WEBVTT - Ep. 310: The Unexpected-Bushwhacking, Wingshooting & Biting Turkeys 0:00:05.320 --> 0:00:06.880 I'll get out of the truck and I'll just, you know, 0:00:06.920 --> 0:00:14.000 with my mouth right before I do my first hoot. 0:00:14.080 --> 0:00:18.480 I take that breath in, and that sweet heat pineapple 0:00:18.600 --> 0:00:22.800 deer sausage last night that I ate hits me because 0:00:22.840 --> 0:00:25.840 it's mixed with two cups of coffee, Prime coffee, with 0:00:26.600 --> 0:00:29.520 that creamer sitting over there, that coffee make creamer. And 0:00:29.600 --> 0:00:34.960 I'm thinking, oh, dear God, this is bad. And I 0:00:34.960 --> 0:00:36.879 don't want to run in these woods because they may 0:00:36.920 --> 0:00:39.800 be a bird, you know, roasted. And I got in there. 0:00:39.880 --> 0:00:41.880 I got in there kind of late because it's already 0:00:41.960 --> 0:00:44.800 blue in the sky, you know, like these birds should 0:00:44.800 --> 0:00:46.000 be got about that time. 0:00:48.240 --> 0:00:50.920 This is our second turkey hunting episode of the twenty 0:00:50.960 --> 0:00:54.279 twenty five spring. And there's something that I hadn't told you. 0:00:55.080 --> 0:00:57.360 It's that we saved some of the best turkey stories 0:00:57.400 --> 0:01:01.240 for last. Say you might, as a person top the 0:01:01.240 --> 0:01:04.760 greatest turkey story ever told hat tip into Med Palmer's 0:01:04.840 --> 0:01:08.039 last story on the last episode, and say I to you, 0:01:08.560 --> 0:01:11.760 listen and find out for being bit by a turkey, 0:01:11.800 --> 0:01:14.240 to chunk in a pine knot at a fox, to 0:01:14.400 --> 0:01:17.200 using the panther scream to kill a big gobbler to 0:01:17.280 --> 0:01:20.760 a man wearing only his underwear and a cameo jacket 0:01:21.080 --> 0:01:24.280 to shoot a gobbler. His stories are full of surprises, 0:01:24.680 --> 0:01:28.479 and some of them are even downright embarrassing, but they 0:01:28.480 --> 0:01:31.480 are guaranteed to get you fired up for Turkey season. 0:01:32.040 --> 0:01:35.120 You guys know how this works. We've got eight people 0:01:35.520 --> 0:01:38.720 telling us their best stories. This is one of my 0:01:38.840 --> 0:01:42.319 favorite times of the year, and I really doubt that 0:01:42.360 --> 0:01:43.720 you're gonna want to miss this one. 0:01:44.160 --> 0:01:44.319 Well. 0:01:44.319 --> 0:01:46.959 At my time, I start leaning over, a stick goes 0:01:47.000 --> 0:01:50.520 through my underwear and gets hung up in it, and 0:01:50.560 --> 0:01:52.400 now I can't move and I can't and now he 0:01:52.520 --> 0:01:53.400 throws his head up. 0:01:53.520 --> 0:01:54.200 He sees me. 0:01:54.400 --> 0:01:57.520 So I just leaned over, riped my underwear when I did, 0:01:58.280 --> 0:02:00.760 and he jumps up when he does, I should killing. 0:02:09.520 --> 0:02:12.160 My name is Klay Nukem and this is the Bear 0:02:12.240 --> 0:02:17.200 Grease Podcast, where we'll explore things forgotten but relevant, search 0:02:17.280 --> 0:02:20.919 for insight and unlikely places, and where we'll tell the 0:02:20.960 --> 0:02:25.080 story of Americans who live their lives close to the land. 0:02:25.800 --> 0:02:31.480 Presented by FHF Gear, American made purpose built hunting and 0:02:31.560 --> 0:02:35.040 fishing gear that's designed to be as rugged as the 0:02:35.040 --> 0:02:46.280 places we explore. The best thing about a good turkey 0:02:46.320 --> 0:02:49.880 story is that you just never know which direction that 0:02:49.919 --> 0:02:52.200 it's going to go, and these stories are going to 0:02:52.280 --> 0:02:55.800 surprise you. It continues to amaze me how many varied 0:02:55.880 --> 0:02:58.919 and sundry things can go wrong from the time a 0:02:59.040 --> 0:03:02.600 turkey starts come when he's in gun range, and how 0:03:02.639 --> 0:03:05.880 many varied in sundry things have to go perfectly right. 0:03:07.200 --> 0:03:10.280 Our first storyteller is new to bear grease, but it 0:03:10.360 --> 0:03:12.560 is a true veteran of the spring. 0:03:13.200 --> 0:03:15.040 This is an old time turkey hunt. 0:03:15.600 --> 0:03:19.280 Don and Sarah Clark, and they're gonna tell us how 0:03:19.320 --> 0:03:21.880 the name Clarkett came about. 0:03:25.040 --> 0:03:27.440 My name is Don Clark. I'm from Sheridan, Arkansas. 0:03:28.120 --> 0:03:31.000 You know Sarah and I make box calls and have 0:03:31.040 --> 0:03:32.560 a lot of people ask us, how did yell come 0:03:32.639 --> 0:03:34.760 up with the name Clarkett custom calls. 0:03:35.120 --> 0:03:36.320 Well, Clarkett is a name. 0:03:36.200 --> 0:03:39.400 That was given to us by some of several of 0:03:39.400 --> 0:03:42.080 our friends here. There were turkey hunters, but back in 0:03:42.120 --> 0:03:43.720 the day, we didn't have a lot of turkeys. This 0:03:43.760 --> 0:03:45.600 is back in the early seventies. There wasn't a lot 0:03:45.600 --> 0:03:48.040 of turkeys around. So if you heard a turkey, you 0:03:48.120 --> 0:03:51.400 better get on him. And because if other people found it, 0:03:51.440 --> 0:03:52.800 you know how that goes, they gonna be in there. 0:03:52.840 --> 0:03:55.800 They're gonna kill it too. But our general rule was, 0:03:55.880 --> 0:03:57.960 you know, you hunted him for three days. If you 0:03:58.000 --> 0:04:01.000 didn't kill him, you got on the phone. You get 0:04:01.000 --> 0:04:03.080 on the phone at night. We would call cousins, we 0:04:03.160 --> 0:04:06.680 call uncles, we call sister in law's brother in laws, whatever, 0:04:07.120 --> 0:04:09.480 and we're gonna go down there, and somebody would go 0:04:09.480 --> 0:04:10.880 in or try to go under the night before and 0:04:10.960 --> 0:04:14.480 roost that turkey. Whether he would be more likely the 0:04:14.520 --> 0:04:18.719 game plan guy and my brother James, he loved to 0:04:18.760 --> 0:04:21.760 call the turkey, but he we had a turkey that 0:04:21.920 --> 0:04:24.400 our good friend Willim McGarty had been hunting for a 0:04:24.440 --> 0:04:26.040 few days and hadn't killed him. 0:04:26.240 --> 0:04:28.800 So he called us. He said, we we need if. 0:04:28.839 --> 0:04:32.400 Y'all would come help us, come help me kill this turkey. So, 0:04:32.960 --> 0:04:34.840 like I said, the phone line lit up at night. 0:04:34.880 --> 0:04:37.159 We got everybody all planned up. We met up the 0:04:37.200 --> 0:04:39.719 next morning at that little church here where Willard had 0:04:39.760 --> 0:04:42.359 been here in a turkey. He was giving everybody, you 0:04:42.400 --> 0:04:44.279 go here, you stay on the west side, you stay 0:04:44.320 --> 0:04:47.039 on just to go about two hundred yards mountaine. We're 0:04:47.040 --> 0:04:49.359 gonna we're gonna get there and we're gonna surround this 0:04:49.480 --> 0:04:51.039 turkey when he gets off the roofs. 0:04:51.080 --> 0:04:52.880 Because you couldn't call him, that's what he said, you 0:04:52.920 --> 0:04:54.599 can't call him, he gonna leave. 0:04:55.320 --> 0:04:58.279 So James Erwin was gonna be the call man, which 0:04:58.279 --> 0:05:00.800 he always got to be the call man. This year 0:05:00.880 --> 0:05:02.919 was Sarah's first turkey hunt. I think her and Becky 0:05:02.960 --> 0:05:06.880 both got to go that morning, and we had cousins there, uncles, 0:05:07.200 --> 0:05:09.240 so we had our little plans there and going down 0:05:09.279 --> 0:05:11.640 the roads. Well, I don't know a lot of you 0:05:11.680 --> 0:05:14.279 guys or maybe like me, but a lot of times 0:05:14.320 --> 0:05:16.960 when you get to the woods in the morning, something 0:05:17.000 --> 0:05:19.160 will hits you and all of a sudden you have 0:05:19.240 --> 0:05:22.240 to go to the restroom. Well I had my pretty 0:05:22.240 --> 0:05:24.920 young wife with me that morning. Anyhow, I told her, 0:05:24.960 --> 0:05:27.200 I said, you stay right here on this road and 0:05:27.240 --> 0:05:28.800 I'm going to slip right out there and take care 0:05:28.839 --> 0:05:31.560 of the business and I'll be back. Well, I go 0:05:31.640 --> 0:05:34.560 out there, start to take care of my business. Well, 0:05:34.600 --> 0:05:37.240 I just took my foot and brooked about three times there, 0:05:37.279 --> 0:05:41.039 just cleaning me out a little spot and set the squat. 0:05:41.160 --> 0:05:44.520 So whenever I squatted, just about the time I got squatted. 0:05:44.520 --> 0:05:46.279 I'd laying my gun on a stump right there in 0:05:46.279 --> 0:05:49.520 front of me, about three or four yards. I heard 0:05:49.520 --> 0:05:51.719 a racket. Now I looked, hear that turkey come running 0:05:51.839 --> 0:05:54.120 just as hard as he could run. He run right 0:05:54.200 --> 0:05:58.719 up her to me and stopped, like, oh my god. Well, 0:05:59.400 --> 0:06:02.320 I'm sating there with my pants all undone, and so 0:06:02.320 --> 0:06:04.440 so I thought, if I can just ease up her, 0:06:04.720 --> 0:06:07.239 just reach over and get that gun real easy, maybe 0:06:07.279 --> 0:06:10.560 I can kill it. So I started that little process. 0:06:11.120 --> 0:06:14.679 About the time I almost had my gun that turkey 0:06:14.800 --> 0:06:17.320 wanted to putting, he jumped up in the air and 0:06:17.400 --> 0:06:18.159 he went to fly. 0:06:19.440 --> 0:06:21.840 Looked like a beep fifty two bomber leaving here. And 0:06:22.040 --> 0:06:23.120 just about that time. 0:06:24.760 --> 0:06:27.000 He flew right over the top of her. And she 0:06:27.360 --> 0:06:29.280 now when she had just started turkey, this was her 0:06:29.279 --> 0:06:32.479 first turkey hunt. She blowed a hole through that turkey's 0:06:32.520 --> 0:06:35.480 breast that you would not believe. But anyhow, I went 0:06:35.640 --> 0:06:38.159 running to her, still holding my grabbing my pants up, 0:06:38.200 --> 0:06:41.279 running to her, got there, got there looking at the turkey, 0:06:41.279 --> 0:06:43.400 and boil with high five and hugging and kissing the pair. 0:06:43.440 --> 0:06:45.160 And I don't like a bunch of the kids. 0:06:45.560 --> 0:06:47.680 You could have stuck a beer can through that turkey's 0:06:47.720 --> 0:06:50.680 breast where she had shot the whole loaded went through there. 0:06:51.800 --> 0:06:54.280 The turkey had a seven inch period and eleven inch 0:06:54.360 --> 0:06:57.799 period and that that was her first turkey to every kill, well, 0:06:59.080 --> 0:07:01.640 everybody show with the turkey. Of course, back then, whenever 0:07:01.680 --> 0:07:03.760 you killed one, you showed everybody you want to share, 0:07:03.800 --> 0:07:06.039 and you drove around everybody got to hear the story. 0:07:06.520 --> 0:07:09.240 What people would say, well, did you clark it or 0:07:09.279 --> 0:07:12.680 did you call it up? So the Clerket name come 0:07:12.800 --> 0:07:16.360 from all the clerks calling to get together surrounding a 0:07:16.400 --> 0:07:20.240 turkey and killing it, which we did that several times, 0:07:20.280 --> 0:07:23.520 but we'd rather call it up and kill it just outright. 0:07:24.120 --> 0:07:26.640 But you know, back then turkey was a delicacy and 0:07:26.680 --> 0:07:28.720 the clerks were known to kill turkeys. 0:07:29.880 --> 0:07:32.720 Now that's a good story and really a testament to 0:07:32.760 --> 0:07:35.920 the effectiveness of scratching in the leaves and making the 0:07:35.960 --> 0:07:39.960 most of every opportunity, and sometimes opportunity comes when you 0:07:40.080 --> 0:07:43.520 least expect it. This isn't the only wing shot turkey 0:07:43.560 --> 0:07:46.600 that you're going to hear about today, and later we're 0:07:46.600 --> 0:07:49.160 going to hear from Don's wife, Sarah, And it's not 0:07:49.200 --> 0:07:51.560 hard to see that these people have dedicated a big 0:07:51.640 --> 0:07:56.840 chunk of their life to the wild turkey. Our next 0:07:56.880 --> 0:08:00.480 storyteller is a handful. I can't say that I know 0:08:00.560 --> 0:08:03.080 him real well, but I know two things beyond a 0:08:03.120 --> 0:08:06.280 shadow of a doubt. Number one, he's a handful, and 0:08:06.360 --> 0:08:09.880 number two, he lives in the cultural cradle of American 0:08:09.920 --> 0:08:13.440 turkey hunting, Magnolia State in Mississippi. 0:08:14.120 --> 0:08:14.720 His name is. 0:08:14.680 --> 0:08:18.840 Trent Ellis and he's pretty much an internet comedian. This 0:08:18.920 --> 0:08:23.200 story is about a public land gobbler, and all I 0:08:23.200 --> 0:08:27.760 can say is hide the kids, hide your wives. This 0:08:27.800 --> 0:08:31.239 one shows some serious dedication and might make a pale 0:08:31.240 --> 0:08:33.400 skinned person blush. 0:08:33.480 --> 0:08:36.480 And it's oddly connected to Dawn's story. You'll get why. 0:08:37.960 --> 0:08:42.040 And if you don't know him already, meet Trent else. 0:08:54.200 --> 0:08:56.839 My name's Trent Us, and I'm gonna tell y'all about 0:08:56.840 --> 0:09:00.400 a story of my last public bird that I killed here, okay, 0:09:00.480 --> 0:09:05.040 here in Mississippi. So every morning I like to get 0:09:05.120 --> 0:09:08.000 up deer in turkey season, obviously, because you got to 0:09:08.000 --> 0:09:10.520 get in there way before daylight. And I'll come in 0:09:10.559 --> 0:09:12.880 here and I'll turn the coffee pot on, and I 0:09:12.960 --> 0:09:16.000 love to get, you know, from here to the woods. 0:09:16.000 --> 0:09:18.000 I like to drink, you know, the port and thermous 0:09:18.040 --> 0:09:19.520 and I'll probably drink a cup and a have to 0:09:19.840 --> 0:09:23.080 two cups of coffee. So I step out of the 0:09:23.080 --> 0:09:25.920 truck that morning, and I'll get out of the truck 0:09:25.960 --> 0:09:31.480 and I just, you know, with my mouth right before 0:09:31.520 --> 0:09:34.880 I do my first hoot, I take that breath in, 0:09:35.880 --> 0:09:40.120 and that sweet heat pineapple deer sausage last night that 0:09:40.200 --> 0:09:43.920 I ate hits me because it's mixed with two cups 0:09:43.920 --> 0:09:47.719 of coffee, Prime coffee, with that creamer sitting over there. 0:09:47.760 --> 0:09:51.920 That coffee make creamer. And I'm thinking, oh, dear God. 0:09:52.600 --> 0:09:53.240 This is bad. 0:09:54.000 --> 0:09:56.320 And I don't want to run in these woods because 0:09:56.360 --> 0:09:59.000 they may be a bird, you know, roosted. And I 0:09:59.040 --> 0:10:00.839 got in there. I got in there kind of late 0:10:00.880 --> 0:10:03.800 because it's already blue in the sky, you know, like 0:10:03.920 --> 0:10:08.160 he's birds to be God about that time. Well, see 0:10:08.280 --> 0:10:10.440 what I did learn is one guy will really don't 0:10:10.520 --> 0:10:13.240 change nothing for me. But when you hear three of them, 0:10:13.320 --> 0:10:16.600 that stomach ache starts to lessen. Okay, it starts to 0:10:16.640 --> 0:10:18.760 go away. Because I'm talking about that son of a gun. 0:10:19.160 --> 0:10:24.080 He started going over to my left. I know there's 0:10:24.080 --> 0:10:27.840 two birds. I'm pretty sure there's one double goblin. He's hot. 0:10:28.160 --> 0:10:31.240 So I make the decision to hop in that old 0:10:31.280 --> 0:10:34.240 six seven comings, fire that loud diesel up, and move 0:10:34.240 --> 0:10:37.280 another one hundred and fifty yards instead of walking like 0:10:37.320 --> 0:10:40.280 a smart person. Okay, and you know when you have 0:10:40.360 --> 0:10:44.000 to go walking is kind of a that's a question mark, 0:10:44.559 --> 0:10:47.360 you know what I'm saying. So I get in that 0:10:47.400 --> 0:10:49.319 truck and I go up about one hundred and fifty 0:10:49.360 --> 0:10:51.440 yards and I swing off the road and I part 0:10:52.160 --> 0:10:54.760 and from the time that I left that place to 0:10:55.320 --> 0:10:57.960 the time that I got to the second place, I'm 0:10:58.000 --> 0:11:00.199 prairie dogging, buddy. Let me tell you it's hurt. I 0:11:00.960 --> 0:11:02.760 had a buddy in the Marine Corps said you ain't 0:11:02.760 --> 0:11:04.640 got to go bad enough until you can feel it. 0:11:04.679 --> 0:11:07.160 And feet, and my feet were throbbing, you hear what 0:11:07.200 --> 0:11:09.880 I'm telling you, Like they were. It was just pulsating, 0:11:10.040 --> 0:11:13.440 all right. So I made a decision. I'm like, I 0:11:13.440 --> 0:11:15.440 gotta handle this first, for I get in here after 0:11:15.480 --> 0:11:17.280 these birds, and I get out of the truck and 0:11:17.320 --> 0:11:19.559 I shut my door real quiet and everything, and I'm 0:11:20.000 --> 0:11:22.440 going across and I got my pants, you know, halfway 0:11:22.480 --> 0:11:25.079 down and everything, and I don't have a true. I mean, 0:11:25.160 --> 0:11:27.040 I can't go into the woods because these birds are 0:11:27.320 --> 0:11:29.079 I think they're eighty yards from me. I'm like, I 0:11:29.120 --> 0:11:32.480 don't sell. They don't see the truck. So I grab 0:11:32.520 --> 0:11:34.880 on the front of my truck and I go to 0:11:34.960 --> 0:11:37.839 squat and that's some gun double gobbles like one hundred 0:11:37.920 --> 0:11:41.400 yards away, and it's just like it's just like it 0:11:41.480 --> 0:11:43.480 just went right back up. And I was like, oh crap. 0:11:43.559 --> 0:11:43.679 Now. 0:11:44.440 --> 0:11:48.640 So I made a decision at that point that I'm 0:11:48.679 --> 0:11:52.960 gonna kill this bird. And to make a long story short, 0:11:53.120 --> 0:11:56.560 what I learned was I'm willing to crack my pants 0:11:56.559 --> 0:11:59.400 to kill a bird. Okay, because that's exactly what happened, 0:11:59.400 --> 0:12:01.559 all right. I'm not gonna go into all the details 0:12:01.720 --> 0:12:04.240 and get real, you know, but I ended up shooting 0:12:04.280 --> 0:12:07.040 that bird at sixty steps that day. I won't never forget. 0:12:07.080 --> 0:12:10.920 I had gone through a lot of crap that morning 0:12:11.160 --> 0:12:13.280 to get to this bird. Well, he was walking the 0:12:13.400 --> 0:12:16.600 edge of that slew and he popped up on that 0:12:16.760 --> 0:12:19.079 little rise right there to where I could see him. Well, 0:12:19.080 --> 0:12:21.720 where I was hunting, it was just wide open bottom, 0:12:21.920 --> 0:12:23.840 so he could see a long way and he could 0:12:23.880 --> 0:12:28.959 see whatever's calling right there. Ain't there no more, and uh, 0:12:29.040 --> 0:12:31.319 he come up there, and when he turned, I had 0:12:31.320 --> 0:12:35.760 that old twelve gage stoger. Well I shot, and uh 0:12:36.200 --> 0:12:40.200 to make a crappy situation turn crappier. I knew I 0:12:40.280 --> 0:12:44.760 hit him because as soon as he and he turned 0:12:45.600 --> 0:12:47.400 and I thought he was going the other way, I 0:12:47.559 --> 0:12:50.560 shot and that song and flew up. I nearly beat 0:12:50.600 --> 0:12:53.679 the wad to him, all right. As soon as I shot, 0:12:53.800 --> 0:12:55.199 I got up and went to run, and I made 0:12:55.280 --> 0:12:59.160 about ten steps and I tripped on a route and 0:12:59.200 --> 0:13:01.520 my gun went flying. Nearly made it all the way 0:13:01.559 --> 0:13:04.360 to the bird, and I ate about four inches of 0:13:04.360 --> 0:13:05.520 Mississippi mud. 0:13:05.320 --> 0:13:06.040 Right in my mouth. 0:13:06.440 --> 0:13:10.440 Okay, by this time, he literally he flew up and 0:13:10.520 --> 0:13:14.400 he flew back down and landed, and I got within 0:13:14.480 --> 0:13:18.200 two steps of it, So I said, you know what 0:13:19.280 --> 0:13:22.240 it's worth ten dollars. I threw that twelve gay stoger up, 0:13:22.280 --> 0:13:24.439 and I shot that song gun two steps away, right 0:13:24.480 --> 0:13:31.840 in the head and folded right there. That was the 0:13:31.960 --> 0:13:35.800 literally the best crappiest day I'd ever had in a 0:13:35.880 --> 0:13:36.680 turkey bud's. 0:13:43.880 --> 0:13:45.559 I told you that he was a handful. 0:13:46.000 --> 0:13:48.680 You can unplug your kids and your wives ears now 0:13:49.320 --> 0:13:52.000 and next time Trent, why don't you keep stuff like 0:13:52.040 --> 0:13:55.400 that to yourself? I mean, this is going public, like 0:13:55.440 --> 0:13:59.000 people are gonna listen to this. Just kidding, Trent, that 0:13:59.120 --> 0:14:03.400 was funny, funny. You should follow Trent on social media. 0:14:03.679 --> 0:14:06.160 He puts out a ton of funny and oddly clean 0:14:06.320 --> 0:14:10.600 content that I often laugh out loud to. I appreciate 0:14:10.640 --> 0:14:14.240 it when people are funny that aren't vulgar. That's really 0:14:14.240 --> 0:14:17.040 hard to do, and Trent does that. Cheers to Trent Ellis. 0:14:17.920 --> 0:14:21.400 Our next story is told by a man named Johnny 0:14:21.520 --> 0:14:26.640 Johnston from the mountains of eastern Oklahoma. He's a handful two, 0:14:27.240 --> 0:14:29.880 but in a different kind of way. And I don't 0:14:29.920 --> 0:14:31.960 know how to say this without it sounded like I'm 0:14:31.960 --> 0:14:35.840 trying to flatter the man. But he's as hill billy 0:14:36.200 --> 0:14:39.720 as anyone I've ever met, and I mean that in 0:14:39.760 --> 0:14:44.200 the most honorable and noble way. Johnny is a turkey 0:14:44.280 --> 0:14:47.920 hunter's turkey hunter, and he's got two stories that he's 0:14:47.960 --> 0:14:53.000 gonna tell us. The first one involves some bloodshed. It's 0:14:53.000 --> 0:14:56.400 his blood though. This is Johnny Johnston. 0:14:58.360 --> 0:15:02.280 I did some guiding. I got it for being laid 0:15:02.360 --> 0:15:05.400 quite a bit when he was down here hunting and 0:15:05.480 --> 0:15:10.000 for another man that was very military, and he wanted 0:15:10.000 --> 0:15:13.880 me to take his judge turkey hunk. So I agreed. 0:15:14.760 --> 0:15:17.240 He said, now you have to be on your best behavior. 0:15:17.720 --> 0:15:20.960 This is a big time judge. He likes to hunt, 0:15:21.000 --> 0:15:24.200 but he don't joke around. I said, oh, I'll be 0:15:24.280 --> 0:15:28.360 all bun perfect spring Day got out of the truck. 0:15:28.520 --> 0:15:31.280 Turkeys were already goblin here in four or five different 0:15:31.320 --> 0:15:34.640 turkeys gobble. So we went to him like a biteen 0:15:34.760 --> 0:15:39.800 south and we got in there and God perfect where 0:15:39.800 --> 0:15:42.400 he needed to be, had him out where he could shoot. 0:15:42.440 --> 0:15:45.520 And I was doing a calling kind of watching and 0:15:45.760 --> 0:15:49.480 start calling, and three or four gobblers got together and 0:15:49.560 --> 0:15:52.640 they were coming right down our gun burrow and to 0:15:52.800 --> 0:15:56.080 my ride of turkey goble about a half a goble, 0:15:56.760 --> 0:15:59.480 not a full gobble. People say, oh it's a jay. 0:15:59.720 --> 0:16:03.520 I don't go for that, because jakeskin gobble. This like 0:16:03.520 --> 0:16:06.760 a big turkey, and big turkeys if they're gobbling, the 0:16:06.840 --> 0:16:09.520 lord be gobbled out. And they just do about a 0:16:09.520 --> 0:16:12.600 half a gobble. I didn't pay attention to it, though 0:16:12.680 --> 0:16:14.320 I was watching the ward coming. 0:16:15.040 --> 0:16:15.800 He killed one. 0:16:15.840 --> 0:16:20.120 I was gonna try to pick me one now, and 0:16:20.320 --> 0:16:24.120 I saw something and I cut my eyes, and probably 0:16:24.160 --> 0:16:27.840 the biggest turkey I've ever seen it, a huge, big 0:16:27.880 --> 0:16:32.400 gobley walking to my right clothes and I forgot I 0:16:32.400 --> 0:16:34.920 out of Guiden. I just rolled out and give him one, 0:16:35.960 --> 0:16:39.440 and turkeys went everywhere, and the turky he went down 0:16:39.480 --> 0:16:41.680 the mountain. I didn't get a good shot on him 0:16:41.680 --> 0:16:44.440 because they had running time. I shot, and I was 0:16:44.520 --> 0:16:48.200 running after him in that steep country and where it 0:16:48.400 --> 0:16:51.080 dropped off is about a ten foot draw, and I 0:16:51.160 --> 0:16:54.680 was running fast like a drunk, and all fat bank 0:16:54.760 --> 0:16:58.040 all went landed in the rocks and really messed my 0:16:58.160 --> 0:17:02.320 ankle up. Why laying there wondering where my turkey was, 0:17:02.440 --> 0:17:07.040 I heard him kind of making a breathing noise, and 0:17:07.200 --> 0:17:10.119 I crawled up and he was up partly under a 0:17:10.160 --> 0:17:12.600 big white rock, and I got him out and carried 0:17:12.640 --> 0:17:14.880 him back up there where the judge was, and I said, 0:17:14.880 --> 0:17:18.119 look here, jud and I had this turkey by the 0:17:18.240 --> 0:17:21.639 neck and I had him right up in my face 0:17:21.760 --> 0:17:26.200 talking to it. I said, this is Judge Lendra. He's 0:17:26.240 --> 0:17:30.800 a turkey man. He's never seen a Eastern turkey, just 0:17:31.040 --> 0:17:34.680 like you. He's a real grand god. But I've read 0:17:34.720 --> 0:17:38.399 your book. And that turkey went through my hand and 0:17:38.480 --> 0:17:41.400 bit me right on the end of the node. It palked, 0:17:42.280 --> 0:17:46.000 I'm talking bit me and built a big blood blister 0:17:46.640 --> 0:17:50.080 on the end of my node, and I bit him 0:17:50.119 --> 0:17:52.919 on the top of the head. I started chewing on 0:17:53.080 --> 0:17:55.800 his head and asking him how he liked be bit 0:17:56.560 --> 0:18:01.120 and that judge that says, oh my, my my, I've 0:18:01.160 --> 0:18:04.359 never even heard of anything like this, but less seen 0:18:04.480 --> 0:18:08.879 something like it. And from that day on, that judge 0:18:08.880 --> 0:18:12.240 and I were close friends. We did a lot of 0:18:12.320 --> 0:18:17.000 turkey hunt together. I've never seen a real grand turkey, 0:18:17.080 --> 0:18:19.240 but he introduced me to him the next week. 0:18:19.440 --> 0:18:21.600 Now tell me why you bet this turkey? 0:18:21.800 --> 0:18:24.520 Just to reflet He bet me, so I beat him back. 0:18:24.640 --> 0:18:27.040 See, I lie, really, you weren't trying to be funny. 0:18:27.320 --> 0:18:30.760 It just just oh, I just beat him, just bid him. 0:18:30.800 --> 0:18:32.680 He beat me, and I beat him back. 0:18:34.520 --> 0:18:36.560 Now, you said that turkey was big. 0:18:36.560 --> 0:18:40.560 Weigh twenty three pounds, that's big for Eastern turkey, and spurring, 0:18:41.000 --> 0:18:44.800 but had full hooks. Turkey hunters no called the limb 0:18:44.880 --> 0:18:49.119 hanger four or five year old or spurs will hook 0:18:49.640 --> 0:18:51.879 and you just hang them by their spurs on the 0:18:51.960 --> 0:18:57.120 limb had two beards almost twelve inches. Both of them 0:18:57.480 --> 0:19:01.760 look like a turkey hunters call up paint brush, big thick, 0:19:02.080 --> 0:19:03.720 two individual beards. 0:19:03.840 --> 0:19:05.360 What year do you think that would have been? 0:19:05.480 --> 0:19:09.280 Probably nineteen eighty. Pretty cool turkey. And I want to 0:19:09.600 --> 0:19:13.520 add a little bit to this. That judge was an 0:19:13.560 --> 0:19:17.720 excellent box call caller. Best don't believe I'll be heard, 0:19:18.480 --> 0:19:21.639 but he said, let me show you a trick on 0:19:21.840 --> 0:19:25.919 how to brain this turkey and bleeding. I've never seen thathing. 0:19:26.000 --> 0:19:28.840 I've never heard of it, and a lot of people haven't. 0:19:28.880 --> 0:19:32.480 But every turkey I kill a brain and bleed from 0:19:32.520 --> 0:19:36.119 that day forward, to hang them upside down and go 0:19:36.359 --> 0:19:39.120 up their mouth, kind of like cutting the deer's road 0:19:39.240 --> 0:19:42.800 on each side of their lower bill. Mihuld cut and 0:19:42.880 --> 0:19:46.240 then stick your knife right through their brain straight up. 0:19:46.880 --> 0:19:49.560 I thought that was pretty nat Now he hung. 0:19:49.440 --> 0:19:52.159 Them to let them bleed, bleed out just so like 0:19:52.200 --> 0:19:53.200 the meat would be better. 0:19:53.320 --> 0:19:56.320 Right. He said, that makes the mere that they plucked 0:19:56.320 --> 0:19:59.840 their turkeys. They don't skin them. He said that might 0:20:00.119 --> 0:20:02.600 major of pluff. I don't know. I ain't ever pluffed one. 0:20:02.640 --> 0:20:05.080 I skimming, but that is pretty interesting. 0:20:07.000 --> 0:20:09.720 I've never heard anybody say that. They were coming to 0:20:09.760 --> 0:20:10.840 me like a biting. 0:20:10.640 --> 0:20:16.840 Sal Yeah, that's that's serious. That's serious, advanced Gord. 0:20:19.400 --> 0:20:22.119 If I hadn't foreshadowed the turkey bite in the intro, 0:20:22.400 --> 0:20:24.840 I doubt you would have seen it coming. When's the 0:20:24.920 --> 0:20:27.000 last time you heard of somebody getting bit by turkey? 0:20:27.240 --> 0:20:30.000 I don't think I've ever heard of it. If you 0:20:30.000 --> 0:20:34.120 can't tell, Johnny's a character. And how about bleeding the turkey, 0:20:34.440 --> 0:20:43.520 that's new to me. I appreciated that tip. The second 0:20:43.560 --> 0:20:47.320 story is short, and it's about his dear friend who 0:20:47.400 --> 0:20:50.399 he didn't even call his first name. He just calls 0:20:50.480 --> 0:20:51.880 him wild man. 0:20:53.640 --> 0:20:58.719 Eat a superhuman good man. And another little wild man's story. 0:20:58.800 --> 0:21:02.639 We was over and country a little bit east and 0:21:02.680 --> 0:21:05.040 there's a new road and a bunch of big clay 0:21:05.119 --> 0:21:09.320 roots where they'd punched that road in and into that 0:21:09.400 --> 0:21:13.520 pine timber cut off them humongous clay roots, and the 0:21:13.560 --> 0:21:15.800 road might a sharp curve, and the turkeys were in 0:21:15.920 --> 0:21:19.240 that road, I'm sure of. I said, why men, get 0:21:19.240 --> 0:21:23.679 where you shoot that road? And I started calling and 0:21:23.840 --> 0:21:28.200 instead of turkeys ain't supposed to come down real steep hill. 0:21:28.840 --> 0:21:31.439 You've heard all that. The turkey can go anywhere he 0:21:31.520 --> 0:21:36.520 wants to go. He's very mobile wings good leg. This 0:21:36.760 --> 0:21:40.439 was straight off him. Two gobblers slid off that steep bank. 0:21:40.640 --> 0:21:43.360 I watched them. They didn't come the road. And that's 0:21:43.359 --> 0:21:45.399 the way he has set up to shoe. He was 0:21:45.400 --> 0:21:48.840 in a jail. But when I realized it's coming off 0:21:48.880 --> 0:21:52.119 that bank of a too late to tailor and they 0:21:53.040 --> 0:21:55.159 he was leaned up against the clay root and the 0:21:55.200 --> 0:21:57.720 gobbler was on the other side of that clay root. 0:21:57.920 --> 0:22:02.680 That close, priest, don't lank from him. Now the how 0:22:02.840 --> 0:22:05.879 is he ever gonna kill that turkey? But it's gonna run. 0:22:05.880 --> 0:22:09.120