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Speaker 1: hounds and Appalachia. Go check all that out. Daddy got

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Speaker 1: And he says, now, this story is too good to keep,

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Speaker 1: and he puts the fire out, and he had missed

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Speaker 1: He just stood there and said, what you know, because

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Speaker 1: They enjoined the popularity that he had back then, and

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Speaker 1: is exactly sixty two years younger than mister Neil. Koy

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00:23:44,080 --> 00:23:47,600
Speaker 1: House is nineteen years old, and he lives in western Arkansas.

430
00:23:48,080 --> 00:23:50,320
Speaker 1: I grew up with his mom and dad, and he's

431
00:23:50,359 --> 00:23:53,400
Speaker 1: a great young man for a lot of reasons, one

432
00:23:53,440 --> 00:23:56,600
Speaker 1: of which is that he's a passionate turkey hunter. This

433
00:23:56,640 --> 00:23:59,720
Speaker 1: story is about the first bird he ever killed completely

434
00:23:59,760 --> 00:24:06,000
Speaker 1: on his own, well almost on his own. Here's ky. Well,

435
00:24:06,200 --> 00:24:08,679
Speaker 1: I've been turgy hunting for a while, me and Steve,

436
00:24:08,960 --> 00:24:11,760
Speaker 1: my grandpa. Every you know, everybody knows Steve pretty well.

437
00:24:12,040 --> 00:24:14,640
Speaker 1: If he's turgy hunting, I'm with him nine times out

438
00:24:14,640 --> 00:24:16,879
Speaker 1: of ten. I fell in love with it, and we

439
00:24:17,000 --> 00:24:20,439
Speaker 1: just love to do it together. Well, this particular story

440
00:24:20,840 --> 00:24:23,320
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you about, turgy season had opened and

441
00:24:23,320 --> 00:24:25,720
Speaker 1: I was thinking was that week, so I'd have been fourteen.

442
00:24:26,320 --> 00:24:29,640
Speaker 1: The kind of kicker to the story is so Grandma

443
00:24:30,000 --> 00:24:32,760
Speaker 1: Mama Cathy. She was in the middle of having a

444
00:24:32,760 --> 00:24:35,919
Speaker 1: heartcat put in in the hospital. So Pauba wasn't hunting.

445
00:24:36,040 --> 00:24:38,680
Speaker 1: He wouldn't you know, He couldn't go. So I decided

446
00:24:38,680 --> 00:24:41,080
Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna go. We had a private spot

447
00:24:41,359 --> 00:24:43,800
Speaker 1: we called Nelson's. We have some cows over there and stuff.

448
00:24:43,880 --> 00:24:45,440
Speaker 1: So I went back in the cut. I had got

449
00:24:45,480 --> 00:24:48,679
Speaker 1: there late. It was probably I was breaking light and

450
00:24:48,720 --> 00:24:50,840
Speaker 1: again I was fourteen. Wouldn't supposed to be over there,

451
00:24:50,880 --> 00:24:52,840
Speaker 1: you know, driving, but it wasn't far from the house.

452
00:24:52,840 --> 00:24:55,160
Speaker 1: It's just a little truck ride. Well, I got back

453
00:24:55,200 --> 00:24:57,760
Speaker 1: in there and I give out and I just let

454
00:24:57,760 --> 00:25:02,400
Speaker 1: an old food out, you know, and he just right over.

455
00:25:02,880 --> 00:25:05,399
Speaker 1: I mean, he just like it was textbook. So I

456
00:25:05,440 --> 00:25:07,600
Speaker 1: get in there and I get where, you know, I've

457
00:25:07,680 --> 00:25:11,080
Speaker 1: learned watching from Papa. Get above the turkey, get him

458
00:25:11,080 --> 00:25:13,600
Speaker 1: off the roost, you know, call minimum on the roost.

459
00:25:13,640 --> 00:25:15,640
Speaker 1: He'll fly down to you. So I get up there,

460
00:25:15,680 --> 00:25:18,280
Speaker 1: I get above him. He's on the roost. I hoot

461
00:25:18,320 --> 00:25:20,679
Speaker 1: him again. He gobbles. So I get set up. I

462
00:25:20,720 --> 00:25:22,560
Speaker 1: just let out a few yelps, and he cuts me

463
00:25:22,600 --> 00:25:25,919
Speaker 1: off right there. He's probably fifty sixty yards, kind of

464
00:25:25,960 --> 00:25:29,040
Speaker 1: thicker in there, some pine trees. Oh, he gobbled, he gobbled,

465
00:25:29,040 --> 00:25:30,960
Speaker 1: he gobbled, and then all of a sudden, you just

466
00:25:31,000 --> 00:25:34,120
Speaker 1: kind of shut up. Well, i've seen a hen pitch off,

467
00:25:34,160 --> 00:25:35,920
Speaker 1: and she pitched off down an old cut in the

468
00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:38,399
Speaker 1: logging road. I've seen her here one another one and

469
00:25:38,480 --> 00:25:41,160
Speaker 1: here one another one. Well he just I didn't hear him,

470
00:25:41,200 --> 00:25:43,400
Speaker 1: and so I figured he pitched off with them. So

471
00:25:43,480 --> 00:25:45,560
Speaker 1: I just called, and sure enough he's down there in

472
00:25:45,560 --> 00:25:47,880
Speaker 1: that road, and he just gobbled right out and right there.

473
00:25:48,359 --> 00:25:50,440
Speaker 1: So I didn't I didn't know what to do, really,

474
00:25:50,480 --> 00:25:53,000
Speaker 1: I was kind of man. I tried my techniques out

475
00:25:53,040 --> 00:25:55,600
Speaker 1: at first, that I thought was supposed to be right,

476
00:25:56,119 --> 00:26:00,000
Speaker 1: and so I called Papa. He goes, hey, I'm back

477
00:26:00,040 --> 00:26:02,040
Speaker 1: here with Mama. She's fixing the me in surgery. And

478
00:26:02,119 --> 00:26:04,760
Speaker 1: I said, I need your help. I'm on a turkey.

479
00:26:04,960 --> 00:26:07,000
Speaker 1: He's down here in the road. I need to know

480
00:26:07,040 --> 00:26:09,640
Speaker 1: what to do. And I can hear Mama on the background.

481
00:26:09,680 --> 00:26:11,480
Speaker 1: She's fit, you know, she's getting ready there prepping her.

482
00:26:11,520 --> 00:26:13,159
Speaker 1: And she goes, Steve, you need to help him with

483
00:26:13,240 --> 00:26:14,880
Speaker 1: get that turkey. You know, you need to help him

484
00:26:14,880 --> 00:26:18,080
Speaker 1: get that turkey. And so he says, well, you need

485
00:26:18,119 --> 00:26:20,240
Speaker 1: to get around that turkey, figure out where he's going,

486
00:26:20,280 --> 00:26:22,520
Speaker 1: and get around that turkey and get up there above him.

487
00:26:22,600 --> 00:26:25,880
Speaker 1: Cut him off, He said, do maybe little calling, maybe

488
00:26:25,880 --> 00:26:27,760
Speaker 1: if not any at all type deal, just kind of

489
00:26:27,840 --> 00:26:30,199
Speaker 1: let it play out, let him come in. Well, so

490
00:26:30,280 --> 00:26:32,280
Speaker 1: by the time I had got back around I call him,

491
00:26:32,320 --> 00:26:34,640
Speaker 1: that turkey was already heading up the hill. I mean

492
00:26:34,680 --> 00:26:37,280
Speaker 1: he was gobbling. He just gobble, gobble, gobble, gobble gobble.

493
00:26:37,760 --> 00:26:39,640
Speaker 1: So I did what he said. After the first time,

494
00:26:39,920 --> 00:26:43,119
Speaker 1: I maneuvered around, and then once Eliza turkey was going

495
00:26:43,200 --> 00:26:46,240
Speaker 1: up the hill, I call him again immediately and I say, Papa,

496
00:26:46,280 --> 00:26:47,919
Speaker 1: you got him wife to walk me through this. I

497
00:26:48,000 --> 00:26:50,600
Speaker 1: need to know, said, Turkey's already beat me up there,

498
00:26:50,840 --> 00:26:52,520
Speaker 1: so what do? What do I do? He said, you

499
00:26:52,560 --> 00:26:54,439
Speaker 1: need to climb the hill and he said you need

500
00:26:54,480 --> 00:26:56,080
Speaker 1: to get as close as you can. And I said,

501
00:26:56,080 --> 00:26:58,159
Speaker 1: what Paula says, just like a two year old cut?

502
00:26:58,480 --> 00:27:00,439
Speaker 1: I said, it's pretty open. I said, I'm the Turkey's

503
00:27:00,440 --> 00:27:02,080
Speaker 1: gonna see me. He said, well, you need to get

504
00:27:02,160 --> 00:27:04,879
Speaker 1: up that he'll right before it breaks off. And he

505
00:27:04,880 --> 00:27:06,720
Speaker 1: said you need to get in. You need to dig in.

506
00:27:07,280 --> 00:27:09,240
Speaker 1: He said, once you dig in, if he answers you,

507
00:27:09,240 --> 00:27:10,960
Speaker 1: you know he might break free away from them hens.

508
00:27:10,960 --> 00:27:12,600
Speaker 1: He said, you might have sit there till eleven o'clock.

509
00:27:13,160 --> 00:27:15,000
Speaker 1: So I got up there and I dug in and

510
00:27:15,080 --> 00:27:18,840
Speaker 1: I called nothing, not a pete, not nothing. So I

511
00:27:18,920 --> 00:27:21,240
Speaker 1: called Papa a third time. I've been sitting there an hour.

512
00:27:21,560 --> 00:27:24,000
Speaker 1: I ain't heard of Turkey in an hour. He said,

513
00:27:24,040 --> 00:27:26,120
Speaker 1: you gotta do You gotta be patient. I said, oh,

514
00:27:26,280 --> 00:27:27,879
Speaker 1: I'm trying, you know. It was one of those things.

515
00:27:27,880 --> 00:27:29,879
Speaker 1: I was just just learning how turkey hunt on my

516
00:27:29,960 --> 00:27:33,040
Speaker 1: Oh it's my first time. So I was all fired up.

517
00:27:33,080 --> 00:27:35,800
Speaker 1: Didn't want to overcall, didn't want to undercall. He said,

518
00:27:35,840 --> 00:27:38,280
Speaker 1: dig in, he said, just give him a few yelps

519
00:27:38,320 --> 00:27:40,359
Speaker 1: here and there, he said. And if he doesn't answer,

520
00:27:40,680 --> 00:27:42,840
Speaker 1: he said, your last resort is to call the hens.

521
00:27:43,119 --> 00:27:44,639
Speaker 1: See if you can get the hens fired up and

522
00:27:44,720 --> 00:27:47,800
Speaker 1: get them to come. So I sat there, sat there,

523
00:27:48,320 --> 00:27:50,520
Speaker 1: didn't hear nothing. Well, this dove. You know what a

524
00:27:50,600 --> 00:27:53,280
Speaker 1: dove makes a noise at, you know when it flies off?

525
00:27:53,640 --> 00:27:56,399
Speaker 1: What flew off? And he gobbled about fifty yards sixty

526
00:27:56,480 --> 00:27:59,160
Speaker 1: yards over the break. I mean I heard him. Well,

527
00:27:59,160 --> 00:28:01,520
Speaker 1: so I called it and answer me, and I said,

528
00:28:01,600 --> 00:28:03,600
Speaker 1: he's with him. I knew, you know, I knew enough

529
00:28:03,640 --> 00:28:06,320
Speaker 1: about it. I knew he was with hens. So I

530
00:28:06,400 --> 00:28:10,800
Speaker 1: just started, I mean, just going crazy, just pucking and

531
00:28:11,200 --> 00:28:14,040
Speaker 1: purring and just fighting purrs. And I was, you know,

532
00:28:14,080 --> 00:28:16,200
Speaker 1: I was given everything I could well about. Not even

533
00:28:16,240 --> 00:28:19,000
Speaker 1: two minutes later, I see this head coming. Here, it comes,

534
00:28:19,400 --> 00:28:22,159
Speaker 1: Here comes another one. Well, here comes some hens. They started,

535
00:28:23,240 --> 00:28:26,479
Speaker 1: you know, feeding off through there real quietly, And so

536
00:28:26,560 --> 00:28:28,600
Speaker 1: I just turned my head and gave him a purr.

537
00:28:28,960 --> 00:28:32,080
Speaker 1: And they here they come, looking well, sure enough, here

538
00:28:32,119 --> 00:28:34,720
Speaker 1: behind an old tree, kind of a dead tree, leaned

539
00:28:34,760 --> 00:28:37,320
Speaker 1: over here, he comes full strut. He come through there.

540
00:28:37,640 --> 00:28:39,280
Speaker 1: And I said oh, it's on. You know, it's one

541
00:28:39,320 --> 00:28:41,240
Speaker 1: of those deals. I was getting fired up. Well, the

542
00:28:41,280 --> 00:28:44,000
Speaker 1: Hens started coming towards where I was at, and he

543
00:28:44,080 --> 00:28:46,360
Speaker 1: was kind of circling off over there. The Hens got

544
00:28:46,520 --> 00:28:49,760
Speaker 1: so close, they were probably ten yards from me, and

545
00:28:49,800 --> 00:28:52,040
Speaker 1: I was in some brush. I was, I mean, I

546
00:28:52,040 --> 00:28:54,280
Speaker 1: couldn't even breathe. I was afraid they were gonna see me.

547
00:28:54,320 --> 00:28:56,120
Speaker 1: I didn't even I had my eyes closed. I had

548
00:28:56,120 --> 00:28:58,200
Speaker 1: one eye closing, one eye looking down to it. I mean,

549
00:28:58,280 --> 00:29:00,360
Speaker 1: I was just trying not to move. It was one

550
00:29:00,400 --> 00:29:03,040
Speaker 1: of those situations. Well, one hen she kind of threw

551
00:29:03,080 --> 00:29:07,320
Speaker 1: her head up and she just about that time at

552
00:29:07,360 --> 00:29:09,840
Speaker 1: Gobbler threw his head up and kind of look that way.

553
00:29:10,000 --> 00:29:12,560
Speaker 1: He was every bit I guarantee of sixty yards and

554
00:29:12,680 --> 00:29:15,040
Speaker 1: I knew. I said, it's my only chance. So I

555
00:29:15,120 --> 00:29:16,480
Speaker 1: put it right on him and I shot and he

556
00:29:16,520 --> 00:29:19,080
Speaker 1: went to flopping. And so I got on the phone

557
00:29:19,120 --> 00:29:21,640
Speaker 1: and I said, bah bah, I just killed him. I

558
00:29:21,680 --> 00:29:24,480
Speaker 1: guide him, you know, and he's like, oh my gosh.

559
00:29:24,480 --> 00:29:26,320
Speaker 1: You know, it's one of those things. I was hooper

560
00:29:26,360 --> 00:29:28,840
Speaker 1: excited as my first turkey. But you know, he walked

561
00:29:28,880 --> 00:29:30,720
Speaker 1: me through it on the phone. I mean, you know,

562
00:29:30,760 --> 00:29:32,520
Speaker 1: it's just one of those things. It's kind of crazy

563
00:29:32,560 --> 00:29:34,480
Speaker 1: at the same time. But when I got up to

564
00:29:34,520 --> 00:29:37,520
Speaker 1: the turkey, he had a twelve inch beard, not even lying.

565
00:29:37,760 --> 00:29:39,880
Speaker 1: He had about an inch spurs. Still the biggest bird

566
00:29:39,920 --> 00:29:42,320
Speaker 1: I've ever killed, old bird. I mean, he's just one

567
00:29:42,320 --> 00:29:44,840
Speaker 1: of those things. You just you couldn't beat him. It's

568
00:29:44,880 --> 00:29:47,560
Speaker 1: just one of those mornings, fine Crisp morning, you just

569
00:29:47,640 --> 00:29:50,400
Speaker 1: can't top him. So after I got up to the

570
00:29:50,440 --> 00:29:52,959
Speaker 1: turkey and everything, I called Papa back and he had

571
00:29:53,000 --> 00:29:55,200
Speaker 1: told me Grandma had just got out of surgery, and

572
00:29:55,440 --> 00:29:58,560
Speaker 1: she did. She had just got out and she actually,

573
00:29:58,720 --> 00:30:00,440
Speaker 1: you know, I wanted to talk to her, and so

574
00:30:00,560 --> 00:30:03,640
Speaker 1: I talked to her and she made it through. Everything

575
00:30:03,720 --> 00:30:06,680
Speaker 1: was good. She's still doing great today. I mean she's

576
00:30:06,720 --> 00:30:09,640
Speaker 1: just she's young. She actually young, and you know, she

577
00:30:09,720 --> 00:30:12,600
Speaker 1: just gets around good and everything's good. But she was

578
00:30:12,960 --> 00:30:15,280
Speaker 1: she was beyond thrilled that I was able to get

579
00:30:15,280 --> 00:30:17,520
Speaker 1: that turkey. And she's not a turkey hunter, but she

580
00:30:17,720 --> 00:30:20,440
Speaker 1: was so excited I was able to get that turkey.

581
00:30:22,240 --> 00:30:24,840
Speaker 1: Now that's a good story. And there are two things

582
00:30:24,840 --> 00:30:27,600
Speaker 1: that I thought were funny. I chuckled when he said

583
00:30:27,800 --> 00:30:31,160
Speaker 1: I ain't even lying about the beard being twelve inches long.

584
00:30:31,680 --> 00:30:33,840
Speaker 1: And did you catch that he drove by himself to

585
00:30:33,880 --> 00:30:36,920
Speaker 1: his turkey hunting spot when he was fourteen? That gives

586
00:30:36,920 --> 00:30:40,480
Speaker 1: you a glimpse into the non hunting world of the storyteller.

587
00:30:40,880 --> 00:30:43,320
Speaker 1: And for all the Karen's out there, which I doubt

588
00:30:43,320 --> 00:30:46,280
Speaker 1: there are many listening to bear grease, I know about

589
00:30:46,320 --> 00:30:48,400
Speaker 1: where he was and where he went, and it was

590
00:30:48,440 --> 00:30:51,680
Speaker 1: just a short drive down a lonely country road, and

591
00:30:51,760 --> 00:30:56,360
Speaker 1: in my book, that's some decent parenting, you know what. Really,

592
00:30:56,720 --> 00:30:59,080
Speaker 1: I doubt Juju would have been too happy about that

593
00:30:59,160 --> 00:31:03,440
Speaker 1: either jos my mom, but Karen's and jujus are different.

594
00:31:04,000 --> 00:31:07,880
Speaker 1: Jujus cast their disapproval out of genuine love, and when

595
00:31:07,880 --> 00:31:12,240
Speaker 1: the risk taker completes the task despite their juju's approval,

596
00:31:12,440 --> 00:31:15,840
Speaker 1: it actually adds gravitas to the deed. I wouldn't even

597
00:31:15,880 --> 00:31:19,200
Speaker 1: bat Koy's Mamall wasn't thrilled about him driving by himself

598
00:31:19,200 --> 00:31:22,600
Speaker 1: that morning. But as I understand it, Karen's don't want

599
00:31:22,640 --> 00:31:24,520
Speaker 1: you to do stuff just kind of out of spike,

600
00:31:25,080 --> 00:31:28,040
Speaker 1: kind of like they're the referees of the world. So

601
00:31:28,080 --> 00:31:31,680
Speaker 1: it's okay to be jujus and mamas and I apologize

602
00:31:31,720 --> 00:31:34,440
Speaker 1: to all the sweet, genuine people of the world named

603
00:31:34,520 --> 00:31:39,320
Speaker 1: Karen who've been unjustly trapped in the cultural catchphrase. Juju

604
00:31:39,480 --> 00:31:44,200
Speaker 1: actually has a sister named Karen, my sweet aunt, So sorry,

605
00:31:44,200 --> 00:31:49,040
Speaker 1: Aunt Karen. Anyhow, our next storyteller is gonna make you

606
00:31:49,080 --> 00:31:52,800
Speaker 1: forget the last thirty seconds because he's the antithesis of

607
00:31:52,840 --> 00:31:57,880
Speaker 1: any cultural catchphrase. Hank Bird Die as from Chatham, Mississippi.

608
00:31:58,200 --> 00:32:00,840
Speaker 1: He's a published author and one of the guardians of

609
00:32:00,920 --> 00:32:05,120
Speaker 1: the legacy of Hulk Collyer and kind of like Matthew McConaughey,

610
00:32:05,400 --> 00:32:08,680
Speaker 1: is a Minister of Culture in Texas. He got that

611
00:32:08,800 --> 00:32:13,040
Speaker 1: whole playbook from the way Hank Burdine knows, loves, and

612
00:32:13,280 --> 00:32:18,160
Speaker 1: speaks about Mississippi. You're gonna enjoy this story from Hank.

613
00:32:19,280 --> 00:32:22,240
Speaker 1: I had a big hunting club place family placed down

614
00:32:22,960 --> 00:32:25,720
Speaker 1: middle of the Delta, close to le Roy Percy Park,

615
00:32:25,960 --> 00:32:27,880
Speaker 1: a couple of thousand acres that was in the north

616
00:32:28,200 --> 00:32:31,800
Speaker 1: boundary of Leroy Percy Park and Leroy Purse Pars about

617
00:32:31,840 --> 00:32:34,400
Speaker 1: forty five hundred acres, and then that was attached to

618
00:32:35,000 --> 00:32:38,560
Speaker 1: Yazu Wildlife Refuge about fourteen thousand acres, So we had

619
00:32:38,600 --> 00:32:43,400
Speaker 1: a contiguous wildlife preserve and had a cabin right down there,

620
00:32:43,400 --> 00:32:47,320
Speaker 1: and and I had Turkish, And you got to wed Leader.

621
00:32:47,360 --> 00:32:49,920
Speaker 1: Windows open midnight in my bedroom my cabin, and my

622
00:32:49,960 --> 00:32:52,880
Speaker 1: wife says, Honey, it's cold, clue that window. I said, no,

623
00:32:53,040 --> 00:32:56,040
Speaker 1: baby said, well, why you want to keep that window?

624
00:32:56,520 --> 00:32:58,840
Speaker 1: I said, one readon. Make you snuggled up a little

625
00:32:58,840 --> 00:33:00,800
Speaker 1: closer to me. I said, but I hit him turkeys

626
00:33:00,840 --> 00:33:02,560
Speaker 1: in the morning. That will wag me up my gold

627
00:33:02,560 --> 00:33:05,600
Speaker 1: turkey hunting. Well, I got the way. I knew my Turkish,

628
00:33:05,640 --> 00:33:08,880
Speaker 1: I knew where they were, I knew what gravel they

629
00:33:08,920 --> 00:33:13,160
Speaker 1: were graveling on for the gizzards, and gotten know him

630
00:33:13,200 --> 00:33:16,600
Speaker 1: pretty well. Well. I had a flock. It was easing

631
00:33:16,680 --> 00:33:20,280
Speaker 1: over into the state park. I wasn't full be hunting

632
00:33:20,320 --> 00:33:22,600
Speaker 1: over in there, but I had a big corner that

633
00:33:22,680 --> 00:33:24,240
Speaker 1: went right up in the middle of it. I said,

634
00:33:24,360 --> 00:33:28,280
Speaker 1: I've been here from good turkeys downing Yona. So I

635
00:33:28,400 --> 00:33:30,440
Speaker 1: got up and when got set up and the gun

636
00:33:30,520 --> 00:33:33,239
Speaker 1: I was shooting. My daddy was a goose hunter, had

637
00:33:33,280 --> 00:33:35,400
Speaker 1: a big boat back in nineteen thirty eight and the

638
00:33:35,480 --> 00:33:39,280
Speaker 1: forties after they channel as the river, and he goose

639
00:33:39,360 --> 00:33:43,240
Speaker 1: hunting with them. It's called a Winchester Model twelve heavy duck.

640
00:33:43,880 --> 00:33:47,240
Speaker 1: It was a three inch magnum full choke thirty inch barrel,

641
00:33:47,400 --> 00:33:50,560
Speaker 1: legendary duck gun and goose guns back then. Well, I

642
00:33:50,560 --> 00:33:52,720
Speaker 1: didn't duck hunt with it, but I turkey hunted with it,

643
00:33:52,760 --> 00:33:56,400
Speaker 1: because it was that full choke barrel. It was a

644
00:33:56,440 --> 00:33:59,600
Speaker 1: turkey gett. So I get set up back down at

645
00:33:59,640 --> 00:34:02,360
Speaker 1: that on it that morning, and I'd gotten my blind

646
00:34:02,440 --> 00:34:05,200
Speaker 1: set up, and all of a sudden there was a

647
00:34:05,240 --> 00:34:08,480
Speaker 1: turkey started gobbling. I never had a turkey gobble as

648
00:34:08,560 --> 00:34:11,000
Speaker 1: much in my life as a turkey gobbled on the roof.

649
00:34:11,360 --> 00:34:14,000
Speaker 1: He gobbled coming off the roof. When he hit the ground,

650
00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:16,720
Speaker 1: he had gobbling his head off. A couple more turkeys

651
00:34:16,719 --> 00:34:19,000
Speaker 1: were gobbling out there too, out hooting like a hood out,

652
00:34:19,080 --> 00:34:21,560
Speaker 1: trying to get them going. And all of a sudden

653
00:34:22,040 --> 00:34:25,320
Speaker 1: I looked up, and before I'd even really got settled

654
00:34:25,360 --> 00:34:28,719
Speaker 1: in there good here, that turkey came. He all but

655
00:34:28,920 --> 00:34:32,440
Speaker 1: jumped into blind with me, gobbling his head off, stood

656
00:34:32,480 --> 00:34:35,120
Speaker 1: and cairn on, acting a fool like turkey do in

657
00:34:35,120 --> 00:34:38,600
Speaker 1: the springtime like that, And when I went to throw

658
00:34:38,719 --> 00:34:41,520
Speaker 1: a gun up, he scared him. He jumped up, took off,

659
00:34:41,560 --> 00:34:44,120
Speaker 1: flying I got one shot off at him as he

660
00:34:44,160 --> 00:34:46,840
Speaker 1: flew into the park, and I knew I felt like

661
00:34:46,880 --> 00:34:48,640
Speaker 1: I hit that turkey. I knew I had I could,

662
00:34:48,680 --> 00:34:51,080
Speaker 1: I hadn't been able to. But a gun for a

663
00:34:51,120 --> 00:34:55,480
Speaker 1: tight choke jack, tight choke gun like it. Well, and

664
00:34:55,640 --> 00:34:58,120
Speaker 1: I've sent me bad. I didn't hear him fall, didn't

665
00:34:58,120 --> 00:35:00,400
Speaker 1: hear him flapping. I spent half a day looking for

666
00:35:00,440 --> 00:35:03,200
Speaker 1: that turkey. Never could find him, never could find him.

667
00:35:03,239 --> 00:35:05,759
Speaker 1: I went back to the house dejected, wo out and

668
00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:08,359
Speaker 1: just upset that court out that that was too good

669
00:35:08,360 --> 00:35:11,160
Speaker 1: a turkey to lose. Or next morning, I said, well,

670
00:35:11,200 --> 00:35:13,200
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go right back where I was. Of course

671
00:35:13,200 --> 00:35:16,400
Speaker 1: there's no birds in there. So I did, and I

672
00:35:16,520 --> 00:35:20,160
Speaker 1: sat down. I hooted one time. Didn't hear a gobble.

673
00:35:20,640 --> 00:35:24,440
Speaker 1: Hooted again, didn't hear nothing. San started coming up. I

674
00:35:24,560 --> 00:35:27,040
Speaker 1: want to yelp in a little bit. All of a sudden,

675
00:35:27,560 --> 00:35:30,200
Speaker 1: I look up, and he'll come to turkey with about

676
00:35:30,200 --> 00:35:33,160
Speaker 1: a ten and a half. Let means beard. He's struttling,

677
00:35:33,280 --> 00:35:36,320
Speaker 1: he got his feathers, fans out, he doing all this stuff.

678
00:35:36,360 --> 00:35:39,120
Speaker 1: He isn't there, got he ain't said a word, ain't

679
00:35:39,160 --> 00:35:43,280
Speaker 1: said a word. Run right straight up within fifteen yards

680
00:35:43,280 --> 00:35:45,200
Speaker 1: and me I was able to get him a gun

681
00:35:45,239 --> 00:35:47,759
Speaker 1: up right on his head as he still get out

682
00:35:48,400 --> 00:35:50,640
Speaker 1: and he'd be sticking ahead. I low your goblin, but

683
00:35:50,719 --> 00:35:53,800
Speaker 1: he wouldn't say nothing. He well, he just quiet. He

684
00:35:53,880 --> 00:35:56,120
Speaker 1: stuck that head out there, ladtime bloom. I got him

685
00:35:56,160 --> 00:35:58,440
Speaker 1: right in the head, didn't hit him anywhere but in

686
00:35:58,520 --> 00:36:00,719
Speaker 1: the head. Well, I went and at him. I went

687
00:36:00,840 --> 00:36:02,960
Speaker 1: back to the house. My wife came back, well, you

688
00:36:03,080 --> 00:36:05,080
Speaker 1: got your acid. Well yeah, but this ain't the one

689
00:36:05,120 --> 00:36:09,040
Speaker 1: I wanted, I doge. It just just still upsetting. It's

690
00:36:09,040 --> 00:36:10,879
Speaker 1: so bad that I was gonna lose that one from

691
00:36:10,880 --> 00:36:14,359
Speaker 1: the day before. So I started cleaning that turkey head

692
00:36:14,440 --> 00:36:18,879
Speaker 1: shot totally. Nothing in his chest, nothing anywhere. I went

693
00:36:18,960 --> 00:36:21,920
Speaker 1: to cleaning the feathers office back in it will slap

694
00:36:22,120 --> 00:36:27,440
Speaker 1: full of copper coated number four. That's the turkey that

695
00:36:27,600 --> 00:36:30,320
Speaker 1: I had shot at the day before, flying off. But

696
00:36:30,480 --> 00:36:32,960
Speaker 1: it upset him so bad. When he came in the

697
00:36:33,120 --> 00:36:35,759
Speaker 1: next morning, I've been shocked at the gobble out of him.

698
00:36:35,800 --> 00:36:38,040
Speaker 1: He was not going to open his mouth. That was it.

699
00:36:38,520 --> 00:36:41,759
Speaker 1: He was still is hot and ready to trot as

700
00:36:41,840 --> 00:36:44,080
Speaker 1: he could be. But he knew what happened the day

701
00:36:44,120 --> 00:36:46,440
Speaker 1: before when he opened his mouth at esther. That's the

702
00:36:46,520 --> 00:36:49,000
Speaker 1: turkey I shot the gobble out of. And here's a

703
00:36:49,080 --> 00:36:54,640
Speaker 1: final one hat tip to hankberg Die. I like the

704
00:36:54,719 --> 00:36:58,080
Speaker 1: twofold reason he left his window opened during the turkey season.

705
00:36:58,560 --> 00:37:02,200
Speaker 1: That's a good one. Our next story is told by

706
00:37:02,360 --> 00:37:05,680
Speaker 1: none other than the old Ozark Mountain turkey hunter himself,

707
00:37:05,920 --> 00:37:09,600
Speaker 1: Mo Shepherd. They say one of his legs grew slightly

708
00:37:09,719 --> 00:37:12,719
Speaker 1: longer than the other because of all the sidehilling he's done,

709
00:37:13,000 --> 00:37:17,680
Speaker 1: slipping around on these steep limestone hills chasing gobbles. His

710
00:37:17,880 --> 00:37:22,160
Speaker 1: stories always have a turkey hunting lesson embedded inside of him.

711
00:37:22,719 --> 00:37:28,240
Speaker 1: Here's Mo Well. This turkey story starts in late April.

712
00:37:28,560 --> 00:37:31,879
Speaker 1: I was hunting the Ozark Mountains out on public land.

713
00:37:32,480 --> 00:37:34,680
Speaker 1: It started on one morning. I went out a big

714
00:37:34,719 --> 00:37:38,000
Speaker 1: mountain ridge and heard a bird gobble a couple of times.

715
00:37:38,160 --> 00:37:40,480
Speaker 1: I just kept walking out this ridge top, but I

716
00:37:40,560 --> 00:37:42,440
Speaker 1: only heard him gobble two or three times that morning.

717
00:37:42,440 --> 00:37:43,920
Speaker 1: I never heard him anymore. But the whole time I

718
00:37:44,000 --> 00:37:46,279
Speaker 1: was out there that morning, across the creek on the

719
00:37:46,320 --> 00:37:48,399
Speaker 1: other mountain, there was a couple of birds. I don't

720
00:37:48,400 --> 00:37:49,640
Speaker 1: know if they were answered me or if they were

721
00:37:49,680 --> 00:37:51,719
Speaker 1: just goblin. But I heard him several times, but it

722
00:37:51,800 --> 00:37:53,560
Speaker 1: was too far to try to go that morning, so

723
00:37:53,680 --> 00:37:57,040
Speaker 1: I just stayed in there and hunted till midday, walked

724
00:37:57,080 --> 00:37:59,640
Speaker 1: back out, ate me a snack, decided, well, I'm gonna

725
00:37:59,640 --> 00:38:00,879
Speaker 1: go with on the side of the mountain. I knew,

726
00:38:01,239 --> 00:38:02,959
Speaker 1: in fact there was a logging road where they'd logged

727
00:38:02,960 --> 00:38:05,600
Speaker 1: in there the year before I could walk around. So

728
00:38:05,760 --> 00:38:09,279
Speaker 1: I got over the mid afternoon and started walking around

729
00:38:09,320 --> 00:38:11,200
Speaker 1: that road, and i'd stop and call, like I do.

730
00:38:11,280 --> 00:38:12,520
Speaker 1: I do that a lot of eating and when a

731
00:38:12,640 --> 00:38:15,120
Speaker 1: hunt of eating, and I'll just periodically call a little

732
00:38:15,120 --> 00:38:16,440
Speaker 1: bit see if I can get something to answer me.

733
00:38:16,880 --> 00:38:19,560
Speaker 1: And what makes it good for me is even if

734
00:38:19,600 --> 00:38:21,759
Speaker 1: it ain't good that day, you call an area like that,

735
00:38:21,800 --> 00:38:24,120
Speaker 1: if you don't overcalled, who must just like a turkey

736
00:38:24,200 --> 00:38:26,239
Speaker 1: moving his way around the mountain. A lot of times

737
00:38:26,360 --> 00:38:28,400
Speaker 1: I'll go back in there the next day and gobblers

738
00:38:28,440 --> 00:38:30,440
Speaker 1: will be in that area where I've done that call

739
00:38:30,520 --> 00:38:33,320
Speaker 1: in eating them for But then anyway, this day it

740
00:38:33,440 --> 00:38:35,719
Speaker 1: didn't work like that. But once I thought I heard

741
00:38:35,719 --> 00:38:37,880
Speaker 1: a gobbler across the creek on the side where I

742
00:38:37,960 --> 00:38:40,480
Speaker 1: was at that morning. Well, I started making my way

743
00:38:40,560 --> 00:38:43,680
Speaker 1: back around the mountain and started calling a little bit louder,

744
00:38:44,080 --> 00:38:45,919
Speaker 1: see if I get one to gobble on the side

745
00:38:45,920 --> 00:38:47,400
Speaker 1: of that. Well, that bird on the other side of

746
00:38:47,400 --> 00:38:51,000
Speaker 1: the mountain start answering me, and I'd call. Sometimes he'd

747
00:38:51,040 --> 00:38:53,839
Speaker 1: answer and sometimes he wouldn't. Well, I got pretty much

748
00:38:53,840 --> 00:38:56,080
Speaker 1: straight across framing. There was a log landing there where

749
00:38:56,080 --> 00:38:58,399
Speaker 1: they'd logged in there. I thought, let's play a good place,

750
00:38:58,440 --> 00:38:59,640
Speaker 1: just to set here for a little bit and see

751
00:38:59,760 --> 00:39:02,919
Speaker 1: maybe one comes in. And I got set up there

752
00:39:03,400 --> 00:39:05,879
Speaker 1: and this bird answers me across the creek a long

753
00:39:05,960 --> 00:39:08,160
Speaker 1: ways over there, but nothing on the size on. So

754
00:39:08,200 --> 00:39:09,600
Speaker 1: i'd way a little bit. I called a little more,

755
00:39:09,680 --> 00:39:12,080
Speaker 1: and it's getting later. Then it's getting you know, probably

756
00:39:12,360 --> 00:39:14,360
Speaker 1: forty five minutes made any hour before the sun was

757
00:39:14,400 --> 00:39:16,759
Speaker 1: going down. So I got up and made my way

758
00:39:17,160 --> 00:39:19,919
Speaker 1: down the logging road. This little piece something caught mine.

759
00:39:19,960 --> 00:39:22,279
Speaker 1: I looked out in the canyon there, over the creek

760
00:39:22,320 --> 00:39:24,120
Speaker 1: between me and that other mountain, I could see something

761
00:39:24,200 --> 00:39:26,120
Speaker 1: in there, and then I realized it was a turkey flying.

762
00:39:26,760 --> 00:39:29,040
Speaker 1: And then I realized it looked like a big turkey flying.

763
00:39:29,760 --> 00:39:31,880
Speaker 1: And then when it got close it landed in that

764
00:39:32,000 --> 00:39:35,040
Speaker 1: log landing. It was a big old goblin. It was

765
00:39:35,080 --> 00:39:37,120
Speaker 1: the one who had been a goblin at me. I

766
00:39:37,280 --> 00:39:39,359
Speaker 1: just froze. I didn't know what else to do. Well,

767
00:39:39,400 --> 00:39:42,120
Speaker 1: he lands, he just went into strut mode with that

768
00:39:42,200 --> 00:39:44,759
Speaker 1: tail fan out, and he turned that tail fan towards you.

769
00:39:44,840 --> 00:39:47,319
Speaker 1: That's probably one hundred yards from that log landing. When

770
00:39:47,360 --> 00:39:49,760
Speaker 1: he turned that fan, I just dove into the bushes

771
00:39:49,760 --> 00:39:52,360
Speaker 1: there and got hid. And then I do know he

772
00:39:52,440 --> 00:39:54,440
Speaker 1: started gobbling a few times. Well it's getting later, the

773
00:39:54,480 --> 00:39:57,040
Speaker 1: sun's getting closer, being down. I made a few calls,

774
00:39:57,080 --> 00:39:59,040
Speaker 1: and he gobbled and straight out there, but he didn't

775
00:39:59,040 --> 00:40:01,640
Speaker 1: come on in. Well, he got a little bit later.

776
00:40:02,160 --> 00:40:04,040
Speaker 1: He walks to the far end of that log landing

777
00:40:04,080 --> 00:40:06,080
Speaker 1: and sails up in a tree, orright blow it just

778
00:40:06,400 --> 00:40:08,200
Speaker 1: in a big old tree there, a big old pine tree.

779
00:40:08,280 --> 00:40:10,839
Speaker 1: I still remember it. And them that has them big pines,

780
00:40:10,960 --> 00:40:12,640
Speaker 1: got them big old crooked limbs coming down. And he

781
00:40:12,680 --> 00:40:14,280
Speaker 1: just let up one of them limbs there and gobbled

782
00:40:14,320 --> 00:40:17,000
Speaker 1: several times. And I still just stayed put. I wait

783
00:40:17,080 --> 00:40:20,200
Speaker 1: till he got plumb dark. He gobbled several times, so

784
00:40:20,320 --> 00:40:23,240
Speaker 1: I eased my way out there. I thought I've got you, buddy.

785
00:40:23,320 --> 00:40:26,080
Speaker 1: Next morning. This will be real simple. So next morning,

786
00:40:26,080 --> 00:40:28,279
Speaker 1: I got way in their way early, but I knew

787
00:40:28,400 --> 00:40:29,799
Speaker 1: right where I was going. I didn't use a light

788
00:40:29,920 --> 00:40:31,920
Speaker 1: or anything. I made my way in there. I thought, well,

789
00:40:31,920 --> 00:40:34,160
Speaker 1: I'm gonna set up at the end of this log now.

790
00:40:34,200 --> 00:40:35,560
Speaker 1: I don't want to get on then and where he's at,

791
00:40:35,600 --> 00:40:37,560
Speaker 1: because I might break a stick, it might spook him

792
00:40:37,640 --> 00:40:39,520
Speaker 1: ringing if they hear noise. I think they spoke real

793
00:40:39,560 --> 00:40:41,840
Speaker 1: easy and in the darkness like that and won't come

794
00:40:41,880 --> 00:40:44,520
Speaker 1: to wherever they hear the sticks break or whatever. So

795
00:40:44,640 --> 00:40:46,920
Speaker 1: I set up on within gun range of the log landing,

796
00:40:47,560 --> 00:40:49,120
Speaker 1: and I set there a while. And I set there

797
00:40:49,120 --> 00:40:52,000
Speaker 1: a while, and I didn't hear nothing. No gobbles, no nothing.

798
00:40:52,560 --> 00:40:54,520
Speaker 1: It's just barely breaking light. But it was light enough

799
00:40:54,600 --> 00:40:56,759
Speaker 1: that a turkeys should have gobbled if they were going to.

800
00:40:57,360 --> 00:40:59,839
Speaker 1: I thought, maybe he flew out of here. Maybe something

801
00:41:00,239 --> 00:41:01,839
Speaker 1: bust him out of the tree of hoode'll run him

802
00:41:01,840 --> 00:41:04,400
Speaker 1: out of the tree, or a bobcat or whatever you know,

803
00:41:04,560 --> 00:41:06,239
Speaker 1: may run him out of the tree. I thought, well,

804
00:41:06,239 --> 00:41:09,360
Speaker 1: I'm gonna make some really this real soft yelps, and

805
00:41:09,440 --> 00:41:12,520
Speaker 1: if he's there, he'll he'll answer this all. I didn't

806
00:41:12,520 --> 00:41:15,680
Speaker 1: even get the second little out in that dude, I

807
00:41:15,719 --> 00:41:17,960
Speaker 1: hear he's wings pop and he sails down that log round.

808
00:41:18,000 --> 00:41:20,480
Speaker 1: It's still so dark, I can't even see him. And

809
00:41:20,600 --> 00:41:23,080
Speaker 1: he starts gobbling. And there I'm setting in a pitch

810
00:41:23,160 --> 00:41:25,000
Speaker 1: dark daily. I mean, it's light, but you can't see

811
00:41:25,120 --> 00:41:27,319
Speaker 1: twenty yards in front of you. And I watch out

812
00:41:27,360 --> 00:41:29,080
Speaker 1: there where he's at. I don't call anymore because I

813
00:41:29,080 --> 00:41:31,120
Speaker 1: don't want even come into me, and it as dark

814
00:41:31,120 --> 00:41:33,160
Speaker 1: as it was, and I sat there and I sat there,

815
00:41:33,200 --> 00:41:35,560
Speaker 1: and he just gobbles and he gobbles and he gobbles.

816
00:41:35,960 --> 00:41:37,399
Speaker 1: He's on the ground. That's why I said. He flew

817
00:41:37,440 --> 00:41:40,480
Speaker 1: down on the ground and it's gobbling, and I guess strutting,

818
00:41:40,560 --> 00:41:43,200
Speaker 1: but I couldn't see him. And then all of a sudden,

819
00:41:43,200 --> 00:41:45,800
Speaker 1: I see something moving and it's the white of his

820
00:41:45,920 --> 00:41:48,480
Speaker 1: head where he's strutting, and I can see a little bit.

821
00:41:48,520 --> 00:41:51,000
Speaker 1: Then he go away. He's just he's probably in gun

822
00:41:51,120 --> 00:41:53,200
Speaker 1: range on me, but it's still too dark to shoot.

823
00:41:53,440 --> 00:41:55,520
Speaker 1: And I thought, just stay here. It's just stay here.

824
00:41:55,520 --> 00:41:57,879
Speaker 1: And I thought maybe I should call. No, I don't

825
00:41:57,920 --> 00:41:59,480
Speaker 1: need to call yet because it's still too dark. I

826
00:41:59,520 --> 00:42:02,959
Speaker 1: don't even getting gun range if he's not in there yet. Well,

827
00:42:03,200 --> 00:42:05,320
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, the white head disappears and I

828
00:42:05,400 --> 00:42:08,960
Speaker 1: don't hear anything, and he don't gobble. I thought he's leaving,

829
00:42:09,000 --> 00:42:10,839
Speaker 1: so I gotta do something other. So I just made

830
00:42:10,880 --> 00:42:12,719
Speaker 1: a few soft calls. When I did, he answered me

831
00:42:12,840 --> 00:42:15,919
Speaker 1: right back. But it's still fairly dark, but he's farther

832
00:42:16,040 --> 00:42:18,160
Speaker 1: out away from him. He's probably out of the log

833
00:42:18,280 --> 00:42:20,320
Speaker 1: landing by the end. And it starts getting light, and

834
00:42:20,560 --> 00:42:22,200
Speaker 1: then I see him. He's plumb out in the road

835
00:42:22,239 --> 00:42:24,360
Speaker 1: to pass the log landing the opposite end of the

836
00:42:24,400 --> 00:42:25,960
Speaker 1: log landing of me. The log land is probably a

837
00:42:26,040 --> 00:42:28,920
Speaker 1: hundred yards across, it may be eighty something like. I thought, well,

838
00:42:28,920 --> 00:42:30,799
Speaker 1: I gotta do some sweet talking to him, because he's

839
00:42:30,840 --> 00:42:33,239
Speaker 1: been there strutting and I ain't. So I tried some

840
00:42:33,320 --> 00:42:36,200
Speaker 1: of my stuff and started calling, and finally here he comes.

841
00:42:36,320 --> 00:42:38,600
Speaker 1: He turns and starts coming towards me, and by time

842
00:42:38,600 --> 00:42:40,040
Speaker 1: he gets the middle of that log landing, I can

843
00:42:40,040 --> 00:42:42,040
Speaker 1: see him pretty good. Then it's plenty of light shoot,

844
00:42:42,040 --> 00:42:44,120
Speaker 1: but he's not and what I feel good range he

845
00:42:44,200 --> 00:42:47,200
Speaker 1: just stops there like they do, stops and spins and

846
00:42:47,320 --> 00:42:50,240
Speaker 1: turns fins and turns around and turns around and spins.

847
00:42:50,880 --> 00:42:52,600
Speaker 1: I thought, I need to do anything. No, I'm gonna

848
00:42:52,600 --> 00:42:55,000
Speaker 1: be quiet, because I say anything, he's liable to just

849
00:42:55,400 --> 00:42:57,800
Speaker 1: stay where he's at. So I sat there for probably

850
00:42:57,880 --> 00:43:00,480
Speaker 1: five minutes, didn't say a thing. He just drops out

851
00:43:00,480 --> 00:43:03,160
Speaker 1: of strutton it starts walking towards me, gets some good

852
00:43:03,239 --> 00:43:05,560
Speaker 1: gun range, and I raised my old gun I've had

853
00:43:05,640 --> 00:43:08,280
Speaker 1: for forty years I've been turkey hunting with and shoot

854
00:43:08,320 --> 00:43:10,400
Speaker 1: and get him. And he's a big old ma Tera gobbler.

855
00:43:10,440 --> 00:43:13,680
Speaker 1: And it was a really mermorable hunt because I've never

856
00:43:13,760 --> 00:43:15,879
Speaker 1: seen a gobbler fly down when it was that dark

857
00:43:16,000 --> 00:43:18,600
Speaker 1: like that. So, yeah, that was a heck of a hunt.

858
00:43:20,920 --> 00:43:23,480
Speaker 1: That turkey flew all the way across that Halla to

859
00:43:23,560 --> 00:43:26,520
Speaker 1: try to roost near that hen that he heard Colin.

860
00:43:27,360 --> 00:43:30,239
Speaker 1: Little did he know that it was just old mo.

861
00:43:31,160 --> 00:43:33,280
Speaker 1: You can learn a thing or two from that story.

862
00:43:39,680 --> 00:43:44,040
Speaker 1: Our next storyteller is another born and bread Ozarkian, and

863
00:43:44,280 --> 00:43:48,040
Speaker 1: he came by his turkey hunting passion honest. From his house,

864
00:43:48,120 --> 00:43:50,360
Speaker 1: he has a three hundred and sixty degree view with

865
00:43:50,480 --> 00:43:54,000
Speaker 1: some of the prettiest mountains known to man. He's grown

866
00:43:54,080 --> 00:43:56,480
Speaker 1: up in the heart of some great turkey hunting and

867
00:43:56,600 --> 00:44:00,400
Speaker 1: he's a real woodsman and turkey hunter. This story, however,

868
00:44:00,680 --> 00:44:05,920
Speaker 1: takes place in Kansas. Here's Richard Campbell of Newton County, Arkansas.

869
00:44:06,840 --> 00:44:10,719
Speaker 1: All right, so, uh, me and mister Brown, mister David Brown,

870
00:44:11,000 --> 00:44:15,319
Speaker 1: we were out in Kansas hunting. It was probably mid

871
00:44:15,480 --> 00:44:19,040
Speaker 1: April er but we were out there hunting and we're

872
00:44:19,200 --> 00:44:21,200
Speaker 1: driving down the highway. Of course, they got a lot

873
00:44:21,239 --> 00:44:24,000
Speaker 1: of lakes and core land that you can hunt on

874
00:44:24,040 --> 00:44:26,920
Speaker 1: around him lakes and there was a parker on this

875
00:44:27,080 --> 00:44:29,400
Speaker 1: one lake and we pulled in there. There was there

876
00:44:29,480 --> 00:44:31,360
Speaker 1: was three or four big old jake's walking around in

877
00:44:31,480 --> 00:44:34,839
Speaker 1: that park and the lake wasn't he was probably an

878
00:44:34,840 --> 00:44:36,920
Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty two hundred yards wide there, and

879
00:44:37,040 --> 00:44:39,600
Speaker 1: there's like either it may have been an island, and

880
00:44:39,600 --> 00:44:41,839
Speaker 1: I'm not sure if they's land across there. So they

881
00:44:41,880 --> 00:44:45,200
Speaker 1: at rolls and they flew across that lake, and David

882
00:44:45,280 --> 00:44:48,040
Speaker 1: asked me. He says, he says, now, just what would

883
00:44:48,080 --> 00:44:50,400
Speaker 1: you do if you shot a turkey and it got

884
00:44:50,440 --> 00:44:53,359
Speaker 1: out in the lake. I said, I ain't going out

885
00:44:53,400 --> 00:44:56,239
Speaker 1: in that lake after a turkey. And that's that's kind

886
00:44:56,280 --> 00:44:58,799
Speaker 1: of hat went on here. Well, I don't know if

887
00:44:58,840 --> 00:45:02,360
Speaker 1: it was that day. The next day we were coming

888
00:45:02,400 --> 00:45:04,759
Speaker 1: back up the road we've been hunting, and across the

889
00:45:04,880 --> 00:45:07,759
Speaker 1: road from this same lake there's a big old farm

890
00:45:07,880 --> 00:45:10,520
Speaker 1: land and we looked out there and there's this big

891
00:45:10,600 --> 00:45:13,120
Speaker 1: old gobbler out there strutting around out the middle of

892
00:45:13,120 --> 00:45:16,400
Speaker 1: a field. And Dave says, let's pull off here at

893
00:45:16,440 --> 00:45:18,440
Speaker 1: this ramp. There's a ramp that went down to the

894
00:45:18,560 --> 00:45:21,040
Speaker 1: lake there, and and just see if that old turkey

895
00:45:21,080 --> 00:45:24,000
Speaker 1: of gobble. We got out there and we stopped and

896
00:45:24,160 --> 00:45:27,120
Speaker 1: I called and here, I meant, old turkey jard down there,

897
00:45:27,719 --> 00:45:31,400
Speaker 1: and uh well, we stood around our talking and the

898
00:45:31,440 --> 00:45:33,920
Speaker 1: old turkey just kept gobbling. I called another time too,

899
00:45:34,080 --> 00:45:36,680
Speaker 1: just just fooling around there, and I told them, I said, David,

900
00:45:36,719 --> 00:45:40,320
Speaker 1: I think that turkey is coming. And he says, I'll

901
00:45:40,320 --> 00:45:41,880
Speaker 1: go on up the road. You get down here and

902
00:45:42,239 --> 00:45:44,799
Speaker 1: on this coal land, and it's if you can see

903
00:45:44,800 --> 00:45:45,960
Speaker 1: if you can kill him, se if you can call

904
00:45:46,040 --> 00:45:48,040
Speaker 1: him up. And this was a we's right in the

905
00:45:48,120 --> 00:45:51,960
Speaker 1: side of big he said, a busy highway. And I

906
00:45:52,080 --> 00:45:54,200
Speaker 1: get down the road of the hill out away from

907
00:45:54,200 --> 00:45:56,880
Speaker 1: the highway, and you know, down toward Jet lake, and

908
00:45:57,000 --> 00:45:59,479
Speaker 1: I sitting there calling, and I hear the little turkey

909
00:45:59,520 --> 00:46:02,200
Speaker 1: over our car, so highway government. He's just getting closer

910
00:46:02,239 --> 00:46:04,879
Speaker 1: and closer, and he gobbled here him in and I said, well,

911
00:46:04,920 --> 00:46:07,920
Speaker 1: he's over at that fence hearing him, and he gobbled

912
00:46:08,160 --> 00:46:09,840
Speaker 1: and I looked up and he stand up here in

913
00:46:09,880 --> 00:46:12,439
Speaker 1: the highway and these cars running them down the road,

914
00:46:13,320 --> 00:46:17,320
Speaker 1: and I thought, well, so he walks down there, and

915
00:46:17,440 --> 00:46:19,640
Speaker 1: of course you know, he was up to the highway

916
00:46:19,680 --> 00:46:22,880
Speaker 1: and he comes kind of down that off ramp. He

917
00:46:23,040 --> 00:46:25,480
Speaker 1: gets down there and to where I could shoot him,

918
00:46:25,680 --> 00:46:29,279
Speaker 1: but it's, uh, it's real brushy and stuff. I thought, well,

919
00:46:29,280 --> 00:46:31,200
Speaker 1: I'm like to wait, don't leave him, get on down

920
00:46:31,280 --> 00:46:33,120
Speaker 1: here a little bit. And so he just kept getting

921
00:46:33,160 --> 00:46:36,160
Speaker 1: closer and he walks down there, and it's finally I've

922
00:46:36,239 --> 00:46:39,240
Speaker 1: got to shoot or something. I find me a halfway

923
00:46:39,280 --> 00:46:42,880
Speaker 1: open spot and he probably not fifteen yards and I

924
00:46:43,480 --> 00:46:47,200
Speaker 1: shoot and I hit him, but he starts trying to

925
00:46:47,239 --> 00:46:50,520
Speaker 1: fly off, and he tries to fly across the lake. Well,

926
00:46:50,560 --> 00:46:53,239
Speaker 1: he flies out here, probably one hundred yards in the

927
00:46:53,400 --> 00:46:56,239
Speaker 1: lake and lands in the lake. Well, the first thing

928
00:46:56,320 --> 00:46:58,320
Speaker 1: that comes to my mind is, are you gonna go

929
00:46:58,360 --> 00:47:00,920
Speaker 1: out in that lake and get that turkey. David asked

930
00:47:00,960 --> 00:47:05,560
Speaker 1: me that. I thought, well, here I go. Well, little turkey,

931
00:47:05,800 --> 00:47:08,520
Speaker 1: he hit the water and he starts swimming right back

932
00:47:08,560 --> 00:47:11,600
Speaker 1: to me, right back towards where I'm at. I thought, well,

933
00:47:11,640 --> 00:47:13,759
Speaker 1: this is this is great. I'll let him get over

934
00:47:13,880 --> 00:47:16,200
Speaker 1: here the bank and then I'll shoot him. And I

935
00:47:16,360 --> 00:47:18,920
Speaker 1: just walked down and pick him up and top fall

936
00:47:19,000 --> 00:47:21,480
Speaker 1: this off. I'll just had I think. I don't know

937
00:47:21,520 --> 00:47:24,160
Speaker 1: if I just put one chill in the gun or two,

938
00:47:24,840 --> 00:47:27,759
Speaker 1: but I shot the one. Well, he comes back and

939
00:47:27,920 --> 00:47:31,520
Speaker 1: he hits dirt and I shoot and miss him again

940
00:47:31,560 --> 00:47:33,319
Speaker 1: because he's hits there and he's a run him when

941
00:47:33,320 --> 00:47:36,400
Speaker 1: he hits the dirt, and I am without a shell. Anyways,

942
00:47:36,600 --> 00:47:39,920
Speaker 1: he runs back across the highway, right out through the field.

943
00:47:40,280 --> 00:47:43,280
Speaker 1: I never did team and never did get that turkey.

944
00:47:44,080 --> 00:47:46,880
Speaker 1: Now that that kind of that'd be hard to make up,

945
00:47:46,920 --> 00:47:53,000
Speaker 1: wouldn't it. That wouldn't be hard to make up, Richard?

946
00:47:53,400 --> 00:47:56,520
Speaker 1: Can you imagine calling a turkey across a busy highway?

947
00:47:56,880 --> 00:47:59,640
Speaker 1: When Richard's buddy David tells the story, he says the

948
00:47:59,719 --> 00:48:03,000
Speaker 1: turkey he waited for several cars to pass, looking both

949
00:48:03,080 --> 00:48:06,000
Speaker 1: ways before he crossed and then for the durned thing

950
00:48:06,120 --> 00:48:08,719
Speaker 1: to land in the lake, just like David had thought

951
00:48:08,760 --> 00:48:11,440
Speaker 1: the day before. It is wild and I hate it

952
00:48:11,480 --> 00:48:13,919
Speaker 1: when they get away. But we'll hope that bird made

953
00:48:13,960 --> 00:48:16,399
Speaker 1: it to another spring, and I bet he didn't leave

954
00:48:16,480 --> 00:48:20,040
Speaker 1: that private land again. And before we move on, I

955
00:48:20,160 --> 00:48:24,080
Speaker 1: want y'all to hear Richard's sweet of natural voice calls.

956
00:48:24,640 --> 00:48:28,239
Speaker 1: He's really good. Hit it, Richard, This will be by

957
00:48:28,320 --> 00:49:06,000
Speaker 1: bardowl o clow Yep. That's about as good as it gets.

958
00:49:06,400 --> 00:49:09,920
Speaker 1: And once again my theory on natural voice callers rings true.

959
00:49:10,440 --> 00:49:15,600
Speaker 1: They're usually really good turkey hunters. I want to end

960
00:49:15,760 --> 00:49:18,120
Speaker 1: with a special story from a man that I just

961
00:49:18,280 --> 00:49:22,600
Speaker 1: met named Garvin Gibbons. Like the storytellers before him, he's

962
00:49:22,640 --> 00:49:25,960
Speaker 1: from deep in the ozarks of Arkansas. I think you'll

963
00:49:26,040 --> 00:49:30,320
Speaker 1: hear a humble, somber, yet passionate tone in Garvin's voice.

964
00:49:30,840 --> 00:49:34,200
Speaker 1: He's an extremely accomplished hunter. His wall is full of

965
00:49:34,280 --> 00:49:37,319
Speaker 1: big white tails, and he's killed twenty three elk out

966
00:49:37,400 --> 00:49:40,759
Speaker 1: west with his bow. He elk hunted from nineteen eighty

967
00:49:40,800 --> 00:49:43,680
Speaker 1: four until two thousand and eight. But I've got to

968
00:49:43,800 --> 00:49:47,040
Speaker 1: let you in on something from the start. Since two

969
00:49:47,120 --> 00:49:51,480
Speaker 1: thousand and nine, Garvin has been in a wheelchair. Here's

970
00:49:51,520 --> 00:49:56,200
Speaker 1: Garvin's story about his son's first gobbler, which happened before

971
00:49:56,360 --> 00:50:00,040
Speaker 1: two thousand and nine. My son's name is Trevor, and

972
00:50:00,400 --> 00:50:03,120
Speaker 1: he was eight years old and I put him in

973
00:50:03,280 --> 00:50:07,319
Speaker 1: for the draw early permit draw, and he drew a tag.

974
00:50:07,440 --> 00:50:10,960
Speaker 1: And so I went over before season and scouted one

975
00:50:11,040 --> 00:50:13,800
Speaker 1: day and knew where a few turkeys were at. So

976
00:50:14,360 --> 00:50:16,560
Speaker 1: we get up and go. We'll drive over that morning

977
00:50:16,640 --> 00:50:20,040
Speaker 1: and we'll go down to one of the cut lanes.

978
00:50:20,040 --> 00:50:22,040
Speaker 1: They are kind of like a firebreak there, and we

979
00:50:22,200 --> 00:50:25,279
Speaker 1: hear a turkey and anyway, we get get set up,

980
00:50:25,320 --> 00:50:27,800
Speaker 1: and the turkey comes right off the limb and he

981
00:50:28,160 --> 00:50:31,560
Speaker 1: comes up and he gets probably maybe thirty thirty five yards,

982
00:50:31,960 --> 00:50:35,240
Speaker 1: and I can see the turkey really good, and traffic

983
00:50:35,520 --> 00:50:38,360
Speaker 1: can just get bits and pieces of him. And finally

984
00:50:38,360 --> 00:50:41,160
Speaker 1: the old turkey gets nervous and walks off. But after

985
00:50:41,280 --> 00:50:44,280
Speaker 1: I kind of survey what's going on here. I always

986
00:50:44,320 --> 00:50:46,400
Speaker 1: set him right between my legs, you know, so I

987
00:50:46,480 --> 00:50:50,080
Speaker 1: can communicate with him, and if we need to turn,

988
00:50:50,520 --> 00:50:54,040
Speaker 1: we can kind of twist together, and that way I

989
00:50:54,120 --> 00:50:55,960
Speaker 1: can just lean up by his head and kind of

990
00:50:56,000 --> 00:50:58,120
Speaker 1: coach him you know, he's not over to my side

991
00:50:58,400 --> 00:51:01,040
Speaker 1: and stuff. But what I got to realize is I'm

992
00:51:01,120 --> 00:51:03,600
Speaker 1: setting up higher than an eight year old, and I

993
00:51:03,680 --> 00:51:06,920
Speaker 1: can see things that he can't. So he didn't get

994
00:51:06,920 --> 00:51:08,640
Speaker 1: a real good look at it. And it walked off.

995
00:51:08,719 --> 00:51:11,400
Speaker 1: And anyway, we go on and a little bit, we

996
00:51:11,560 --> 00:51:13,759
Speaker 1: hear some more and we set up and uh, I

997
00:51:13,920 --> 00:51:16,600
Speaker 1: call it three jakes and I had him right up

998
00:51:16,640 --> 00:51:19,000
Speaker 1: and he's laugh and stuff, but you know, this is

999
00:51:19,080 --> 00:51:22,120
Speaker 1: his first rodeo. And anyway, I kept him up there

1000
00:51:22,200 --> 00:51:24,440
Speaker 1: for probably five minutes, and they was they kind of

1001
00:51:24,440 --> 00:51:27,200
Speaker 1: got nervous going back and forth and and he never

1002
00:51:27,239 --> 00:51:30,320
Speaker 1: would shoot. And so when they finally walked off, I

1003
00:51:30,440 --> 00:51:32,960
Speaker 1: told him, I said, uh, son, you know, if you

1004
00:51:33,040 --> 00:51:35,320
Speaker 1: get it on his head, just pull the trigger, not

1005
00:51:35,520 --> 00:51:38,759
Speaker 1: all the times. Everything's gonna be perfectly still. And uh,

1006
00:51:39,200 --> 00:51:41,360
Speaker 1: he was kind of down in his mouth. And we

1007
00:51:41,520 --> 00:51:43,600
Speaker 1: went on and it was getting up kind of end

1008
00:51:43,640 --> 00:51:45,560
Speaker 1: of the day and I struck a turkey and its

1009
00:51:45,760 --> 00:51:49,120
Speaker 1: across a big hollow, and uh, and we we set

1010
00:51:49,200 --> 00:51:51,799
Speaker 1: up on him and I put a decoy out and uh,

1011
00:51:52,080 --> 00:51:54,080
Speaker 1: it dropped off real steep in the hollow and the

1012
00:51:54,160 --> 00:51:56,520
Speaker 1: turkey was just on the other side, and he was

1013
00:51:56,600 --> 00:52:00,640
Speaker 1: answering me good. And finally there was a turkey kind

1014
00:52:00,680 --> 00:52:03,040
Speaker 1: of to a ride and kind of behind us, and

1015
00:52:03,239 --> 00:52:06,560
Speaker 1: that turkey really got goblin well. And um, so this

1016
00:52:06,719 --> 00:52:10,240
Speaker 1: turkey kind of got quiet, and uh and the turkey

1017
00:52:10,320 --> 00:52:13,360
Speaker 1: behind us kind of got goblin a lot better than

1018
00:52:13,400 --> 00:52:15,600
Speaker 1: I could tell he was coming toward us. So we

1019
00:52:15,760 --> 00:52:19,040
Speaker 1: got up and we moved probably twenty or twenty five yards,

1020
00:52:19,120 --> 00:52:23,200
Speaker 1: and um and as we were walking, this turkey gobbled

1021
00:52:23,400 --> 00:52:26,879
Speaker 1: that was across from us, and I asked Trev. I said,

1022
00:52:27,200 --> 00:52:30,480
Speaker 1: where was he at? And uh, the turkey was coming

1023
00:52:30,520 --> 00:52:32,879
Speaker 1: to us all the time. And he got down low

1024
00:52:33,239 --> 00:52:36,000
Speaker 1: in the hollow there and uh, so we sat down,

1025
00:52:36,680 --> 00:52:39,880
Speaker 1: and in just a minute he gobbled again, and I

1026
00:52:39,960 --> 00:52:42,400
Speaker 1: could tell he was just right under the break from us.

1027
00:52:42,440 --> 00:52:45,040
Speaker 1: And we sat there a minute and I called, and

1028
00:52:45,800 --> 00:52:48,040
Speaker 1: turkey didn't gobble no more. But in a little bit

1029
00:52:48,200 --> 00:52:50,920
Speaker 1: I seen him coming strutting up. When he come up,

1030
00:52:50,960 --> 00:52:54,040
Speaker 1: he's seen the decoy and he comes up and and uh,

1031
00:52:54,239 --> 00:52:56,239
Speaker 1: he never breaks out a strutt and he walks right

1032
00:52:56,360 --> 00:52:58,480
Speaker 1: up to the decoy, and he might have been twenty

1033
00:52:58,520 --> 00:53:01,520
Speaker 1: five yards from us. Anyway, I got Trev on him

1034
00:53:01,560 --> 00:53:04,640
Speaker 1: and and he straight around the decoy a couple of times,

1035
00:53:04,719 --> 00:53:07,960
Speaker 1: and finally the turkey got just right and he had

1036
00:53:08,000 --> 00:53:10,560
Speaker 1: a good beat on him, and he shot and he

1037
00:53:10,640 --> 00:53:13,040
Speaker 1: killed him. And that was a pretty special day for me.

1038
00:53:13,440 --> 00:53:16,920
Speaker 1: You know, my son being eight years old and he

1039
00:53:17,000 --> 00:53:19,600
Speaker 1: got his first turkey. I think he weighed twenty two pound,

1040
00:53:19,719 --> 00:53:24,560
Speaker 1: had like a ten inch beard. That was a special day.

1041
00:53:25,760 --> 00:53:28,359
Speaker 1: I asked Garvin if he'd be willing to tell us

1042
00:53:28,440 --> 00:53:32,840
Speaker 1: what happened when he got hurt. He agreed. Here's his story.

1043
00:53:34,719 --> 00:53:36,440
Speaker 1: In two thousand and nine, we had a really a

1044
00:53:36,520 --> 00:53:39,279
Speaker 1: bad ice storm. There was trees broke down all in

1045
00:53:39,440 --> 00:53:42,719
Speaker 1: my yard and stuff and anyway I had. I had

1046
00:53:42,760 --> 00:53:46,120
Speaker 1: a feeder up out at the guy's house. I worked

1047
00:53:46,160 --> 00:53:48,320
Speaker 1: with him, and I had some tree stands up and

1048
00:53:48,600 --> 00:53:50,920
Speaker 1: I wasn't hunting, but I thought, well, I'll just go

1049
00:53:51,000 --> 00:53:54,000
Speaker 1: out there and take that stuff down. And I got

1050
00:53:54,080 --> 00:53:57,320
Speaker 1: out there and it was a cold, snowy day and

1051
00:53:57,560 --> 00:53:59,959
Speaker 1: there was snow on the ground, probably four inches of snow.

1052
00:54:00,160 --> 00:54:02,680
Speaker 1: And I walked up and I thought, well, I can

1053
00:54:02,760 --> 00:54:05,840
Speaker 1: get this tree stand down, but I didn't take my belt,

1054
00:54:06,120 --> 00:54:08,160
Speaker 1: and uh, when I walked up the tree, I was

1055
00:54:08,239 --> 00:54:11,280
Speaker 1: kind of hesitant but I thought, well, I've done this forever,

1056
00:54:11,480 --> 00:54:13,520
Speaker 1: you know. I thought, I can just snake up the

1057
00:54:13,600 --> 00:54:16,799
Speaker 1: tree here and walk up my climbing steps and take

1058
00:54:16,880 --> 00:54:19,400
Speaker 1: the stand down. But I had had a lock on

1059
00:54:19,560 --> 00:54:22,799
Speaker 1: the chain. It was a lock on standing. I got

1060
00:54:22,880 --> 00:54:24,840
Speaker 1: up there, and it was cold, and I had on

1061
00:54:24,960 --> 00:54:28,800
Speaker 1: some gloves, and I'd been in that stand, uh, probably

1062
00:54:28,800 --> 00:54:31,360
Speaker 1: a half a dozen times that fall. And there was

1063
00:54:31,400 --> 00:54:33,360
Speaker 1: a limb that come out from the side of the

1064
00:54:33,480 --> 00:54:36,760
Speaker 1: tree there, and and I got up on the standing

1065
00:54:36,840 --> 00:54:39,040
Speaker 1: on the steps, and I had a hold of stand,

1066
00:54:39,120 --> 00:54:41,520
Speaker 1: and I thought, well, if I can just pull up

1067
00:54:41,600 --> 00:54:43,600
Speaker 1: just a little bit on this limb here, I can

1068
00:54:43,680 --> 00:54:46,360
Speaker 1: throw my leg over and and set on top of

1069
00:54:46,440 --> 00:54:49,480
Speaker 1: this big limb and and just unlocked my stand and

1070
00:54:49,640 --> 00:54:51,560
Speaker 1: get my rope and let it down and just step

1071
00:54:51,600 --> 00:54:54,399
Speaker 1: back over on the step and and come down the tree.

1072
00:54:54,480 --> 00:54:58,040
Speaker 1: But when I was pulling up, I'm not sure exactly

1073
00:54:58,120 --> 00:55:03,080
Speaker 1: what happened. But I don't know if the limb was frozen.

1074
00:55:03,560 --> 00:55:08,280
Speaker 1: I don't think the limb was dead. But it broke

1075
00:55:08,400 --> 00:55:13,080
Speaker 1: with me. And I had so much pressure and I

1076
00:55:13,239 --> 00:55:15,440
Speaker 1: was a hold of the stand. But it all happened

1077
00:55:15,480 --> 00:55:18,360
Speaker 1: so fast. I pulled loose from the stand, and I

1078
00:55:18,480 --> 00:55:21,279
Speaker 1: had enough awareness to try to kick out from the

1079
00:55:21,719 --> 00:55:24,279
Speaker 1: tree because I didn't want to want little steps to

1080
00:55:24,680 --> 00:55:27,440
Speaker 1: catch me on the way down, you know. So when

1081
00:55:27,520 --> 00:55:30,919
Speaker 1: I woke up, I guess it knocked me out. I'm

1082
00:55:30,920 --> 00:55:33,800
Speaker 1: sure it did. I was just tingling all over and

1083
00:55:34,040 --> 00:55:36,440
Speaker 1: I reached behind me and there was a little cedar

1084
00:55:36,560 --> 00:55:38,640
Speaker 1: tree and I got to hold it, but I tried

1085
00:55:38,719 --> 00:55:41,160
Speaker 1: to move but I couldn't and um, and I had

1086
00:55:41,200 --> 00:55:44,480
Speaker 1: fallen about twenty feet. The first thing I thought of

1087
00:55:44,640 --> 00:55:47,800
Speaker 1: was was I left my cell phone in my truck.

1088
00:55:48,040 --> 00:55:50,160
Speaker 1: I remember pulling it out of my cover oz and

1089
00:55:50,280 --> 00:55:53,920
Speaker 1: I was dressed pretty well, and thank goodness. And so

1090
00:55:55,000 --> 00:55:58,359
Speaker 1: when I left that morning my friend's house, I told him,

1091
00:55:58,400 --> 00:56:00,799
Speaker 1: I said, I'm just gonna be on a little bit

1092
00:56:01,120 --> 00:56:04,279
Speaker 1: and i'll be back. So after I looked at my

1093
00:56:04,360 --> 00:56:07,920
Speaker 1: watch and it was about ten twenty five. Then you

1094
00:56:08,040 --> 00:56:10,160
Speaker 1: wonder or you go to lay here and freeze to

1095
00:56:10,320 --> 00:56:13,680
Speaker 1: death before anybody comes. And I knew I was hurt bad,

1096
00:56:14,040 --> 00:56:16,800
Speaker 1: and uh I'd lay there almost two hours and I

1097
00:56:16,960 --> 00:56:20,680
Speaker 1: heard I heard Dwight on his tractor coming around, and

1098
00:56:21,040 --> 00:56:23,960
Speaker 1: I thought were good, And uh I heard him come

1099
00:56:24,160 --> 00:56:27,000
Speaker 1: come back, and I heard the tractor stop, and then

1100
00:56:27,040 --> 00:56:30,200
Speaker 1: about ten or fifteen minutes I could hear him coming.

1101
00:56:31,040 --> 00:56:34,800
Speaker 1: He had two little fist rat terrier fast mixed dogs

1102
00:56:34,960 --> 00:56:37,040
Speaker 1: and they went with me that morning and they stayed

1103
00:56:37,120 --> 00:56:41,040
Speaker 1: right with me the whole the whole time. Anyway, Dwhite

1104
00:56:41,160 --> 00:56:43,880
Speaker 1: came and I told him I was really cold, and

1105
00:56:44,320 --> 00:56:46,680
Speaker 1: I told him to go get me some blankets and

1106
00:56:46,880 --> 00:56:49,400
Speaker 1: try to try to get me some help. And a

1107
00:56:49,480 --> 00:56:52,840
Speaker 1: little bit the amalyst came and Dwight in the meantime

1108
00:56:52,880 --> 00:56:55,239
Speaker 1: it brought me some blankets and covered me up, and

1109
00:56:55,960 --> 00:56:58,279
Speaker 1: he never tried to move me or anything. And they

1110
00:56:58,360 --> 00:57:01,040
Speaker 1: finally came and and got me and worked on me

1111
00:57:01,120 --> 00:57:03,440
Speaker 1: and packed me out. And I didn't know it, but

1112
00:57:03,640 --> 00:57:07,520
Speaker 1: I had a compound fracture in my leg. Anyway, they

1113
00:57:07,560 --> 00:57:10,080
Speaker 1: got me in and started to the hospital and I

1114
00:57:10,239 --> 00:57:14,840
Speaker 1: flatlined three times. I remember the amulets stopping, but I

1115
00:57:14,960 --> 00:57:18,080
Speaker 1: didn't know what was going on. So anyway, they got

1116
00:57:18,120 --> 00:57:20,920
Speaker 1: me in to the hospital in Harrison and then checked

1117
00:57:20,960 --> 00:57:23,040
Speaker 1: me out and then took me on the springfield and

1118
00:57:23,720 --> 00:57:28,280
Speaker 1: ended up. It paralyzed me from the right above the

1119
00:57:28,320 --> 00:57:32,000
Speaker 1: waist down and I had surgery and then I went

1120
00:57:32,080 --> 00:57:36,040
Speaker 1: on to Craig Hospital out in Colorado, and I stayed

1121
00:57:36,480 --> 00:57:38,640
Speaker 1: one hundred and three days in the hospital in my

1122
00:57:38,760 --> 00:57:40,880
Speaker 1: rehab and stuff bef where I got to come home

1123
00:57:40,920 --> 00:57:44,960
Speaker 1: and yeah, a rock hit me in the in the spine.

1124
00:57:45,320 --> 00:57:48,680
Speaker 1: It busted my vertebrae and bruised my spinal cord enough

1125
00:57:48,760 --> 00:57:54,600
Speaker 1: that it paralyzed me. Yeah, I just you know, I

1126
00:57:54,720 --> 00:57:59,680
Speaker 1: just thank God for being with me, and you know,

1127
00:58:00,360 --> 00:58:03,600
Speaker 1: give me a second chance in life, because um, I

1128
00:58:03,720 --> 00:58:08,000
Speaker 1: should I should have died. Being truthful with you, I

1129
00:58:08,200 --> 00:58:12,320
Speaker 1: was real hypothermic. And I remember I remember laying there

1130
00:58:12,360 --> 00:58:15,080
Speaker 1: and praying for God to help me. You know, I

1131
00:58:15,200 --> 00:58:16,959
Speaker 1: didn't want to I didn't want to leave my wife

1132
00:58:17,000 --> 00:58:20,240
Speaker 1: and in kids, you know. And that's what I was

1133
00:58:20,280 --> 00:58:24,200
Speaker 1: really thinking about at the time. After I got to

1134
00:58:24,240 --> 00:58:27,280
Speaker 1: come home and stuff, and uh I had to I

1135
00:58:27,400 --> 00:58:30,960
Speaker 1: got home in June, and anyway, season come up, and

1136
00:58:31,280 --> 00:58:34,400
Speaker 1: uh it was a whole new, whole new learning experience.

1137
00:58:34,440 --> 00:58:36,840
Speaker 1: You know. I had to, UH had to figure some

1138
00:58:37,000 --> 00:58:39,760
Speaker 1: things out. So I got me, I got me a

1139
00:58:39,840 --> 00:58:43,040
Speaker 1: couple of pop up blinds, and uh, I deer hunted

1140
00:58:43,080 --> 00:58:45,680
Speaker 1: that fall and stuff, and and I was lucky I

1141
00:58:45,760 --> 00:58:48,240
Speaker 1: got to kill a deer and and uh but anyway,

1142
00:58:48,440 --> 00:58:51,800
Speaker 1: UH come spring, I was, I was stronger, and and

1143
00:58:52,080 --> 00:58:55,920
Speaker 1: uh tried turkey hunting, and uh, you know, now I

1144
00:58:56,040 --> 00:58:58,720
Speaker 1: can't get up and go to the turkeys like I

1145
00:58:59,200 --> 00:59:01,880
Speaker 1: used to could. But I've got a few places that

1146
00:59:01,960 --> 00:59:04,480
Speaker 1: I can go and and and get my blind and

1147
00:59:04,840 --> 00:59:08,400
Speaker 1: I mainly hunt around hedge of fields and some some

1148
00:59:08,520 --> 00:59:11,240
Speaker 1: of down blogging roads and some some of the timber

1149
00:59:11,280 --> 00:59:13,240
Speaker 1: I can get to. But you know, around some of

1150
00:59:13,320 --> 00:59:15,760
Speaker 1: the fields and where I can drive my truck or

1151
00:59:15,840 --> 00:59:18,720
Speaker 1: my side beside in and throw the blind up and

1152
00:59:19,400 --> 00:59:22,240
Speaker 1: and just rolling there and my wheelchair and stuff. But

1153
00:59:23,240 --> 00:59:27,160
Speaker 1: I've seen where patients really come into effect since I'm hurt,

1154
00:59:27,320 --> 00:59:29,880
Speaker 1: you know, because I figured out a lot of a

1155
00:59:29,920 --> 00:59:32,240
Speaker 1: lot of birds that I've walked off and left, you know,

1156
00:59:32,400 --> 00:59:35,760
Speaker 1: and now that now that I can't move, I've sat

1157
00:59:35,880 --> 00:59:39,760
Speaker 1: there and I heard a lot of turkeys in turkeys

1158
00:59:40,280 --> 00:59:42,880
Speaker 1: come to you, you know, and I've been, I've been.

1159
00:59:43,040 --> 00:59:46,120
Speaker 1: I've killed a lot of turkeys now since um I

1160
00:59:46,280 --> 00:59:49,600
Speaker 1: got hurt that I wouldn't have killed before because I

1161
00:59:49,760 --> 00:59:52,920
Speaker 1: just wouldn't have given them enough time to come in,

1162
00:59:53,120 --> 00:59:56,680
Speaker 1: you know. So I've learned that patience is really a

1163
00:59:56,760 --> 01:00:02,400
Speaker 1: good thing. On killing a turkey Garvin is a fighter

1164
01:00:02,440 --> 01:00:05,560
Speaker 1: who's not let the tough hand he's been dealt beat

1165
01:00:05,640 --> 01:00:09,640
Speaker 1: him down. He's continued to passionately hunt. He's killed a

1166
01:00:09,680 --> 01:00:12,640
Speaker 1: lot of turkeys, and even says he's killed bigger whitetails

1167
01:00:12,720 --> 01:00:17,240
Speaker 1: since his accident. Patience is a powerful thing. I'm proud

1168
01:00:17,320 --> 01:00:19,560
Speaker 1: to know Garvin and to have been able to set

1169
01:00:19,600 --> 01:00:22,680
Speaker 1: across the table from him as he told me his story.

1170
01:00:23,200 --> 01:00:26,480
Speaker 1: I'd say he's a real hero. What happened to him

1171
01:00:26,600 --> 01:00:29,040
Speaker 1: could have happened to any one of us who've spent

1172
01:00:29,120 --> 01:00:34,040
Speaker 1: our lives dangling from trees, chasing whitetails and bears. Garvin's

1173
01:00:34,160 --> 01:00:37,480
Speaker 1: chosen to take the glass half full approach and be

1174
01:00:37,720 --> 01:00:41,720
Speaker 1: thankful that he's alive. I'd say that's an honorable thing.

1175
01:00:42,360 --> 01:00:45,320
Speaker 1: He was forty nine years old when this accident happened

1176
01:00:45,400 --> 01:00:50,280
Speaker 1: in two thousand and nine. All these storytellers, some I've

1177
01:00:50,360 --> 01:00:54,080
Speaker 1: known my whole life, and others I've recently met, carried

1178
01:00:54,120 --> 01:00:57,760
Speaker 1: the DNA of the American turkey hunter, which is characterized

1179
01:00:57,880 --> 01:01:02,280
Speaker 1: by a peculiar passion in debtiction to this magnificent giant

1180
01:01:02,520 --> 01:01:06,320
Speaker 1: goblin bird which roams our woods and fields. I'm so

1181
01:01:06,560 --> 01:01:10,080
Speaker 1: grateful that the generations before us fought to save turkeys

1182
01:01:10,240 --> 01:01:14,560
Speaker 1: and their habitat. Despite some regions seeing downfalls in numbers,

1183
01:01:14,800 --> 01:01:18,560
Speaker 1: we've still got an incredible resource at our fingertips. I

1184
01:01:18,680 --> 01:01:22,120
Speaker 1: think it's important to stay active in the organizations dedicated

1185
01:01:22,160 --> 01:01:25,920
Speaker 1: to turkey conservation, like the National Wild Turkey Federation and

1186
01:01:26,040 --> 01:01:29,320
Speaker 1: the new group Turkeys for Tomorrow, and I know there

1187
01:01:29,360 --> 01:01:34,240
Speaker 1: are many other groups helping wild turkeys long live the

1188
01:01:34,360 --> 01:01:39,760
Speaker 1: wild turkey, his habitat, and the hunt. I can't thank you,

1189
01:01:39,920 --> 01:01:43,280
Speaker 1: guys and gals enough for listening to Bear Greece. Please

1190
01:01:43,360 --> 01:01:46,240
Speaker 1: leave us a review on iTunes and share our podcast

1191
01:01:46,640 --> 01:01:50,440
Speaker 1: with the best intentioned but worst turkey hunter you know

1192
01:01:51,000 --> 01:01:54,200
Speaker 1: this week. We'll see you next week on the Render