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Speaker 2: It was one of those.

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Speaker 1: With every gobble he was gaining ground. And I'm sitting there, going, man,

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Speaker 1: then finally, just like you drawed up in your head,

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Speaker 1: the rest of them, and I mean all the rest

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Speaker 1: the entire time, because we thought we were dealing with

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Speaker 1: a single long beard, but it was not.

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Speaker 2: It was a wad long beards, Jake's hens.

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Speaker 1: We had every variety, and they were all march in

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Speaker 1: our direction. I'd never seen anything like it.

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Speaker 3: Just like clockwork, the rotations of the Earth and the

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Speaker 3: tilting of its access towards the south have once again

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Speaker 3: found the North American continent in the early stages of

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Speaker 3: the most glorious and redemptive time of the year, the spring.

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Speaker 3: Despite the uncertainty in the world of men, natural systems

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Speaker 3: hum along with unfailing consistency, and by our good fortune,

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Speaker 3: many of us live in places where there are wild turkeys.

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Speaker 3: Why everyone in America doesn't hunt a wild turkey, I

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Speaker 3: do not know, but I'm glad that they don't.

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Speaker 4: But I'm grateful that I do.

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Speaker 3: And I'm truly thankful for every gobbling, spitting and drumming

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Speaker 3: and strutting turkey that I've ever messed around with. Being

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Speaker 3: global affairs of men, but in our minds it stands

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Speaker 3: like a granite peak, impossible to avoid. You can't go

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Speaker 3: around it or under it, but each spring you've got

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Speaker 3: to go through it. This is our Turkey Stories episode.

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Speaker 3: It's one of my favorites of the year, and we've

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Speaker 3: got a group of turkey storytellers that are as good

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Speaker 3: as I've ever heard. And I really doubt that you're

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Speaker 3: gonna want to miss this one. And I'll leave you

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Speaker 3: with just one hint about the next hour of your life.

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Speaker 3: Whatever you do, don't miss med Palmer's story at the end.

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Speaker 3: It might be the greatest turkey story ever told.

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Speaker 4: My name is Clay Nukem, and this.

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Speaker 3: Is the Bear Grease Podcast, where we'll explore things forgotten

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Speaker 3: but relevant, search for insight and unlikely places and where

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Speaker 3: we'll tell the story of Americans who live their lives

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Speaker 3: close to the land, presented by FHF gear, American made,

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Speaker 3: purpose built hunting and fishing gear that's designed to be

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Speaker 3: as rugged as the place as we explore. Of all

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Speaker 3: the things that we hunt and celebrate through story, turkey

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Speaker 3: stories are usually the best. The hunts are dynamic, involving

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Speaker 3: moving and sneaking, and ouling and crowing and yelping and

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Speaker 3: listening for the vocalizations or lack thereof, of an old gobbler.

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Speaker 3: The decisions of the turkey hunter are more often than

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Speaker 3: not wrong if the intent is to kill the turkey,

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Speaker 3: and the turkeys are usually right.

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Speaker 4: But when the hunter.

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Speaker 3: Gets it right and he fools that old tom turkey,

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Speaker 3: the raw elemental chemical dump of excitement with that side

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Speaker 3: of fried wild turkey breast is a scenario without equal.

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Speaker 4: But it's time to get onto the stories.

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Speaker 3: And our first one is from Mississippi, and the man

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Speaker 3: telling the story his name is Mark Sledge, but in

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Speaker 5: My name is Mark Sledge. I live in Ridgeland, Mississippi,

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Speaker 5: and back a few years ago I was a turkey hunting.

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Speaker 5: It was late in the season, and I was just prospecting,

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Speaker 5: you know, walking and calling, and I stopped. I was

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Speaker 5: stopped and was getting ready to call, and I heard

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Speaker 5: someone call, and there was no question in my mind

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Speaker 5: continued north up to my property line. I got to

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Speaker 5: and was standing there trying to decide. You know, when

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Speaker 5: But I was trying to decide where I was gonna

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Speaker 5: probably fifty yards away, a great, big oak tree, and

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Speaker 5: and I had, you know, I was turkey hunting, so

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Speaker 5: and sat there. And sure enough, man, it wasn't forty

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Speaker 5: five seconds I saw him coming through the woods carrying

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Speaker 5: And I stood up and took my face mask off

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Speaker 5: and I said, good morning. My name's Mark Sledge. And

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Speaker 5: he said, hey, how you doing. I said no, I said,

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Speaker 5: You're insulting my intelligence. He said, no, no, that's really

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Speaker 5: need to tell me your real name. No, no, I

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Speaker 5: promise you that's my real name. And I said it

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Speaker 5: I said, well, what do you do. He said, well,

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Speaker 5: And I said, man, you might as well tell me

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Speaker 5: Swear that's my real name. And I said, well, here

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Speaker 5: I said, that's got my office phone number on it.

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Speaker 5: Whenever you decide you want to come, tell me your

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Speaker 5: don't you worry. He will never set foot on my

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Speaker 5: woman calls me with the exact last name. I thought, wow,

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Speaker 5: this kind of strange, you know that for a guy

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Speaker 5: call and she identified herself and she said, oh, miss Sledge,

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Speaker 5: you have my husband's turkey vest. I said, I sure do.

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Speaker 5: I said, I'm sitting in my office looking at it.

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Speaker 5: It's on a hat rack in my office, hanging right

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Speaker 5: here now. And she said, is there a handmade turkey

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Speaker 5: call in the pocket? I said, I have no idea.

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Speaker 5: I've never looked to see what's in it. And she said, well,

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Speaker 5: I gave. I gave him my handmade turkey call for

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Speaker 5: I just want to make sure it's there. And I said, well,

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Speaker 5: she said okay, great. I said wait a minute. I said,

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Speaker 5: why are you calling me and he's not calling me.

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Speaker 5: I said, that doesn't really make sense to him. She said, oh.

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Speaker 5: He and his dad and his brother got up early

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Speaker 5: Saturday morning, and when they were leaving, I asked him

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Speaker 5: where his handmade turkey call was and he said, well,

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Speaker 5: I don't have it. And he told me I didn't

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Speaker 5: and you had his vest and I said that's right.

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Speaker 5: She said, well, can I come get it? I said

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Speaker 5: absolutely not. I said he needs to come down here

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Speaker 5: she said okay. And I said, let me ask you something.

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Speaker 5: I said, do you have any kids? She said yeah,

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Speaker 5: I have two boys. I said me too. I said

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Speaker 5: Then I want to say they were three and five

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Speaker 5: or something, and I said, think about this. Your husband's

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Speaker 5: come sneaking in there, a poaching on us. And I

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Speaker 5: they're out there turkey hunt. They have no idea your

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Speaker 5: I said, my sons have to grow up with the

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Speaker 5: oh my gosh, I don't even thought about that. And

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Speaker 5: got home. So sure enough, about the middle of that week,

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Speaker 5: he finally called me and said, uh, missus Sledge, I'd

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Speaker 5: like to go get my turkey best. I said, I'd

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Speaker 5: like to give it to you. I said, come on

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Speaker 5: it to you. So he came to my office and

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Speaker 5: I made him sit down in there and we had

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Speaker 5: a little chat for a little while, and Uh. At

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Speaker 5: the end of the chat, I gave his vest back.

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Speaker 5: And I've never seen the guy again, and i've certainly

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Speaker 5: never seen him trespass it again. I think I probably

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Speaker 3: That was a good story, but I was surprised that

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Speaker 3: Mark didn't get the law involved. I kept waiting for

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Speaker 3: the game morning to show up. I wonder if you

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Speaker 3: were I respect a man that's willing to take care

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Speaker 3: of his own business, and I'd say that that was

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Speaker 3: quite merciful, mercy being an admirable human trait. Maybe that

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Speaker 3: guy that killed that turkey is listening right now, Thank you, Mark.

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Speaker 3: But now we're on to the next one, and it's

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Speaker 3: none other than a bear grease legend from western Arkansas,

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Speaker 3: Oh Andy Brown. He could tell a story about an

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Speaker 3: empty black pot and it would be interesting, but when

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Speaker 3: you get him talking about turkeys, it's hard to turn away.

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Speaker 3: Most really good turkey hunters that I know, kind of

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Speaker 3: in my experience, usually have two or three really great stories.

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Speaker 3: Andy seems to have an unlimited supply, and this is

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Speaker 6: This is ten ten o'clock. You know, of course that's

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Speaker 6: I said, let's back up on top. So we got

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Speaker 6: Anyway, I tore him up and he come in there

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Speaker 6: there was a little old blackjack thicket there he got

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Speaker 6: Of course I'd shut up then. I hadn't said another

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Speaker 6: And he got off down there. And when he got

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Speaker 6: it's always been that way from me. So he kind

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Speaker 5: I said, come on, and he said come on.

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Speaker 6: I said come on, And so he comes to me,

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Speaker 6: he said, what are we doing? I said, we are

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Speaker 6: When we talked back over the top of the mountain there,

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Speaker 6: We didn't move seventy five yards, but we got a

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Speaker 6: And when he comes out, Bill didn't quite wait long enough.

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Speaker 6: He did, but he didn't because he shot about two

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Speaker 6: He just blowed that turkey down. And when that turkey,

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Speaker 6: you know how they are heat. Turkey jumped up and

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Speaker 6: Strode all down the side of that mountain. But I

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Speaker 6: the best turkey I've ever seen. He had thirty four

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Speaker 7: He was a you know.

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Speaker 6: And people said, well, it's not a very big turkey.

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Speaker 6: The twenty one and a half pound turkey into Washtaw

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Speaker 6: I've killed I've killed several with two beards, but I

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Speaker 3: That's such a good story, and you could learn a

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Speaker 3: And he's the heck of a communicator too, knowing just

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Speaker 3: I've noticed that every region of the country, even down

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Speaker 3: any of.

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Speaker 4: Those from Andy.

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Speaker 3: My old buddy Steve Ranella did, and after he heard

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Speaker 3: Andy tell his story one time, he said to me,

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Speaker 3: Andy Brown sure has a constant sense of the cardinal directions.

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Speaker 3: I laughed, if you're paying attention, Andy's always saying the

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Speaker 3: where I grew up, which is where Andy lives. Always

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Speaker 3: eleventh commandment, thou shalt always know which direction is north.

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Speaker 3: I was never that great at it, but direction is

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Speaker 3: always included in Andy's stories, in the stories of his

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Speaker 3: Thank you Andy. The next story is off the Chain.

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Speaker 3: It involves an ATM and a man wearing a dog collar.

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Speaker 3: I first heard this man tell this story as a

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Speaker 4: Like a giggling hen.

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Speaker 3: I'd like to introduce you to a very funny but

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Speaker 8: I'm Robin Ruscher, and I love turkey. I live in Mississippi,

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Speaker 8: in there, this little HTM. It's about two in the morning,

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Speaker 8: but I was gonna go Turkey on the Mississippi is

432
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Speaker 8: about three hour drive. And I pulled in there and

433
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Speaker 8: I saw I saw this guy hiding in the AI

434
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Speaker 8: at bushes. By the time I saw this selling the

435
00:22:40,640 --> 00:22:44,199
Speaker 8: bushes there, he he wasn't wearing nothing but a diaper,

436
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Speaker 8: but he was some kind of ugly. I'm telling you,

437
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Speaker 8: he the uggliest hell I've ever seen in my life.

438
00:22:51,400 --> 00:22:54,359
Speaker 8: He was ugly, you g l y he didn't have

439
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Speaker 8: no alibi. He was ugly. M A, m A, how

440
00:22:58,880 --> 00:23:01,960
Speaker 8: you think he got that way his mama? The boy

441
00:23:02,320 --> 00:23:06,040
Speaker 8: was in bad shape. I saw him right after I

442
00:23:06,119 --> 00:23:09,480
Speaker 8: accessed my account. Now looked in front of me, and

443
00:23:09,480 --> 00:23:12,520
Speaker 8: there's a guy with a silver studded four inch dog

444
00:23:12,680 --> 00:23:17,600
Speaker 8: collar on and no shirt, and he was walking towards me.

445
00:23:18,000 --> 00:23:21,879
Speaker 8: I got my rightness, got pink and purple hair, and

446
00:23:21,960 --> 00:23:25,000
Speaker 8: they were all closing in at the rapid rate. And

447
00:23:25,040 --> 00:23:27,320
Speaker 8: they knew what they were doing because they let me

448
00:23:27,800 --> 00:23:30,440
Speaker 8: access my account. Now, I didn't have but eighty six

449
00:23:30,560 --> 00:23:33,760
Speaker 8: dollars in there, but that was eighty six of my dollars,

450
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Speaker 8: and I intended on keeping him. Now, I grabbed the

451
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Speaker 8: abigail there, my old trusty rusty. I shut that shell

452
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Speaker 8: in there, and when that thing went out of eight

453
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Speaker 8: seventy swallowed that copper plated magnum turkey thumping down on walping.

454
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Speaker 8: Mold Joe low old dog collar heard it. He went

455
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Speaker 8: to give him a signal. I don't know if he

456
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Speaker 8: wanted me to blunt, steal or take, but we got

457
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Speaker 8: all the stigna and.

458
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Speaker 2: I sold bad Uga there.

459
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Speaker 8: He was in the bushes there, and he heard it

460
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Speaker 8: Old Pump follow that magnum load too, and they just

461
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Speaker 8: kind of stopped. I got my money.

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Speaker 5: I got.

463
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Speaker 8: Out of there and went to the Mississippi and killed turkey

464
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Speaker 8: that morning too. And the more of the stories is,

465
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Speaker 8: they made a decision to take my money. I made

466
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Speaker 8: a commitment to keep it.

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Speaker 3: Some of the best turkey hunting stories have little to

468
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Speaker 3: do with actually killing a gobbler. I'd have been scared

469
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Speaker 3: too if i'd have heard Old Trusty Rusty swallow that

470
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Speaker 3: turkey thumping, Dino wopping Mojoe load. And Hey, if you're

471
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Speaker 3: looking for some good country storytelling, go check out the Hayden,

472
00:24:50,440 --> 00:24:51,600
Speaker 3: Alabama podcast.

473
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Speaker 4: They're doing some fun stuff.

474
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Speaker 3: Our next story is from none other than Lake Pickle,

475
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Speaker 3: also from Mississippi, but this story takes place in Old

476
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Speaker 3: Mexico and it's got a shocking ending.

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Speaker 4: Here's Lake.

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Speaker 1: So it's spring twenty seventeen and I got the opportunity

479
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Speaker 1: to travel down south of the border into Mexico Turkey,

480
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Speaker 1: which is something I'd never been able to do.

481
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Speaker 2: I travel down there with Brad Feris and Troy Ruez.

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Speaker 1: I feel the need right now to tell y'all that

483
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Speaker 1: I was there with those two gentlemen, because when I

484
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Speaker 1: get to the point in this story where I talk

485
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Speaker 1: about the actual incident, it is so outrageous and so

486
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Speaker 1: bizarre that, even though I have video evidence that this happened,

487
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Speaker 1: I just want everyone to know that there were also

488
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Speaker 1: two other people there that witness this and can confirm

489
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Speaker 1: that this story is true. But anyway, we travel down there,

490
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Speaker 1: we cross the border, drive for several miles. I think

491
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Speaker 1: we drove for maybe an hour a hour and a half.

492
00:25:48,480 --> 00:25:51,840
Speaker 1: And anyways, we get to this property that we're hunting.

493
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Speaker 1: So the next morning we wake up. It's a pretty

494
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Speaker 1: clear day, and man, did we hear some turkeys, but

495
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Speaker 1: they were in some flo And if you ever dealt

496
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Speaker 1: with big flocks of turkeys, they are really fun to watch.

497
00:26:04,400 --> 00:26:07,000
Speaker 1: They are really fun to listen to. But man, if

498
00:26:07,040 --> 00:26:09,080
Speaker 1: you aren't where they want to be, they can be

499
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Speaker 1: a pain to try to call to you. So we

500
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Speaker 1: spent all morning in turkeys, looking at turkeys, hearing turkeys,

501
00:26:15,080 --> 00:26:17,400
Speaker 1: but we didn't shoot any turkeys. So we go back

502
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Speaker 1: to camp, grab a nap, grab some lunch. We're sitting

503
00:26:19,960 --> 00:26:22,320
Speaker 1: there eating lunch with the landowners, telling them out our morning,

504
00:26:22,359 --> 00:26:24,840
Speaker 1: telling them what we saw, and he says, Hey, you know,

505
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Speaker 1: there's a power line, and every time I'm on that

506
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Speaker 1: power line.

507
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Speaker 2: I see turkeys every time.

508
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Speaker 1: He also mentioned at this same lunch that despite the

509
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Speaker 1: fact that he was not a turkey hunter, he always

510
00:26:35,680 --> 00:26:38,040
Speaker 1: wanted a big, pretty gobbler to mount and put in

511
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Speaker 1: his camp. Remember that that's an important factor of this story.

512
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Speaker 1: So anyways, we head out to this power line. We

513
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Speaker 1: get there and we start walking. Our plan is really

514
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Speaker 1: just to walk until we find something that looks like

515
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Speaker 1: we gets set up calling every once in a while

516
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Speaker 1: along the way. If we hear something, we'll sit down.

517
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Speaker 1: We're just kind of rolling with the punches. We're just

518
00:26:55,880 --> 00:26:58,080
Speaker 1: kind of easing up this power line. I don't remember

519
00:26:58,119 --> 00:27:00,119
Speaker 1: who saw it, but we noticed that there was a

520
00:27:00,160 --> 00:27:03,679
Speaker 1: dead hen turkey just laying kind of right off the

521
00:27:04,119 --> 00:27:05,920
Speaker 1: just right off the side of that power line.

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Speaker 7: We look at it.

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00:27:07,760 --> 00:27:09,840
Speaker 1: That's kind of odd, but we didn't think much about

524
00:27:09,840 --> 00:27:12,199
Speaker 1: it and kept walking. And we walked a couple one

525
00:27:12,280 --> 00:27:15,960
Speaker 1: hundred more yards and there's another dead turkey up under there,

526
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Speaker 1: just off the side of the power line, in the

527
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Speaker 1: same spot. Another hen. We're like, huh, something's to that,

528
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Speaker 1: But again we don't really know and don't make much

529
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Speaker 1: of it.

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Speaker 2: We just keep walking.

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Speaker 1: We end up setting up and start calling, and sure

532
00:27:28,320 --> 00:27:30,960
Speaker 1: enough a turkey answers us. Turkey gobbles at us, and

533
00:27:31,040 --> 00:27:33,600
Speaker 1: this turkey, unlike the ones we got into this morning,

534
00:27:33,760 --> 00:27:36,879
Speaker 1: starts quickly closing the distance, and I'm back filming, running

535
00:27:36,920 --> 00:27:39,520
Speaker 1: the camera. Troy and Brad are up front, and this

536
00:27:39,600 --> 00:27:42,320
Speaker 1: turkey is coming. Like no if ans or butts about it.

537
00:27:42,359 --> 00:27:44,040
Speaker 1: This turkey is coming. It was one of those. With

538
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Speaker 1: every gobble he.

539
00:27:44,920 --> 00:27:45,600
Speaker 2: Was gaining ground.

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Speaker 1: And I'm sitting there, going, man, any second, we're gonna

541
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Speaker 1: be looking at him. And then finally, just like you

542
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Speaker 1: drawed up in your head, out he appeared in full

543
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Speaker 1: strut and then came all the rest of them, and

544
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Speaker 1: I mean all the rest of them. I do not

545
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Speaker 1: know how we managed to yelp up that many turkeys

546
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Speaker 1: with only one turkey goblin the entire time, because we

547
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Speaker 1: thought we were dealing with a single long beard, but

548
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Speaker 1: it was not.

549
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Speaker 2: It was a wad long beards, Jake's hens.

550
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Speaker 1: We had every variety, and they were all march in

551
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Speaker 1: our direction.

552
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Speaker 2: I'd never seen anything like it.

553
00:28:15,160 --> 00:28:18,680
Speaker 1: This entire wad of turkeys makes it within twenty steps

554
00:28:18,920 --> 00:28:21,760
Speaker 1: of Brad Troy. But the problem was is there was

555
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Speaker 1: not a second, I mean, not a single moment where

556
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Speaker 1: either of them could have pulled the trigger and only

557
00:28:27,440 --> 00:28:30,520
Speaker 1: killed one turkey. They were so clumped up together that

558
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Speaker 1: I mean, if any of them would have shot, they

559
00:28:32,680 --> 00:28:36,240
Speaker 1: would have killed multiple turkeys, five turkeys even. I mean,

560
00:28:36,400 --> 00:28:38,920
Speaker 1: it was crazy, and obviously we were not trying to

561
00:28:38,960 --> 00:28:39,280
Speaker 1: do that.

562
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Speaker 2: And it was in the afternoon.

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Speaker 1: They stayed there forever, just standing around, strutting, gobling, yelping, looking,

564
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Speaker 1: and it starts getting dark, and these turkeys start getting shifty,

565
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Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, turkeys start flying up. So

566
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Speaker 1: turkeys start flying and roosting in trees to the left,

567
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Speaker 1: to the right, behind us, in front of us. One

568
00:28:56,800 --> 00:28:59,520
Speaker 1: gobbler picks up and flies out of the middle of

569
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Speaker 1: that power road and lands in a tree almost right

570
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Speaker 1: over Troy, which is just off the right side of

571
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Speaker 1: this power line, and that turkey he starts getting kind

572
00:29:09,080 --> 00:29:12,000
Speaker 1: of shifty up in that tree, and for whatever reason,

573
00:29:12,280 --> 00:29:14,880
Speaker 1: he decided that limb he had picked was no longer

574
00:29:14,880 --> 00:29:18,360
Speaker 1: good enough for him, and he picks up and flies

575
00:29:18,520 --> 00:29:22,200
Speaker 1: and tries to cross that power line I'm assuming to

576
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Speaker 1: land in a tree on the other side, but we'll

577
00:29:25,120 --> 00:29:28,360
Speaker 1: never know because he's flying and all of a sudden, Zippi,

578
00:29:29,080 --> 00:29:31,720
Speaker 1: there was this loud, popping noise, this bright flash of

579
00:29:31,800 --> 00:29:34,080
Speaker 1: lights and sparks, and that turkey fell out of the

580
00:29:34,080 --> 00:29:36,360
Speaker 1: sky and thudded on the ground, dead as a rock,

581
00:29:36,440 --> 00:29:38,280
Speaker 1: right on the other side of that road. He had

582
00:29:38,440 --> 00:29:40,840
Speaker 1: hit that power line when he tried to fly across

583
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Speaker 1: the road and.

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Speaker 2: It killed him.

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Speaker 1: I mean, in all reality, it looked like a giant

586
00:29:44,560 --> 00:29:47,520
Speaker 1: mosquito hitting a bug zapper, I mean, just zap and

587
00:29:47,680 --> 00:29:48,200
Speaker 1: lights out.

588
00:29:48,240 --> 00:29:51,440
Speaker 2: That turkey was gone. He did not flop at all.

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00:29:51,760 --> 00:29:54,080
Speaker 1: I will never forget the look on bradon Troy's faces,

590
00:29:54,080 --> 00:29:56,120
Speaker 1: which I probably had a pretty dumb founded.

591
00:29:55,760 --> 00:29:56,760
Speaker 2: Look on my face too.

592
00:29:57,200 --> 00:30:00,680
Speaker 1: But we got up, walked into the woods, found that turkey,

593
00:30:01,120 --> 00:30:04,480
Speaker 1: and I remember all you could smell was burnt feathers.

594
00:30:04,520 --> 00:30:07,080
Speaker 1: But other than that, the turkey looked to be fine.

595
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Speaker 1: And if I'm lying, I'm dying. That turkey had four

596
00:30:10,720 --> 00:30:14,080
Speaker 1: beards and an inch into quarterspurs. So we put him

597
00:30:14,120 --> 00:30:16,280
Speaker 1: in the back of that buggy and drove him back

598
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Speaker 1: to camp. Told the landowner what happened, and said, hey,

599
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Speaker 1: you said you wanted a big, pretty gobbler at a

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Speaker 1: mountain put in your camp. I think we found the

601
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Speaker 1: perfect one.

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Speaker 4: I told you that that was a shocking story.

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Speaker 3: Thanks Lake. And by the way they got all that

604
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Speaker 3: on video, pretty cool. Our next story is another Mississippi

605
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Speaker 3: turkey hunter. And if you haven't seen a trend in

606
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Speaker 3: this episode, we got a lot of Mississippi boys and

607
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Speaker 3: I'm quite certain that Mississippi is the cultural epicenter of

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Speaker 3: turkey hunting. This gentleman's name is David Huffman, but he

609
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Speaker 3: traveled out well asked to turkey hunt, and I'll be

610
00:31:02,520 --> 00:31:06,680
Speaker 3: interested to hear what you think of this story.

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Speaker 9: My name is David hoff and I'm from the Jackson,

612
00:31:09,160 --> 00:31:12,320
Speaker 9: Mississippi area. Turkey hunting my entire life. Done a lot

613
00:31:12,360 --> 00:31:16,840
Speaker 9: of traveling turkey hunting. Without giving too much information on

614
00:31:16,880 --> 00:31:19,120
Speaker 9: where we were in the state we were in. But

615
00:31:19,440 --> 00:31:22,400
Speaker 9: there are several Indian reservations across this country that you

616
00:31:22,400 --> 00:31:24,120
Speaker 9: can hunt on. But when you go to hunt on

617
00:31:24,160 --> 00:31:26,680
Speaker 9: an Indian reservation, you have to have a native god right.

618
00:31:26,720 --> 00:31:28,040
Speaker 9: You have to have somebody to walk you around the

619
00:31:28,080 --> 00:31:29,640
Speaker 9: place and show you where to go, what lands you

620
00:31:29,640 --> 00:31:31,040
Speaker 9: can go on, what's tribal.

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Speaker 7: What's not trivel.

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Speaker 2: So we had enlisted the help of a local.

623
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Speaker 9: Guy where we were going, and he was very well

624
00:31:38,720 --> 00:31:41,520
Speaker 9: recommended in the area. He had been there for a

625
00:31:41,560 --> 00:31:45,360
Speaker 9: long time, very well respected. So me and three buddies

626
00:31:45,760 --> 00:31:47,720
Speaker 9: went out as our first time traveling to the state

627
00:31:48,640 --> 00:31:50,680
Speaker 9: and got there and we you know, we're young, were

628
00:31:50,720 --> 00:31:53,280
Speaker 9: just fresh out of college, had been traveling around for

629
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Speaker 9: a while, and you know, we were sitting pretty high

630
00:31:56,120 --> 00:31:57,760
Speaker 9: on our horses of you know, we were good turkey

631
00:31:57,840 --> 00:31:58,960
Speaker 9: hunters and we knew what we were doing.

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Speaker 7: We were going really didn't need a whole lot of help.

633
00:32:02,560 --> 00:32:06,640
Speaker 9: I come from, you know, a family of my brother

634
00:32:06,720 --> 00:32:07,720
Speaker 9: in law is a guide.

635
00:32:08,080 --> 00:32:09,000
Speaker 7: He owns an outfit.

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Speaker 9: So I understand that the saying don't guide the guide, right,

637
00:32:13,040 --> 00:32:14,720
Speaker 9: So if a guy tells you to do something, you

638
00:32:14,720 --> 00:32:17,200
Speaker 9: should probably listen because he knows more than what you

639
00:32:17,240 --> 00:32:18,240
Speaker 9: know about that area.

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00:32:18,800 --> 00:32:19,960
Speaker 7: So we get there.

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00:32:19,880 --> 00:32:22,040
Speaker 9: And I meet the guide first, and we start riding

642
00:32:22,040 --> 00:32:23,800
Speaker 9: around his truck and he's like, well, do you want

643
00:32:23,840 --> 00:32:24,560
Speaker 9: to go see some turkeys?

644
00:32:24,640 --> 00:32:26,200
Speaker 7: Like, yeah, absolutely, let's go check some out.

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00:32:26,240 --> 00:32:28,440
Speaker 9: So he pulled to the top of this hill and

646
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Speaker 9: he says, Okay, they're going to be down this bottom

647
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Speaker 9: and he shuts his truck off, and he reaches into

648
00:32:32,880 --> 00:32:36,760
Speaker 9: center console and he pulls out this old cherry bark

649
00:32:37,480 --> 00:32:39,880
Speaker 9: box call and he reaches out and he makes the

650
00:32:39,960 --> 00:32:42,480
Speaker 9: three most god awful yelps you've ever heard in your life,

651
00:32:42,520 --> 00:32:43,720
Speaker 9: just squawks across it.

652
00:32:43,840 --> 00:32:46,520
Speaker 2: Yep, yep, yep, yep, And sure.

653
00:32:46,400 --> 00:32:48,640
Speaker 9: Enough, pull a little they come out of this bottom

654
00:32:48,680 --> 00:32:49,960
Speaker 9: and walk up this hill, right to the top of

655
00:32:49,960 --> 00:32:52,400
Speaker 9: the hill, twenty yards from the truck. And I'm thinking,

656
00:32:52,920 --> 00:32:54,800
Speaker 9: all right, this is going to be pretty easy. You know,

657
00:32:54,840 --> 00:32:56,240
Speaker 9: this ain't gonna be a whole lot of thought to this.

658
00:32:56,360 --> 00:32:57,960
Speaker 9: Just listening to this guy and we'll be just fine.

659
00:32:58,720 --> 00:33:01,280
Speaker 9: So my three buddy they were a day behind me,

660
00:33:01,480 --> 00:33:03,000
Speaker 9: and they show up and I tell them what happened

661
00:33:03,040 --> 00:33:04,720
Speaker 9: that afternoon, and said, look, you just need to listen

662
00:33:04,720 --> 00:33:07,000
Speaker 9: to this guy and help points in the right direction.

663
00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:08,480
Speaker 7: We'll kill our turkeys and we'll get out of here.

664
00:33:08,520 --> 00:33:10,960
Speaker 9: Well, I've got two buddies that are a little bit

665
00:33:11,040 --> 00:33:14,840
Speaker 9: more headstrong than I am, and so they're big, bad

666
00:33:14,840 --> 00:33:16,760
Speaker 9: turkey hunters and they don't need anybody to tell them

667
00:33:16,800 --> 00:33:17,160
Speaker 9: where to go.

668
00:33:17,200 --> 00:33:18,800
Speaker 7: They to be pointing in the right direction.

669
00:33:18,960 --> 00:33:21,280
Speaker 9: So they go off and they always hunt together and

670
00:33:21,320 --> 00:33:23,040
Speaker 9: me and my other buddy always hunt together when we're

671
00:33:23,080 --> 00:33:23,680
Speaker 9: on these trips.

672
00:33:24,320 --> 00:33:28,600
Speaker 7: And so first morning, the guide, his name is Ken.

673
00:33:29,160 --> 00:33:31,120
Speaker 9: He tells our body and says, okay, look, I'm going

674
00:33:31,160 --> 00:33:33,200
Speaker 9: to send you downe to this creek bottom, and when

675
00:33:33,240 --> 00:33:35,000
Speaker 9: you get down in there, the birds are going to

676
00:33:35,080 --> 00:33:37,600
Speaker 9: be chirping, owls are going to be hooting. Let everything

677
00:33:37,680 --> 00:33:39,800
Speaker 9: calm down. You have to let the creek accept you.

678
00:33:40,600 --> 00:33:42,800
Speaker 9: Very native American thing to say. They're very in tune

679
00:33:42,800 --> 00:33:44,640
Speaker 9: with the earth, very in tune with everything around him.

680
00:33:44,640 --> 00:33:46,080
Speaker 9: He said, you have to let the creek accept you

681
00:33:46,120 --> 00:33:48,320
Speaker 9: before you make a call. He said, do not call

682
00:33:48,680 --> 00:33:52,040
Speaker 9: until everything has quieted down. You'll know the crick has

683
00:33:52,080 --> 00:33:54,040
Speaker 9: accepted and then you can start turkey hunting. So he

684
00:33:54,080 --> 00:33:57,320
Speaker 9: tells them, and I can see that they're just scoffing, like, okay, whatever,

685
00:33:57,320 --> 00:33:59,680
Speaker 9: we're not going to listen to this. So they go

686
00:33:59,760 --> 00:34:02,920
Speaker 9: down in there and he takes us to another spot

687
00:34:02,920 --> 00:34:04,760
Speaker 9: and he tells us the same thing. He says, let

688
00:34:04,800 --> 00:34:07,400
Speaker 9: the creek accept you. People, wait till everything calms down.

689
00:34:07,440 --> 00:34:10,879
Speaker 9: Don't make a call until that happens. And so I'm

690
00:34:11,000 --> 00:34:13,359
Speaker 9: walking down to this creek bottom with my buddy, and

691
00:34:13,360 --> 00:34:15,880
Speaker 9: I said now, I said, let's let's just, you know,

692
00:34:15,920 --> 00:34:18,600
Speaker 9: take what he said to Hart and just see what happens.

693
00:34:18,640 --> 00:34:21,680
Speaker 9: And so sure enough, birds are chirping, owls are hooting

694
00:34:22,320 --> 00:34:24,440
Speaker 9: whole nine yards. We don't hear a single bird gobble.

695
00:34:24,719 --> 00:34:29,799
Speaker 9: As soon as everything calms down, I said, okay, they're here,

696
00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:33,759
Speaker 9: and so I yelp, yep, yelp, yelp, And ten minutes later,

697
00:34:33,920 --> 00:34:35,839
Speaker 9: turkey flies down, walks right to our gun barrel.

698
00:34:35,920 --> 00:34:39,279
Speaker 7: We shoot him. Simple is like, h there's something to this.

699
00:34:39,719 --> 00:34:42,160
Speaker 9: So we get back to the truck and calling our buddies,

700
00:34:42,160 --> 00:34:45,000
Speaker 9: and we see them going across a mountain. They're going

701
00:34:45,040 --> 00:34:48,160
Speaker 9: across his hilltop, probably five hundred yards away, chasing turkeys.

702
00:34:48,680 --> 00:34:50,959
Speaker 9: And we get back to the truck and said, Ken said,

703
00:34:51,400 --> 00:34:53,520
Speaker 9: they didn't let the creek accept them, so they should have.

704
00:34:53,560 --> 00:34:54,200
Speaker 7: Killed by now.

705
00:34:54,480 --> 00:34:58,760
Speaker 9: And so we watched them chase turkeys for probably two hours,

706
00:34:58,880 --> 00:35:00,680
Speaker 9: going across these hills and they get back to the

707
00:35:00,680 --> 00:35:02,799
Speaker 9: truck and said, these turkeys will not work with us

708
00:35:02,840 --> 00:35:03,200
Speaker 9: one bit.

709
00:35:03,200 --> 00:35:05,560
Speaker 7: They keep running from us. They're heading the opposite direction.

710
00:35:05,600 --> 00:35:07,640
Speaker 7: We can't get in front of them. Blah blah blah.

711
00:35:07,719 --> 00:35:10,680
Speaker 9: And Ken said, well, did you call before the creek

712
00:35:10,719 --> 00:35:14,000
Speaker 9: accepted you, and they said yes. He said, that's why

713
00:35:14,040 --> 00:35:15,960
Speaker 9: you won't kill a turkey. We'll try again tomorrow. And

714
00:35:16,040 --> 00:35:17,839
Speaker 9: we backed up in the truck and left. And when

715
00:35:17,840 --> 00:35:19,279
Speaker 9: we got back to the house, I said, you guys

716
00:35:19,360 --> 00:35:20,880
Speaker 9: better listen to him. I said, it happened for us

717
00:35:20,920 --> 00:35:24,000
Speaker 9: in five minutes. Said you better let the crik accept

718
00:35:24,040 --> 00:35:26,479
Speaker 9: you tomorrow. And they went down in there. The same

719
00:35:26,520 --> 00:35:29,240
Speaker 9: thing happened. They let the creek accept them. Two turkeys

720
00:35:29,239 --> 00:35:31,560
Speaker 9: walk in ten minutes later and they shoot them, as

721
00:35:31,600 --> 00:35:34,640
Speaker 9: simple as that. So that is a story of if

722
00:35:34,640 --> 00:35:36,919
Speaker 9: you go traveling turkey hunting and you go with somebody

723
00:35:36,960 --> 00:35:38,839
Speaker 9: that knows the area, you better listen to them.

724
00:35:39,400 --> 00:35:40,600
Speaker 7: They know what they're talking about.

725
00:35:45,280 --> 00:35:46,920
Speaker 4: Let the creek accept you.

726
00:35:48,160 --> 00:35:52,080
Speaker 3: Even if you can't doctrinally accept the animistic element of this,

727
00:35:52,200 --> 00:35:55,600
Speaker 3: Gud's suggestion, if you're a woodsman, I think you kind

728
00:35:55,600 --> 00:35:58,680
Speaker 3: of get it. It doesn't always happen, but there comes

729
00:35:58,719 --> 00:36:00,879
Speaker 3: a point in some hunt when you feel like you're

730
00:36:00,920 --> 00:36:04,280
Speaker 3: a part of the natural system, not just a visitor.

731
00:36:05,200 --> 00:36:07,319
Speaker 4: That was a good story, David, Thank you.

732
00:36:13,760 --> 00:36:18,040
Speaker 3: Our last story is told by another Mississippian named Med

733
00:36:18,160 --> 00:36:22,040
Speaker 3: Palmer met as a biologist for the state and best

734
00:36:22,080 --> 00:36:25,040
Speaker 3: I can tell, he's the greatest turkey hunter who has

735
00:36:25,080 --> 00:36:28,680
Speaker 3: ever lived, period, or at least that's the way that

736
00:36:28,719 --> 00:36:31,840
Speaker 3: people that know him talk about him. And he's no

737
00:36:31,880 --> 00:36:35,759
Speaker 3: stranger to bear grease. If you recall, he lost his

738
00:36:35,920 --> 00:36:39,040
Speaker 3: son in a tragic accident on the Mississippi River in

739
00:36:39,080 --> 00:36:44,000
Speaker 3: December of twenty twenty. This story is about Gunner, his

740
00:36:44,239 --> 00:36:48,840
Speaker 3: son's last turkey hunt and an incredible experience Med had

741
00:36:48,880 --> 00:36:53,800
Speaker 3: the following year. Here's the greatest turkey hnna that ever lived,

742
00:36:54,600 --> 00:36:55,680
Speaker 3: Med Palmer.

743
00:36:58,440 --> 00:37:03,200
Speaker 10: My be had Palmer County, Mississippi. The spring of twenty

744
00:37:03,400 --> 00:37:06,440
Speaker 10: twenty was an unusual year of turkey hunt. It was

745
00:37:06,920 --> 00:37:10,600
Speaker 10: it was a year that COVID had started and school

746
00:37:10,760 --> 00:37:13,320
Speaker 10: was out worked They were pretty much telling us to

747
00:37:13,360 --> 00:37:17,719
Speaker 10: work from home. So basically we could turkey hunt every day.

748
00:37:17,840 --> 00:37:20,720
Speaker 10: Me and my son gone him and uh. The limit

749
00:37:20,840 --> 00:37:23,480
Speaker 10: here in Mississippi's three and I limited out about middle

750
00:37:23,480 --> 00:37:28,080
Speaker 10: to the season, and Gunner, like one turkey limited out.

751
00:37:28,360 --> 00:37:31,839
Speaker 10: So we had got down to the last day of

752
00:37:31,880 --> 00:37:34,200
Speaker 10: the season. I had saved that last day for just

753
00:37:34,239 --> 00:37:36,560
Speaker 10: me and him, you know, did enjoy hunting together and

754
00:37:36,920 --> 00:37:40,160
Speaker 10: hopefully he get his last bird. And there was a

755
00:37:40,160 --> 00:37:42,759
Speaker 10: bird he had hunted through the season that had give

756
00:37:42,800 --> 00:37:45,320
Speaker 10: him bits. I asked him, like for so, where you

757
00:37:45,360 --> 00:37:46,600
Speaker 10: want to go? He said, I want to try that

758
00:37:46,600 --> 00:37:48,800
Speaker 10: bird again. So we go in there that morning to

759
00:37:48,800 --> 00:37:50,080
Speaker 10: get on the bird, and the bird was right on

760
00:37:50,120 --> 00:37:52,720
Speaker 10: the property line. I actually flew up on the property

761
00:37:52,760 --> 00:37:55,040
Speaker 10: next to us. We couldn't hunt got with hens, and

762
00:37:55,080 --> 00:37:57,279
Speaker 10: we just couldn't do nothing with you. I said, well

763
00:37:57,280 --> 00:37:59,680
Speaker 10: next year, I said, opening day, I said, we'll be back.

764
00:38:00,320 --> 00:38:03,400
Speaker 10: So we started heading to the house. I told him,

765
00:38:03,400 --> 00:38:04,600
Speaker 10: I said, I got one more spot.

766
00:38:05,200 --> 00:38:05,480
Speaker 5: I said.

767
00:38:05,480 --> 00:38:07,319
Speaker 10: We've been in there twice this year, but it was

768
00:38:07,360 --> 00:38:08,680
Speaker 10: it's an ordeal to get in there.

769
00:38:08,719 --> 00:38:09,600
Speaker 7: It's like a three.

770
00:38:09,400 --> 00:38:13,080
Speaker 10: Mile drive on a little fire land to get in there,

771
00:38:13,080 --> 00:38:14,640
Speaker 10: and then you got to walk by another quarter of

772
00:38:14,640 --> 00:38:17,080
Speaker 10: a mile to get to where the turkeys are. He said,

773
00:38:17,080 --> 00:38:19,080
Speaker 10: we've been in there twice. We hadn't heard any birds.

774
00:38:19,080 --> 00:38:20,840
Speaker 10: And I said, well that partext for spot's got a

775
00:38:20,880 --> 00:38:23,120
Speaker 10: lot of good nesting. I said, late in the season,

776
00:38:23,120 --> 00:38:26,080
Speaker 10: those hens come in there and started nesting. I said,

777
00:38:26,080 --> 00:38:28,680
Speaker 10: the gobblers, you know, they'll follow them, they'll be with them.

778
00:38:29,320 --> 00:38:31,480
Speaker 10: So we get we start going in there that morning

779
00:38:31,480 --> 00:38:33,960
Speaker 10: about nine o'clock we drive in there and get out

780
00:38:34,000 --> 00:38:36,479
Speaker 10: walked and God, I really didn't think we was gonna

781
00:38:36,480 --> 00:38:39,080
Speaker 10: hear anything. He was standing there kind of with his

782
00:38:39,160 --> 00:38:41,440
Speaker 10: head lord, which we was wore out. It had been

783
00:38:41,440 --> 00:38:46,359
Speaker 10: a long season and uh the first year Turkey. God

784
00:38:46,480 --> 00:38:49,040
Speaker 10: was in the distance about three hundred yards, and he

785
00:38:49,080 --> 00:38:51,239
Speaker 10: looked at me and started grinting, and I said, come on.

786
00:38:51,360 --> 00:38:54,319
Speaker 10: So weave in there, got set up and got set

787
00:38:54,400 --> 00:38:56,760
Speaker 10: up on the birds. And I figured it be maybe

788
00:38:56,800 --> 00:38:59,560
Speaker 10: one or two hens that late season. Man, when I yep,

789
00:38:59,600 --> 00:39:01,680
Speaker 10: after we shut up, it was like seven or eight

790
00:39:01,719 --> 00:39:05,359
Speaker 10: hens cutting up. They started taking him away. Well, they

791
00:39:05,400 --> 00:39:07,520
Speaker 10: got about one hundred and fifty yards and hung up,

792
00:39:07,719 --> 00:39:10,400
Speaker 10: and the gobbler hung up the hens I think they

793
00:39:10,480 --> 00:39:12,600
Speaker 10: was yet and trying to pull him, but he didn't

794
00:39:12,640 --> 00:39:15,800
Speaker 10: want to leave. So we pooled with him, back and forth,

795
00:39:15,840 --> 00:39:19,520
Speaker 10: back and forth, probably for another hour or so. Well

796
00:39:19,680 --> 00:39:22,160
Speaker 10: it was twelve o'clock straight up, because I looked at

797
00:39:22,200 --> 00:39:24,799
Speaker 10: my phone. All of a sudden he broke and he

798
00:39:24,840 --> 00:39:28,000
Speaker 10: starts coming. Well, he's coming up a fire lane and

799
00:39:28,080 --> 00:39:29,960
Speaker 10: we couldn't see him because the road made a bend

800
00:39:30,000 --> 00:39:32,479
Speaker 10: about thirty yards in front of us, and I yep,

801
00:39:32,520 --> 00:39:34,520
Speaker 10: and he gobbled right around the bend. I told Gunner, said,

802
00:39:34,520 --> 00:39:36,320
Speaker 10: you better get your gun up. I come around the curves.

803
00:39:36,360 --> 00:39:37,680
Speaker 10: Matter of practice, I see it and I could see

804
00:39:37,760 --> 00:39:40,319
Speaker 10: him coming gun and couldn't seehim at that time. I said, look,

805
00:39:40,440 --> 00:39:43,400
Speaker 10: just let him come. Let's enjoy the show. He rouns

806
00:39:43,400 --> 00:39:46,719
Speaker 10: a bend, he comes in there, Gunner shoots him, so

807
00:39:46,760 --> 00:39:49,000
Speaker 10: he kills him. We took her to death, went down

808
00:39:49,000 --> 00:39:52,640
Speaker 10: to the wire the last day. You know, he got

809
00:39:52,640 --> 00:39:56,400
Speaker 10: it done well. What I didn't know was that was

810
00:39:56,440 --> 00:40:02,359
Speaker 10: Gunner's last turkey hunt that year, December third, twenty twenty.

811
00:40:02,440 --> 00:40:06,480
Speaker 10: Gun it was an accident on Misissippi River. Actually scout

812
00:40:06,520 --> 00:40:09,200
Speaker 10: in the turkeys for a veteran to take take a

813
00:40:09,239 --> 00:40:14,520
Speaker 10: bean duck hunting the next day, and uh and we looked,

814
00:40:14,520 --> 00:40:17,799
Speaker 10: and you know, to this day, we've never found gun

815
00:40:17,800 --> 00:40:18,160
Speaker 10: of ours.

816
00:40:18,160 --> 00:40:19,480
Speaker 2: Buddy.

817
00:40:20,320 --> 00:40:23,360
Speaker 10: The next year, I didn't even know if I was

818
00:40:23,360 --> 00:40:25,919
Speaker 10: gonna turkey hunt or not. I mean, I'd lost my son,

819
00:40:25,960 --> 00:40:28,960
Speaker 10: I lost my hunting buddy. You know, it's real hard.

820
00:40:29,320 --> 00:40:33,680
Speaker 10: And the day before the season, I decided I'm on hunt,

821
00:40:33,920 --> 00:40:36,840
Speaker 10: you know. And actually nobody had called me that year

822
00:40:37,080 --> 00:40:40,200
Speaker 10: to ask to go turkey hunt, which generally bopening week.

823
00:40:40,560 --> 00:40:44,640
Speaker 10: I've got the first twenty Days book, and that year

824
00:40:44,719 --> 00:40:48,680
Speaker 10: nobody had called. Anyway, I beside was gonna go. I

825
00:40:48,680 --> 00:40:51,120
Speaker 10: was gonna go to the last place where Gunner, me

826
00:40:51,160 --> 00:40:54,120
Speaker 10: and him hunting that bird that we didn't kill that

827
00:40:54,280 --> 00:40:58,600
Speaker 10: last day. He was probably the longest walk of my

828
00:40:58,719 --> 00:41:01,359
Speaker 10: life was that first I am turkey hunt without him.

829
00:41:01,920 --> 00:41:05,120
Speaker 10: But anyway, got in there, turkey come in, and I

830
00:41:05,200 --> 00:41:09,160
Speaker 10: killed it. It rocked on that whole season. I had

831
00:41:09,160 --> 00:41:11,000
Speaker 10: an off season. I don't think I called, but like

832
00:41:11,120 --> 00:41:15,160
Speaker 10: ten turkeys that was killed. To be honest with you,

833
00:41:15,280 --> 00:41:18,720
Speaker 10: I had lost my spirit. In the Bible, it talks

834
00:41:18,719 --> 00:41:24,080
Speaker 10: about somebody losing their spirit. So it rocked on into

835
00:41:24,120 --> 00:41:28,840
Speaker 10: the next year and I had some really exceptional hunt

836
00:41:28,960 --> 00:41:33,240
Speaker 10: with some disabled people, but I was still just amling

837
00:41:33,280 --> 00:41:35,520
Speaker 10: a long turkey hunt. You know, I just didn't have

838
00:41:35,560 --> 00:41:39,200
Speaker 10: that fire i'd had before. You know, I had lost

839
00:41:39,200 --> 00:41:41,839
Speaker 10: my way and I don't know how to put it.

840
00:41:43,280 --> 00:41:46,239
Speaker 10: So finally I decided, I said, I'm gonna go in

841
00:41:46,360 --> 00:41:49,760
Speaker 10: there in the morning. We're gonna kill his last turkey.

842
00:41:50,239 --> 00:41:52,719
Speaker 10: Because I couldn't even think about going that next year,

843
00:41:52,880 --> 00:41:55,200
Speaker 10: right after accident, I said I need to do it,

844
00:41:55,200 --> 00:41:57,480
Speaker 10: and need to get it over with. You know, that's

845
00:41:57,480 --> 00:41:59,160
Speaker 10: where I'm going in the morning. I said, it's early

846
00:41:59,200 --> 00:42:02,040
Speaker 10: in the season. I said, I probably won't hear nothing

847
00:42:02,560 --> 00:42:05,279
Speaker 10: because they hadn't moved in there. They're not nesting yet.

848
00:42:06,000 --> 00:42:07,759
Speaker 10: So I get in there that morning. Had to leave

849
00:42:07,800 --> 00:42:09,480
Speaker 10: real early because, like I said, it's a pretty good

850
00:42:09,560 --> 00:42:11,120
Speaker 10: ride in there. I get in there and then I

851
00:42:11,200 --> 00:42:13,799
Speaker 10: walk and I get there probably about ten minutes before

852
00:42:13,800 --> 00:42:16,840
Speaker 10: gobble time. And he gets about time. Birds starts chirping.

853
00:42:16,840 --> 00:42:19,840
Speaker 10: So I hoop and low and behold a turkey gobbles.

854
00:42:19,880 --> 00:42:21,759
Speaker 10: I said, man, he's right in there, close to where

855
00:42:21,800 --> 00:42:26,680
Speaker 10: Gunner was and it's still, you know, dark. So I

856
00:42:26,719 --> 00:42:28,799
Speaker 10: get in there, and the turkey gobbled early. So I

857
00:42:28,800 --> 00:42:30,680
Speaker 10: get in there and get set up by a hundred

858
00:42:30,760 --> 00:42:33,239
Speaker 10: yard from him, like you want to do. Well, this

859
00:42:33,280 --> 00:42:35,760
Speaker 10: starts getting light, and all of a sudden, I look around.

860
00:42:35,800 --> 00:42:38,680
Speaker 10: I said, I am on the very same tree Gunner

861
00:42:38,719 --> 00:42:42,440
Speaker 10: was on when he shot this turkey. And it starts

862
00:42:42,480 --> 00:42:45,880
Speaker 10: getting lighter. Of course, you know, it's emotional, you know,

863
00:42:45,920 --> 00:42:48,600
Speaker 10: because I said, what is the odds a man coming

864
00:42:48,640 --> 00:42:54,239
Speaker 10: in these woods two years later? A turkey goblin? And

865
00:42:54,320 --> 00:42:56,520
Speaker 10: where I need to set up is the exact same

866
00:42:56,600 --> 00:42:59,960
Speaker 10: tree where Gunner was when he killed his last turn.

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Speaker 10: And about that time it dawned on me. I said,

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Speaker 10: when Gunner shot, I said, he pumped the shot Gunn's

869
00:43:07,840 --> 00:43:12,000
Speaker 10: shooting at twenty gauge eight seventy. I said his shell

870
00:43:12,040 --> 00:43:14,480
Speaker 10: would be to the right. And I looked over and

871
00:43:14,600 --> 00:43:16,759
Speaker 10: about a foot from me there laid that shell. It

872
00:43:16,840 --> 00:43:20,160
Speaker 10: was pine straw when a lead covering half of it,

873
00:43:20,200 --> 00:43:22,040
Speaker 10: but the yellow part of that twenty gate shell was

874
00:43:22,080 --> 00:43:26,040
Speaker 10: sticking up, and it really got emotional them. And you know,

875
00:43:26,120 --> 00:43:29,040
Speaker 10: I'd quit calling because my mind was somewhere else. And

876
00:43:29,120 --> 00:43:31,839
Speaker 10: that turkey keeps gobbling on his own, like, hey, don't

877
00:43:31,880 --> 00:43:34,799
Speaker 10: forget about ma'am, I'm stealing this tree, you know. And

878
00:43:34,920 --> 00:43:36,839
Speaker 10: it gets about time to fly down. You know how

879
00:43:36,840 --> 00:43:39,400
Speaker 10: they always do. Right before they fly down, they'll be

880
00:43:39,400 --> 00:43:41,200
Speaker 10: godden to head off and then they'll go quiet for

881
00:43:41,280 --> 00:43:44,000
Speaker 10: a minute. He had done that. He guy said, he's

882
00:43:44,000 --> 00:43:45,560
Speaker 10: been a fly down. And by the time I heard

883
00:43:45,640 --> 00:43:47,360
Speaker 10: him fly, it kind of glanced him through the wood.

884
00:43:47,760 --> 00:43:49,560
Speaker 10: Well he flew away from me. So why yep, he

885
00:43:49,640 --> 00:43:52,960
Speaker 10: gobbled in there about one hundred fifty two hundred yard. Well,

886
00:43:53,120 --> 00:43:56,200
Speaker 10: yet again he's gone to bother, and then all of

887
00:43:56,239 --> 00:43:59,000
Speaker 10: a sudden, the next time, I yep, he gobbled about

888
00:43:59,000 --> 00:44:01,600
Speaker 10: seventy five yards over the hill. I said, he's coming.

889
00:44:02,400 --> 00:44:04,040
Speaker 10: So I get my gun up and I'm still in

890
00:44:04,120 --> 00:44:06,359
Speaker 10: most you know, all this is going through my head.

891
00:44:06,440 --> 00:44:09,520
Speaker 10: I said, this ain't been in the hat. I said,

892
00:44:09,680 --> 00:44:11,759
Speaker 10: I'm not gonna kill a turkey sitting on the very

893
00:44:11,920 --> 00:44:16,239
Speaker 10: same tree that Gunner killed his last turkey. I see

894
00:44:16,239 --> 00:44:20,040
Speaker 10: the pan pop up over the hill. He comes right down.

895
00:44:20,320 --> 00:44:22,600
Speaker 10: He gets about twenty five yards on the side of

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00:44:22,640 --> 00:44:25,600
Speaker 10: a ridge, and all of a sudden, you know how

897
00:44:25,640 --> 00:44:27,680
Speaker 10: the dew in the morning, when the sun comes up,

898
00:44:27,719 --> 00:44:31,439
Speaker 10: it makes raised to the trees. It's like God put

899
00:44:31,520 --> 00:44:33,600
Speaker 10: him on stage. All of a sudden, the sun broke

900
00:44:33,640 --> 00:44:36,879
Speaker 10: out and it was raised, the sun just beaming on it.

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00:44:36,880 --> 00:44:39,359
Speaker 10: It was the most beautiful sight I've ever seen in

902
00:44:39,400 --> 00:44:42,200
Speaker 10: my life. He strutted there for twenty minute till I

903
00:44:42,239 --> 00:44:45,920
Speaker 10: finally decided, you know, I need to do this. It

904
00:44:46,000 --> 00:44:48,000
Speaker 10: was going through my mind. I'm not gonna kill him.

905
00:44:48,440 --> 00:44:51,440
Speaker 10: I'm gonna let him live. And then I said, no,

906
00:44:51,680 --> 00:44:53,799
Speaker 10: if I don't shoot this turkey, Gunner be so mad

907
00:44:53,840 --> 00:44:56,920
Speaker 10: at me. And finally, and you know, I yep, made

908
00:44:57,000 --> 00:44:58,600
Speaker 10: him raise his head and I killed him. But it

909
00:44:58,760 --> 00:45:01,880
Speaker 10: was being I'm saying, a whole lot of turkeys before

910
00:45:01,920 --> 00:45:04,040
Speaker 10: in my life, but that turkey by boy. I could

911
00:45:04,040 --> 00:45:06,120
Speaker 10: literally see every car he had turned different, and I

912
00:45:06,160 --> 00:45:09,440
Speaker 10: could see a different color. And it happened on the

913
00:45:09,440 --> 00:45:12,520
Speaker 10: bey same trade that Gunner killed his last. I mean,

914
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Speaker 10: there's no doubt in my mind that the Good Lord

915
00:45:14,680 --> 00:45:19,080
Speaker 10: and Gunner said I'm okay, And that day I got

916
00:45:19,080 --> 00:45:21,719
Speaker 10: my fire and my spirit back my turkey hunt now

917
00:45:21,880 --> 00:45:25,799
Speaker 10: just like I always did, and I needed that to

918
00:45:25,880 --> 00:45:26,719
Speaker 10: get me back on.

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Speaker 3: That may be the greatest turkey story ever told. What

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00:45:36,719 --> 00:45:39,160
Speaker 3: a privilege that we get to hear it directly from Med.

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Speaker 3: Thank you for sharing that story so that we can

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Speaker 3: all celebrate Gunner's life.

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Speaker 4: I can't thank you enough for listening to Bear Grease.

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Speaker 3: Please share our podcast with a friend this week and

925
00:45:59,040 --> 00:46:01,919
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926
00:46:02,040 --> 00:46:05,640
Speaker 3: up where Brent and I'll be facing off in another

927
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Speaker 3: turkey calling contest. Now, I want you to know that

928
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Speaker 3: I'll be looking for your vote, but not for any

929
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Speaker 3: reason other that I'm just a better color than Brent,

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Speaker 4: Check it out.

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Speaker 3: Keep the wild places wild because that's where the bears live.