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Speaker 2: This is our second turkey hunting episode of the twenty

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Speaker 2: It's that we saved some of the best turkey stories

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Speaker 2: for last. Say you might, as a person top the

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Speaker 2: greatest turkey story ever told hat tip into Med Palmer's

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Speaker 2: last story on the last episode, and say I to you,

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Speaker 2: listen and find out for being bit by a turkey,

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Speaker 2: and some of them are even downright embarrassing, but they

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Speaker 2: are guaranteed to get you fired up for Turkey season.

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Speaker 2: You guys know how this works. We've got eight people

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Speaker 2: telling us their best stories. This is one of my

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Speaker 2: favorite times of the year, and I really doubt that

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Speaker 3: Well.

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Speaker 4: At my time, I start leaning over, a stick goes

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Speaker 4: now I can't move and I can't and now he

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Speaker 4: So I just leaned over, riped my underwear when I did,

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Speaker 2: My name is Klay Nukem and this is the Bear

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Speaker 2: Grease Podcast, where we'll explore things forgotten but relevant, search

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Speaker 2: for insight and unlikely places, and where we'll tell the

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Speaker 2: story of Americans who live their lives close to the land.

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Speaker 2: Presented by FHF Gear, American made purpose built hunting and

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Speaker 2: fishing gear that's designed to be as rugged as the

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Speaker 2: places we explore. The best thing about a good turkey

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Speaker 2: story is that you just never know which direction that

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Speaker 2: surprise you. It continues to amaze me how many varied

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Speaker 2: many varied in sundry things have to go perfectly right.

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Speaker 2: Our first storyteller is new to bear grease, but it

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Speaker 5: This is an old time turkey hunt.

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Speaker 2: Don and Sarah Clark, and they're gonna tell us how

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Speaker 2: the name Clarkett came about.

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Speaker 6: My name is Don Clark. I'm from Sheridan, Arkansas.

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Speaker 7: You know Sarah and I make box calls and have

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Speaker 7: That was given to us by some of several of

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Speaker 7: So James Erwin was gonna be the call man, which

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Speaker 6: Looked like a beep fifty two bomber leaving here. And

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Speaker 7: He flew right over the top of her. And she

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Speaker 7: You could have stuck a beer can through that turkey's

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Speaker 7: But you know, back then turkey was a delicacy and

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Speaker 2: Now that's a good story and really a testament to

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Speaker 2: least expect it. This isn't the only wing shot turkey

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Speaker 2: Trent Ellis and he's pretty much an internet comedian. This

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Speaker 5: And it's oddly connected to Dawn's story. You'll get why.

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Speaker 5: And if you don't know him already, meet Trent else.

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Speaker 1: My name's Trent Us, and I'm gonna tell y'all about

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Speaker 1: He started going over to my left. I know there's

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Speaker 1: prairie dogging, buddy. Let me tell you it's hurt. I

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Speaker 1: So I made a decision at that point that I'm

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Speaker 1: Okay, by this time, he literally he flew up and

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Speaker 5: I told you that he was a handful.

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Speaker 2: You can unplug your kids and your wives ears now

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Speaker 2: and next time Trent, why don't you keep stuff like

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Speaker 2: Our next story is told by a man named Johnny

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Speaker 2: Johnston from the mountains of eastern Oklahoma. He's a handful two,

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Speaker 9: He said, now you have to be on your best behavior.

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Speaker 9: This is a big time judge. He likes to hunt,

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Speaker 9: but he don't joke around. I said, oh, I'll be

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Speaker 9: all bun perfect spring Day got out of the truck.

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Speaker 9: Turkeys were already goblin here in four or five different

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Speaker 9: he needed to be, had him out where he could shoot.

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Speaker 9: And I was doing a calling kind of watching and

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Speaker 9: they were coming right down our gun burrow and to

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Speaker 9: I don't go for that, because jakeskin gobble. This like

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Speaker 9: I was watching the ward coming.

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Speaker 6: He killed one.

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Speaker 9: I was gonna try to pick me one now, and

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Speaker 9: I saw something and I cut my eyes, and probably

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Speaker 9: the biggest turkey I've ever seen it, a huge, big

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Speaker 9: out of Guiden. I just rolled out and give him one,

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Speaker 9: and turkeys went everywhere, and the turky he went down

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Speaker 9: I heard him kind of making a breathing noise, and

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Speaker 9: him back up there where the judge was, and I said,

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Speaker 9: talking to it. I said, this is Judge Lendra. He's

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Speaker 9: a turkey man. He's never seen a Eastern turkey, just

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Speaker 9: like you. He's a real grand god. But I've read

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Speaker 9: your book. And that turkey went through my hand and

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Speaker 9: bit me right on the end of the node. It palked,

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Speaker 9: I'm talking bit me and built a big blood blister

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Speaker 9: and that judge that says, oh my, my my, I've

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Speaker 9: never even heard of anything like this, but less seen

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Speaker 9: something like it. And from that day on, that judge

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Speaker 9: turkey hunt together. I've never seen a real grand turkey,

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Speaker 5: Now tell me why you bet this turkey?

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Speaker 9: Just to reflet He bet me, so I beat him back.

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Speaker 2: See, I lie, really, you weren't trying to be funny.

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Speaker 2: It just just oh, I just beat him, just bid him.

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Speaker 8: Now, you said that turkey was big.

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Speaker 9: Weigh twenty three pounds, that's big for Eastern turkey, and spurring,

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Speaker 9: but had full hooks. Turkey hunters no called the limb

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Speaker 9: hanger four or five year old or spurs will hook

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Speaker 9: limb had two beards almost twelve inches. Both of them

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Speaker 9: look like a turkey hunters call up paint brush, big thick,

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Speaker 8: What year do you think that would have been?

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Speaker 9: Probably nineteen eighty. Pretty cool turkey. And I want to

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Speaker 9: excellent box call caller. Best don't believe I'll be heard,

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Speaker 9: but he said, let me show you a trick on

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Speaker 9: I've never heard of it, and a lot of people haven't.

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Speaker 9: But every turkey I kill a brain and bleed from

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Speaker 9: that day forward, to hang them upside down and go

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Speaker 9: on each side of their lower bill. Mihuld cut and

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Speaker 9: then stick your knife right through their brain straight up.

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Speaker 6: I thought that was pretty nat Now he hung.

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Speaker 5: Them to let them bleed, bleed out just so like

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Speaker 9: Right. He said, that makes the mere that they plucked

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Speaker 9: their turkeys. They don't skin them. He said that might

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Speaker 8: I've never heard anybody say that. They were coming to

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Speaker 9: Sal Yeah, that's that's serious. That's serious, advanced Gord.

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Speaker 2: If I hadn't foreshadowed the turkey bite in the intro,

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Speaker 2: I doubt you would have seen it coming. When's the

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Speaker 2: I don't think I've ever heard of it. If you

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Speaker 2: can't tell, Johnny's a character. And how about bleeding the turkey,

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Speaker 2: that's new to me. I appreciated that tip. The second

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Speaker 9: Eat a superhuman good man. And another little wild man's story.

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Speaker 9: We was over and country a little bit east and

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Speaker 9: that road, I'm sure of. I said, why men, get

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Speaker 9: where you shoot that road? And I started calling and

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Speaker 9: You've heard all that. The turkey can go anywhere he

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Speaker 9: wants to go. He's very mobile wings good leg. This

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Speaker 9: I watched them. They didn't come the road. And that's

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Speaker 9: the way he has set up to shoe. He was

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Speaker 9: he was leaned up against the clay root and the

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Speaker 9: That close, priest, don't lank from him. Now the how

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Speaker 9: He gainst you. I'm gonna make him fly. I didn't

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Speaker 9: have time to explain all this the wallman and I

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Speaker 9: Boom he shot straight up and boom he dropped. Yeah,

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Speaker 9: I run what I rug got the turkey. Will Man's

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Speaker 9: laying against the clay road holding his chail. Hey, he said,

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Speaker 9: don't ever do that to me again. Almost have a

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Speaker 8: So you scared him when you yelled.

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Speaker 9: I scared him when I screamed.

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Speaker 8: That's a good story.

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Speaker 9: That's good. That's the kind of turkey stories all I

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Speaker 8: That's a good stuff.

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Speaker 2: You You've told me two stories where you wanted a

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Speaker 9: There's times bending on where you're hunting brush briar. If

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Speaker 9: can't catch him. Our turkey will fly, the Rios, the

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Speaker 9: mariam they'll mostly run, but Eastern.

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Speaker 6: Is very mobile to there.

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Speaker 9: It go up and you will go straight up.

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Speaker 5: If you listen. Old Johnny'll teach you some stuff.

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Speaker 2: And it goes without saying that a turkey hunter's first

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Speaker 2: option obviously isn't to shoot a flying turkey. But I

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Speaker 2: guarant dog toe you that if you talk to any

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Speaker 2: as he's lived years on this earth, he's probably wingshot

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Speaker 2: one before, and you might as well have a strategy

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Speaker 2: for when it's the only option that you've got. Thank you,

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Speaker 2: mister Johnny, and hat tipped a wild man. We'll probably

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Speaker 2: be hearing more from Johnny in the months to come.

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Speaker 2: There's more to this story than what you've heard here.

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Speaker 2: Our next story is told by Andy Brown of Western Arkansas.

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Speaker 2: He needs no introduction and has become a fixture on

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Speaker 2: our turkey episodes. This is a short story with lots

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Speaker 2: of twists and turns.

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Speaker 3: One morning we went out here great and me and

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Speaker 3: a friend of mine, Dennis Ferguson. I don't know if

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Speaker 3: you ever did us. Me and Dennis went out there

441
00:24:18,640 --> 00:24:22,480
Speaker 3: one morning and I was in great shape. I mean

442
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Speaker 3: I could get around as good as anybody in the woods.

443
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Speaker 3: But anyway, we parked, we went back across the pavement

444
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Speaker 3: and we went we went north, back up the mountain.

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Speaker 3: There it started up a long leg and Dennis, we're

446
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Speaker 3: trying to get to the top of the mount and Dennis,

447
00:24:37,520 --> 00:24:41,399
Speaker 3: he just takes off and he just flat. This just

448
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Speaker 3: leaves me and I said, well, I ain't I mean

449
00:24:44,040 --> 00:24:46,480
Speaker 3: it's early. I said, I ain't got to kill myself

450
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Speaker 3: to get the top of the mountain. I'll get up there.

451
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Speaker 3: But I just stopped and leaned up against a tree

452
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Speaker 3: about three forces a way to the top, and I

453
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Speaker 3: was just sitting there, kind of catching my breath, and

454
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Speaker 3: all of a sudden, just right there a turkey gobbled

455
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Speaker 3: and Clay that turkey he was gobbling so low. I

456
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Speaker 3: don't know that you could have heard him at the road.

457
00:25:15,880 --> 00:25:23,480
Speaker 3: It just, I mean just really low. When he did,

458
00:25:23,520 --> 00:25:25,760
Speaker 3: I just slid down there by that tree with my

459
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Speaker 3: back to it, facing up hill. That turkey gobbled undoubtedly

460
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Speaker 3: one hundred and fifty times before daylight. Of course wouldn't

461
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Speaker 3: I wouldn't call him. I mean he was too close

462
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Speaker 3: to call. I mean, he wasn't sixty yards from me there.

463
00:25:44,160 --> 00:25:45,600
Speaker 3: I couldn't see him, but I mean he was just

464
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Speaker 3: right there in the head of a little o haller.

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Speaker 3: And so he kept a gobbling, kept a gobbling, and

466
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Speaker 3: all of a sudden I could hear something behind me

467
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Speaker 3: coming up that leg, just like me and Dennis had

468
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Speaker 3: walked in. Snip snap, snip snap, snip snap. And I

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Speaker 3: look over my shoulder and here comes a gray fox.

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Speaker 3: He's coming to that turkey, and I kind of waved

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Speaker 3: my arm at him like that, and he just kind

472
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Speaker 3: of looked at me and just stood there. Now, turkey

473
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Speaker 3: just gobble go. I wound up having to get a

474
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Speaker 3: pine limb and throw at that gray fox to run

475
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Speaker 3: him off. Well, I get him run off, he starts

476
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Speaker 3: getting light. Turkey he pitches out just right there, and

477
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Speaker 3: when he did, I called him. He gobbled right back

478
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Speaker 3: at me, and I just got my gun on him.

479
00:26:39,960 --> 00:26:43,359
Speaker 3: I mean, he's just right there. Drummings, just blowing my

480
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Speaker 3: just blowing my ears off. I mean he's close enough.

481
00:26:47,280 --> 00:26:50,120
Speaker 3: I hear him. I hear him suck wins is he's drumming,

482
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Speaker 3: and I've got my gun right here, and all of

483
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Speaker 3: a sudden, I looked right there in their years. I

484
00:26:57,359 --> 00:26:59,040
Speaker 3: don't know how he got there, but he did. I

485
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Speaker 3: mean a big one.

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Speaker 6: I mean that I had a rope on it.

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Speaker 3: And he's he's not thirty yards from me, but I

488
00:27:05,960 --> 00:27:09,760
Speaker 3: can't I can't move. I mean, he's and so he

489
00:27:09,840 --> 00:27:13,439
Speaker 3: kind of gets around out of my sight there, and

490
00:27:13,520 --> 00:27:16,280
Speaker 3: I called him in all the goblin. He gobbled and

491
00:27:16,320 --> 00:27:18,879
Speaker 3: gobble gobbled, but he was steady going up the mountain

492
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Speaker 3: away from him. Well, I knew I wasn't gonna call

493
00:27:22,359 --> 00:27:25,320
Speaker 3: him back. So he got out there and got the

494
00:27:25,359 --> 00:27:27,080
Speaker 3: kind of head of a big holler. I just pulled

495
00:27:27,119 --> 00:27:28,600
Speaker 3: that leg and went all the way to the top.

496
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Speaker 3: And when you got up on top of it, that

497
00:27:30,080 --> 00:27:33,479
Speaker 3: mountain on the north side of it, it's not twenty

498
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Speaker 3: five yards across. You just it's almost like you step

499
00:27:36,280 --> 00:27:38,000
Speaker 3: on one side, step over on the other, you know.

500
00:27:38,400 --> 00:27:40,399
Speaker 3: But there's a there's a little old brushy gap up

501
00:27:40,440 --> 00:27:43,159
Speaker 3: there and I walked up into that gap, and when

502
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Speaker 3: I got up in the gap, got my breath, I called,

503
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Speaker 3: and he gobbled right out on.

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Speaker 6: The knob just just east.

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Speaker 3: Of me, right there, and I slip out there, and

506
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Speaker 3: there's never forget this. There was a cedar tree and

507
00:27:56,880 --> 00:28:03,280
Speaker 3: I just walked up in that cedar tree and got

508
00:28:03,359 --> 00:28:05,719
Speaker 3: kind of stash there, and I called a turkey gobble,

509
00:28:05,720 --> 00:28:09,720
Speaker 3: real big ground. And I look out there and it's

510
00:28:09,760 --> 00:28:12,399
Speaker 3: still early, but I can see a redhead. I can

511
00:28:12,480 --> 00:28:15,520
Speaker 3: just see it out there, you know, And I said,

512
00:28:15,600 --> 00:28:18,400
Speaker 3: that's good enough. Right there, I just raised up through

513
00:28:18,400 --> 00:28:20,359
Speaker 3: that cedar tree and pulled the trigger. And what I

514
00:28:20,400 --> 00:28:24,880
Speaker 3: did is a turkey fluent went south off the mountain there,

515
00:28:25,640 --> 00:28:28,240
Speaker 3: and that one was flopping. And of course I'm patting

516
00:28:28,280 --> 00:28:30,000
Speaker 3: myself on the shoulder. And I walked out there and

517
00:28:30,040 --> 00:28:35,840
Speaker 3: I'd killed a big old jake. Didn't even kill the

518
00:28:35,840 --> 00:28:37,679
Speaker 3: big god right, killed a big old jake. Because I

519
00:28:37,720 --> 00:28:38,920
Speaker 3: was really disappointed that now.

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Speaker 8: I don't know if I'm ever gonna run you out of.

521
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Speaker 4: It.

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Speaker 2: Takes a lot of things going right to kill a

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Speaker 2: long bearded gobbler. And just to clarify, back in the day,

524
00:28:52,360 --> 00:28:55,600
Speaker 2: killing a jake was legal in Arkansas, so beard checking

525
00:28:55,640 --> 00:28:58,200
Speaker 2: wasn't a necessity like it is today because you can't

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Speaker 2: choose Jase today. But that was a good story, Andy,

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Speaker 2: We appreciate it. But now we're in for a real

528
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Speaker 2: treat because our next story is told by none other

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Speaker 2: than Med Palmer from Capia County, Mississippi. And if you

530
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Speaker 2: just heard the way that people that know Med talked

531
00:29:18,000 --> 00:29:20,560
Speaker 2: about him, you think he was ten feet tall and

532
00:29:20,560 --> 00:29:22,880
Speaker 2: his daddy was a gobbler turkey and his mama was

533
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Speaker 2: a red fox. But in this story, we'll see that

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00:29:28,200 --> 00:29:32,760
Speaker 2: Med is just a mortal turkey hunter, not superhuman, and

535
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Speaker 2: he puts on and takes off his pants just like

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Speaker 2: the rest of us.

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Speaker 4: My name's may Had Palmer on Papya County, Mississippi. We

538
00:29:43,640 --> 00:29:48,040
Speaker 4: started traveling turkey hunting several years ago, going to other states,

539
00:29:48,080 --> 00:29:50,520
Speaker 4: you know, and joined Pretty Country and we've been going

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Speaker 4: out west for a couple of years. And it was

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Speaker 4: me and my brother, my nephew. So we get back

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Speaker 4: same place my nephew and my brother had tagged down.

543
00:30:00,400 --> 00:30:02,640
Speaker 4: It was almost the same scenario. Was a year before

544
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Speaker 4: we was going down to the last day we were

545
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Speaker 4: gonna leave. That day and I had to pay on

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Speaker 4: my tag, and we had.

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Speaker 8: Tried a couple of spots. We got on a bird.

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Speaker 4: He got henned up and I told him, I said,

549
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Speaker 4: let's go back down to that spot where my gun's naw.

550
00:30:16,800 --> 00:30:18,640
Speaker 4: I said, I bet that bird's still there. And they

551
00:30:18,680 --> 00:30:22,440
Speaker 4: started laughing and my brother said, look, I didn't tag down.

552
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Speaker 4: I'm not climbing that mountain again like I did last year.

553
00:30:25,440 --> 00:30:27,440
Speaker 4: My nephew said, I'm with you. Said if he gobbles,

554
00:30:27,480 --> 00:30:31,280
Speaker 4: I'll go with you. So we get there and I yep,

555
00:30:31,360 --> 00:30:34,840
Speaker 4: and a hen yep, and I said, I said he's there.

556
00:30:35,360 --> 00:30:36,840
Speaker 4: And they were sitting in the truck. I told my

557
00:30:36,920 --> 00:30:37,760
Speaker 4: nephew said, come here.

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00:30:37,920 --> 00:30:38,560
Speaker 6: He said, what is it.

559
00:30:38,600 --> 00:30:40,240
Speaker 4: I said, A hen, just yep. I said that God

560
00:30:40,360 --> 00:30:41,960
Speaker 4: was there. He said you here, and I said, oh,

561
00:30:42,080 --> 00:30:45,360
Speaker 4: he's with that hen now Yet again he didn't God.

562
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Speaker 4: I told him he's got a slate. It's just you know,

563
00:30:48,200 --> 00:30:50,560
Speaker 4: some calls just had that tongue on Turkey's love. I said,

564
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Speaker 4: get your slate and call I said, cut on, and

565
00:30:53,080 --> 00:30:55,720
Speaker 4: he cut that turkey gob My brother went, oh my god.

566
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Speaker 4: He said, I'm gonna have to go with you. It

567
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Speaker 4: was the same place that that turkey was last year.

568
00:31:01,640 --> 00:31:05,200
Speaker 4: So up the mountain we go, and it's freezing cold,

569
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Speaker 4: and I get on top of a peak on that

570
00:31:07,920 --> 00:31:10,720
Speaker 4: mountain and it's a steep drop off down to the

571
00:31:10,800 --> 00:31:13,840
Speaker 4: river bottoms where the turkeys in this big bottom. But

572
00:31:13,880 --> 00:31:15,680
Speaker 4: it's got I don't know if it's button whillers or

573
00:31:15,680 --> 00:31:17,720
Speaker 4: what those bushes are, but they don't look they high

574
00:31:17,800 --> 00:31:20,160
Speaker 4: till you get in them. And as I opened pockets

575
00:31:20,160 --> 00:31:22,320
Speaker 4: out there with that turkey was flying down getting in

576
00:31:22,400 --> 00:31:24,720
Speaker 4: my open pockets with the hens is what he's doing.

577
00:31:25,400 --> 00:31:27,520
Speaker 4: So we get on tope of the mountain. I yep,

578
00:31:27,560 --> 00:31:29,200
Speaker 4: the turkey gobb but I said, well, he's still on

579
00:31:29,240 --> 00:31:31,400
Speaker 4: the roof. I said, we got time to get to

580
00:31:31,480 --> 00:31:35,080
Speaker 4: that bottom, and so we start going. We get up

581
00:31:35,080 --> 00:31:37,760
Speaker 4: to the next peak, which is probably three hundred yards.

582
00:31:38,280 --> 00:31:41,200
Speaker 4: I reached from my snuff can. It's not in my pocket.

583
00:31:42,040 --> 00:31:44,800
Speaker 4: I had lost my call. I've had that snuf can.

584
00:31:44,880 --> 00:31:47,640
Speaker 4: I made it when I was eleven years old. I said,

585
00:31:47,640 --> 00:31:49,840
Speaker 4: we got to find that call. They said, what I said,

586
00:31:49,880 --> 00:31:51,440
Speaker 4: I don't lost my call. I said, you're joking.

587
00:31:51,480 --> 00:31:51,800
Speaker 8: I said no.

588
00:31:51,880 --> 00:31:55,080
Speaker 4: So we walked back and trail ourselves through that grass.

589
00:31:55,080 --> 00:31:57,160
Speaker 4: We'd walked in. You could to the deck, grass were dead.

590
00:31:57,800 --> 00:31:59,960
Speaker 4: Get to where I'd call where I knew I had it.

591
00:32:00,120 --> 00:32:02,440
Speaker 4: We ain't found it, and I was just sick. I said,

592
00:32:02,480 --> 00:32:04,280
Speaker 4: oh my Lord, I said, went one lost this kind,

593
00:32:04,360 --> 00:32:06,680
Speaker 4: I said, I have called every turkey I ever called

594
00:32:06,720 --> 00:32:07,080
Speaker 4: my life.

595
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Speaker 8: With this call.

596
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Speaker 4: We start coming back. Me and my nephew are walking

597
00:32:10,840 --> 00:32:12,840
Speaker 4: side by side. My brother gets tired and he sits

598
00:32:12,880 --> 00:32:15,720
Speaker 4: on a rock and then he whistles. I turned around.

599
00:32:15,960 --> 00:32:18,040
Speaker 4: It was under his feet when he sat down on rock.

600
00:32:18,080 --> 00:32:21,000
Speaker 4: I could have hugged his neck when he anyway, so

601
00:32:21,160 --> 00:32:25,480
Speaker 4: we get the call. I yep, the turkey's donet flown

602
00:32:25,560 --> 00:32:28,880
Speaker 4: down by now after all this ordeal. So he God

603
00:32:29,040 --> 00:32:30,920
Speaker 4: was more to our right in that bottom, I said,

604
00:32:31,040 --> 00:32:34,160
Speaker 4: I said, he's swinging around that bottom. Well, we went

605
00:32:34,240 --> 00:32:37,160
Speaker 4: down the mountain, got in a swag across the little ditch,

606
00:32:37,200 --> 00:32:39,080
Speaker 4: and when I come up, they grabbed me. Said there

607
00:32:39,120 --> 00:32:41,120
Speaker 4: he is right there, and I said, I don't see it.

608
00:32:41,240 --> 00:32:42,920
Speaker 4: Well I could see him because I was lower than that.

609
00:32:43,440 --> 00:32:45,600
Speaker 4: The God was about thirty yards had done come up

610
00:32:45,680 --> 00:32:49,800
Speaker 4: on a little noe right there, come upside of that mountain. Well,

611
00:32:49,840 --> 00:32:51,760
Speaker 4: I didn't realize what that call weather could do to

612
00:32:51,800 --> 00:32:55,480
Speaker 4: little batteries. When I throwed up, I barely could see

613
00:32:55,480 --> 00:33:01,680
Speaker 4: the bead on that God. Well, I shoot a turkey roll. Well,

614
00:33:01,720 --> 00:33:03,880
Speaker 4: I didn't have but two shells in my gun. I

615
00:33:03,920 --> 00:33:05,400
Speaker 4: don't know why I didn't put three that day, but

616
00:33:05,440 --> 00:33:08,560
Speaker 4: I didn't. Well, he takes off my pump and now

617
00:33:08,560 --> 00:33:10,600
Speaker 4: the dot's completely gone, so I'm having to shoot the

618
00:33:10,800 --> 00:33:11,440
Speaker 4: thing like I do.

619
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Speaker 5: Dub at him, and my.

620
00:33:13,280 --> 00:33:15,560
Speaker 4: Nephew said, shoot him again. I said, I'm out of shell.

621
00:33:15,720 --> 00:33:18,280
Speaker 4: So he takes off running. Well, the turkey's flopping going

622
00:33:18,400 --> 00:33:22,440
Speaker 4: upside of the mount. Well, I take off well around

623
00:33:22,440 --> 00:33:24,400
Speaker 4: the bend and they get to the peak of the

624
00:33:24,440 --> 00:33:27,680
Speaker 4: mountain and my nephew's gaining on the turkey and it's

625
00:33:28,840 --> 00:33:32,080
Speaker 4: opening up. There's a big, huge drop off and it

626
00:33:32,200 --> 00:33:36,480
Speaker 4: goes across this big bottom which is probably three hundred yards,

627
00:33:36,520 --> 00:33:40,280
Speaker 4: and then there's the river, and the river it's rolling

628
00:33:40,400 --> 00:33:44,959
Speaker 4: and it's probably two hundred and fifty yards across at

629
00:33:45,080 --> 00:33:48,640
Speaker 4: least that. When he gets right to the ledge, my

630
00:33:48,760 --> 00:33:52,040
Speaker 4: nephew dives at the turkey and almost caught it by

631
00:33:52,080 --> 00:33:55,680
Speaker 4: the tail. And that turkey lunges makes one lunch. He

632
00:33:55,760 --> 00:33:58,040
Speaker 4: don't flout, but he sails off the top of that

633
00:33:58,120 --> 00:34:02,760
Speaker 4: mountain and he's selling across. He goes across at bottom

634
00:34:02,960 --> 00:34:07,600
Speaker 4: several hundred yards, goes across that river several hundred yards.

635
00:34:07,880 --> 00:34:09,800
Speaker 4: Me and my nephew just stand there and I'm sick.

636
00:34:10,800 --> 00:34:13,760
Speaker 4: He's probably twenty five or thirty yards off the ground,

637
00:34:13,840 --> 00:34:16,319
Speaker 4: and all of a sudden, he folds like you a

638
00:34:16,400 --> 00:34:20,360
Speaker 4: shot dub. He just folds up and drops for dead.

639
00:34:21,160 --> 00:34:23,040
Speaker 4: My nephew looked at me, he said that he just

640
00:34:23,160 --> 00:34:26,440
Speaker 4: fall I said, lock a rock. I said, give me

641
00:34:26,440 --> 00:34:29,480
Speaker 4: your binoclears. I wouldn't take my office spot. I get

642
00:34:29,520 --> 00:34:32,239
Speaker 4: his binoclears and I look through there and he just

643
00:34:32,320 --> 00:34:37,439
Speaker 4: laying there, wings spread out, head flop down, graveyard dead.

644
00:34:38,120 --> 00:34:39,759
Speaker 4: And we had washed him from I said, we need

645
00:34:39,800 --> 00:34:42,440
Speaker 4: to watch him. And I gotta get a good pinpoint

646
00:34:42,480 --> 00:34:44,359
Speaker 4: because I don't know how in the world I'm gonna

647
00:34:44,360 --> 00:34:46,399
Speaker 4: get over and get to him. I said, I got

648
00:34:46,400 --> 00:34:48,239
Speaker 4: a dead turkey. I got to get to him. I

649
00:34:48,239 --> 00:34:51,359
Speaker 4: can't leave him there. And I told my nephew, I said,

650
00:34:51,360 --> 00:34:53,000
Speaker 4: I wish we had that air mak well. I was

651
00:34:53,000 --> 00:34:54,960
Speaker 4: take an air mattress. I said, I wish we had that

652
00:34:55,040 --> 00:34:58,080
Speaker 4: air mattress. From the motel. He said it's in the truck.

653
00:34:58,600 --> 00:35:00,600
Speaker 4: So we decided, well, that's what gonna do. I said,

654
00:35:00,600 --> 00:35:03,440
Speaker 4: I'm gonna use that air mattress. We got to find

655
00:35:03,440 --> 00:35:05,640
Speaker 4: a paddle so weed them all around, and we found

656
00:35:05,640 --> 00:35:08,120
Speaker 4: a little ottle piece of wood. It was probably about

657
00:35:08,320 --> 00:35:11,359
Speaker 4: three inches wide and it was broke off the top.

658
00:35:11,440 --> 00:35:13,959
Speaker 4: I said, it's almost like a boat paddle. That's good enough.

659
00:35:14,000 --> 00:35:15,759
Speaker 4: I said, it won't be much, but that don't get

660
00:35:15,800 --> 00:35:19,359
Speaker 4: me across. I said, y'all toke the air mattress down there.

661
00:35:19,520 --> 00:35:22,360
Speaker 4: I'm gonna go on and start taking clothes off because

662
00:35:22,440 --> 00:35:23,279
Speaker 4: I'm gonna have to.

663
00:35:23,640 --> 00:35:24,480
Speaker 8: You know, it was shallow.

664
00:35:24,520 --> 00:35:26,680
Speaker 4: I'm gonna have to push this thing through that shallow

665
00:35:26,880 --> 00:35:29,320
Speaker 4: to get out there. So they got it down there.

666
00:35:29,960 --> 00:35:31,920
Speaker 4: So I'm in my underwear, I got a jacket on

667
00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:34,360
Speaker 4: with my boots in the back, and I start pushing

668
00:35:34,360 --> 00:35:37,520
Speaker 4: this big old thing across and the wind blowing like crazy,

669
00:35:37,719 --> 00:35:39,680
Speaker 4: and it's trying to blow this thing and anyway. I

670
00:35:39,719 --> 00:35:41,640
Speaker 4: finally get to where it gets up above my knees.

671
00:35:41,680 --> 00:35:43,040
Speaker 4: I said, I got to get on this thing now.

672
00:35:43,080 --> 00:35:44,160
Speaker 4: And I could see the channel.

673
00:35:44,280 --> 00:35:44,879
Speaker 8: It was dark.

674
00:35:45,400 --> 00:35:48,440
Speaker 4: I said, there's the channel, and this things rolling. So

675
00:35:48,640 --> 00:35:50,520
Speaker 4: I jump up on there. And when I do, when

676
00:35:50,560 --> 00:35:52,239
Speaker 4: I tell you, I took off. I said, I'm gonna

677
00:35:52,239 --> 00:35:54,120
Speaker 4: be at the Mississippi River and a couple of hours

678
00:35:54,160 --> 00:35:56,640
Speaker 4: away out I start paddling with that little stick and

679
00:35:56,680 --> 00:35:59,479
Speaker 4: the wind blowing. Well, it started shooting me to the bank.

680
00:35:59,520 --> 00:36:02,879
Speaker 4: It worked out great. So I got over there, got

681
00:36:02,920 --> 00:36:05,520
Speaker 4: out of it. Now I'm in my underwear. I ain't

682
00:36:05,520 --> 00:36:08,439
Speaker 4: got no pants. And then it dawned on me. I said,

683
00:36:08,560 --> 00:36:11,359
Speaker 4: what is this gonna look like if ILL come up

684
00:36:11,400 --> 00:36:16,000
Speaker 4: on another hunter me in my underwear? I said, well,

685
00:36:16,080 --> 00:36:17,799
Speaker 4: it is what it is. You know. I got to

686
00:36:17,800 --> 00:36:20,320
Speaker 4: go try to get this turkey. So I had marked

687
00:36:20,360 --> 00:36:22,600
Speaker 4: me a big tree behind what the turkey was. So

688
00:36:22,680 --> 00:36:24,520
Speaker 4: I got about forty yards in that tree. I said,

689
00:36:24,520 --> 00:36:25,960
Speaker 4: all right, that turkey's gonna be right out here to

690
00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:28,239
Speaker 4: the left. And I got about thirty yards where that

691
00:36:28,280 --> 00:36:30,239
Speaker 4: turkey supposed to be. And he jumps up, and he

692
00:36:30,320 --> 00:36:32,880
Speaker 4: jumped up like a rocket, like wasn't nothing wrong, and

693
00:36:32,960 --> 00:36:35,279
Speaker 4: he takes off. Well, I shoot him and roll it,

694
00:36:36,120 --> 00:36:38,960
Speaker 4: and then he cuts and goes in the woods and

695
00:36:39,040 --> 00:36:40,799
Speaker 4: he flops down in the middle of it with his

696
00:36:40,880 --> 00:36:44,640
Speaker 4: head and I said, all right, I gotta get this

697
00:36:44,719 --> 00:36:47,560
Speaker 4: tree between me and him because he can't run again,

698
00:36:47,600 --> 00:36:48,480
Speaker 4: because I'm gonna lose it.

699
00:36:49,120 --> 00:36:50,360
Speaker 8: And I start crawling.

700
00:36:50,480 --> 00:36:53,439
Speaker 4: Well about the time I crawled up there, I got

701
00:36:53,440 --> 00:36:55,400
Speaker 4: probably about fifteen yards from him. I was gonna lean

702
00:36:55,440 --> 00:36:58,520
Speaker 4: out behind that tree, shoot him in head, finish him off. Well,

703
00:36:58,560 --> 00:37:01,120
Speaker 4: it was some limbs there. Well, all by time I

704
00:37:01,200 --> 00:37:05,200
Speaker 4: start leaning over, a stick goes through my underwear and

705
00:37:05,320 --> 00:37:07,640
Speaker 4: gets hung up in it. And now I can't move

706
00:37:07,719 --> 00:37:09,560
Speaker 4: and I can't and now he throws his head up.

707
00:37:09,719 --> 00:37:10,360
Speaker 1: He sees me.

708
00:37:10,560 --> 00:37:13,680
Speaker 4: So I just leaned over, riped my underwear when I did,

709
00:37:14,440 --> 00:37:16,480
Speaker 4: and he jumps up. When he does, I shoot him

710
00:37:16,520 --> 00:37:21,560
Speaker 4: and kill him. So anyway, a turkey hunter do what

711
00:37:21,600 --> 00:37:22,000
Speaker 4: it takes.

712
00:37:22,040 --> 00:37:22,520
Speaker 8: I reckon.

713
00:37:23,080 --> 00:37:25,600
Speaker 4: That's probably one of the most unusual hunts I ever

714
00:37:25,680 --> 00:37:28,239
Speaker 4: had in my life.

715
00:37:29,080 --> 00:37:31,839
Speaker 2: That's a good story mad and shows the links that

716
00:37:31,840 --> 00:37:39,719
Speaker 2: the turkey hunter will go to get his bird. Our

717
00:37:39,760 --> 00:37:43,960
Speaker 2: next story is told by a turkey hunting author. She's

718
00:37:44,000 --> 00:37:47,279
Speaker 2: written a book. Her name is Sarah Clark. This is

719
00:37:47,400 --> 00:37:50,279
Speaker 2: Don Clark's wife from the first story, the one who

720
00:37:50,400 --> 00:37:53,160
Speaker 2: shot that gobbler out of the air when her husband

721
00:37:53,239 --> 00:37:56,480
Speaker 2: was scratching a big circle in the leaves. You know,

722
00:37:56,960 --> 00:38:02,480
Speaker 2: she wrote this book called Clarkett True Turkey Tales, and

723
00:38:02,880 --> 00:38:04,960
Speaker 2: this is one of her favorite stories.

724
00:38:05,400 --> 00:38:08,120
Speaker 5: I'd like to introduce you to Miss Sarah Clark.

725
00:38:10,360 --> 00:38:13,400
Speaker 10: This is Sarah Clark, and I'm from Sheridan, Arkansas, and

726
00:38:13,400 --> 00:38:16,240
Speaker 10: I'm gonna tell you a story that happened. I'll probably

727
00:38:16,280 --> 00:38:20,239
Speaker 10: about twenty ten. I'd been hunting a long time with

728
00:38:20,320 --> 00:38:23,920
Speaker 10: my husband. He taught me all the tricks to turkey hunting.

729
00:38:24,560 --> 00:38:27,920
Speaker 10: In fact, i'd gotten to where I understood where I

730
00:38:28,160 --> 00:38:31,040
Speaker 10: needed to go, how I needed to handle a turkey,

731
00:38:31,120 --> 00:38:33,399
Speaker 10: and just kind of got kind of arrogant, I guess

732
00:38:33,480 --> 00:38:36,640
Speaker 10: about it. But anyway, I started hunting on my own

733
00:38:36,680 --> 00:38:40,239
Speaker 10: a lot, and my sister in law came to me

734
00:38:40,280 --> 00:38:42,120
Speaker 10: one time talking about how she would love to hunt.

735
00:38:42,160 --> 00:38:45,799
Speaker 10: She never hunted turkey, and so we decided to make

736
00:38:45,840 --> 00:38:47,040
Speaker 10: a hunt and we went.

737
00:38:47,280 --> 00:38:48,239
Speaker 6: We were We hunted a.

738
00:38:48,239 --> 00:38:52,080
Speaker 10: Lot and washing tall mountains. I knew all the crooks

739
00:38:52,080 --> 00:38:53,759
Speaker 10: and grannies, I knew where the roads end.

740
00:38:54,000 --> 00:38:54,200
Speaker 9: You know.

741
00:38:54,239 --> 00:38:56,840
Speaker 10: We just hunted it so much that I became I

742
00:38:56,920 --> 00:39:01,080
Speaker 10: knew where I was going. Anyways, she didn't so and

743
00:39:01,160 --> 00:39:04,520
Speaker 10: she didn't call, and I did. So we partnered up

744
00:39:04,640 --> 00:39:07,200
Speaker 10: as a team and I got to where We went

745
00:39:07,239 --> 00:39:11,000
Speaker 10: a lot times together. We had our little rituals that

746
00:39:11,080 --> 00:39:14,239
Speaker 10: we did. She took care of the organizing and I

747
00:39:14,719 --> 00:39:17,239
Speaker 10: did the guiding. But she had made sure we had

748
00:39:17,320 --> 00:39:19,719
Speaker 10: toilet paper, we had something to snack on if it

749
00:39:19,760 --> 00:39:23,520
Speaker 10: was a long day anyway, So we decided to go

750
00:39:23,640 --> 00:39:27,880
Speaker 10: early one morning and before daylight we got there. Instead

751
00:39:27,880 --> 00:39:30,239
Speaker 10: of staying at the truck, which she wanted to do,

752
00:39:30,400 --> 00:39:32,120
Speaker 10: I said, let's just go down a little ways and

753
00:39:32,480 --> 00:39:34,320
Speaker 10: go down that curve and get the truck out of

754
00:39:34,360 --> 00:39:38,040
Speaker 10: our site. So we eased down that road. Of course

755
00:39:38,040 --> 00:39:40,719
Speaker 10: I was in the lead, and we got right to

756
00:39:41,120 --> 00:39:43,319
Speaker 10: a curve and got out of sight and said, as

757
00:39:43,320 --> 00:39:47,800
Speaker 10: we just got around that curve, all of a sudden, gosh,

758
00:39:47,840 --> 00:39:49,759
Speaker 10: we looked at each other and both said a dirty word.

759
00:39:50,719 --> 00:39:54,040
Speaker 10: And then we decided she was just shaking her head,

760
00:39:54,040 --> 00:39:57,520
Speaker 10: and I said, well, let's just let's stay here right here.

761
00:39:57,560 --> 00:40:00,680
Speaker 10: It's okay. There's probably more than one. And about that time,

762
00:40:00,719 --> 00:40:03,440
Speaker 10: fly fly, fright flop, another big old turkey flu. We

763
00:40:03,480 --> 00:40:06,160
Speaker 10: could hear it going through the up high in the woods.

764
00:40:06,520 --> 00:40:08,239
Speaker 10: So I said, look, I know what we can do.

765
00:40:08,280 --> 00:40:11,080
Speaker 10: We can drive around and get on the other side

766
00:40:11,080 --> 00:40:13,920
Speaker 10: and we'll get we can get in there close to him. Well,

767
00:40:13,920 --> 00:40:15,760
Speaker 10: we got around there to the place where I thought,

768
00:40:16,320 --> 00:40:19,160
Speaker 10: and I said, it's not that far, and so here

769
00:40:19,160 --> 00:40:22,640
Speaker 10: we go. And we had to cross three different little branches,

770
00:40:22,680 --> 00:40:24,840
Speaker 10: and on that third one, she looked at me like,

771
00:40:24,920 --> 00:40:27,400
Speaker 10: good lord, how much further we have to go? And

772
00:40:27,440 --> 00:40:30,080
Speaker 10: I said, just a little bit further, So here we go.

773
00:40:30,239 --> 00:40:32,560
Speaker 10: When we got to a place and I got my

774
00:40:32,600 --> 00:40:37,360
Speaker 10: little uh, well, my mouth called and nothing, nothing answered.

775
00:40:37,560 --> 00:40:39,280
Speaker 10: I said, we get let's go a little bit further,

776
00:40:40,000 --> 00:40:42,520
Speaker 10: and I got out my little slate, a little sweet

777
00:40:42,600 --> 00:40:48,000
Speaker 10: slate call and did a pretty loud call, and the

778
00:40:48,040 --> 00:40:49,960
Speaker 10: turkey just answered real quick, and he's at the top

779
00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:53,120
Speaker 10: of that mountain on the left. Well, so we quickly

780
00:40:54,000 --> 00:40:55,680
Speaker 10: made our plan, and I said, let's get over here

781
00:40:55,719 --> 00:40:58,240
Speaker 10: on the right hand side and pretty close to the

782
00:40:58,320 --> 00:41:02,440
Speaker 10: road and maybe we can call it down. So we

783
00:41:02,480 --> 00:41:04,879
Speaker 10: got a founder tree that we could sit at, and

784
00:41:05,120 --> 00:41:08,560
Speaker 10: she's we've got our partner. Thing is that we find

785
00:41:08,560 --> 00:41:11,560
Speaker 10: a tree and we'd say that's twelve o'clock. So if

786
00:41:12,320 --> 00:41:14,400
Speaker 10: one of us sees the turkey and the other one doesn't,

787
00:41:14,440 --> 00:41:16,799
Speaker 10: we can say kid's coming in at nine o'clock, were

788
00:41:16,840 --> 00:41:19,000
Speaker 10: coming in at three o'clock, and that helps us to

789
00:41:19,000 --> 00:41:22,600
Speaker 10: figure out where we are. I, since I've already killed

790
00:41:22,800 --> 00:41:25,640
Speaker 10: several turkeys, she had not killed the one yet, and

791
00:41:25,719 --> 00:41:28,319
Speaker 10: so I put her face in the road and I

792
00:41:28,360 --> 00:41:32,040
Speaker 10: got over to her side parallel with my legs parallel

793
00:41:32,080 --> 00:41:36,880
Speaker 10: to the road and anyway. So the turkey was steadily gobbling.

794
00:41:36,920 --> 00:41:38,920
Speaker 10: It was steadily coming to us. It's coming down the

795
00:41:39,000 --> 00:41:42,040
Speaker 10: hill the mountain, and I said, now, please let it come.

796
00:41:42,440 --> 00:41:44,600
Speaker 10: It's got all ways to come. I said, just keep

797
00:41:44,680 --> 00:41:47,000
Speaker 10: letting it come, Just keep letting it come. Will it

798
00:41:47,040 --> 00:41:49,400
Speaker 10: come on? And it was getting close to the creek,

799
00:41:49,960 --> 00:41:53,759
Speaker 10: and about that time, on my right eye, I saw

800
00:41:53,800 --> 00:41:56,759
Speaker 10: a whitehead coming. I said, wait a minute, ladies, wait

801
00:41:56,760 --> 00:41:59,400
Speaker 10: a minute, there's another one coming. It's a big old

802
00:41:59,440 --> 00:42:02,600
Speaker 10: gobbler coming down the same mountain, but coming at angling

803
00:42:02,719 --> 00:42:05,680
Speaker 10: a different way. I said, maybe we can double and

804
00:42:05,760 --> 00:42:09,200
Speaker 10: so and I said, you you still got your eye

805
00:42:09,239 --> 00:42:09,800
Speaker 10: on that turkey.

806
00:42:09,800 --> 00:42:12,080
Speaker 6: He said, yeah, I got I can see it.

807
00:42:12,280 --> 00:42:14,600
Speaker 10: And she had that gun aimed at that circuit. She said, well,

808
00:42:14,640 --> 00:42:17,719
Speaker 10: let's crossing the creek. And finally I was able to

809
00:42:17,719 --> 00:42:20,760
Speaker 10: start seeing her turkey, and it started crossing the creek

810
00:42:21,040 --> 00:42:23,479
Speaker 10: and then here come mine. I said, now, wait, wait,

811
00:42:23,560 --> 00:42:26,000
Speaker 10: let it get across the creek. So it crossed the

812
00:42:26,000 --> 00:42:28,319
Speaker 10: creek and it was working on up in there, and

813
00:42:28,400 --> 00:42:32,480
Speaker 10: finally mine got to the creek and she said, galls

814
00:42:32,480 --> 00:42:34,760
Speaker 10: shoot now, and I said, wait, let mine get across

815
00:42:34,800 --> 00:42:36,600
Speaker 10: the creek, because I knew it would be a long

816
00:42:36,600 --> 00:42:40,839
Speaker 10: shot for me too. And mine got to where I could.

817
00:42:40,920 --> 00:42:42,839
Speaker 10: I thought, okay, I can shoot now. I said, are

818
00:42:42,880 --> 00:42:44,600
Speaker 10: you are able to shoot? And she said yeah yeah,

819
00:42:44,800 --> 00:42:47,560
Speaker 10: And I said I'll count to three. So I said,

820
00:42:47,840 --> 00:42:53,760
Speaker 10: on the count of three, shoot and so I said one, two, boom.

821
00:42:54,000 --> 00:42:56,800
Speaker 10: She shot, and then I boom, and then she shot again, boom,

822
00:42:57,920 --> 00:43:02,080
Speaker 10: and hers took flight. What happened, and of course we

823
00:43:02,120 --> 00:43:04,359
Speaker 10: both took off running. She knew that to get into

824
00:43:04,400 --> 00:43:06,400
Speaker 10: her turkey. I took off run and got to my

825
00:43:06,440 --> 00:43:09,600
Speaker 10: turkey and put my foot on its head, and she

826
00:43:09,800 --> 00:43:12,320
Speaker 10: was over there and she had body slammed that turkey

827
00:43:12,480 --> 00:43:14,560
Speaker 10: on the second shot she hit it, and she was

828
00:43:14,640 --> 00:43:17,440
Speaker 10: laying on that turkey. I mean all her whole body

829
00:43:17,520 --> 00:43:21,719
Speaker 10: was covering that turkey. Anyway, the woods, you just if

830
00:43:21,719 --> 00:43:24,279
Speaker 10: the turkey hunter had been around there, there's no way

831
00:43:24,320 --> 00:43:26,759
Speaker 10: they would have kept on nothing because it was like

832
00:43:26,800 --> 00:43:28,440
Speaker 10: the cry of the Tara doc though.

833
00:43:28,520 --> 00:43:29,120
Speaker 8: We were just.

834
00:43:29,360 --> 00:43:32,479
Speaker 10: Hollering and screaming and laughing and couldn't. And we told

835
00:43:32,480 --> 00:43:35,160
Speaker 10: that story to each other ten times before we left

836
00:43:35,200 --> 00:43:38,280
Speaker 10: the woods. But we both got our turkeys. We doubled

837
00:43:38,400 --> 00:43:40,759
Speaker 10: and that was our first turkey. So it was a

838
00:43:40,880 --> 00:43:41,839
Speaker 10: great day.

839
00:43:45,040 --> 00:43:47,640
Speaker 2: What a privilege it was to hear that story. For

840
00:43:47,760 --> 00:43:50,720
Speaker 2: miss Sarah. It's really hard to pull off a double

841
00:43:51,160 --> 00:43:54,680
Speaker 2: and those two did it in style. Thanks for sharing

842
00:43:54,719 --> 00:43:59,640
Speaker 2: the story, and don't forget about her book Clarket True

843
00:43:59,640 --> 00:44:06,960
Speaker 2: Turkey Tales by Sarah Clark. Our next story is told

844
00:44:07,040 --> 00:44:10,640
Speaker 2: by a young man. He's nineteen years old, and by

845
00:44:10,719 --> 00:44:13,160
Speaker 2: means of the fate of his birth date and the

846
00:44:13,200 --> 00:44:16,959
Speaker 2: state that he lives in, he's never really experienced any

847
00:44:17,040 --> 00:44:20,560
Speaker 2: glory days of turkey hunting. His father took him turkey

848
00:44:20,600 --> 00:44:24,080
Speaker 2: hunting every year since he was six years old, but honestly,

849
00:44:24,560 --> 00:44:27,400
Speaker 2: they didn't get on a lot of birds around their home.

850
00:44:28,200 --> 00:44:31,960
Speaker 2: Though he's killed a few, this lack of birds hasn't

851
00:44:32,000 --> 00:44:36,200
Speaker 2: altered though his trajectory of being well on his way

852
00:44:36,400 --> 00:44:41,400
Speaker 2: to becoming a dinoh Woppin' turkey thumping good turkey hunter.

853
00:44:42,160 --> 00:44:45,200
Speaker 2: This young man's name is Bear John Newcomb, and I'm

854
00:44:45,200 --> 00:44:50,480
Speaker 2: the boy's father. But on this high pressured public land

855
00:44:50,520 --> 00:44:54,200
Speaker 2: turkey hunt, Bear John sure didn't need any.

856
00:44:54,000 --> 00:44:54,520
Speaker 8: Help from me.

857
00:44:56,640 --> 00:44:59,279
Speaker 11: So I'm bar Nukembe And this is a story that

858
00:44:59,320 --> 00:45:02,280
Speaker 11: happened the last So I was hunting a big section

859
00:45:02,400 --> 00:45:03,480
Speaker 11: of public ground.

860
00:45:04,200 --> 00:45:05,720
Speaker 8: There was a lot of pressure, a lot of people.

861
00:45:05,800 --> 00:45:07,600
Speaker 11: But I'd found some turkeys down on the bottom of

862
00:45:07,640 --> 00:45:11,399
Speaker 11: this big holler, and the first three days I was,

863
00:45:11,520 --> 00:45:13,880
Speaker 11: I was on their tails. I was I got close

864
00:45:13,920 --> 00:45:17,319
Speaker 11: a couple of times, and I had them kind of

865
00:45:17,360 --> 00:45:20,480
Speaker 11: honed in. I knew right where they were and what

866
00:45:20,520 --> 00:45:22,960
Speaker 11: they would do every day after they'd come off the roost.

867
00:45:23,440 --> 00:45:24,720
Speaker 8: But I kept running into people.

868
00:45:25,520 --> 00:45:28,279
Speaker 11: I'd be chasing a turkey and then I'd run into

869
00:45:28,320 --> 00:45:30,399
Speaker 11: another person or someone would come in from the other side.

870
00:45:30,400 --> 00:45:32,839
Speaker 11: So there was just a lot of pressure, and they

871
00:45:32,880 --> 00:45:36,279
Speaker 11: just were getting less and less responsive to calling. So

872
00:45:36,360 --> 00:45:39,279
Speaker 11: the fourth day of season comes around and I'd just been,

873
00:45:39,400 --> 00:45:41,400
Speaker 11: you know, living out in the woods at this point,

874
00:45:41,840 --> 00:45:44,760
Speaker 11: and there was a road that led down this mountain

875
00:45:44,800 --> 00:45:46,440
Speaker 11: and it led right to this corner. It was like

876
00:45:46,440 --> 00:45:48,560
Speaker 11: the mountain made a corner and you could you could

877
00:45:48,560 --> 00:45:51,200
Speaker 11: hear off both sides of it, and the left side

878
00:45:51,880 --> 00:45:54,000
Speaker 11: was just full of people because there were roads all

879
00:45:54,080 --> 00:45:56,000
Speaker 11: on the left side, but the right side was just

880
00:45:56,040 --> 00:45:58,319
Speaker 11: a big block of woods. And if they gobble on

881
00:45:58,360 --> 00:46:00,719
Speaker 11: the left side, I was going to be competing with

882
00:46:00,760 --> 00:46:02,279
Speaker 11: a bunch of people. But if it was the right side,

883
00:46:02,280 --> 00:46:03,520
Speaker 11: it was just gonna be being the turkey.

884
00:46:04,320 --> 00:46:04,920
Speaker 8: Sure enough.

885
00:46:05,400 --> 00:46:08,600
Speaker 11: About fifteen minutes before daylight, right as the sun started

886
00:46:08,600 --> 00:46:12,000
Speaker 11: to glow over the mountains, I looked over at the

887
00:46:12,000 --> 00:46:15,000
Speaker 11: top of the Haller and you could see two headlamps

888
00:46:15,000 --> 00:46:17,400
Speaker 11: about five hundred yards apart. You know, they were moving,

889
00:46:17,480 --> 00:46:20,920
Speaker 11: kind of shuffling down the mountain getting to their listening spots.

890
00:46:21,640 --> 00:46:24,000
Speaker 11: And then I looked across the valley and I could

891
00:46:24,000 --> 00:46:27,319
Speaker 11: see another light over there. There were three people all

892
00:46:27,320 --> 00:46:29,480
Speaker 11: in this kind of same area, and then me, So

893
00:46:29,480 --> 00:46:32,160
Speaker 11: there were four people in this area, all hunting the

894
00:46:32,160 --> 00:46:37,319
Speaker 11: same turkeys. Right at first light, a gobbler fired off

895
00:46:37,400 --> 00:46:39,640
Speaker 11: right down at the bottom of the Haller, and that

896
00:46:39,800 --> 00:46:41,719
Speaker 11: was just like the gun going off at a track meet.

897
00:46:41,760 --> 00:46:44,719
Speaker 8: It was like you could just feel people like just.

898
00:46:44,239 --> 00:46:46,440
Speaker 11: Shuffling down the mountain trying to get to this bird,

899
00:46:47,120 --> 00:46:48,839
Speaker 11: but I kind of knew what he was gonna do.

900
00:46:49,560 --> 00:46:51,520
Speaker 11: I'd been on this bird before, and it seemed like

901
00:46:52,239 --> 00:46:55,399
Speaker 11: all three mornings that I hunted him, he would go

902
00:46:55,560 --> 00:46:58,520
Speaker 11: up the mountain about three hundred yards and he would

903
00:46:58,600 --> 00:47:01,000
Speaker 11: meet up with another guy. You know, whenever he was

904
00:47:01,040 --> 00:47:03,040
Speaker 11: on the roost, it was just him, but once he

905
00:47:03,120 --> 00:47:06,920
Speaker 11: got up the mountain, there'd be two gobblers. And so

906
00:47:08,000 --> 00:47:09,759
Speaker 11: as soon as he gobbled, you know, you could just

907
00:47:10,480 --> 00:47:12,919
Speaker 11: I decided to skip the roost and just go straight

908
00:47:13,000 --> 00:47:15,279
Speaker 11: to where I thought he was going to go. And

909
00:47:15,320 --> 00:47:18,000
Speaker 11: so I run down this haller. I mean, I'm just

910
00:47:18,040 --> 00:47:20,280
Speaker 11: like booking it, and you get down to the bottom

911
00:47:20,280 --> 00:47:22,759
Speaker 11: and there's these big bluffs and there's one spot you

912
00:47:22,760 --> 00:47:24,439
Speaker 11: could cross. You know, I'd been running up and down

913
00:47:24,440 --> 00:47:26,640
Speaker 11: this haller all week, so I knew right where to cross.

914
00:47:27,320 --> 00:47:29,319
Speaker 11: And sure enough, I get about where I thought he

915
00:47:29,360 --> 00:47:31,960
Speaker 11: was going to go, and I just hear a gobbler

916
00:47:32,080 --> 00:47:34,400
Speaker 11: up there, And as I get closer, it gets louder,

917
00:47:35,080 --> 00:47:37,680
Speaker 11: and I could tell he was with that other gobbler.

918
00:47:37,760 --> 00:47:38,359
Speaker 8: There were two of.

919
00:47:38,320 --> 00:47:41,920
Speaker 11: Them, So I kind of crept into a reasonable distance

920
00:47:42,760 --> 00:47:45,640
Speaker 11: and then kind of surveyed the situation to see what

921
00:47:45,800 --> 00:47:48,359
Speaker 11: the best plane of action would be. And they were

922
00:47:48,440 --> 00:47:50,560
Speaker 11: up on this bench right above me. I was one

923
00:47:50,600 --> 00:47:53,279
Speaker 11: bench below him, and I thought, okay, I could go

924
00:47:53,320 --> 00:47:56,200
Speaker 11: down that bench and then get up on their bench

925
00:47:56,239 --> 00:47:57,840
Speaker 11: and be even with him, try and call him in.

926
00:47:58,840 --> 00:47:59,920
Speaker 8: But I don't know.

927
00:48:00,000 --> 00:48:02,279
Speaker 11: So, you know, this was right where the other people were,

928
00:48:02,960 --> 00:48:04,879
Speaker 11: and I didn't know, you know, if they were going.

929
00:48:04,800 --> 00:48:05,960
Speaker 8: To respond to the call or not.

930
00:48:06,600 --> 00:48:08,480
Speaker 11: And so I kind of creep in a little closer

931
00:48:09,200 --> 00:48:12,040
Speaker 11: and I look up on the bench that they're on

932
00:48:12,719 --> 00:48:15,319
Speaker 11: and there's a big rock about the size of my

933
00:48:15,400 --> 00:48:17,640
Speaker 11: Ford Ranger just right on the edge of that bench,

934
00:48:18,160 --> 00:48:19,960
Speaker 11: and they sounded like they were just right on the

935
00:48:19,960 --> 00:48:22,440
Speaker 11: other side of it. They were flapping their wings and

936
00:48:22,440 --> 00:48:24,560
Speaker 11: gobbling at each other. They'd just like be gobbling right

937
00:48:24,600 --> 00:48:27,120
Speaker 11: on top of each other. And I thought, well, I

938
00:48:27,160 --> 00:48:30,879
Speaker 11: could just slip up to that rock and they won't

939
00:48:30,920 --> 00:48:34,480
Speaker 11: see me. And so I started to creep up the

940
00:48:34,520 --> 00:48:38,319
Speaker 11: mountain real slow. I jack to shelling. I get right

941
00:48:38,360 --> 00:48:40,560
Speaker 11: to that rock, and you could just hear them. I mean,

942
00:48:40,600 --> 00:48:42,799
Speaker 11: they were. It was as close as I've ever been

943
00:48:42,840 --> 00:48:44,600
Speaker 11: to a goblin turkey. I mean they were just like

944
00:48:44,800 --> 00:48:48,399
Speaker 11: right there. And I kind of creep around the corner

945
00:48:48,440 --> 00:48:52,279
Speaker 11: of this rock, and real slowly I look around and

946
00:48:52,360 --> 00:48:54,440
Speaker 11: I see a flock of turkeys. There's a couple of

947
00:48:54,480 --> 00:48:58,240
Speaker 11: hens there, and there's these two gobblers. And I real quickly,

948
00:48:58,280 --> 00:49:01,200
Speaker 11: you know, jerk my head back, and you know, I

949
00:49:01,280 --> 00:49:03,239
Speaker 11: get my gun up and get ready. And about the

950
00:49:03,280 --> 00:49:05,840
Speaker 11: time I put my gun up, I see a turkey's

951
00:49:05,880 --> 00:49:07,920
Speaker 11: head just walk right out in front of it. I

952
00:49:07,920 --> 00:49:11,439
Speaker 11: mean he could have been five yards. And I look

953
00:49:11,480 --> 00:49:13,040
Speaker 11: and he was a long beard and he was the

954
00:49:13,520 --> 00:49:16,400
Speaker 11: first one that stepped out. And about the time that

955
00:49:16,480 --> 00:49:19,000
Speaker 11: I saw him, he saw me, and he turned to

956
00:49:19,040 --> 00:49:21,000
Speaker 11: start running, and I just put the bead right at

957
00:49:21,040 --> 00:49:24,120
Speaker 11: the base of his neck and folded him. But I

958
00:49:24,200 --> 00:49:26,680
Speaker 11: was just as excited as could be. I remember facetiming

959
00:49:26,719 --> 00:49:28,640
Speaker 11: my dad and showing him the turkey. And this was,

960
00:49:28,680 --> 00:49:31,200
Speaker 11: you know, four days of hunting the same bird. So

961
00:49:31,280 --> 00:49:33,560
Speaker 11: I was pumped. But it kind of goes to show,

962
00:49:34,239 --> 00:49:36,640
Speaker 11: you know, when you're hunting pressured land, you don't always

963
00:49:36,680 --> 00:49:39,080
Speaker 11: have to just call him right in. Sometimes you can

964
00:49:39,520 --> 00:49:41,760
Speaker 11: sneak up to the rock and bushwhack him.

965
00:49:42,280 --> 00:49:47,080
Speaker 8: And anyway got him.

966
00:49:47,160 --> 00:49:50,520
Speaker 5: That was some woodsmanship bear and just being smart.

967
00:49:51,160 --> 00:49:51,840
Speaker 8: That was good.

968
00:49:52,320 --> 00:49:54,400
Speaker 2: He did what you had to do to kill a

969
00:49:54,400 --> 00:49:59,920
Speaker 2: bird that was likely pretty much uncallable. We're gonna close

970
00:50:00,120 --> 00:50:03,160
Speaker 2: with the turkey story combined with a mini sermon by

971
00:50:03,200 --> 00:50:07,680
Speaker 2: Pastor Robin Rischer of Mississippi. The setting is the country church.

972
00:50:08,239 --> 00:50:11,680
Speaker 2: The windows open at the peak of the sprint.

973
00:50:14,000 --> 00:50:17,800
Speaker 12: My name is Robin Rischer, my pastor of a Southern

974
00:50:17,840 --> 00:50:19,160
Speaker 12: Baptist church in Mississippi.

975
00:50:19,200 --> 00:50:20,560
Speaker 6: I pastored several of them.

976
00:50:21,040 --> 00:50:22,160
Speaker 8: I was pastored.

977
00:50:21,840 --> 00:50:26,839
Speaker 12: Stronghold Baptist Church down in Capaya County and had a

978
00:50:26,880 --> 00:50:31,520
Speaker 12: pretty good turkey turkey population around that church. One Easter

979
00:50:31,719 --> 00:50:36,359
Speaker 12: morning we had a sunrise service, a legitimate sunrin nine

980
00:50:36,360 --> 00:50:40,279
Speaker 12: at seven o'clock business and eat donuts. But it was

981
00:50:40,360 --> 00:50:43,000
Speaker 12: dark when we started preaching, and when we quit singing

982
00:50:43,040 --> 00:50:47,400
Speaker 12: and preaching, it was daylight. We had a sunrise service,

983
00:50:48,400 --> 00:50:52,680
Speaker 12: and just as old sun was easing up over that graveyard,

984
00:50:52,760 --> 00:50:54,760
Speaker 12: he did kind of hard looking to us that Jesus

985
00:50:54,800 --> 00:50:57,239
Speaker 12: is alive. He heard me.

986
00:50:59,400 --> 00:51:00,640
Speaker 8: I made like I didn't hear.

987
00:51:02,480 --> 00:51:04,440
Speaker 12: There's some rennicks who here in the bag. And if

988
00:51:04,480 --> 00:51:08,799
Speaker 12: he got your grubbing, they got to walling around back there. They'

989
00:51:08,880 --> 00:51:11,960
Speaker 12: want to go. I said, I'm gonna try him again.

990
00:51:12,719 --> 00:51:16,640
Speaker 12: I said, he's alive, I said God, And for the

991
00:51:16,640 --> 00:51:18,920
Speaker 12: rest of the time we sing and preach and pray

992
00:51:19,960 --> 00:51:22,920
Speaker 12: and worship the Lord God. All money that turkey gobbel

993
00:51:24,200 --> 00:51:27,200
Speaker 12: and nobody ever killed him.

994
00:51:29,360 --> 00:51:32,560
Speaker 2: I can't thank you enough for listening to Bear Grease

995
00:51:32,760 --> 00:51:36,600
Speaker 2: and Brent's This Country Life podcast. Please leave us a

996
00:51:36,600 --> 00:51:40,120
Speaker 2: review on iTunes and text this episode to a buddy

997
00:51:40,320 --> 00:51:44,640
Speaker 2: that needs some turkey inspiration to sprink. Be careful out there,

998
00:51:45,080 --> 00:51:48,720
Speaker 2: Fully identify your target before you pull the trigger. Honor

999
00:51:48,760 --> 00:51:51,840
Speaker 2: the ancient turkey hunter's code of not moving in on

1000
00:51:51,960 --> 00:51:54,600
Speaker 2: another man's hunting the area or on a bird that

1001
00:51:54,680 --> 00:51:59,000
Speaker 2: he's calling to. Good luck to you the spring. Keep

1002
00:51:59,040 --> 00:52:02,080
Speaker 2: the wild places wild because that's where the bears live.

1003
00:52:09,680 --> 00:52:10,160
Speaker 1: Mm hmm