The Turkey Hunter Podcast with Andy Gagliano & Cameron Weddington | Turkey Hunting Tips, Strategies, and Stories

A Hard Gobbling Tennessee Swamp Gobbler Cameron shares the story and audio from an awesome hunt with 2 of his brothers on their family land in Tennessee this past spring.  This bird gobbled a bunch and did what we all want every wild turkey gobbler to do when we get the opportunity to get in the turkey woods. Listen in and enjoy this week's episode and this hunt!

A Turkey Hunter's Christmas Wish List This week, Cameron and I share our top 5 wish list items for Christmas along with a stocking stuffer item in hopes that Santa is listening to the show. We talk guns, books, clothing, transportation, trail cameras, decoys, and more. Listen in and maybe get a few ideas for what you may want to ask Santa for or even forward this episode to your spouse to pass alo...

Turkey Taxidermy with Tanner Burns In this week's episode, Tanner Burns with Full Draw Taxidermy joins Cameron and me to talk about his quest for the Super Slam and wild turkey taxidermy. Tanner has been working on his Super Slam for about 10 years now, and he's very near completing it. His hope is to complete it in the spring of 2021. Tanner also has a taxidermy business, and he has been mounting...

Talking Turkey with Doc Weddle This week, Cameron and I have the Seinfeld episode for you. You know, the show about nothing?? Actually, this week's show is far from being about nothing. We have Doc Weddle on the show this week, and we are talking about anything and everything wild turkey related. I thoroughly enjoyed getting to know more about Doc, and I always enjoy talking turkey. So this week's...

Late Winter Turkey Hunting with Rob Keck Rob Keck with Bass Pro joins Cameron and me this week to talk about late winter turkey hunting.  Rob has hunted killed turkeys in New Zealand, Mexico, Guatemala, Canada, and every state in the US (minus Alaska), and he says the experience of late winter turkey hunting is unmatched. Imagine flocks of 50 - 100 toms coming in to fighting purrs and strutter dec...

Mark Prudhomme Seminar 2020 Unicoi Custom Turkey Call Makers Show This week, Cameron and I share Mark Prudhomme's seminar from the 2020 Unicoi Custom Turkey Call Makers Show. Mark is a great call maker, hunter, and story teller. This is a great seminar that will get any turkey hunter fired up and ready to go into the turkey woods. Listen in!

2021 Unicoi Turkey Call Makers Show Preview Cameron and I are talking with Mark Sharpe about the 2021 Unicoi Turkey Call Makers Show this week. The call makers show will be held once again at Unicoi State Park in Helen, GA on January 8th and 9th, 2021. This is a show that I am especially excited about since the 2021 NWTF Convention and Sport Show is taking place virtually instead of live at the Op...

Join us this week as we recap a recent fall turkey hunt that Cameron enjoyed this past weekend. In this episode you will get to hear some short clips of Autumn turkeys singing their song as well as the story behind this incredible hunt. You will also be entertained with the story of a life or death situation involving Cameron vs. Snoopy & Clifford. We go into the details of the hunt and recap what...

Don't Miss This Episode In this week's episode, Cameron shares several turkey hunts with us with shots fired in them. The problem is that none of the shots connected with their intended target. After each hunt, we talk a little about why the misses happened, and what could have been done to prevent the hunters in these hunts from having poked out lips and unfilled turkey tags. This is a fun episod...

Halloween Turkey Soup with a Dash of Fall Turkey Hunting Stories This week, Cameron shares his fall turkey hunting stories from this past weekend in Missouri with us. This trip resulted in the demise of 2 public land wild turkeys with one story including a unique flock busting technique. After hearing Cameron's turkey hunting stories, we get into some turkey soup. We talk about Connecticut, Maryla...

Talking Merriam's with Donald Devereaux Jarrett This week, Donald Devereaux Jarrett (DJ) joins Cameron and me for an interview about Merriam's wild turkeys. DJ is the author of Compositions of a Sickness, and he also writes articles for Georgia Outdoor News and Alabama Outdoor News. Though he lives in central Georgia and primarily hunts Eastern wild turkeys, DJ spent several years guiding hunters...

Fall Turkey Hunting with Ray Eye This week, Cameron and I share the interview we did with Ray Eye about fall turkey hunting.  Ray is a veteran in the world of turkey hunting, and his true passion is fall turkey hunting - more specifically fall turkey hunting for gobblers. Ray has given hundreds of seminars around the country, released multiple videos, and has written several books about fall turke...

A West Virginia Turkey Hunt This week Cameron shares the story and audio of his hunt in West Virginia from the spring 2020 turkey season. This is a very exciting hunt with lots of gobbling from a few toms surrounded by a big flock of very vocal hens. The audio of this hunt is really good, and it is interesting as well because for some strange reason, Cameron left his recorder and microphone behind...

Connecting Women to Hunting Seminar from 2020 NWTF Convention This week, Cameron and I share the Connecting Women to Hunting seminar from the NWTF convention this past February in Nashville. Although there is not much talk about turkey hunting specifically in this seminar. This was an extremely interesting seminar - really, it was a round table discussion - about how to introduce women to the spor...

Final 2020 Tennessee Turkey Tag This week, Cameron and I play Cameron's the hunt where he fills his 4th and final tag in Tennessee for the 2020 wild turkey hunting season. This hunt takes Cameron back to the time when he killed his first turkey because that hunt also took place in a swamp in Tennessee. Listen in as Cameron relives this hunt where he kills a monster of a boss tom and takes us along...

Spring 2021 Turkey Hunt Planning This week Cameron and I talk fairly in depth about our plans for our spring 2021 out of state turkey hunts. We talk about several of the states that we plan on hunting in this coming spring and a little about how we picked those states. I have plans to hunt at least 5 states that I haven't killed in, and Cameron has plans to hunt 8 - 10 states that he has not kille...

Exercise and Turkey Hunting with Lindsay Persico This week Cameron and I have exercise and fitness guru Lindsay Persico on the show to talk about how exercise can help us to become better turkey hunters. We talk about how easily this can be done today without going to a gym and how to best start an exercise routine even if we have not exercised in years. We also discuss what Lindsay's exercise rou...

A Fan of Alabama Turkey Hunt This week, Cameron and I share the story and audio of my second kill in Alabama. This was a hunt in late April where I fanned in a very long spurred wild turkey on my own property. I've been trying to kill a turkey on that property for the past 3 years or so, and I've come so close but just never could get the goal marked off of my list. This season, I made it happen w...

How Not to Kill More Turkeys with the Primos Gang This week, Cameron and I share the Primos seminar from the 2020 NWTF Convention and Sport Show. The seminar is entitled How Not to Kill More Turkeys. As usual, Primos puts on a great seminar that is entertaining and informative. Whatever it is the guys at Primos do, you can consider it to be done well. This seminar is no different. Why they even sh...

This Budz For You This week Cameron and I share an interview with Jeff Budz, with Tag It Worldwide and TSS shotgun shells. Jeff is somewhat of a regular on the show and a wealth of knowledge as well. We catch up with him while he is on vacation in the vehicle heading north to see his family, and we get him to fill us in on how his season went. We also talk to him about the new shotgun shell manufa...

A Steaming Hot Bowl of Summertime Turkey Soup This week, Cameron and I finally prepare some turkey soup for you guys.  Our last turkey soup episode was quite some time ago, and a lot has happened in the world of turkey hunting since then, ie - high COVID wild turkey murder rates, etc. Listen in this week as Cameron and I talk about numerous topics related to turkey hunting while we cover the news...

Mentored Hunts with Travis Sumner This week, Cameron and I have the interview that I conducted with Travis Sumner with the NWTF about mentored hunts. Travis and I talk about how to put on a mentored hunt, how to find land to hunt, how to find mentors and mentees, how to find gear, which types of hunts make better mentored hunts, and a handful of other topics. Mentored hunts are a great opportunity...

An Alabama Opening Day Screw Up This week, Cameron and Andy share a turkey hunt from opening day of Alabama's 2020 turkey season. We believe there is just as much to learn, if not more, from a hunt gone wrong as there is from a successful hunt. Today, we have one gone wrong for you. In this hunt, Andy is joined by his friend, Todd, and Todd's son, Pow. They visit Andy's hunting club in central Ala...

More OnX Maps with Jared Larsen This week, Cameron and I bring you the interview that I did at the NWTF Convention and Sport Show in Nashville with Jared Larsen with OnX Maps. OnX is continuing to revolutionize the mobile mapping world with their app, and Jared gives us a little bit more of a deep dive into some of the ways that we can use OnX to help us find new places to hunt and hunt those plac...

Talking Turkey with Preston Pittman This week, Cameron and I have Preston Pittman on the show to pick the winner of the first ever The Turkey Hunter Podcast Natural Voice Owl Hooting Contest. And, of course, after a winner was picked a conversation broke out between 3 die hard turkey hunters.  Listen in as we discuss owl hooting, turkey calling, turkey callers, TSS shot, turkey hunting with sub ga...