Speaker 1: Yo, what's up.
Speaker 2: You're off in God's Country with Reed and Dan is Born,
Speaker 2: also known as the Brothers Hung, where we take a
Speaker 2: weekly drive to the intersection of country music and the
Speaker 2: great outdoors, brought to you by Meat Eater and to Covis. Hey,
Speaker 2: little special drop for y'all. A Turkey episode. Yeah, man,
Speaker 2: you should be excited about it. Got some of your
Speaker 2: favorite clips, some of your favorite stories that have happened
Speaker 2: on God's Country so far.
Speaker 1: The zoomba pants story, Yeah, it's in there.
Speaker 3: It's real funny.
Speaker 1: Dyln Marlow killing turkeys all over the place.
Speaker 3: He got nailed with like a real hardcore you know
Speaker 3: story that was pretty nice too. And then we'll sum
Speaker 3: it up with Old Rattlesnake.
Speaker 2: It's kind of become a like a like a legend
Speaker 2: of the folklore around God's Country stuff.
Speaker 3: What that story is out of st ricky. It's a
Speaker 3: bazillion percent. I can't even describe to you how true
Speaker 3: that story is.
Speaker 2: This is gonna pair with a Mediator's Turkey Week. We
Speaker 2: got Turkey season coming up real soon. I'm getting excited.
Speaker 2: I'm seeing them strutting all over the place, ready hearing
Speaker 2: some goblin so y'all check that out. Thanks for thanks
Speaker 2: for sticking around and the sticks with us for this
Speaker 2: turkey episode.
Speaker 3: Thanks for sitting on the roost tree with this, Thanks
Speaker 3: for backs against Oaks and watching this podcast fly down
Speaker 3: on opening morning.
Speaker 1: But the sunrise behind it.
Speaker 3: Checking related.
Speaker 4: The way my property works is it's there's you know,
Speaker 4: the Tennessee Hills, and I'm sure a lot of folks
Speaker 4: are familiar with that, so may not be, but there's
Speaker 4: a lot of mountains is the wrong word, but profoundly
Speaker 4: steep steep hills, little mountains, little tiny mountains, and lots
Speaker 4: of them. Right, These big pronounced ridges and stuff kind
Speaker 4: of set set amongst these, uh these valley floors. Right,
Speaker 4: so my property is kind of this one big valley
Speaker 4: floor that is kind of sandwiched by these two big, major,
Speaker 4: major ridge lines. And so the way that works is,
Speaker 4: you know, that kind of funnels these turkeys down into
Speaker 4: into this bottom come spring. I just got my first
Speaker 4: turkey pictures on my trail cameras this week.
Speaker 5: Hadn't seen any. I mean, they disappeared, dude, I don't
Speaker 5: know where the hell they go.
Speaker 4: I mean they're gone, and I've got again, I got
Speaker 4: running twenty trail cams or something, dude. I mean they're gone,
Speaker 4: and then all of a sudden they're there and there's
Speaker 4: twenty of them. It's not like there's one here.
Speaker 2: Where they mixed up already. Like we're getting pictures of
Speaker 2: birds strutting with like.
Speaker 5: I hadn't had any strutting pictures yet.
Speaker 4: But so the way it works, or it seems to work,
Speaker 4: at least it worked last year, was that I had
Speaker 4: all these birds, four or five toms and you know,
Speaker 4: a gaggle of hens, dude. And as the season started,
Speaker 4: I started seeing all the toms were on my neighbor's
Speaker 4: place and I'm like, well, it's not hunting pressure because
Speaker 4: nobody's hunting yet, same season yet, right, So as the
Speaker 4: season comes closer and closer, and every morning I would
Speaker 4: drive out there they are four or five of them
Speaker 4: blowed up in my neighbors spot. I'm like, damn what.
Speaker 4: And he's like, this guy's not a hunter. He don't
Speaker 4: have any food plots out, he's not doing anything. His
Speaker 4: land is not that much different than mine.
Speaker 5: Why are they there?
Speaker 3: Sure?
Speaker 5: Right? Well, I realized that I got the guy is
Speaker 5: on my place.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and he has kicked all these times off onto
Speaker 4: my neighbors. He's the guy, the head, the head hauncho
Speaker 4: cat is My place is his place, and he's the bird.
Speaker 4: And I realized that that was what I began to
Speaker 4: piece together. You know, I'm like, well, that's what's going on.
Speaker 4: He's bullied all these other times out of my place.
Speaker 3: It's again just a sign. That's a sign of learning of.
Speaker 5: What's going on.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And there's no way you understand that or know
Speaker 2: that until you actually see it going down in front
Speaker 2: of you. And that's what was going down, and he's.
Speaker 5: Definitely going on.
Speaker 4: So then in my mind, I'm going and another to
Speaker 4: your point I think, is I go, Okay, well I've
Speaker 4: got to get this bird out of here in order
Speaker 4: to have more in order to have more times at
Speaker 4: my place, I gotta I gotta shoot this true you
Speaker 4: know what I mean, I gotta get I mean, he's
Speaker 4: probably you know, he's probably peeking dude, yeah.
Speaker 3: Years old, whooping everybody down. Yeah.
Speaker 4: And so my whole Turkey season last year was spent
Speaker 4: trying to get this this particular bird.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: That's awesome. The bad way that it was like going
Speaker 1: after a mature deer.
Speaker 4: Yeah, sure, it really felt that way in a lot
Speaker 4: of ways. And so I would you know, I had
Speaker 4: some friends coming.
Speaker 5: I was. I was decently busy.
Speaker 4: During during turkey season last year, but I did have
Speaker 4: a bunch of time to go out in the mornings
Speaker 4: and stuff and chase this guy. And I had one
Speaker 4: instance where I go, okay, I had a friend of
Speaker 4: mine who had never hunted turkeys before and wanted had
Speaker 4: never killed a turkey, and wanted to really bad. And
Speaker 4: I was like, all right, man, come over. He came
Speaker 4: up it with Drew Parker. He came over with Ray
Speaker 4: and you know Raisman hunting turkeys forever and me. You know,
Speaker 4: me and Ray are close. We've founded a bunch of
Speaker 4: turkeys together. So they come over one morning and I said,
Speaker 4: here's what's going to happen. I said, We're going to
Speaker 4: go out to my yall been to my place? So
Speaker 4: where that that creek that run of runs through that
Speaker 4: pasture there, we crossed it. And so I had him
Speaker 4: gobbling back in this holler back on the right.
Speaker 3: Side of box. Collin's like going mouth calling.
Speaker 5: No, we're going out, We're out. I'm doing alocols.
Speaker 2: Oh is He roofed in the same area kind of back.
Speaker 4: Yeah. But that morning, I was like, I'm hitting the
Speaker 4: alcohol and I'm like, I hear him, dude, that's him.
Speaker 4: He's back in this I know exactly where he's at,
Speaker 4: and he's back deep in this thing.
Speaker 5: And I said, we're going to cross this.
Speaker 4: Creek to get on the right side of the creek
Speaker 4: where he is. Pop this hind decoy right in the
Speaker 4: middle of this cut cornfield right yep.
Speaker 5: Popping in there. Sit down. Then I start, you know,
Speaker 5: soft calling with my mouth call, you know.
Speaker 4: And he's hammering, hammering, and he starts just he's hammering.
Speaker 4: He's in the trees just a I'm like, I'm gonna
Speaker 4: do it like Drew's gonna get his first hurd. It's
Speaker 4: gonna happen and stuff. And I was like, Drew, here's
Speaker 4: what's gonna happen, dude. He's gonna fly out. And we're
Speaker 4: sitting thirty forty yards from the steacoy and I said,
Speaker 4: he's gonna land right here, dude, and just blow up
Speaker 4: right here, and we're just gonna be awesome, like perfect hunt.
Speaker 5: It just felt like it's perfect. Weather's perfect.
Speaker 4: He's hammering, and I'm so proud of like I've already
Speaker 4: in my mind this bird's already on the ground. This
Speaker 4: is the first Oh yeah, dude, And I'm just gonna
Speaker 4: be like, you know, I'm basically a hunt guy at this. Yeah,
Speaker 4: you know what I mean, I'm like super excited about it,
Speaker 4: and you know, get my buddies, a good friend of
Speaker 4: mine's first turkey and stuff on my place and memory.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Sure, we talked about it all the time, like you're
Speaker 4: happier now seeing somebody else get something.
Speaker 5: I feel like I've already reached that.
Speaker 1: It's a dad thing.
Speaker 4: But anyways, I said, this bird's gonna he's just gonna
Speaker 4: soar in man out of this little holler and just
Speaker 4: pop right here. And here he comes you see him, sorry, yeah,
Speaker 4: off the ridge.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah.
Speaker 4: And then you're just like the is he goes like this,
Speaker 4: and he's just goes and just right over our heads
Speaker 4: and the lands on the other side of the creek,
Speaker 4: Like you are kidding me, You've gotten to be kidding.
Speaker 4: And he just stays out there and he's skirting this
Speaker 4: tree line and I mean he's seventy yards from us. Okay,
Speaker 4: so now I mean obviously we're shooting tss so, but
Speaker 4: a guy that's never shot a turkey is gonna shoot
Speaker 4: this bird. So I'm like, we have to, like, and
Speaker 4: he's just chilling on the tree line behind him, yeah,
Speaker 4: doing the thing, doing the thing. And then here comes
Speaker 4: three four hens down it's not from the same harbor,
Speaker 4: from a different part of my property, and land on him.
Speaker 3: They land on him, not your oh.
Speaker 5: Not on not on my hand. They land on him somebody.
Speaker 1: He's the guy, bro, this is the guy.
Speaker 5: You know what I mean?
Speaker 4: And so turn around, crawl, we crawl down the end
Speaker 4: of the creek, go across, crawl up the bank, and
Speaker 4: Drew's there.
Speaker 5: Drew's the only guy.
Speaker 4: That comes up like smart, able to shoot. I'm like,
Speaker 4: heyn just tell me what's going on. Like he's like,
Speaker 4: he's just not coming any closer. He's not coming any closer.
Speaker 3: And I said, how much ground of y'all gained on him?
Speaker 5: Is none?
Speaker 4: Hard because he's kind of going he's skirting the tree
Speaker 4: line out into the bigger as the field opens up,
Speaker 4: he's wanting to get out into the spot.
Speaker 1: You're just kind of watching it go down.
Speaker 4: He kind of in a smaller bottleneck of the field
Speaker 4: and then it goes to open up, and I'm like, well,
Speaker 4: dream in, I said, just I mean, if you're confident
Speaker 4: in the shot, take it. But I was like, it's far,
Speaker 4: it can be done. But I also don't want you
Speaker 4: to have a bad experience. So if you're not comfortable, don't, like,
Speaker 4: don't try to impress me, or we're going to be
Speaker 4: more impressed. If you don't shoot this bird because you
Speaker 4: don't feel confident in it. Then if you shooting and miss,
Speaker 4: or if you feel uncomfortable or wounded or whatever, it.
Speaker 2: Is such another like point in the maturity of a hunter.
Speaker 1: Many I mean, like most people are like, dude, shoot
Speaker 1: that bird.
Speaker 4: Try Yeah, And so that day I'm thinking, man like,
Speaker 4: if that's me out there, like I'm putting this bird down,
Speaker 4: I can put this bird down if that's me by myself,
Speaker 4: you know. And but it was so cool, I mean,
Speaker 4: it was so cool to get to go with Drew,
Speaker 4: and you know, we continued to kind of you know,
Speaker 4: try to find another bird whatever, and we heard some
Speaker 4: a god will deeper into my place, and so we
Speaker 4: try to.
Speaker 3: Do that in the same area.
Speaker 4: And it is the you know, if well there was
Speaker 4: one deeper he was waiting, he wouldn't have dared them
Speaker 4: out into that.
Speaker 1: Field, right, Yeah, you're gonna have to find in the woods.
Speaker 4: And that's what there was another one way back, you know,
Speaker 4: in the back.
Speaker 1: Ain't nobody getting it.
Speaker 3: And I see brock Lesner eating a sandwich. I'm not
Speaker 3: gonna try to take it from him, you know what
Speaker 3: I'm saying. For sure he's got he's got.
Speaker 1: That's a sandwich.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Bronck Closer take us hunting in Saskatchewan, I think so.
Speaker 5: I don't know, Bronck Closer never met him. I would
Speaker 5: love to.
Speaker 3: He loves this podcast, so we're good.
Speaker 5: I would love to come shoot awesome deer in Saskatchewan too.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's kind of like so if you like, maybe.
Speaker 4: If you overway guys and one not overweight guys and
Speaker 4: you know, holler at.
Speaker 5: Us for that, that'd be a lot of fun.
Speaker 3: Matter of fact, anybody that lives in the Sketchwan was
Speaker 3: preferably brons, but would settle for any kind of famous
Speaker 3: just and we'll ride up there with you.
Speaker 4: Not really even if you just got a nice or maybe.
Speaker 3: If you just mega rich and have a lot of land.
Speaker 1: Or not, or you just have land, you just have
Speaker 1: a lot of land, yeah, we can figure there.
Speaker 4: Preferably crop with some bedding kind of on the edge
Speaker 4: or anyways, So long story long is we finished this thing.
Speaker 4: I appreciate the laugh on that, and we're like, Okay,
Speaker 4: it didn't happen. So probably the next two days I
Speaker 4: decided to go out and I knew I kind of
Speaker 4: figured out where he had been.
Speaker 1: Landing.
Speaker 5: Two three days after this kind.
Speaker 4: Of continuously once you cross the creek, I have the
Speaker 4: other corn on the left there right, Well, he had
Speaker 4: been hammering this field. He'd started last yes, yeah, and
Speaker 4: so he's been going in this field. So I get
Speaker 4: I'm like, I get up, get dressed, Bubba, and get
Speaker 4: out there. Try to beat him to the spot and
Speaker 4: get out there. And by myself. I get out there,
Speaker 4: and I've got my my trustee eight seventy you know,
Speaker 4: killed a bunch of birds with and I get out
Speaker 4: and it's kind of this hill you got to go
Speaker 4: up once you come through the creek before you can
Speaker 4: really see what's out in that field. And so as
Speaker 4: I start to go up, I just see him and
Speaker 4: he's already there on the ground.
Speaker 3: I'm like.
Speaker 6: Out, I'm like, he's here, my commy, he's here.
Speaker 4: And so I'm like, I don't have this really great
Speaker 4: cover anywhere. So I kind of just like as he's
Speaker 4: you know, he's struck around, and when he gets his
Speaker 4: back to me, I just kind of creep back down
Speaker 4: and get a little bit closer, and I come up.
Speaker 1: Just you and him.
Speaker 4: There's nobody around. It's me and the guy. It's rumbling
Speaker 4: the dru the box, you know what I mean. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: I'm Ali Boo and this cat dogging dude and there's
Speaker 4: people behind the chair and move on, you know, And uh,
Speaker 4: I got my mouth called me. I taught myself had
Speaker 4: to mouth call last year.
Speaker 3: Metaphorically we were all cheering in spirit, were we all
Speaker 3: knew about this turkey?
Speaker 4: Yeah, this is my this is my my Ted talks
Speaker 4: on you know. And I taught myself how to mouth
Speaker 4: call last year because I'd always that was.
Speaker 5: My biggest gap.
Speaker 4: I feel like that I had to bridge to be
Speaker 4: able to to for that moment to happen.
Speaker 5: Was that.
Speaker 4: Okay, I love a slate call more than anybody love.
Speaker 5: A box call.
Speaker 4: But you can't do that thing that I was about
Speaker 4: to do with either of those things.
Speaker 1: That's a great point.
Speaker 4: You can't if you want to. I'm not saying it
Speaker 4: can't be done, but if you need to get that
Speaker 4: turkey to take the twenty yards in close.
Speaker 3: To you, you feel like mouth calls away, you have to.
Speaker 5: How old are you going to do it? Because what
Speaker 5: are you going to put.
Speaker 4: Your call down when he's thirty yards from you and
Speaker 4: pick your gun up? What are you going to do?
Speaker 4: So it's like you can't sit there and go, Okay,
Speaker 4: well he's now he's thirty yards for.
Speaker 5: Me, so let me get my gun up, Like.
Speaker 3: He's not going to run away.
Speaker 7: You have to You have to be silent if you're
Speaker 7: doing the calling thing where they're the calin responds to
Speaker 7: the thing that everyone wants. Yeah, you gotta do a
Speaker 7: mouth call in my opinion, and not that my opinion matters,
Speaker 7: but in my mind that was the thing that was
Speaker 7: holding me up from.
Speaker 4: Ever getting my first solo turkey. I've killed a bunch
Speaker 4: of turkeys with you guys with buddies. It's awesome. Yeah,
Speaker 4: but like you still want to do that thing by yourself?
Speaker 4: Do you want to be able to do it? I
Speaker 4: can't teach my kids to do it if I can't
Speaker 4: do it by myself. Yeah, And so I got my
Speaker 4: mouth call in man, I'm so proud. I spent hours
Speaker 4: and hours anytime I was in my truck driving anywhere.
Speaker 5: Mouth call on the bus, mouth call driving.
Speaker 4: People coldy Remember when, Yeah, I mean I'd be in
Speaker 4: the Yeah, I mean we were.
Speaker 3: In that sub stadium. Somebody took a video of being
Speaker 3: Luke on the bus just and uh, Chris Money's over
Speaker 3: in the corner.
Speaker 4: He's just he's just like, he's like, this is horrible.
Speaker 4: It's like hearing someone practice the violin or something like your.
Speaker 1: Kid for years that it was a.
Speaker 3: Big jump for you. And I can see how intimidating
Speaker 3: it is because you literally haven't been taught how to
Speaker 3: blow a mouth call, and you're arguably hunting with like
Speaker 3: dudes have been doing it for forever their whole whole life,
Speaker 3: and it is a challenging I would say, the thing
Speaker 3: about a mouth call is not making the sound. The
Speaker 3: challenging thing about a mouth call is knowing when to
Speaker 3: make the correct cadence at the volume you need to
Speaker 3: make no doubt, it's not.
Speaker 5: Just it's more subtle than it's not going to work.
Speaker 3: If pretty riggy right here is at thirty, you can't
Speaker 3: just hammer you got it.
Speaker 1: Sometimes it's just when when to call is way more
Speaker 1: important on how to call.
Speaker 2: I feel like because I feel like thee the tone
Speaker 2: of your call is the least important thing, like making
Speaker 2: it the perfect like oh yeah, like that thing that's
Speaker 2: the least important in that whole thing. But being in
Speaker 2: the woods and hunting enough teaches you how like when
Speaker 2: to do.
Speaker 1: Not call absolutely absolutely just as important as.
Speaker 4: And when you just go this turkey is he's coming
Speaker 4: this way anyway, Well I mess it up. So anyways
Speaker 4: I'm there and I get into the position, I feel
Speaker 4: like it is going to be the most advantageous for me,
Speaker 4: you know. So I'm up man, like I'm working this.
Speaker 4: I'm going up, dude, he's working. I'm telling like he's
Speaker 4: gonna he's coming, this is gonna happen. And my mouth
Speaker 4: calling he's responding, there's no hens. So he's hammering. Dude,
Speaker 4: he's obviously ready to roll and he's coming in, and
Speaker 4: I'm like, I think in that moment, I'm just kind
Speaker 4: of again, I get ahead of myself. One I've never
Speaker 4: missed a turkey at this point in my turkey hunting career.
Speaker 3: Very proudtat for you, very very proud that he was
Speaker 3: not scared to let it be known that he hadn't missed.
Speaker 4: Yeah, for sure, So that's coming into factor. I'm doing
Speaker 4: the mouth call thing, and I'm also kind of intoxicated
Speaker 4: by that call and response saying that that we're.
Speaker 5: Having at the moment.
Speaker 4: So what happens is ultimately he plays the game exactly
Speaker 4: like I want him to, and I think I really
Speaker 4: just allowed that to go on too long. So when
Speaker 4: I made the shot on him, he was probably ten
Speaker 4: yards away, too tight, too tight. So my pell's friend
Speaker 4: was just it was still like this, and so he
Speaker 4: took off and I was like, you've got to be
Speaker 4: kidding me, this bird, you gotta be kidding me.
Speaker 1: You call me?
Speaker 3: He faced on me.
Speaker 1: Actually, oh yeah. I'm like, what happened? You got him?
Speaker 1: You got him? And he was like, bro.
Speaker 4: But it's like that's a lesson that you can't learn
Speaker 4: unless it happens to you.
Speaker 1: Amen.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 4: People can tell you one hundred times. People can tell
Speaker 4: you when you have a kid. Dude, you read a
Speaker 4: book and it says when your kids crying, do this,
Speaker 4: but until your kids crying, it don't mean.
Speaker 3: And sometimes that don't work.
Speaker 4: Until you get you know, until you get pete on,
Speaker 4: you don't learn to keep the diaper over.
Speaker 1: Him until the same thing.
Speaker 2: You'll never get pet in the face again if you
Speaker 2: if you're doing it the way you're supposed to do
Speaker 2: it correctly.
Speaker 4: I remember him flying off and just being like, God,
Speaker 4: you are kidding me, dude. I'm like, this bird and me.
Speaker 4: I mean, I'm gonna write a kid's book called this
Speaker 4: Bird and Me.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 4: But it's like it was just but it honestly, it
Speaker 4: felt kind of like So then I went out. I
Speaker 4: went out with a with another friend a few weeks
Speaker 4: later to try to get the same bird. And it
Speaker 4: was like a guy that doesn't even really turkey hunt
Speaker 4: and he's just kind of sitting with me, you know,
Speaker 4: and stuff.
Speaker 3: And.
Speaker 5: Same deal.
Speaker 4: I get this bird in, man, I get him in
Speaker 4: the same field, same field, and he's.
Speaker 5: Hammering, and I'm like, oh my god, it's gonna happen.
Speaker 4: I mean, shot this guy. And he comes in and man,
Speaker 4: he hung up at.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he knew the game.
Speaker 5: He hung up at seventy. Dude, he stayed in that field.
Speaker 5: I mean he hung up at seventy.
Speaker 4: I'm sitting there watching him just and I had corn
Speaker 4: was kind of starting to starting to kind of you know,
Speaker 4: my grass was tall and my corn was starting to
Speaker 4: come up just a little bit, so it.
Speaker 3: Was just right, and so it's just.
Speaker 4: Enough where he's behind it, and so he's kind of
Speaker 4: around his corner and I'm like, god, dang, like i'd
Speaker 4: seen him. He's hung up there forever. So we have
Speaker 4: and this is another. This is another like this was
Speaker 4: a year of lessons for me in the woods, from
Speaker 4: deer to turkeys, everything, and it was a year that
Speaker 4: I really needed for my own egos. That's probably my
Speaker 4: favorite year I have had hunting in the least successful.
Speaker 3: Year i've had.
Speaker 5: Okay, come on, man, right, it really was.
Speaker 3: Yea, so it was.
Speaker 4: And so here's another of the same thing. So bird's
Speaker 4: in My buddy's there, and I can see him. He's
Speaker 4: coming in the field and my corn's kind of up
Speaker 4: and he goes back behind it. And so where he's at,
Speaker 4: I'm on the other side of this corner and I
Speaker 4: can't see him. He's hammering, calling, hammering, calling, and he
Speaker 4: shuts up. He doesn't do anything, and I'm like, shesh,
Speaker 4: I'm like, weird, man, He's hanging up.
Speaker 5: He's not here.
Speaker 4: Well, then I hear him again and he's way.
Speaker 5: Up on this ridge over here, and I'm like, god damn,
Speaker 5: because he hadn't made a sound for about half hour.
Speaker 4: So I'm like, well, he's just slipped off down into
Speaker 4: this creek where I can't see him, and he's just
Speaker 4: the road that ridge up there up to the top.
Speaker 4: And so he's hammering. And then he's back in the
Speaker 4: next holler over.
Speaker 5: I can hear him. He's still hammering. He started this
Speaker 5: is I mean, we've been sitting there.
Speaker 4: An hour and a half, two hours at this point,
Speaker 4: because I'm like, working this bird, How can I get
Speaker 4: him to come in here? And he's just back and
Speaker 4: forth in this ridge, back and forth in this ridge. Okay,
Speaker 4: So eventually I'm like, all right, man, this bird's me. Dude, Look,
Speaker 4: I'm not getting this bird. He's one. I mean, this
Speaker 4: hen that I am is going to have to come
Speaker 4: to him to make it happen. And that ain't happening, right,
Speaker 4: So I get up walk over. Dude, guess who's standing
Speaker 4: right there in the same spot.
Speaker 3: Wasn't the same bird.
Speaker 5: Just standing in that field for an hour and a half.
Speaker 3: Not God, I couldn't.
Speaker 4: I couldn't see him, and I walked around the corner
Speaker 4: and he's just like this, and I'm like, I'm.
Speaker 1: Just like, it's your kneeds.
Speaker 5: I was just like and it.
Speaker 4: Was like, so I just that field and that bird,
Speaker 4: and it's just and there. Here's the thing, there's no
Speaker 4: way to know if you'll ever get that bird. He
Speaker 4: might still be there. He's probably still there. But turkeys
Speaker 4: are all but turkeys are also similar. There's no signifying,
Speaker 4: you know, he's not like the deer. You can go
Speaker 4: what scarface the turkeys, they all kind of a lot.
Speaker 5: Of ways look the same.
Speaker 3: You'll know if there's only if there's only.
Speaker 5: One bird in my place, I don't know. Ye sure
Speaker 5: it's still him, But I've.
Speaker 2: Got that bird. I've got that same kind. I've got
Speaker 2: that same bird. I hunted literally all season long, same
Speaker 2: exact thing, roosted on the same ridge, flew off in
Speaker 2: the same place every day. And that was the season
Speaker 2: for me, Like you said, like probably one of my
Speaker 2: favorite turkey seasons I've ever had, because I ended up last.
Speaker 2: It was like the last week of season, missed him
Speaker 2: at like fifty five yards, watched him fly off, but
Speaker 2: I learned more about turkey hunting and how to react
Speaker 2: and interact with a Tom during that season. Then you
Speaker 2: could read a book and you could watching the show anything.
Speaker 2: You just just being out there and getting stumped over it.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's just like writing songs. You got to
Speaker 2: get in the room and write a bunch of bunch
Speaker 2: a bunch of bad songs to get the.
Speaker 4: One that you read that every Tom Kelly book and
Speaker 4: if you ain't in the woods, it don't mind her.
Speaker 3: That's as close as it gets. Tom.
Speaker 1: The book is as close as it gets actually doing it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but you're right, there is no substitute for doing it. Yeah,
Speaker 3: for the Woods education for sure. So me and Luke said,
Speaker 3: we're gonna go turning outing two years ago. He calls me,
Speaker 3: hey man, come spend the night of the house. We've
Speaker 3: gotta be up at five. I was like, cool, fly over,
Speaker 3: spend the night, get up the next morning.
Speaker 5: Oh you mean bas I don't know what they call.
Speaker 5: It was like a dance class.
Speaker 3: Don't give it, give it, so get over there and
Speaker 3: uh kind of similar. It was the end of season,
Speaker 3: so we were like, Luke was basically just like, hey man,
Speaker 3: let's just try it. Who knows it was like cool,
Speaker 3: Get up, go sit on the tree. I had worn
Speaker 3: my stuff that I had been I had sprayed up
Speaker 3: for methrone down by the way. If anybody's wondering, I
Speaker 3: had Rocky Mountain spoted fever twice and it was awful.
Speaker 3: I should just crawl through the woods and get ticks
Speaker 3: all over me. It happened all the time. But since
Speaker 3: I started spraying down with Sawyer's promethrone two days before season,
Speaker 3: let it sit outside all my dry I rarely pull
Speaker 3: ticks off me legit rarely.
Speaker 4: I'm telling you when I when I, when myself is treated,
Speaker 4: I've never had one.
Speaker 3: Top.
Speaker 1: I don't know that it's a game changer.
Speaker 3: Is now. Look, it may give us cancer, but it's
Speaker 3: definitely keeping.
Speaker 2: I don't give you rockymounted Spotify. They don't give you
Speaker 2: a tick in your beard that gives you rocking amounted
Speaker 2: spoti fever, because that's what happened.
Speaker 3: I've never been more mad at you when you smash
Speaker 3: that tick in my beard. Anyway, I couldn't find Tweezers.
Speaker 1: I used flyers.
Speaker 3: He was I was like, give me some tweezers to
Speaker 3: pull this tick on my beard. I can't do it.
Speaker 3: I'm standing there. We used to we had a house,
Speaker 3: we had a rent house, and I was like, hey, man,
Speaker 3: and I told him this.
Speaker 1: I was so, I don't even think it's like needle
Speaker 1: le face.
Speaker 3: It was need No.
Speaker 2: I think it was just like regularly. I think it's
Speaker 2: like wrench, like a wrench, I mean wrenched it out
Speaker 2: of there.
Speaker 1: No flyers.
Speaker 3: Oh, so I said, read, there's a tick in my beard. Man,
Speaker 3: I need you to not smash this tick. You're gonna
Speaker 3: put the tweegers on it, twist at slowly pulling out.
Speaker 3: He comes back with a pair of plots and mashes
Speaker 3: it into my face. And I'm pretty sure that's the
Speaker 3: tick that gave you. If we're being honest.
Speaker 1: Which is like just mashing.
Speaker 2: One can't give it to you like it just knowsn't
Speaker 2: get on you and you get it. It's got to
Speaker 2: be in so like you already had it. It wasn't
Speaker 2: me that gave it to you.
Speaker 3: Well, there's just there's an argument out there that it's
Speaker 3: actually the mashing of the tick that's debunked.
Speaker 2: It's it's it's a it's in the it's in there
Speaker 2: like saliva or whatever.
Speaker 5: You guys need scientists fact checking right now.
Speaker 1: But here's here's here's about this.
Speaker 5: I like when there's a fact check.
Speaker 1: Here's here's a fact right here.
Speaker 2: Only you can only get rocky mounted spotted fever from
Speaker 2: a tick that has gotten it from a deer.
Speaker 1: Like a tick.
Speaker 2: A tick that has been on a deer has to
Speaker 2: get on a deer get blood from it.
Speaker 3: We're gonna find how well that's it. Rocking spot fever
Speaker 3: is spread by the BT of an infected tick or
Speaker 3: by contamination of the skin with tick blood or.
Speaker 5: Feces, so it can be tick blood.
Speaker 1: I don't think that's right.
Speaker 3: I'm pretty sure that's exactly what I said. You have
Speaker 3: just close enough.
Speaker 1: I listened to a podcast.
Speaker 3: All right, we're inception three stories of deep right now.
Speaker 3: So let me just get through this. So Reed gives
Speaker 3: me spot of fear because he mashes it with the Plyers.
Speaker 3: Two years later, Man the Turkey count and I go
Speaker 3: to his house. We get out there, we're on the
Speaker 3: tree and all my stuff has been sprayed. Right.
Speaker 5: Stuff is usually spread.
Speaker 3: Yeah, one was because you just moved. Yeah that's right.
Speaker 1: Late season. You usually have to do it like a
Speaker 1: couple of sprays.
Speaker 3: He was using stuff that he wasn't using that wasn't sprayed.
Speaker 1: He had moved to the untreated care.
Speaker 3: We're sitting the same tree, same tree. Hand flies in.
Speaker 3: Not no goblin, right, I don't think there's any goblin.
Speaker 3: It was just really dead.
Speaker 5: It's really two hens flew over us.
Speaker 3: Start pretty late, really late. Some are up. It was
Speaker 3: just kind of a dead. Yes, Luke pulls his pant
Speaker 3: leg up like this, and when he does, there is
Speaker 3: like an army of seed ticks.
Speaker 5: It's got to be thirty at least.
Speaker 4: I'm serious, Like I was panicked.
Speaker 3: I started worrying about my future royalty chicks because I
Speaker 3: was like, this guy's gonna die. So I started picking
Speaker 3: them off. My myf He's swapping them on, like this
Speaker 3: guy can't die right now, I gotta have more cuts
Speaker 3: on it. Look at that tight.
Speaker 1: Cad and the.
Speaker 3: Cramping, seriously.
Speaker 5: Problem athlete.
Speaker 3: Start picking ticks off right So I'm like, he's like,
Speaker 3: hey man, what do we do? I was like, we're doing.
Speaker 3: This is a terrible morning. Let's go. So he we
Speaker 3: go back to the house. He immediately goes straight to
Speaker 3: the shower. I don't have the ticks on me, so
Speaker 3: I just changing mind. Jim shorts, T shirt, flip flops,
Speaker 3: cross whatever, bro Let's hit the Let's hit chifil A, sick,
Speaker 3: go to Chick fil A, ill of eating breakfast, meet
Speaker 3: too almost as I couldn't decide if I wanted't needed
Speaker 3: to run anyway. So we're coming back the house from
Speaker 3: Chick fil A and low hole behind his barn in
Speaker 3: the two track, we see a turkey and he's like, dude,
Speaker 3: is that a And I was like, I think so,
Speaker 3: I don't know why there's a lone gobbler at the
Speaker 3: second week of May or whenever the last season.
Speaker 4: At like ten thirty it.
Speaker 3: Was later, and I was like, dude, let's hop in
Speaker 3: the ranger and scoot down to this other thing. We'll
Speaker 3: put some Bino's on him and we can check him out.
Speaker 3: Sure enough, we do that without thinking to get our
Speaker 3: calls or our camo will be. I have on like
Speaker 3: a black T shirt and some jim shorts. He has
Speaker 3: on zubas, which give.
Speaker 4: They were very popular in the eighties, So give us
Speaker 4: a on down. What very billowye zebra pajama styles zebra print.
Speaker 1: In Carolina blue right in.
Speaker 4: The colors of your favorite team. So mine were Carolina
Speaker 4: Panthers z bas So he.
Speaker 3: Has on Zoo Baz pants and some shirt. I don't
Speaker 3: know what shirt he had.
Speaker 5: I did have a camera shirt.
Speaker 3: I did have a camera shirt. So we hot. We're like,
Speaker 3: I'm like, dude, this.
Speaker 5: Is short sleeve, short sleeve cameras.
Speaker 3: Yeah in tick tick time, yep it is.
Speaker 5: And I just had forty just had forty minutes before this.
Speaker 3: So there's a dry creek wed that runs parallel to
Speaker 3: this field that this turkey is in, and I'm like, hey, man,
Speaker 3: it's last. It's it's fourth quarter. I'm gonna be last.
Speaker 3: Ton of like, let's just give it a shot. So
Speaker 3: he's out there, just not really godflin, just kind of
Speaker 3: strutting around every now and then doing the thing. But
Speaker 3: all hens were nesting at this point, so.
Speaker 1: Ins of what he can to get one out there
Speaker 1: though exactly.
Speaker 3: So I'm like, man, I don't know if we can
Speaker 3: make this happen. You did have your gun with you,
Speaker 3: Thank goodness. I said, let's just try to parallel this
Speaker 3: bird on this creek. So get in the bed creep bed,
Speaker 3: start walking down through there, and we can't catch up
Speaker 3: to him, right like, every time we get twenty yards,
Speaker 3: he moves thirty. Every time we get forty yards, he
Speaker 3: moves sixty. And he's just making this way northward down
Speaker 3: the valley that Luton so eloquently described he lives on.
Speaker 3: It was a great job. You did a great job.
Speaker 3: And he goes all the way back with trees hedged
Speaker 3: around it. So he's making his way north of this valley,
Speaker 3: away from the house, away from us. So last ditch effort.
Speaker 3: I'm like, oh, oh, portant important point he had. I
Speaker 3: didn't have his shoes on. He had on some crocs.
Speaker 3: So he's rolling down this creep bed. I am like
Speaker 3: every step in my old dad feet, right, yeah, So
Speaker 3: he like dusts me like I can't keep up with it.
Speaker 3: So he's somewhere north of me. The turkey is somewhere
Speaker 3: north of him. I'm struggling to catch up. I only
Speaker 3: have socks on them by this time. They're wet. It's
Speaker 3: gross everything, it's awful, it's hot everywhere. I was like,
Speaker 3: all right, I'm gonna just with my mouth make the
Speaker 3: closest thing I can do. A call, not a mouth call,
Speaker 3: not a mouth cause I didn't have any calls. I
Speaker 3: reached my pocket, and I was like, you gotta be
Speaker 3: kidding me.
Speaker 8: I didn't any calls, so I literally just god, yeah,
Speaker 8: he gobbles so hard.
Speaker 3: Man. It had a little Chick fil had chicken grease
Speaker 3: in there, so it's probably yea, yeah, it sound like.
Speaker 1: An old hen.
Speaker 3: Yep. Yeah. So he he gobbles, and I'm like, now,
Speaker 3: as as a hunter, we all know this is not normal.
Speaker 3: Product this Normally that bird would have just right. For
Speaker 3: some reason, this turkey was so hot he gobbled, and
Speaker 3: I was like, this is working.
Speaker 2: But also as a hunter, you know, if you can
Speaker 2: get a bird to gobble at you at ten o'clock
Speaker 2: in the morning, there's a good chance that bird's gonna.
Speaker 1: Come ck, especially if he's within range of a gun.
Speaker 3: And he was so he god was, well, I don't
Speaker 3: necessarily know where Luke is because he's somewhere north of
Speaker 3: me in this creek, but I know the turkey is
Speaker 3: now coming to me. So I'm like, I mean, now
Speaker 3: he's he's double on triple Godwin, and I'm like, I
Speaker 3: gotta see what's happening, right, So I like poke my
Speaker 3: head over this creek and bab mean, when I get
Speaker 3: about right here, I can see his full fan Dude,
Speaker 3: he's just doing this, just coming to me. And I
Speaker 3: was like, man, I hope Luke knows that this is happening.
Speaker 3: And I think as an unexperienced owner you would have
Speaker 3: you wouldn't have known what to do, But as an
Speaker 3: experience hunter, you knew that joker was on a string.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah. So as I'm calling, I'm like, man, I
Speaker 3: don't know if if this is going to happen. All
Speaker 3: of a sudden, I was like, oh, snap shot, and
Speaker 3: I jump up and all I can see is him
Speaker 3: running through the field and that turkey.
Speaker 1: Is flopping out there in the middle of panther. It
Speaker 1: was like it was.
Speaker 3: Slam wind. And so we're like, I go run, I
Speaker 3: have no shoes on, in shorts, run through the field.
Speaker 1: We're like hug turkeys, flyop.
Speaker 3: We took pictures in Zuba's iconic iconic picture and I
Speaker 3: was like, hey, man, I was like, listen, I know
Speaker 3: we killed this turkey the correct way, like we call
Speaker 3: that turkey in Yeah.
Speaker 1: Everything about it was leg You're in.
Speaker 3: Zuba's pants and I have on shorts, Like maybe don't
Speaker 3: post it that day. He's like, got my turkey, baby,
Speaker 3: like it's just us and the Zuma. He wasn't should
Speaker 3: have been proud of it. I shouldn't even have said that.
Speaker 1: It was awesome to great.
Speaker 4: But it was the thing that saved us. Was the
Speaker 4: the creek bed man.
Speaker 3: Oh, no way we could have done because he couldn't.
Speaker 5: When you get down that creek bed, you can go
Speaker 5: along that.
Speaker 3: What is it probably six foot it's probably six foot of.
Speaker 2: That is the perfect case scenario for that scenario, for
Speaker 2: that bird being there.
Speaker 4: Anytime there's a turkey that I can see, I'm in
Speaker 4: that greek bed.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because you can move on.
Speaker 4: As I can move up, I can get to them
Speaker 4: without you know what I mean. If that wasn't point,
Speaker 4: that would be an almost impossible field.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it would.
Speaker 2: Let's get into turkey hunts since y'all or we're dying
Speaker 2: to talk about it. Twenty twenty one, you're going you're
Speaker 2: on tour and you did a single season Slam. Yeah,
Speaker 2: let's get into album the first one where it was
Speaker 2: and then your track to the.
Speaker 3: To the last one.
Speaker 6: I started in Florida. Uh, I did the Oscilla. I
Speaker 6: was in a mocholely and I was I had it
Speaker 6: in my head. I was gonna go hunt this place
Speaker 6: called Big Cypress, which is like this insane WMA that's
Speaker 6: like hard as hell to hunt, like you have to
Speaker 6: be like I think that the week opening weekend i went,
Speaker 6: there was like probably three thousand hunters out there.
Speaker 5: Oh my god.
Speaker 6: I mean that it's like it's like a giant It's
Speaker 6: like a hundred something thousand acre And there was like
Speaker 6: twenty turkeys killed.
Speaker 2: And their season opens the first of March. Yeah, first,
Speaker 2: first one and uh so they killed yeah three.
Speaker 6: Numbers could be off a little bit, but it was
Speaker 6: something of that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, is it is it tough hunting or is there
Speaker 1: just not birds there?
Speaker 6: Like like walking it's all swamped, so you feel like
Speaker 6: I'm walking in like you know, this deep of water.
Speaker 6: There could be a gator, a freaking I mean you're
Speaker 6: south south south yeah yeah, so like could be yeah,
Speaker 6: and I'm just like by myself twenty miles back in
Speaker 6: this thing. Like it was tough. So I hunted that
Speaker 6: for like four or five days. I saw one hen
Speaker 6: and then an you hear to go no, no, and
Speaker 6: uh so.
Speaker 1: What's your playing like you have a show on Saturday Friday.
Speaker 6: Well, this one actually was before I was on tour.
Speaker 6: I think when I did this it was I think
Speaker 6: it was the year, like we had tours lined up
Speaker 6: right after Turkey season, and I was like, I know,
Speaker 6: if I'm going to get to do this Grand Slam
Speaker 6: probably in the next five years, this year is the
Speaker 6: year to do it. And so we did that and
Speaker 6: I called Dallas. I was like, you know anybody, and
Speaker 6: Mochley like I'm trying to kill like I really need
Speaker 6: to kill this. Mockaley is like a city down there.
Speaker 6: It's like right under Fort Myers.
Speaker 3: It's like a city named Monchayley. Yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah, So that I called Dallas and Dallas calls me.
Speaker 6: He's like, let me make a phone call, and he
Speaker 6: calls me back by those guys in five minutes later,
Speaker 6: he goes Happy Birthday and I was like, what he's
Speaker 6: like be at this address at six am. He said,
Speaker 6: call Michael Wadeo and got you on something. I said,
Speaker 6: all right, so I appreciate you. Six am. This dude
Speaker 6: takes me to his like private like his ranch, I guess.
Speaker 6: And there was so many turkeys and we called one
Speaker 6: in shot one And if I had planned better, I
Speaker 6: might or if I'd have done some more like mobile scouting.
Speaker 6: Maybe I could have killed one at that, but I
Speaker 6: watched a h the hunt public. They posted a video
Speaker 6: going down there and it took them like eight days
Speaker 6: to kill one in that same w may that which
Speaker 6: made me feel good about myself. And then after that
Speaker 6: I went up to Georgia and shot one. This was
Speaker 6: actually crazy. Ill I got out of the truck. I'd
Speaker 6: been hunting for like three days in Georgia. I got
Speaker 6: out of the truck and I was walking in the woods,
Speaker 6: like you know, you can go into like two PM
Speaker 6: and get just a random if you get one of
Speaker 6: goblet two.
Speaker 1: No doubt, absolutely that ten to two windows.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 6: And I walked in and I heard like I was
Speaker 6: just walking like brushing by these leaves like a field edge.
Speaker 6: So you got a field and like thick woods yea.
Speaker 6: And I brushed this thing beside me, a turkey gobble
Speaker 6: twenty yards in the woods.
Speaker 1: At you brushing something at me?
Speaker 6: Ran out into the field. I laid down on my
Speaker 6: back and shot it, and I was like, yeah, well,
Speaker 6: like I just laid down flat on my back because
Speaker 6: I heard something rustling out and I just kind of
Speaker 6: like fell down. So that was my Georgia bird was
Speaker 6: super lucky. I ended up killing one. I ended up
Speaker 6: killing one in Tennessee too, because I was like, I
Speaker 6: think I need to like put a little more work
Speaker 6: in every one. So I ended up killing one of Nashville,
Speaker 6: Florida at your East Eastern And then I went to
Speaker 6: Wyoming and shot my Marriam.
Speaker 1: That was that was the picture with the bus right.
Speaker 6: No, that was the next year. That was that was
Speaker 6: kind of sick and uh so I shot that one
Speaker 6: that was pretty easier, just it was kind of just
Speaker 6: like get in front of him out west and uh
Speaker 6: then I shot my Rio, which was the hardest one,
Speaker 6: and I shot that in Kansas. We went. I flew
Speaker 6: to Kansas hunter for three days on like me and
Speaker 6: somebodies went to public and it was late seasons and
Speaker 6: they were just like my buddy shot one and I
Speaker 6: couldn't get on one. And it's weird too, like when
Speaker 6: you don't have your own truck, like when you're with
Speaker 6: three other dudes. And I didn't know him that well,
Speaker 6: but I just knew they were going and so I
Speaker 6: couldn't really like do my do what I wanted to do.
Speaker 6: I was just kind of with them the crowd. Yeah,
Speaker 6: so then I flew back to Nashville and then I
Speaker 6: was like last it was the last week there, and
Speaker 6: I was like, I'm not like I got to kill this.
Speaker 6: So me and Joe Fox drove out.
Speaker 2: You didn't kill in Kansas when you went, so you've
Speaker 2: got all three except this one.
Speaker 1: Last week it Turkey the real.
Speaker 6: So I come back to Nashville and then I drove
Speaker 6: back to Kansas the next week, which was the last
Speaker 6: week of the season, and UH hunted for like three
Speaker 6: or four days on a bunch of public and that
Speaker 6: every time you just drove by one on the road,
Speaker 6: they ran because they were so skittish by this point.
Speaker 6: And Uh, I actually posted on Instagram because I was like,
Speaker 6: if I got some following on there, I'll hit some
Speaker 6: people up. And so Kent and Bryant he knew it.
Speaker 6: Dude in West Kansas. And I called the dude and
Speaker 6: it was two and a half hours away from where
Speaker 6: I was, and he was like, dude, I'm tagged out.
Speaker 6: He runs like a little guy thing like not like
Speaker 6: a guid's service, but he guides his buddies and they
Speaker 6: pay him. Like he was like, dude, just come out
Speaker 6: here on my farm and hunt. He said, I have
Speaker 6: this massive turkey that I've been trying to kill for
Speaker 6: three years that I haven't been able to kill. He's
Speaker 6: like five or six. He's gonna die this year in
Speaker 6: the offseason. There's no way. He makes it like, come
Speaker 6: kill him.
Speaker 5: I can't.
Speaker 6: I'm out of taxs. I was like, hey, yes, im
Speaker 6: me and Joe drive two and a half hours there,
Speaker 6: and uh we sit like I wish, I wish I
Speaker 6: had like a picture to show off, because this is
Speaker 6: like insane. But if you can imagine like a dirt
Speaker 6: road coming like this and then veer into the right
Speaker 6: and on the right side of the dirt rods this
Speaker 6: little cow pasture like cow like muddy dirt pit with
Speaker 6: a little cow barn. Ye, the other side of the
Speaker 6: road is woods, this dirt rope. And the guy told
Speaker 6: me And in Kansas they come out of nowhere because
Speaker 6: they walk those planes like they'll walk in the plane
Speaker 6: during the day, like miles and miles of miles, and
Speaker 6: so like, I.
Speaker 2: Was like, there's no way there's a turkey right here.
Speaker 6: There's one patch of woods like we would have seen
Speaker 6: them coming in. But we start sitting down and start
Speaker 6: seeing this turkeys piling, piling, piling, And we sat down
Speaker 6: at two.
Speaker 3: So this is like afternoon.
Speaker 6: Ye yeah, Like we sat down like one or two
Speaker 6: and just waited all day. And then at like three
Speaker 6: or four, we start hearing them gobling this little cowpit.
Speaker 6: I'm like, no, crap. So they start.
Speaker 3: Gobbling and this is the last day.
Speaker 6: No sorry, this is Saturday, Sunday is the last day.
Speaker 1: Pressure.
Speaker 6: Yeah, the pressure's on. And I'm like, I've hunted so
Speaker 6: hard for this freaking rio. I was like, I think
Speaker 6: that Georgia Burr was so easy that it's like paying
Speaker 6: you back. Yeah, And so I start calling, and the
Speaker 6: where I'm at, like if you can imagine, like this point,
Speaker 6: there's woods like this, the turkeys can cross the road
Speaker 6: and come this road or go this little road on
Speaker 6: the private property, not like a dirt road, but just
Speaker 6: like a path or this path. And so we're calling
Speaker 6: on this path and they crossed the road, and I
Speaker 6: guess they went this way because we were like, man,
Speaker 6: we've been here and we know they should have crossed
Speaker 6: the road by now.
Speaker 3: And so at this point are they in the woods?
Speaker 3: Are they still in there?
Speaker 6: They've crossed the road and they're in the woods. That's
Speaker 6: where we are. But I got like, I wish I
Speaker 6: could like show you off. So like if you can
Speaker 6: imagine where my road starts. When they cross the road
Speaker 6: to me, there's just like triangle and it's a triangle
Speaker 6: like this, and it stops like this, and behind that
Speaker 6: triangle is the river way back there five hundred yards.
Speaker 6: That's where they're going to there, So they're going to
Speaker 6: get through my triangle. They're gonna walk through this big
Speaker 6: open field like that's huge back to the And I
Speaker 6: was like, Joe, I'm gonna just I'm on this end.
Speaker 6: I'm gonna stand up, and I'm gonna walk around this
Speaker 6: way and just see if they're walking that way. And
Speaker 6: so I picked the d koep out of the ground
Speaker 6: and I got it and I got my gun, and
Speaker 6: I'm walking around this way and I just see like
Speaker 6: a giant redhead like a yards in front of me.
Speaker 6: And and thankfully, like if it was early season, none
Speaker 6: of this brush would have been there, but it's.
Speaker 9: All grown up.
Speaker 6: And I saw it and I was like crap, and
Speaker 6: I just kind of dropped down in the ground and
Speaker 6: I had the decoy. I had this decoy with me,
Speaker 6: and I just it was. It wasn't like a strutter
Speaker 6: decoy or anything. It was a it was like a
Speaker 6: half struck little Jake decoy or like a half.
Speaker 3: Like the half shill decoys where.
Speaker 6: Its tails down. Yeah yeah, And so I it's like
Speaker 6: this big and I'm just like hiding behind it, and
Speaker 6: this turkey, this dude has been hunting man worked for
Speaker 6: me for four or five years, comes hollering at me,
Speaker 6: just running like he's about the fist. He gets like
Speaker 6: five ft away from me, and I smoke him. Really,
Speaker 6: he's got like three beards on him. His spurs are
Speaker 6: insanely big.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 6: I'm still waiting to get him back mounted because I
Speaker 6: have like the three things and then he'll go on
Speaker 6: like a pedestal in the middle of But it was
Speaker 6: a grind for sure, wasn't he The last laspar wasn't
Speaker 6: pain in the butt?
Speaker 1: Yeah, but that makes the whole thing it was worth yeah,
Speaker 1: worth it.
Speaker 6: And then Joe ended up killing one off that property
Speaker 6: the next day.
Speaker 1: So a single season slam man.
Speaker 2: That's you can't do that with kids, Like, you can't
Speaker 2: do that with young kids like you were in the
Speaker 2: perfect scenario.
Speaker 3: We're married.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like like, yeah, that's that's that's the twenties.
Speaker 3: I mean you were how old are you?
Speaker 6: I'm twenty six now, it's probably twenty three.
Speaker 3: I mean that's the time that we were doing the
Speaker 3: same thing.
Speaker 6: I knew that too. I even told you. I was like,
Speaker 6: this is probably my last year for a while. If
Speaker 6: my career gets busy, like I wanted to that, I'll
Speaker 6: be able to do this for sure.
Speaker 2: We've heard if you've listened to the if you listen
Speaker 2: to the Brothers Hunt podcast, you've heard this story.
Speaker 3: Oh I told it on there.
Speaker 1: Oh dude, this is a great story.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: But but for our new listeners, man.
Speaker 3: This is this is one million percent true. And I
Speaker 3: just co write this story with me because it's been
Speaker 3: ten years at this point. Probably so helped me get
Speaker 3: through it. But the abbreviated version is me and Randy
Speaker 3: were going hunting. We were going turkey hunting, and on
Speaker 3: the way to the camp, we stopped by a gas station.
Speaker 3: I don't care to even say where it was. It
Speaker 3: was on the corner of the main intersection in Columbia
Speaker 3: where you take that right on those coordinates, Ruanella, Yeah,
Speaker 3: they got great gas station, chicken. I'll tell you to
Speaker 3: drop you a pen. I will share those where the
Speaker 3: best gas station chicken strips are anyway, you know what
Speaker 3: I'm talking about, right there on the left or that shell. Yeah,
Speaker 3: all right, we go in there. We walk in the
Speaker 3: entire way down sixty five. We had been talking about
Speaker 3: rattlesnakes and getting bitten by rattlesnakes. I don't know why.
Speaker 3: We were just yeah, right, we were talking about it,
Speaker 3: turkey out. It was on our brain. So we pull
Speaker 3: up into this gas station. We get out, I'm like, hey, man,
Speaker 3: a couple of chicken strips. This place is awesome. Let's
Speaker 3: knock it out. You know. We walk in, we go in.
Speaker 1: There is this chicken strip at like four thirty in
Speaker 1: the morning.
Speaker 3: It was not before.
Speaker 1: It was night before. That's right, chicken strips.
Speaker 3: It was like, so we roll in there and we
Speaker 3: can't even make this up. Du I can't. This story
Speaker 3: is so crazy. It doesn't sound real, but I promise
Speaker 3: this is real. We walk in and straight out of
Speaker 3: nineteen eighty five is a guy behind the counter with
Speaker 3: feathered blonde Yeah.
Speaker 1: Hair, what is feathered?
Speaker 4: Me?
Speaker 3: Like blonde?
Speaker 10: It was like it was like flat iron straight but fixed.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 10: He just looked like the guy that was in a
Speaker 10: kind of a white He was kind of ripped. Was
Speaker 10: he was a white It looked like he was in
Speaker 10: a white Snake video.
Speaker 3: White Snake with snake Rattle and even.
Speaker 9: Super Tan Switch think about it.
Speaker 3: It was April.
Speaker 1: How was that guy?
Speaker 3: I still think he was an angel or me to
Speaker 3: mit could have been either angel or ghosts.
Speaker 4: I can't make this up, dude.
Speaker 3: I can't make this up, dude. He had an ear
Speaker 3: ring that looks beautiful, just a diamond ear ring. Maybe two,
Speaker 3: I don't know, but definitely one. One. No, it was one.
Speaker 3: It was just one.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 3: And so we walked in and uh, this noticeably I
Speaker 3: guess we were in Camo or something. He recognized we
Speaker 3: were are going hunting. Yeah, he had a a skin graft.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he was like ripped and I remember, but.
Speaker 3: There was a giant like the entire top of his
Speaker 3: arm was grafted, obviously not regularly born with skin so
Speaker 3: much so you can see like hiss ten ins and stuff.
Speaker 1: Yeah, something went down.
Speaker 3: We walk up to the thing to pay for our strips.
Speaker 3: The guy goes, we don't see anything. He goes, you
Speaker 3: boys going hunting. We were like, oh, well, we're headed
Speaker 3: to camp tonight, you know, and he goes, watch out
Speaker 3: for them rattlesnakes. Didn't he we had just been talking
Speaker 3: about for an hour. Yeah, he goes watch out for
Speaker 3: them rattle snakes, and me and Randy look at each
Speaker 3: other like, wow, what happened. I'll give it to you.
Speaker 3: You take this bar the story. How did he tell us?
Speaker 3: It's just a lot of my line.
Speaker 5: Well, he was just like, yeah, he started telling us
Speaker 5: his back.
Speaker 9: I was seventeen years old.
Speaker 3: He just thought I was bulletproof.
Speaker 1: And he says, I picked up.
Speaker 11: He goes, there was one, you know, on the ground
Speaker 11: or whatever. Somebody dared me to pick him up, he says,
Speaker 11: So he picks it up, and he just like and
Speaker 11: then he points at that big skin graft up his
Speaker 11: arm and he goes, and that's what happens. That venom
Speaker 11: runs up yarm, you know what I mean?
Speaker 3: Like it's something he's telling us this, and we're just like,
Speaker 3: no way, this is.
Speaker 1: After we've just been talking about just looking at this.
Speaker 3: We're just staring at this.
Speaker 1: Ten Angel Slash ghosts.
Speaker 3: Out of a nineteen eighties music video, The Venom Runs
Speaker 3: Beyond Bull. Yeah.
Speaker 12: Yeah, but it was real nice about it SERI sweet.
Speaker 12: So just didn't fit. It just didn't fit. It's we're like,
Speaker 12: that's weird. Hit the truck, drive to Western Cee, spend
Speaker 12: the night, get up the next morning. It was that
Speaker 12: bird that lived on top of that hill.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, about five years.
Speaker 3: Five years, so me and Randy getting there super early.
Speaker 1: Probably that bird had probably we put him to bed
Speaker 1: twenty seven.
Speaker 3: We put him in bed.
Speaker 10: Yeah, we put him in to bed, okay, and then
Speaker 10: from the bottom and then we're like, we'll walk the
Speaker 10: ridge in the morning.
Speaker 3: Call this bird up. Bird stays at what eighty not
Speaker 3: shooting range.
Speaker 11: Oh, I've never seen a bird hit the ground in
Speaker 11: like less daylight than that bird did.
Speaker 3: And it was super early, super early. He's fanning, strutting,
Speaker 3: I mean, gobbling everything you want him to do, will
Speaker 3: not hadn't even been haunted that year. I think that
Speaker 3: was early. And so we sit there and toy with
Speaker 3: his bird for hours until we're like, dude, that he
Speaker 3: ain't coming. Let's go get on another one. We turn,
Speaker 3: we get up. We're walking back up the ridge to
Speaker 3: the truck and I see Randy pick his right foot
Speaker 3: up to go to step over a log and ask
Speaker 3: the morning after we see rattlesnake Ricky. The morning after
Speaker 3: we meet that, he raises his leg, goes there he is,
Speaker 3: or he goes there she is? And I said what
Speaker 3: he was like? He puts his foot back down. I
Speaker 3: stepped over and cold up is the biggest peace? Yeah,
Speaker 3: probably four and a half five foot, you know, not
Speaker 3: super long. But I'm telling you, like a Louisville slutter due.
Speaker 3: It was this big and and the craziest thing about rats.
Speaker 3: And this was the thing I always I tell this
Speaker 3: when I tell the story, I always think about this.
Speaker 3: Every snake I've ever ran up on copperhead, any of
Speaker 3: that stuff. During both season or whatever, We'll see you
Speaker 3: and kind of dip. This rattlesnake like literally looks up
Speaker 3: at us and it's like square up.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what do you go about the problem?
Speaker 3: What we're gonna do? Man? How are we gonna do?
Speaker 3: I'm moving, y'all have the thing in these woods and
Speaker 3: I have been for thousands of years? What's up? How
Speaker 3: are we going to handle this?
Speaker 5: So true man?
Speaker 3: And the jaw. I just remember, did.
Speaker 1: You immediately think of rat snake Ricky when you saw it?
Speaker 1: You're so much so.
Speaker 3: That when we came back through. We were like, dude,
Speaker 3: we gotta stop in there. Never seen him again. It
Speaker 3: wasn't working there. He didn't work there. Weeks after he
Speaker 3: has never been seen again. If that guy listened to
Speaker 3: this podcast, hit us up, dude, because I would like to.
Speaker 13: See you as a kid running by my window when
Speaker 13: I was growing up.
Speaker 1: Bro rattlesnake Ricky.
Speaker 3: What that kid?
Speaker 4: Ricky?
Speaker 1: Though? You said, Michael Olads, Oh man, that's.
Speaker 3: A true story.
Speaker 13: When when you have a gobbler goblin or two or
Speaker 13: three or four and they're just over a ridge and
Speaker 13: you can't see them, but they're right there and you
Speaker 13: can hear them spitting the drumming. That is a different
Speaker 13: kind of heartbeat. That's a different kind of adrenaline. And
Speaker 13: all turkey hunters know exactly what I'm talking about. And
Speaker 13: it doesn't matter where it is Tennessee, Missouri, Turkey.
Speaker 1: It's just hot goblin in front of you.
Speaker 9: It doesn't matter where it is.
Speaker 3: Can you walk us through one of your favorite turkey hunts.
Speaker 3: I'd just like to hear turkey hunting for a set.
Speaker 3: I haven't I haven't even broke the seal on this.
Speaker 13: And I've got so many I have no earthly idea
Speaker 13: one that it's just special.
Speaker 9: Turkey hunt, special turkey hunt.
Speaker 3: It could be anything, could be anywhere with anybody, could
Speaker 3: be your by yourself. I always think about the one
Speaker 3: I killed on public over here on the lake. That
Speaker 3: was you killed one on public ground.
Speaker 9: That's always a good one.
Speaker 13: I killed a turkey where I used to live in
Speaker 13: Leapers Fork. I had fourteen acres out there, and I
Speaker 13: had one gobbler that would hammer across the black top
Speaker 13: road from my ridge every day. And I knew he
Speaker 13: was old because it was real high pitch, and I
Speaker 13: just knew he was a new one of jake. And
Speaker 13: because I've heard enough old old gowblers gobbled where you
Speaker 13: think it's a jake and it's not a ja winds
Speaker 13: up not being a Jacin's super old bird. But anyway,
Speaker 13: this bird was over there and he would do it
Speaker 13: like and it got to the point where I thought
Speaker 13: he was teasing me, because I'd go on my ridge
Speaker 13: and I'd shoot, you know, a handful of two year
Speaker 13: olds of what from year after year or whatever, and
Speaker 13: some decent birds, but that one bird, you could always
Speaker 13: tell it was him by the way he gobbled.
Speaker 9: And I never could get him to come in. And
Speaker 9: then I don't hunt May much because it gets so hot.
Speaker 1: Yeah, snakes and spiders.
Speaker 13: And one morning it was it was one of those
Speaker 13: tick hot mornings, and it was like and I heard
Speaker 13: him over a goblin and it was in May and
Speaker 13: said towards the end of the season.
Speaker 9: At the time, in the morning, and I don't even remember.
Speaker 9: It wasn't it wasn't early, and it wasn't late.
Speaker 13: He was just he was just over there, just you know,
Speaker 13: you know how they do after they're just walking circles
Speaker 13: on the ridgetop, just.
Speaker 9: You know, for no reason.
Speaker 3: There's nothing.
Speaker 9: They don't have any hens with them.
Speaker 13: Everybody's bred out. But he's still over there, just hammering it,
Speaker 13: getting what he can get. Yeah, So I said, whatever,
Speaker 13: I'm gonna go up there. And you gotta climb a
Speaker 13: steep hill to get up there. So I go up there,
Speaker 13: and I'm across a blacktop from him, and we're two ridges.
Speaker 13: He's a ridge over here, and there's a big there's
Speaker 13: a black top it runs between us, and he's got
Speaker 13: to go. If he ever came over, you have to
Speaker 13: walk across the field, go across the black top. So
Speaker 13: I go up there, and I just I went up
Speaker 13: there and I said, I'm not just gonna regularly yelp
Speaker 13: at him. I'm gonna I'm going to strike the band
Speaker 13: up here, because I remember hearing Toxi hays it one
Speaker 13: time when I was hunting with him. He got so
Speaker 13: aggressive one time on one bird, and I never forgot it,
Speaker 13: and I was like, I mean, the hat comes off,
Speaker 13: he's got two push pullers in meach hand, he's got
Speaker 13: his mouth CAUs and it sounds like there's one hundred
Speaker 13: turkeys trying to kill.
Speaker 1: What you just did with your voice is kind of crazy.
Speaker 9: He just that's what you did.
Speaker 13: Yeah, that sounds like a well when you put a
Speaker 13: when you put a mouth call in, you go.
Speaker 9: And you do all that's good, and you've got all.
Speaker 13: This going on in your hands, and you're and you
Speaker 13: take a hat off your shop and you start breaking stuff,
Speaker 13: breaks and stuff limbs, anything. You make as much noise
Speaker 13: as you get. It sounds like one hundred turkeys trying
Speaker 13: to kill each other. That's what I pulled out on.
Speaker 5: This joke.
Speaker 1: Struck a nerve somewhere.
Speaker 9: And in ten minutes. It took him a minute to decide.
Speaker 9: But he frick.
Speaker 13: And when I say ten minutes, ten minutes, it's a
Speaker 13: short spirit. That's how far away this bird was from me.
Speaker 13: He come down off that hill and he stopped goblin.
Speaker 13: And I knew when he quit goblining, when he got
Speaker 13: down to the bottom of his ridge, when he stopped,
Speaker 13: he's coming.
Speaker 9: I knew it.
Speaker 5: I just knew it.
Speaker 9: Could you see the shut I shut up.
Speaker 3: Could you see the bike?
Speaker 13: Now, it was a little thick, but I was on
Speaker 13: top of the and it's so steep, but I was like, oh, frick,
Speaker 13: he quick gobbling, he's coming.
Speaker 9: I know he is. And next time, next time I
Speaker 9: heard him.
Speaker 1: He was right. That's awesome.
Speaker 13: He was right there about fifty yards from me, and
Speaker 13: I'm like, oh, this is going to happen.
Speaker 9: I shot this bird, went over to him.
Speaker 13: He had his left leg, he had one spur that
Speaker 13: grew out and grew back into his left leg.
Speaker 9: He had no spur on his right leg. It was all.
Speaker 5: It was just gone.
Speaker 9: It was like an old buck.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 13: And he had this old, mangy looking beard that come
Speaker 13: down And I never forgot that. That was probably the
Speaker 13: most satisfying that I killed an old monarch like that.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Man, for sure, that's awesome.
Speaker 1: And he gets me fired up.
Speaker 3: Just thinking about all the hunts I've ever had in
Speaker 3: my life.
Speaker 2: Turkey season special, that that first that opening weekend, first
Speaker 2: morning in the woods and you've got birds gobbling around
Speaker 2: and you're sitting on a back against a white oak.
Speaker 11: Man.
Speaker 2: They that that opening day moment is special.
Speaker 3: Yes, that's something.
Speaker 2: And I think as we get older, like I kind
Speaker 2: of fell out of love with turkey hunting for a
Speaker 2: minute when I was getting into deer hunting so much.
Speaker 2: But as I get older and love deer hunting more,
Speaker 2: I find myself loving turkey hunting more just for what
Speaker 2: it is.
Speaker 1: Like my my one day is is sitting you know.
Speaker 2: In a tree standing Kansas, waiting for you know, rattling,
Speaker 2: trying in the middle of November, trying to rattle in
Speaker 2: a deer.
Speaker 1: But I appreciate turkey hunting and what it gives me
Speaker 1: in the spring, you know, just.
Speaker 3: Also kind of our social outlet hunt, right, like we
Speaker 3: don't I mean, we deer hunt like crazy, but it's
Speaker 3: kind of a solitary thing, like we don't hunt with
Speaker 3: a lot of people, you know, deer hunting, and then
Speaker 3: with turkey hunt man it's just like me and you,
Speaker 3: or me and dad, or.
Speaker 1: Running gun, just kind of trying to figure it out.
Speaker 3: Talking. I think back to my one of my favorite
Speaker 3: hunts was that we walked, We slept in can for
Speaker 3: got up, walked all the way over to the new
Speaker 3: least and you shot that bird in the in the rain,
Speaker 3: and we had to walk back and started raining on
Speaker 3: that rich The sun came out right, it was sun
Speaker 3: and we were walking through all this like timber that
Speaker 3: had been select cut and it's rain. It was raining
Speaker 3: while the sun was out, and Reid had a turkey
Speaker 3: on his back and there was nowhere to get out
Speaker 3: of the rain. It was just soaking us and the
Speaker 3: sun was out. And I remember walking across that oat
Speaker 3: flat and you couldn't wipe the smart smile off my face.
Speaker 3: It was just like it almost felt movie esque, you
Speaker 3: know what I mean, Like you were it just felt
Speaker 3: like you were in a freaking movie, man. And that's
Speaker 3: the that's the thing for turkey hunting, that like you're
Speaker 3: not gonna get that in deer hunting. If it's raining
Speaker 3: on you in deer season, You're like, I gotta get
Speaker 3: out of that ship.
Speaker 13: It's freezing because that God with anything, the goble thunder,
Speaker 13: that thunder goblin.
Speaker 3: It's fun too, all right.
Speaker 1: We could do this all day