron and Andy are joined by World Champion Caller of All Critters, Mark Prudhomme. Mark has won just about every type of calling contest known to man. He is a student of the talk of wild turkeys, and he is always willing to share information with us on this show. Mark talks about being on the stage at The Grand Ole Opry in Nashville to introduce the 2024 Grand National Calling Champion, Matt Van Cise. We also discuss how today's technology has helped to improve success rates in the turkey woods and how turkey hunters have become better turkey hunte ..read more

The Sweet Voice of the Wild Turkey with Denny Gulvas - Part 2 This week, Cameron and Andy bring you part 2 of the interview with Denny Gulvas.  In this episode, we discuss in much more detail about certain similarities in the characteristics of hen yelps and turkey talk. Denny also gives some tips on things to listen for in hen yelps and how he believes a gobbler can remember the voices of the hens in his flock. Denny also discusses how to run his turkey calls and talks about an exercise that he uses to help people run his calls better. This episode is full of amazing tips and content tha ..read more

The Sweet Voice of the Wild Turkey with Denny Gulvas This week, Denny Gulvas joins Cameron and Andy on the show. Denny has devoted the latter years of his life to videoing the wild turkey and studying their language. There likely is not anyone more expert on the voice of the wild turkey than Denny. We discuss not only the calls of the wild turkey, but practically everything else about the bird that fascinates us turkey hunters.  This is a great episode, and it is one of two. Get your pen and paper, and listen in! Buy some merch and great sounding The Turkey Hunter diaphragm turkey calls f ..read more