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Speaker 1: So we come to Covenan County Hospital at a hurry

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Speaker 1: and got him minee poolish clothes off shot? What ever

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Speaker 2: How would you like to hear some turkey stories from Virginia, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas,

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Speaker 2: and even Old Mexico. Well, my friends, if you said

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Speaker 2: annual Turkey Stories episode. We've rounded up some of the best,

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Speaker 2: most unique stories that we could find from a completely

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Speaker 2: unique set of Homo sapiens, both old and young, both

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Speaker 2: men and women. But what they have in common is

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Speaker 2: a love for spring mornings and wild turkeys. I've said

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Speaker 2: this before, but you can learn a lot just from

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Speaker 2: listening to stories. Today, we're gonna hear from college sophomore

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Speaker 2: Holly Newkirk on our first solo turkey It's good. We'll

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Speaker 2: hear from a man who got attacked by Bobcat. We'll

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Speaker 2: hear of a man getting shot. We'll hear one bizarre

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Speaker 2: story of two shots fired at the same turkey. We'll

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Speaker 2: even hear from Wild Turkey Dot biologist Mike Chamberlain. But sadly,

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Speaker 2: one of our storytellers, mister Claude Strawther of Alabama passed

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Speaker 2: away in January of twenty twenty six. We recorded a

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Speaker 2: story back in the fall, and we'll be posting it posthumously.

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Speaker 2: I really doubt that you're gonna want to miss this one,

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Speaker 2: And hey, you can do me a solid by checking

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Speaker 2: with some legendary houndsmen and mule men. It's up on

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Speaker 2: the Media to YouTube channel as part of our new

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Speaker 2: twelve and twenty six film series. It means that aside

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Speaker 2: from our weekly releases on that channel, every month, we're releasing.

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Speaker 3: A full scale film.

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Speaker 2: Watch and comment and let me know what you think

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Speaker 2: about line management and about riding those mules. My name

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Speaker 2: is Clay knucom and this is the Bear Grease Podcast,

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Speaker 2: where we'll explore things forgotten but relevant, search for insight

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Speaker 2: and unlikely places, and where we'll tell the story of

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Speaker 2: Americans who lived their lives close to the land.

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Speaker 3: Brought to you by to Covi's Boots.

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Speaker 2: I'm a cowboy boot man and I've been wearing to

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Speaker 2: put on. Good boots for good times. Here we begin

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Speaker 2: found ourselves in the spring. The cyclic nature of this

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Speaker 2: life and the hunter's connection to the natural system of

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Speaker 2: the earth are astonishing to me. All towered by the

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Speaker 2: turning of this globe, the changing of the seasons. What

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Speaker 2: it does is it makes me grateful that I've been

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Speaker 2: given another spring. Our first story is told from the

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Speaker 2: Heart of the Ozarks by auctioneer and squirrel dog man Deluxe,

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Speaker 2: Gary Farmer.

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Speaker 3: But he's also a turkey hunter, Deluxe.

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Speaker 2: This is a story of when his friend Frank recruited

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Speaker 2: him to help double team a gobbler, and the conclusion

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Speaker 3: Here's Gary Frank.

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Speaker 4: He used to lived out the road here a few

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Speaker 4: He's a big turkey hunter, big hunter of any kin,

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Speaker 4: and so he tried to call this turkey up for

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Speaker 4: And I ran in to him, and he said, I've

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Speaker 4: I can make him gobble. And he said, I can't

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Speaker 4: If you'll go with me, I think we can get him.

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Speaker 3: So I go with him.

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Speaker 4: We go to this spot, and he said, he'll be

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Speaker 4: And he called that turkey gobble, just like he said.

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Speaker 4: But finally we both closed in on him, and he'd

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Speaker 4: Finally I saw him. I saw the gobbler, and he

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Speaker 5: Y'all killed the turkey.

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Speaker 4: We shot at the exact same time.

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Speaker 3: He didn't know that I shot.

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Speaker 5: And I didn't even try to claim the turkey.

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Speaker 3: But we shaw at the exact same Now, did you

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Speaker 5: Him that I did shoot.

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Speaker 4: That's an honest truth that happened.

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Speaker 2: University podcast right here on this feed recorded this story

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Speaker 2: Lake describes mister James as an old school Mississippi turkey

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Speaker 1: We went to jeff Davis County one morning and I

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Speaker 1: I heard a turkey. I headed towards Lewis, walk just

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Speaker 1: I took him out two or three step and this

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Speaker 1: fellow he weighed probably two and forty five fifty pounds,

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Speaker 1: need about five ten. You could hear him holler from

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Speaker 1: he's got that big turkey. He's been after. I took

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Speaker 1: I said, well, shoot, what did the world's going on?

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Speaker 1: where you hollered you? Well, he hollered again the third time.

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Speaker 1: This fellow that had just got out of Partsman the

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Speaker 5: Thought he was the turkey.

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Speaker 1: Well, he just shot movement. Saw movement, He saw movement

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Speaker 1: You can hold it up, and it looked like a

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Speaker 1: don't know. She says, well, you help me. Just a

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Speaker 1: She said, I'm all count and you cover up. When

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Speaker 6: Oh my goodness.

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Speaker 1: But all I'm says the good Lord was watching over him.

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Speaker 1: I'd say the man it shot, he wasn't called along.

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Speaker 5: Oh my goodness.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't blame him, and shake anybody, shake anybody up.

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Speaker 1: And when he died, they were still getting he would

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Speaker 2: He didn't get the turkey.

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Speaker 1: Well, he told me where turkey was at and he

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Speaker 1: Never did I never did go back, honey anymore. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: This guy had over one hundred and seventy five pellets

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Speaker 3: We wear hunter's orange or.

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Speaker 2: High visibility colors so that others can see us, except

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Speaker 2: story from Arkansas's Andy Brown.

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Speaker 3: I mean, really here, he is our buddy Andy.

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Speaker 2: He's got a short story he told me about hunting

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Speaker 7: Me and my old buddy Wayne. We cracked thousands of

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Speaker 7: And Wayne and said, what are you gonna do? I said, Wayne,

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Speaker 7: that's a long ways down there. He said, well, we

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Speaker 7: It was all downhill. And so we get off there

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Speaker 7: Wayne shot a I think it was a eleven hundred

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Speaker 6: Why in the world did you shoot at that dirty

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Speaker 6: so far? He like, kill two? What do you want

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Speaker 3: And so we go down there.

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Speaker 5: And he killed two biggins.

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Speaker 7: I mean, I'm talking about them that had feels like

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Speaker 3: Kwam and he said very usual.

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Speaker 2: Edy's story involved intimate details of the cardinal directions, sound effects,

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Speaker 8: I'm Holly Newkirk and I'm from Devallswaff, Arkansas, but I'm

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Speaker 8: a student at the University of Arkansas. And last sprink,

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Speaker 8: He ends up giving me the permission to hunt his land.

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Speaker 8: these turkeys in my lap and someone just shot my bird,

434
00:24:55,960 --> 00:24:58,199
Speaker 8: and I'm like trying to ease over and see them,

435
00:24:58,240 --> 00:24:59,800
Speaker 8: and I see them, but they're walking away and they

436
00:24:59,800 --> 00:25:03,280
Speaker 8: don't I'm a bird, and I'm like what happened? And

437
00:25:03,359 --> 00:25:05,320
Speaker 8: then it starts drizzling raining. At this point, I go

438
00:25:05,440 --> 00:25:07,000
Speaker 8: under a big cedar tree. I kind of hide from

439
00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:08,920
Speaker 8: the rain a little bit, kind of get myself together.

440
00:25:08,960 --> 00:25:11,720
Speaker 8: I'm regrouping, like I'm just gonna wait a minute there.

441
00:25:11,920 --> 00:25:13,640
Speaker 8: The shot shouldn't scare them off too much, Like there's

442
00:25:13,640 --> 00:25:16,800
Speaker 8: still two other birds around, I know, and sit there,

443
00:25:16,880 --> 00:25:19,680
Speaker 8: wait for the rain to pass, and then I start

444
00:25:19,800 --> 00:25:21,920
Speaker 8: like just easing around the fence lines, going up and

445
00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:23,720
Speaker 8: down the draws on the fence line. Everything for probably

446
00:25:23,760 --> 00:25:25,879
Speaker 8: about an hour and a half, calling every now and then,

447
00:25:25,960 --> 00:25:28,640
Speaker 8: crow calling every now and then. Nothing was happening, nothing

448
00:25:28,760 --> 00:25:30,680
Speaker 8: was cranking up. I was sad. I was on the

449
00:25:30,720 --> 00:25:33,080
Speaker 8: phone my dad and my dad this is just heartbreaking,

450
00:25:33,840 --> 00:25:36,080
Speaker 8: and he's like, Holly, stay with it. And I'm like, okay, Dad,

451
00:25:36,080 --> 00:25:38,040
Speaker 8: I'll stay with it. And I'm like, it's been an

452
00:25:38,040 --> 00:25:40,000
Speaker 8: hour and a half, two hours, i haven't heard anything.

453
00:25:41,040 --> 00:25:42,960
Speaker 8: And I look at the property line. I'm like, okay,

454
00:25:43,200 --> 00:25:45,320
Speaker 8: he told me to stay on this side, but somebody

455
00:25:45,359 --> 00:25:47,040
Speaker 8: else was hunting this side and shot my bird out

456
00:25:47,040 --> 00:25:49,200
Speaker 8: from under me already, So I'm gonna go to the

457
00:25:49,240 --> 00:25:50,800
Speaker 8: side that he told me I shouldn't go to because

458
00:25:50,800 --> 00:25:53,200
Speaker 8: somebody's gonna be hunting there. Seeple that were hunting apparently

459
00:25:53,520 --> 00:25:55,040
Speaker 8: didn't know what side either. So I'm like, okay, I'll

460
00:25:55,040 --> 00:25:57,960
Speaker 8: just go to their side now, and I'm like, he

461
00:25:58,160 --> 00:25:59,960
Speaker 8: really didn't. He just said they'll be there early morning,

462
00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:01,600
Speaker 8: but he said they wouldn't be there long. So I'm like, okay,

463
00:26:01,600 --> 00:26:03,720
Speaker 8: I should be clear. Nobody should be out here. And

464
00:26:04,040 --> 00:26:05,639
Speaker 8: I hadn't scouted this side yet because I was like,

465
00:26:05,720 --> 00:26:07,520
Speaker 8: it was thick, it wasn't really pretty. I was like, no,

466
00:26:07,680 --> 00:26:10,040
Speaker 8: this is not ideal. I kind of giving up, and

467
00:26:10,160 --> 00:26:12,760
Speaker 8: I'm like, I'm sad. I've walked miles now, up and

468
00:26:12,840 --> 00:26:15,280
Speaker 8: down everything, and I'm just kind of open pasture, not

469
00:26:15,320 --> 00:26:17,960
Speaker 8: really hot, and and I have to move this gate.

470
00:26:18,359 --> 00:26:21,000
Speaker 8: And as I move this gate, I drop it and

471
00:26:21,119 --> 00:26:23,240
Speaker 8: I hear what I thought was a gobble, like a

472
00:26:23,280 --> 00:26:25,440
Speaker 8: shot gobble from the gate dropping, but I wasn't for sure.

473
00:26:25,480 --> 00:26:26,920
Speaker 8: So I'm like, no, I'm just hearing stuff because I

474
00:26:26,960 --> 00:26:29,240
Speaker 8: want to hear something. And so I picked the gay

475
00:26:29,280 --> 00:26:31,960
Speaker 8: back up. I'm not being quiet. I go and stand

476
00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:34,760
Speaker 8: by this tree that's like probably thirty yards from the gate,

477
00:26:35,200 --> 00:26:36,879
Speaker 8: and I just do a slight little yelp on my

478
00:26:37,200 --> 00:26:41,320
Speaker 8: slate call and immediately right on top of me, and

479
00:26:41,440 --> 00:26:44,720
Speaker 8: I'm like, WHOA Like, I like froze and I'm like, wow,

480
00:26:44,800 --> 00:26:47,320
Speaker 8: that's right on top of me. I threw my decoy down.

481
00:26:47,640 --> 00:26:49,359
Speaker 8: I threw the fan down, and I'm like, okay, I

482
00:26:49,400 --> 00:26:51,280
Speaker 8: can't sit here. I'm not going about to see where

483
00:26:51,320 --> 00:26:52,880
Speaker 8: he's coming up from. I have trees right in front

484
00:26:52,880 --> 00:26:54,760
Speaker 8: of me, and there's an opening over here. So I

485
00:26:54,880 --> 00:26:56,480
Speaker 8: run to this tree and there's like a bob while

486
00:26:56,480 --> 00:26:58,080
Speaker 8: I wrap around the bottom of the tree. I'm like,

487
00:26:58,200 --> 00:27:01,200
Speaker 8: that's gonna hurt if I sit against it. So I

488
00:27:01,320 --> 00:27:02,600
Speaker 8: sat a little bit in front of it, and I

489
00:27:02,680 --> 00:27:04,840
Speaker 8: wasn't very like comfortable where I was city. But this

490
00:27:04,880 --> 00:27:06,639
Speaker 8: tart he had already gobbled two more times just for

491
00:27:06,720 --> 00:27:08,359
Speaker 8: me to run fifty yards from one tree to the

492
00:27:08,440 --> 00:27:10,520
Speaker 8: next tree. And I was like duck down trying to

493
00:27:10,560 --> 00:27:12,399
Speaker 8: run in this tall grass. And I'm like, okay, I

494
00:27:12,480 --> 00:27:15,280
Speaker 8: have my die frapping my mouth so I could call

495
00:27:15,280 --> 00:27:16,439
Speaker 8: if I needed to, sou I didn't want to use

496
00:27:16,480 --> 00:27:18,240
Speaker 8: my hands, didn't want to make too much movement. And

497
00:27:18,400 --> 00:27:21,160
Speaker 8: he's just gobbling again. It's like he's worked up. He's

498
00:27:21,240 --> 00:27:24,120
Speaker 8: coming and he's getting closer. I'm messing with my laser

499
00:27:24,200 --> 00:27:25,720
Speaker 8: on my gun. I can't get it on and im

500
00:27:25,720 --> 00:27:27,600
Speaker 8: freaking out. Like I'm sitting there pushing my laser trying

501
00:27:27,600 --> 00:27:30,120
Speaker 8: to get it on, can't get it on. He gobbles again,

502
00:27:30,280 --> 00:27:32,400
Speaker 8: and I can hear I've never heard drumming in my life,

503
00:27:32,480 --> 00:27:35,159
Speaker 8: and I hear drumming, and I'm like, this bird is

504
00:27:35,280 --> 00:27:37,600
Speaker 8: on top of me and I just can't see him. Yeah,

505
00:27:37,600 --> 00:27:39,359
Speaker 8: I finally get my laser on. I get set up.

506
00:27:39,600 --> 00:27:41,200
Speaker 8: I'm like kind of free balling cause I didn't want

507
00:27:41,200 --> 00:27:43,320
Speaker 8: to get against the tree. So I'm sitting there, have

508
00:27:43,480 --> 00:27:46,639
Speaker 8: my arms on my knees, and I hear drumming, like

509
00:27:46,880 --> 00:27:49,639
Speaker 8: loud drumming. He gobbles again, and like it shook me

510
00:27:49,760 --> 00:27:52,440
Speaker 8: the way he gobbled. It was shaking my bones. So

511
00:27:52,520 --> 00:27:54,560
Speaker 8: I looked to my left and I see the very

512
00:27:54,640 --> 00:27:56,920
Speaker 8: tip of his head and I see it and I'm like,

513
00:27:57,320 --> 00:27:58,720
Speaker 8: oh my gosh, he's right there. So I try to

514
00:27:58,800 --> 00:28:01,399
Speaker 8: like easily move and I'm like beating up on him,

515
00:28:01,440 --> 00:28:02,560
Speaker 8: and I get on him and I just want him

516
00:28:02,560 --> 00:28:04,359
Speaker 8: to talk a little bit more because I didn't want to,

517
00:28:04,359 --> 00:28:05,840
Speaker 8: like shoot just too much of his head. And I

518
00:28:05,880 --> 00:28:08,280
Speaker 8: see his fan. He's in complete strut and I'm like,

519
00:28:08,359 --> 00:28:12,800
Speaker 8: this is beautiful. And I sit there and he's stilling strut.

520
00:28:12,840 --> 00:28:14,440
Speaker 8: He pops his head up just a little bit and

521
00:28:14,560 --> 00:28:17,200
Speaker 8: I shoot him and he falls immediately, and I'm like ah,

522
00:28:17,720 --> 00:28:19,960
Speaker 8: and so I jump up immediately. I'm grabbing my phone

523
00:28:20,000 --> 00:28:21,480
Speaker 8: in my pocket, trying to call my dad, trying to

524
00:28:21,520 --> 00:28:23,440
Speaker 8: FaceTime him because I want him to be there with me,

525
00:28:23,560 --> 00:28:26,360
Speaker 8: running to the turkey, and I trip. I fall over

526
00:28:26,440 --> 00:28:28,480
Speaker 8: on the ground to get my phone. I'm like, face

527
00:28:28,560 --> 00:28:31,320
Speaker 8: up with my dad. He immediately answers. I start crying.

528
00:28:31,560 --> 00:28:33,960
Speaker 8: I'm just so excited, and my dad's like in the

529
00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:36,440
Speaker 8: parking line in front of his office in literal because

530
00:28:36,440 --> 00:28:37,760
Speaker 8: he works in the little he's front of his office

531
00:28:37,880 --> 00:28:39,640
Speaker 8: and he's like, no way, Holly, no way. And I

532
00:28:39,760 --> 00:28:42,000
Speaker 8: showed the turkey. It was beautiful. It was just the

533
00:28:42,040 --> 00:28:44,440
Speaker 8: most awesome thing ever. I'm on FaceTime with him, and

534
00:28:44,480 --> 00:28:46,280
Speaker 8: he starts in the parking lot crying because he's so

535
00:28:46,400 --> 00:28:48,640
Speaker 8: excited for me too, and it's just the best thing ever.

536
00:28:48,640 --> 00:28:51,040
Speaker 8: I sat there with that turkey and prayed for a

537
00:28:51,120 --> 00:28:53,640
Speaker 8: long time how thankful I was, even though it started

538
00:28:53,680 --> 00:28:55,800
Speaker 8: I as a bad hunt, ended up being so good

539
00:28:55,840 --> 00:28:58,800
Speaker 8: and so awesome. Sit there and pray for the turkey

540
00:28:58,880 --> 00:29:01,400
Speaker 8: for a while. Dad was on the calling my sisters.

541
00:29:01,880 --> 00:29:04,560
Speaker 8: It was the best thing ever. Just got my first

542
00:29:04,600 --> 00:29:06,280
Speaker 8: turkey by myself with just one call.

543
00:29:08,240 --> 00:29:10,160
Speaker 3: All I say to that is dad gum.

544
00:29:10,600 --> 00:29:14,320
Speaker 2: That was some good work, Hollie, incredible good job on

545
00:29:14,440 --> 00:29:17,480
Speaker 2: the a ax hustle and hanging in there after a

546
00:29:17,560 --> 00:29:21,640
Speaker 2: disappointment and even a little scare at daylight. This wasn't

547
00:29:21,680 --> 00:29:23,880
Speaker 2: done on purpose, but there seems to be a pretty

548
00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:27,680
Speaker 2: legit safety theme in these episodes. We've just got to

549
00:29:27,720 --> 00:29:30,720
Speaker 2: be careful out there, and what the heck. I'll give

550
00:29:30,720 --> 00:29:33,240
Speaker 2: you another hot tip for turkey hutting safety that I

551
00:29:33,400 --> 00:29:36,360
Speaker 2: learned from old Gary believer Nukem myself, and that is

552
00:29:37,040 --> 00:29:39,400
Speaker 2: he likes to wear glasses when he turkey hunts, and

553
00:29:39,480 --> 00:29:42,400
Speaker 2: so do I. I wear contacts, I sometimes wear glasses.

554
00:29:42,480 --> 00:29:45,880
Speaker 2: I like to wear glasses because you never know, it's

555
00:29:45,960 --> 00:29:48,160
Speaker 2: possible to get peppered, and you want to be able

556
00:29:48,200 --> 00:29:52,160
Speaker 2: to protect your eyes. Our next story is from Old

557
00:29:52,320 --> 00:29:56,360
Speaker 2: Mexico and involves a twist that would be hard to predict.

558
00:29:57,040 --> 00:29:59,719
Speaker 2: But it would also be hard to predict how unique

559
00:30:00,120 --> 00:30:04,320
Speaker 2: Zoe Kaywood is. She's from Oreagle, Arkansas, and is a

560
00:30:04,480 --> 00:30:09,800
Speaker 2: veteran turkey hunter. She's in her seventies and she only

561
00:30:10,000 --> 00:30:11,760
Speaker 2: uses a flint lock musloader.

562
00:30:12,520 --> 00:30:17,640
Speaker 9: I'm Zoe Medland Kwood from war Eagle, And you know,

563
00:30:17,760 --> 00:30:20,880
Speaker 9: I was thinking about this the other day, about what

564
00:30:21,200 --> 00:30:26,200
Speaker 9: happened when I was going for the World Slam and

565
00:30:26,400 --> 00:30:30,800
Speaker 9: I went down to northern Mexico to hunt the Goulds turkey.

566
00:30:31,760 --> 00:30:35,320
Speaker 9: You have to get a military permit to even get

567
00:30:35,440 --> 00:30:39,400
Speaker 9: a gun in, even though it was a black powder gun,

568
00:30:39,480 --> 00:30:42,600
Speaker 9: because I was going for a World Slam with a

569
00:30:42,680 --> 00:30:47,360
Speaker 9: black powder gun, and it wasn't just a percussion cap.

570
00:30:47,760 --> 00:30:51,320
Speaker 9: It was a flint lock. So when we finally got

571
00:30:51,920 --> 00:30:56,080
Speaker 9: all the papers, which are Kentucky turkey biologists, he helped

572
00:30:56,120 --> 00:30:59,720
Speaker 9: me with all this and we finally got that gun in,

573
00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:05,840
Speaker 9: and there were so many turkeys before I got there.

574
00:31:05,960 --> 00:31:09,280
Speaker 9: Isn't that typical of turkey hunting, though, But when we

575
00:31:09,400 --> 00:31:13,560
Speaker 9: got there, we hunted for three solid days. Of course,

576
00:31:13,680 --> 00:31:17,400
Speaker 9: my guide was a Mexican and he didn't speak any

577
00:31:17,520 --> 00:31:21,120
Speaker 9: English at all. He was a very congenial guy and

578
00:31:21,320 --> 00:31:25,240
Speaker 9: really respectful of me, but no English at all, So

579
00:31:25,480 --> 00:31:27,680
Speaker 9: if I wanted to ask him anything, if he didn't

580
00:31:27,760 --> 00:31:31,080
Speaker 9: understand my sign language. When we got back home to

581
00:31:31,160 --> 00:31:33,960
Speaker 9: the lodge, then the outfitter there, he would, you know,

582
00:31:34,120 --> 00:31:40,200
Speaker 9: have to explain to translate. So I told the outfitter

583
00:31:40,880 --> 00:31:44,280
Speaker 9: to please explain to him that this was a flintlock.

584
00:31:44,840 --> 00:31:47,360
Speaker 9: So if he was gonna hunt close to me like

585
00:31:47,520 --> 00:31:49,360
Speaker 9: he did on the very first day of the few

586
00:31:49,440 --> 00:31:53,480
Speaker 9: hours we were out, he needed to sit away from

587
00:31:53,520 --> 00:31:56,160
Speaker 9: the either on the left hand side of me, or

588
00:31:56,320 --> 00:31:59,520
Speaker 9: several feet back or a couple of feet back away

589
00:31:59,560 --> 00:32:02,080
Speaker 9: from the right otherwise he was going to get sprayed

590
00:32:02,120 --> 00:32:07,560
Speaker 9: with that flint when it went off. So it really

591
00:32:07,720 --> 00:32:11,240
Speaker 9: put the fright in him. It frightened him so badly

592
00:32:11,960 --> 00:32:14,680
Speaker 9: that whenever he sit behind me from that time on,

593
00:32:14,920 --> 00:32:18,120
Speaker 9: he would be like twenty twenty five feet back. I

594
00:32:18,200 --> 00:32:20,680
Speaker 9: mean I could I couldn't talk to him or anything,

595
00:32:20,840 --> 00:32:23,120
Speaker 9: you know, because it couldn't communicate. You didn't want to

596
00:32:23,160 --> 00:32:25,160
Speaker 9: do that in the Turkey woods and make any noise

597
00:32:25,200 --> 00:32:27,440
Speaker 9: because he was so far back because he's afraid of

598
00:32:27,520 --> 00:32:32,360
Speaker 9: that flint lock spray. So we hunted for three days,

599
00:32:32,560 --> 00:32:35,800
Speaker 9: and on the evening of the third day, we heard

600
00:32:35,920 --> 00:32:38,640
Speaker 9: some birds going to roost and we thought, oh, maybe

601
00:32:38,800 --> 00:32:41,520
Speaker 9: this is it because it had been so dry around

602
00:32:41,560 --> 00:32:44,720
Speaker 9: there as far as birds for us. Completely three days

603
00:32:45,560 --> 00:32:48,880
Speaker 9: and The thing about Mexico that I just love is

604
00:32:49,360 --> 00:32:52,840
Speaker 9: there is absolutely no sound when you hunt in Mexico.

605
00:32:53,440 --> 00:32:55,800
Speaker 9: You don't hear a train, you don't hear a plane,

606
00:32:55,920 --> 00:32:58,320
Speaker 9: You certainly don't hear a car. You don't hear the

607
00:32:58,400 --> 00:33:01,080
Speaker 9: clop clop of the horses and mules that they used

608
00:33:01,160 --> 00:33:04,840
Speaker 9: in the village. You don't hear anything. Perfect silence. It's

609
00:33:04,920 --> 00:33:09,440
Speaker 9: just absolutely wonderful. So where we roosted those birds was

610
00:33:09,480 --> 00:33:11,920
Speaker 9: a big, long valley and the next morning, of course,

611
00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:15,320
Speaker 9: we were out there way big early, so we get

612
00:33:15,400 --> 00:33:19,240
Speaker 9: all set up and we hear gobbles and it's a

613
00:33:19,480 --> 00:33:25,920
Speaker 9: big bird, I'm sure, sounding off. And I looked back

614
00:33:25,960 --> 00:33:29,480
Speaker 9: there to see where he is, of course, way far back,

615
00:33:30,040 --> 00:33:34,640
Speaker 9: as I said, and that I started calling, and he

616
00:33:34,840 --> 00:33:37,400
Speaker 9: was calling as well, And now I was calling, he

617
00:33:37,600 --> 00:33:40,880
Speaker 9: was calling, and that bird then flew down off roost

618
00:33:41,440 --> 00:33:46,280
Speaker 9: and he was coming my way. And when I saw him,

619
00:33:47,080 --> 00:33:50,520
Speaker 9: I saw right behind him was a bobcat, And I

620
00:33:50,640 --> 00:33:55,360
Speaker 9: mean this was a big Mexican bobcat. And it just

621
00:33:55,640 --> 00:33:59,000
Speaker 9: I was so concentrated on that bird that I didn't

622
00:33:59,040 --> 00:34:01,960
Speaker 9: even think about that bobcat from then on. When that

623
00:34:02,240 --> 00:34:06,280
Speaker 9: when that bird got within my range, I pulled that trigger,

624
00:34:06,680 --> 00:34:11,120
Speaker 9: and that spark blue and that that kwood gun just

625
00:34:11,480 --> 00:34:12,000
Speaker 9: went off.

626
00:34:12,760 --> 00:34:14,840
Speaker 8: And I looked back to see.

627
00:34:14,680 --> 00:34:18,719
Speaker 9: Where my man was, and he was completely he was

628
00:34:18,920 --> 00:34:22,120
Speaker 9: flat out on the ground. He's just kicking his feet

629
00:34:22,239 --> 00:34:26,040
Speaker 9: with joy like this, but his heart was just pounding,

630
00:34:26,080 --> 00:34:28,920
Speaker 9: and he just goes. He goes like this in sign language,

631
00:34:28,960 --> 00:34:33,840
Speaker 9: and he says, the bobcat, the cat, the cat. And

632
00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:37,160
Speaker 9: what had happened was I was so concentrated on that

633
00:34:37,320 --> 00:34:41,840
Speaker 9: bird that Bobcat actually jumped and tried to get that

634
00:34:42,320 --> 00:34:46,920
Speaker 9: gobbler when I shot, and I actually splattered him was

635
00:34:46,960 --> 00:34:49,440
Speaker 9: shot at the same time. But I didn't get to

636
00:34:49,480 --> 00:34:52,839
Speaker 9: all this translate until we got back home and back

637
00:34:52,920 --> 00:34:55,840
Speaker 9: to the little village and the outfitter could translate it.

638
00:34:56,360 --> 00:34:59,600
Speaker 9: So we took that man out though, and anybody that

639
00:34:59,680 --> 00:35:03,560
Speaker 9: wanted to after I had got my bird the next

640
00:35:03,719 --> 00:35:07,239
Speaker 9: day and see if they wanted to shoot a flint lock,

641
00:35:07,239 --> 00:35:09,680
Speaker 9: because none of them had. They hadn't even seen a

642
00:35:09,719 --> 00:35:12,560
Speaker 9: flint lock before, you know. So we went out there

643
00:35:12,600 --> 00:35:15,839
Speaker 9: and when he shot that flint lock, when he pulled

644
00:35:15,920 --> 00:35:19,400
Speaker 9: that trigger, his head went like that. Of course, he

645
00:35:19,480 --> 00:35:22,160
Speaker 9: completely missed the target, but it was so much fun

646
00:35:22,239 --> 00:35:25,480
Speaker 9: and he loved the experience of least trying to shoot

647
00:35:25,560 --> 00:35:27,040
Speaker 9: that fire bomb.

648
00:35:28,320 --> 00:35:32,800
Speaker 2: What are the chances to shoot a big Mexican gobbler

649
00:35:32,840 --> 00:35:35,720
Speaker 2: at the same time a bobcat is about to pounce

650
00:35:36,080 --> 00:35:37,280
Speaker 2: on that exact gobbler.

651
00:35:38,200 --> 00:35:41,800
Speaker 3: That wasn't that gobbler's day? And what a special lady.

652
00:35:42,480 --> 00:35:45,160
Speaker 2: When we met her, we found out that she killed

653
00:35:45,280 --> 00:35:49,879
Speaker 2: a mountain lion with Warner Glenn and Kelly Kimbro Warner's daughter,

654
00:35:50,600 --> 00:35:52,600
Speaker 2: back in nineteen seventy one.

655
00:35:53,360 --> 00:35:56,759
Speaker 3: That is crazy. What a small world that we live in.

656
00:36:00,360 --> 00:36:03,360
Speaker 2: Our next story is from a well known turkey biologist,

657
00:36:03,960 --> 00:36:07,239
Speaker 2: Mike Chamberlain. And this man can't open his mouth to

658
00:36:07,280 --> 00:36:11,440
Speaker 2: talk about turkeys without teaching folks something. Here is one

659
00:36:11,480 --> 00:36:14,719
Speaker 2: of his stories from way back in Virginia, before he'd

660
00:36:14,840 --> 00:36:19,200
Speaker 2: ever killed a gobbler. Way back here's doctor Chamberlain.

661
00:36:19,680 --> 00:36:20,640
Speaker 10: I was at Virginia Tech.

662
00:36:20,719 --> 00:36:21,360
Speaker 5: I was a student.

663
00:36:21,920 --> 00:36:24,799
Speaker 10: I was new to turkey hunting, and I screwed up

664
00:36:24,880 --> 00:36:29,120
Speaker 10: so much. And I had hunted this bird on National

665
00:36:29,200 --> 00:36:32,719
Speaker 10: forest land and he was roosting on the way up

666
00:36:32,800 --> 00:36:34,799
Speaker 10: on the side of a mountain, and it would take

667
00:36:34,880 --> 00:36:37,839
Speaker 10: me about an hour ish to hike up to him.

668
00:36:38,520 --> 00:36:42,160
Speaker 10: And every day, he would fly down onto a bench,

669
00:36:43,080 --> 00:36:46,160
Speaker 10: but I could never figure out and once he got

670
00:36:46,239 --> 00:36:48,680
Speaker 10: on the bench to saddle if you will, he would

671
00:36:48,719 --> 00:36:52,600
Speaker 10: predictably go one direction or the other, depending on the day.

672
00:36:52,680 --> 00:36:54,919
Speaker 10: But I could never get to him in the dark

673
00:36:55,800 --> 00:36:59,279
Speaker 10: to really pin him down to where if he went left,

674
00:36:59,360 --> 00:37:01,920
Speaker 10: I'd be there. If he went right, I could never

675
00:37:02,040 --> 00:37:05,480
Speaker 10: figure out exactly where he was going. Well, one afternoon.

676
00:37:05,960 --> 00:37:08,600
Speaker 10: Now this is like ten hunts in my grades are

677
00:37:08,640 --> 00:37:12,480
Speaker 10: suffering because and I get up and I'm there in

678
00:37:12,520 --> 00:37:15,680
Speaker 10: the afternoon, and I hear and I'm like, all right,

679
00:37:16,040 --> 00:37:19,080
Speaker 10: and so he flies up, and I know exactly where

680
00:37:19,160 --> 00:37:23,120
Speaker 10: this joker is. I wait till pitch black. I ease

681
00:37:23,239 --> 00:37:26,160
Speaker 10: myself down the mountain. I get back to campus in

682
00:37:26,280 --> 00:37:30,520
Speaker 10: the dark, dark way after dark. I'm stoked, dude, I'm

683
00:37:30,600 --> 00:37:33,279
Speaker 10: so I'm gonna kill this bird. I get up the

684
00:37:33,320 --> 00:37:35,640
Speaker 10: next morning, up in the dark. I think I got

685
00:37:35,719 --> 00:37:37,400
Speaker 10: up at like two thirty because I want to make

686
00:37:37,440 --> 00:37:39,800
Speaker 10: sure nobody got to the spot. I get there, I

687
00:37:39,920 --> 00:37:43,200
Speaker 10: hike nobody's around, I get perfect, I'm like one hundred

688
00:37:43,200 --> 00:37:45,960
Speaker 10: and fifty yards. I'm like, as soon as I'm do

689
00:37:46,080 --> 00:37:50,640
Speaker 10: a tree, yelp and he gobbles and I'm like, perfect,

690
00:37:50,760 --> 00:37:53,120
Speaker 10: I do a slick call of time and do a

691
00:37:53,320 --> 00:37:55,719
Speaker 10: real soft yep and he cut me off. I'm like, oh,

692
00:37:56,120 --> 00:37:59,000
Speaker 10: this is ballgame. And I even my dumb self knew

693
00:37:59,280 --> 00:38:03,120
Speaker 10: to shut up now now, so I didn't call again. Well,

694
00:38:03,160 --> 00:38:04,960
Speaker 10: he sits there, and he sits there and he never

695
00:38:05,040 --> 00:38:08,680
Speaker 10: got out again. And it gets daylight and I'm really

696
00:38:08,760 --> 00:38:10,959
Speaker 10: starting you've been there, and You're like, I'm gonna call

697
00:38:11,200 --> 00:38:14,440
Speaker 10: one time just to see where he's at. And I

698
00:38:14,560 --> 00:38:18,600
Speaker 10: hit a soft yelp and I hear I hear him

699
00:38:18,600 --> 00:38:20,560
Speaker 10: fly out and I'm like oh, and I get on

700
00:38:20,640 --> 00:38:22,560
Speaker 10: the gun. I'm like, here he comes. I look to

701
00:38:22,640 --> 00:38:28,000
Speaker 10: my right, that joker is flying down the mountain. That

702
00:38:28,239 --> 00:38:31,880
Speaker 10: bird sailed completely out of my sight down that mountain

703
00:38:32,040 --> 00:38:34,319
Speaker 10: and I never saw him again, and I came back

704
00:38:34,360 --> 00:38:35,840
Speaker 10: to hunt him several days later.

705
00:38:35,680 --> 00:38:36,239
Speaker 5: And he was gone.

706
00:38:38,080 --> 00:38:41,560
Speaker 10: I was so deflated that I just like I quit.

707
00:38:41,920 --> 00:38:42,600
Speaker 6: I can't do this.

708
00:38:43,200 --> 00:38:45,200
Speaker 10: And I'd never killed a spring turkey at that time,

709
00:38:45,960 --> 00:38:48,760
Speaker 10: and I was like, I can't do this, like I'm

710
00:38:48,800 --> 00:38:51,840
Speaker 10: not capable of doing this, and that bird made me

711
00:38:51,960 --> 00:38:55,800
Speaker 10: so upset and I've never gotten over it. I was like,

712
00:38:56,200 --> 00:38:58,440
Speaker 10: that bird should have come down that gun barrel when

713
00:38:58,440 --> 00:39:02,640
Speaker 10: he cut me off, and he literally knew something was wrong,

714
00:39:03,200 --> 00:39:10,040
Speaker 10: and he flew off the mountain, not to return. Once

715
00:39:10,160 --> 00:39:15,839
Speaker 10: I started really fall hunting, we fall hunted a lot. Once.

716
00:39:15,960 --> 00:39:19,040
Speaker 10: I killed a few birds in the fall, which was

717
00:39:19,120 --> 00:39:21,759
Speaker 10: before this point. But I killed a few birds in

718
00:39:21,800 --> 00:39:25,840
Speaker 10: the fall, and when I started the spring hunting, I

719
00:39:25,960 --> 00:39:29,759
Speaker 10: realized that it was a different ballgame completely. I ended

720
00:39:29,840 --> 00:39:32,560
Speaker 10: up killing a few more birds in the fall, and

721
00:39:32,680 --> 00:39:37,680
Speaker 10: then I got lucky. I called a bird in the

722
00:39:37,760 --> 00:39:40,400
Speaker 10: following season after this happened. I called a bird in

723
00:39:41,080 --> 00:39:45,440
Speaker 10: but he was filling a hen and she was very content,

724
00:39:46,480 --> 00:39:49,320
Speaker 10: and I watched her approach me, and she was feeding

725
00:39:49,360 --> 00:39:51,759
Speaker 10: along and she would call back to me. She wasn't

726
00:39:51,800 --> 00:39:55,000
Speaker 10: agitated at me, but I listened to how she was behaving,

727
00:39:55,080 --> 00:39:57,960
Speaker 10: and I watched her, and I listened to the noise

728
00:39:58,000 --> 00:40:00,719
Speaker 10: that she was making in the leaves. I soaked that

729
00:40:00,840 --> 00:40:04,040
Speaker 10: in and I watched his reaction to everything, and I

730
00:40:04,200 --> 00:40:06,040
Speaker 10: just shut up, and I sat there and listened to

731
00:40:06,120 --> 00:40:07,960
Speaker 10: that bird and watched how And it took her over

732
00:40:08,000 --> 00:40:10,600
Speaker 10: an hour to get from the bottom to where I

733
00:40:10,760 --> 00:40:14,080
Speaker 10: killed him. And I can still, I can close my

734
00:40:14,120 --> 00:40:16,200
Speaker 10: eyes and I can still see that joker strutting up

735
00:40:16,200 --> 00:40:19,600
Speaker 10: behind that hen, and the realization that she's going to

736
00:40:19,719 --> 00:40:22,200
Speaker 10: walk right past me. And if I just sit here,

737
00:40:23,360 --> 00:40:25,600
Speaker 10: he's dead. I'm gonna kill him. And I, of course,

738
00:40:25,640 --> 00:40:29,080
Speaker 10: I was literally hyperventilating, and then you know, sweating and

739
00:40:29,200 --> 00:40:31,799
Speaker 10: falling apart, and I was staring at him so hard,

740
00:40:31,880 --> 00:40:34,800
Speaker 10: you know, you get the spiders in your eyes, and

741
00:40:35,040 --> 00:40:38,359
Speaker 10: I'm starting to have to twitch my eyes because I've

742
00:40:38,400 --> 00:40:40,880
Speaker 10: been staring at him so intently. And when I shot him,

743
00:40:40,920 --> 00:40:44,480
Speaker 10: I was so elated. I like fell apart. I ran

744
00:40:45,600 --> 00:40:49,120
Speaker 10: up to that bird and was on him so fast

745
00:40:50,040 --> 00:40:54,520
Speaker 10: that I probably should have gotten injured. Like I threw,

746
00:40:54,640 --> 00:40:58,080
Speaker 10: I dropped the gun and took off running towards him.

747
00:40:59,120 --> 00:41:01,160
Speaker 10: And when I got to him, I didn't even know

748
00:41:01,239 --> 00:41:03,400
Speaker 10: what to do. You know, you watched it on videos

749
00:41:03,440 --> 00:41:06,520
Speaker 10: and stuff in VHS. I didn't know whether to grab

750
00:41:06,600 --> 00:41:08,520
Speaker 10: his legs or his head or to lay on him.

751
00:41:08,560 --> 00:41:09,239
Speaker 8: I didn't.

752
00:41:09,280 --> 00:41:09,839
Speaker 7: I was lost.

753
00:41:09,880 --> 00:41:13,760
Speaker 10: I was just I was dumbfounded. And I can finally remember,

754
00:41:14,640 --> 00:41:16,560
Speaker 10: you know, of course, he's flopping around everything, and I

755
00:41:16,640 --> 00:41:19,800
Speaker 10: can remember trying to keep him from flopping off. And

756
00:41:20,160 --> 00:41:22,560
Speaker 10: then I saw a feather come out, and I was like,

757
00:41:22,800 --> 00:41:24,640
Speaker 10: oh no, no, no, no, no, I don't I don't

758
00:41:24,640 --> 00:41:26,040
Speaker 10: want to lose any you know. And there was no

759
00:41:26,160 --> 00:41:27,960
Speaker 10: cell phones and I didn't have a camera to take

760
00:41:27,960 --> 00:41:28,600
Speaker 10: a picture.

761
00:41:28,360 --> 00:41:29,000
Speaker 3: Of him or anything.

762
00:41:29,560 --> 00:41:31,160
Speaker 10: But I didn't want him to lose any of those

763
00:41:31,200 --> 00:41:34,400
Speaker 10: feathers so I could admire it. And so I finally like,

764
00:41:34,480 --> 00:41:36,440
Speaker 10: I'm gonna lay on him. So I laid on that

765
00:41:36,520 --> 00:41:40,120
Speaker 10: bird to keep him from flopping. And once I realized

766
00:41:40,120 --> 00:41:41,560
Speaker 10: I knew he was dead, I just sat there and

767
00:41:41,560 --> 00:41:45,440
Speaker 10: admired him. And I still do that, but I learned

768
00:41:45,480 --> 00:41:48,200
Speaker 10: from that. I was like, if you just slow down

769
00:41:49,520 --> 00:41:56,120
Speaker 10: and try to sound subtle and calm and use the vegetation,

770
00:41:56,719 --> 00:42:02,120
Speaker 10: use your intellect, use very very very subtle calls, and

771
00:42:02,239 --> 00:42:06,520
Speaker 10: you just go slow, that you can be successful rather

772
00:42:06,640 --> 00:42:10,120
Speaker 10: than just running all the time. And that is how

773
00:42:10,200 --> 00:42:13,800
Speaker 10: I have turkey hunted ever since. And I sometimes it

774
00:42:13,880 --> 00:42:16,080
Speaker 10: works for me and sometimes it doesn't. That day, that

775
00:42:16,239 --> 00:42:18,360
Speaker 10: day hooked me, but she taught me if you just

776
00:42:18,680 --> 00:42:21,879
Speaker 10: just wait, slow down and be patient, and I'll get

777
00:42:21,960 --> 00:42:24,879
Speaker 10: him there. Slow down and go fast is what DY learn.

778
00:42:25,000 --> 00:42:27,000
Speaker 10: Art once said, sometimes you have to slow down and

779
00:42:27,080 --> 00:42:27,520
Speaker 10: go fast.

780
00:42:28,360 --> 00:42:33,640
Speaker 2: Slow down to go fast. That's some good advice. Our

781
00:42:33,800 --> 00:42:38,680
Speaker 2: final story is unique for multiple reasons. Our storyteller, mister

782
00:42:38,800 --> 00:42:46,520
Speaker 2: Claude Strather, was attacked and injured well Turkey Huddon. But secondly,

783
00:42:47,520 --> 00:42:52,200
Speaker 2: mister Claud passed away in January of twenty twenty six,

784
00:42:53,120 --> 00:42:58,120
Speaker 2: and we're releasing this story in celebration of his life.

785
00:42:59,520 --> 00:43:00,439
Speaker 3: Here's miss your clock.

786
00:43:01,160 --> 00:43:06,840
Speaker 5: Claudestralla Gasterberg, Alabama. I started hunting, I don't know seventy

787
00:43:07,680 --> 00:43:14,200
Speaker 5: one or two, maybe seventy, and uh if hunted ever since?

788
00:43:15,560 --> 00:43:18,959
Speaker 5: Done real well, I've I think I've caught up eighty

789
00:43:19,040 --> 00:43:22,200
Speaker 5: three for other people and killed two hundred and forty

790
00:43:22,320 --> 00:43:27,640
Speaker 5: seven myself, and uh, I've just been steady. I got

791
00:43:27,719 --> 00:43:31,440
Speaker 5: them all catalog and read. Let you read about any

792
00:43:31,520 --> 00:43:33,160
Speaker 5: hunter I ever been on, because I got it in

793
00:43:33,320 --> 00:43:41,279
Speaker 5: my books. Whether I kill a turkey or not, we're

794
00:43:41,320 --> 00:43:44,960
Speaker 5: gonna talk about my bobcat attacked. My daughter made me

795
00:43:45,080 --> 00:43:47,279
Speaker 5: famous for this because I had a great picture with

796
00:43:47,400 --> 00:43:50,960
Speaker 5: a lot of blood. But uh, I wasn't supposed to

797
00:43:51,000 --> 00:43:52,719
Speaker 5: be out of the house reading. My wife had gone

798
00:43:52,760 --> 00:43:54,640
Speaker 5: to Eastern I told her I was too sick to go.

799
00:43:55,360 --> 00:43:58,560
Speaker 5: She left, and I down in the wood, roll down.

800
00:43:59,360 --> 00:44:02,479
Speaker 5: I knew it was some turkeys there, and I sat

801
00:44:02,600 --> 00:44:05,080
Speaker 5: by two small trees because I couldn't find a big

802
00:44:05,160 --> 00:44:10,800
Speaker 5: one that was clean enough, perfect camouflage heading it, and

803
00:44:11,480 --> 00:44:14,279
Speaker 5: was sitting and the only thing yep was my head

804
00:44:14,480 --> 00:44:17,759
Speaker 5: moving back and forth, real slow every now and then,

805
00:44:18,880 --> 00:44:21,400
Speaker 5: and all of a sudden, it was like a baseball

806
00:44:21,520 --> 00:44:27,319
Speaker 5: bat drove me forward. I blinked and raised my hand

807
00:44:27,360 --> 00:44:30,960
Speaker 5: and looked back, thinking it was a baseball bat somebody,

808
00:44:31,880 --> 00:44:34,160
Speaker 5: and it was just kind of a glaze back to

809
00:44:34,160 --> 00:44:38,480
Speaker 5: the beautiful park, looking no track. And then I looked

810
00:44:38,560 --> 00:44:41,120
Speaker 5: back around and shook my head and there was a

811
00:44:41,840 --> 00:44:47,040
Speaker 5: big bobcat walking off about fifteen yards from him. He hit,

812
00:44:48,200 --> 00:44:53,160
Speaker 5: thinking my head was a hootile or hawk or smaller animal.

813
00:44:52,880 --> 00:44:52,960
Speaker 8: And.

814
00:44:54,680 --> 00:44:57,200
Speaker 5: What saved me. He caught right above my eyes but

815
00:44:58,520 --> 00:45:00,680
Speaker 5: bit the back of my neck, but so hard it

816
00:45:00,920 --> 00:45:04,480
Speaker 5: stunned him also, and so he didn't go all the

817
00:45:04,520 --> 00:45:07,680
Speaker 5: way in as he hit. It stunned him and he

818
00:45:07,840 --> 00:45:12,239
Speaker 5: released and kind of and came over my head. Or

819
00:45:12,280 --> 00:45:15,279
Speaker 5: he really could have done some damage. But I had

820
00:45:15,320 --> 00:45:19,719
Speaker 5: a good picture of blood everywhere, just scratches, superficial scratches

821
00:45:20,320 --> 00:45:23,759
Speaker 5: here and back of the head. Yeah, nothing didn't go

822
00:45:23,840 --> 00:45:24,960
Speaker 5: away pretty quick.

823
00:45:25,600 --> 00:45:26,359
Speaker 3: He was just done.

824
00:45:26,560 --> 00:45:29,000
Speaker 5: He was trying to get some deep I didn't I

825
00:45:29,040 --> 00:45:30,920
Speaker 5: wouldn't have shot him, for he'd a walk back up,

826
00:45:31,160 --> 00:45:33,719
Speaker 5: you know, unless he was foaming at the mouth, you know,

827
00:45:34,600 --> 00:45:35,239
Speaker 5: But he was just.

828
00:45:36,719 --> 00:45:37,440
Speaker 3: Doing his thing.

829
00:45:37,719 --> 00:45:42,600
Speaker 5: I love bobcats. I shoot cows, and I will shoot

830
00:45:42,600 --> 00:45:47,360
Speaker 5: the armadilla. They walked in here. Bobcat's been here forever.

831
00:45:48,160 --> 00:45:51,600
Speaker 5: So if foxes beavers, I don't see anything that was

832
00:45:51,680 --> 00:45:54,160
Speaker 5: here before me. You know, they got a right to

833
00:45:54,239 --> 00:46:03,680
Speaker 5: be here. Hunted David Brown now hunted all over the

834
00:46:03,760 --> 00:46:08,919
Speaker 5: country together. Seven we went south Dakota, and he came

835
00:46:09,080 --> 00:46:11,719
Speaker 5: seven jakes up the hill and two big gobbles about

836
00:46:11,800 --> 00:46:15,759
Speaker 5: a hundred yards behind. We're trapped. We're laying flat down

837
00:46:15,880 --> 00:46:18,879
Speaker 5: on top of on the gray. I told David he'll

838
00:46:18,920 --> 00:46:23,439
Speaker 5: come seven monsters, got monsters. They popped over here. I said,

839
00:46:23,600 --> 00:46:26,239
Speaker 5: kill him. David. The monsters, well, he blasted away, and

840
00:46:26,640 --> 00:46:28,520
Speaker 5: it was a jake I knew, and I said, now

841
00:46:28,680 --> 00:46:31,520
Speaker 5: stay still. I went back top and those two big

842
00:46:31,600 --> 00:46:36,080
Speaker 5: gobbles never slowed down right, hold up. I swung a

843
00:46:36,120 --> 00:46:40,400
Speaker 5: little to the left. He's around there and killed one

844
00:46:40,440 --> 00:46:42,319
Speaker 5: of them, and David said, I killed her jake.

845
00:46:42,440 --> 00:46:43,960
Speaker 3: I said, oh no, really.

846
00:46:45,840 --> 00:46:48,400
Speaker 5: You, he said, you pull that one off of me.

847
00:46:49,680 --> 00:46:50,120
Speaker 3: I did.

848
00:46:51,000 --> 00:46:54,200
Speaker 5: I snaked his butt on that one. But we hunted

849
00:46:54,280 --> 00:46:58,520
Speaker 5: Indian reservations also, and this was on the end of

850
00:46:58,520 --> 00:47:03,040
Speaker 5: the reservation, and turkey's further west. You gets easier all

851
00:47:03,120 --> 00:47:06,120
Speaker 5: to kill. You can kill a turkey out there now.

852
00:47:06,840 --> 00:47:10,160
Speaker 5: It ain't like Alabama, majority of Mississippi. It's a whole

853
00:47:10,239 --> 00:47:14,520
Speaker 5: different world. But I had had some great trips, and

854
00:47:15,760 --> 00:47:18,440
Speaker 5: I had a good year this year. I had a

855
00:47:18,480 --> 00:47:21,520
Speaker 5: little having some health problem, but had a little break,

856
00:47:21,680 --> 00:47:24,080
Speaker 5: felt good a few days and actually killed three and

857
00:47:24,719 --> 00:47:27,200
Speaker 5: called up one from grandson he killed and one for

858
00:47:27,360 --> 00:47:31,440
Speaker 5: his girlfriend. And had to get help getting one of

859
00:47:31,480 --> 00:47:34,239
Speaker 5: mine out the woods. I went down a hill too big,

860
00:47:34,320 --> 00:47:37,080
Speaker 5: and I couldn't get up to hill with two weak

861
00:47:37,160 --> 00:47:40,359
Speaker 5: to try dragging him, and I couldn't even drag him.

862
00:47:41,080 --> 00:47:43,400
Speaker 5: I made it up, sent somebody else to get my

863
00:47:43,520 --> 00:47:46,640
Speaker 5: gun in Turkey late. I don't have much win in

864
00:47:46,840 --> 00:47:52,200
Speaker 5: right now, but h and hopefully I'll be in the

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Speaker 5: woods again next year. Maybe Lord Willis.

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00:48:00,160 --> 00:48:03,280
Speaker 2: Mister claud didn't make it back into the woods this spring.

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Speaker 2: But what joy you could hear in his voice as

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00:48:06,719 --> 00:48:10,640
Speaker 2: he recounted the stories of hunting the wild turkey. But

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00:48:10,760 --> 00:48:13,279
Speaker 2: what stood out to me was that he seemed to

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00:48:13,440 --> 00:48:16,560
Speaker 2: love and value all the people that he hunted with,

871
00:48:17,280 --> 00:48:19,440
Speaker 2: and it seems like yet a lot of people around

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00:48:19,560 --> 00:48:22,920
Speaker 2: him at the end, even keeping track of every turkey

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00:48:23,040 --> 00:48:26,440
Speaker 2: he ever called up for other people. I keep seeing

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00:48:26,480 --> 00:48:30,360
Speaker 2: this more and more with greater clarity. Our experiences in

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00:48:30,440 --> 00:48:33,960
Speaker 2: wild places get so much of their value and the

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00:48:34,080 --> 00:48:36,800
Speaker 2: people that we share them with, and the people that

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00:48:37,120 --> 00:48:40,680
Speaker 2: we have relationship with that even want to hear our stories.

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00:48:41,719 --> 00:48:44,279
Speaker 2: The best thing that you can do today is to

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00:48:44,360 --> 00:48:48,439
Speaker 2: build strong and healthy relationships with the people that God

880
00:48:48,520 --> 00:48:52,160
Speaker 2: has placed in your life that are within arm's reach

881
00:48:52,239 --> 00:48:55,960
Speaker 2: of you. How many turkeys you kill in your lifetime

882
00:48:56,239 --> 00:49:00,279
Speaker 2: doesn't matter unless you've got people around you care.

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00:49:00,920 --> 00:49:06,600
Speaker 3: And that's the truth. What a great set of stories.

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Speaker 2: I cannot thank you enough for listening, and thank you

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Speaker 2: for listening to this feed with Lake Pickles, Backwoods University

886
00:49:13,960 --> 00:49:17,319
Speaker 2: and with Brents this Country life podcast. These guys are

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00:49:17,400 --> 00:49:20,400
Speaker 2: so talented in what they do. But the theme of

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00:49:20,480 --> 00:49:23,680
Speaker 2: this episode seems to be be careful in the woods

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00:49:23,719 --> 00:49:28,280
Speaker 2: this spring. Another hot tip from Gary Nukeom he always

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00:49:28,360 --> 00:49:30,560
Speaker 2: told me not to wear anything red blue or white,

891
00:49:30,800 --> 00:49:33,399
Speaker 2: even like a white undershirt, the little v that might

892
00:49:33,480 --> 00:49:36,279
Speaker 2: be in a white undershirt or even white socks that

893
00:49:36,400 --> 00:49:38,880
Speaker 2: might be visible when you sit down and crouch by

894
00:49:38,920 --> 00:49:39,279
Speaker 2: a tree.

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Speaker 3: Be cautious and conservative.

896
00:49:41,680 --> 00:49:45,120
Speaker 2: When hunting public ground or any place you think others

897
00:49:45,239 --> 00:49:48,640
Speaker 2: might be, and also where you can do your part

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00:49:48,760 --> 00:49:52,600
Speaker 2: to restore some quality turkey habitat, whether that's doing a

899
00:49:52,680 --> 00:49:55,200
Speaker 2: burn or timber thinning on your land that you hunt,

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00:49:55,719 --> 00:49:58,960
Speaker 2: or by joining one of the turkey conservation organizations like

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00:49:59,040 --> 00:50:02,680
Speaker 2: Turkey's for Tomorrow or the National Wild Turkey Federation. Some

902
00:50:02,840 --> 00:50:05,399
Speaker 2: of my buddies just started a group called the Wild

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00:50:05,480 --> 00:50:10,600
Speaker 2: Turkey Archives, which is a wild Turkey history organization. There's

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Speaker 2: a lot that we can do to keep the wild

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Speaker 2: places wild because that's where the turkeys live and the

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Speaker 2: bears