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

Eddie Salter Seminar from 2018 NWTF Convention This week, I have some good and some bad for you in this week's episode. The good first... I have the replay from Eddie Salter's 2018 NWTF convention and sports show seminar cueued up for you this week.  Eddie is always entertaining and informative, and I feel like there are some great nuggets to be picked up on during the seminar for even the most ex...

A Little Summertime Turkey Soup This week I have some turkey soup for you. Here are some topics that are covered in this week's episode... college football (I'm going to apologize in advance for this), wild turkey recipe, turkey harvest numbers for spring of 2018, poult recruitment and wild turkey population surveys, fall 2018 turkey permit application dates, and turkey's gone wild. Listen in!

Chasing Turkeys Using the OnX App with Dylan Dowson This week, I interview Dylan Dowson with OnX about the OnX application and feature rich family of maps. We talk about several of the different features that are helpful within the application, like the tracking feature, the ability to share waypoints with friends, and the ability to measure distance; and, we share a few hunting stories as well. L...

Managing Private Land Seminar In this episode of The Turkey Hunter, I am sharing the recording from the NWTF seminar about managing private land. In this seminar, the presenters discussed NRCS management programs, creating nesting and brood rearing habitat, and states leasing private lands using federal money. Listen in and learn if any of these managment techniques can be used on your hunting pro...

Challenging Gobblers with Ray Eye In this episode, I interview the ever entertaining Ray Eye about challenging gobblers. Ray talks about using gobbler yelps, jake yelps, and gobbles to challenge a male turkey's spot in the pecking order. We talk about the best times of the spring mating season to try this strategy. And, Ray also discusses how he uses gobbler yelps to pull Toms away from a flock of...

Oregon Turkey Hunt This week, I take you along on my turkey hunt in Oregon. My buddies and I left Idaho, and headed to northeast Oregon on a seat of our pants turkey hunt.  It was a great trip, and we managed to kill turkeys while we were there. Listen in to this awesome hunt.

Idaho Turkey Hunt This week I share the story of the Idaho turkey hunt from a few weeks ago. Idaho was another state that my hunting buddies and I were able to get marked off of our list of states. We killed 4 birds in 2 and a half days there. Listen in to hear the stories.

Washington Turkey Hunt This week, I take you along on my turkey hunt to Washington.  Just a hint, it is a great hunt. You'll want to come along on this journey with me as I attempt to mark state number 26 off of my list of turkey hunting/killing states. Listen in!

187P - Minnesota Turkey Hunt Today, I'm sharing the story of my Minnesota turkey hunt on the show. The hunt was a great experience, and I look forward to the day that I can go back to hunt Minnesota turkeys. I talk about scouting land from hundreds of miles away, sleeping in a Ford Flex, and gobbling turkeys. Listen in.

Wisconsin Turkey Hunt This week, I take you on my hunt to Wisconsin to try to mark another state off of my list of states needed to complete the Super Slam of Wild Turkeys. The trip to Wisconsin was a great experience from the start to the end. The trip was full of great people, hospitality, scenery, and hunting.  Listen in to hear all about the amazing trip! On Wisconsin!

Week 7 Recap of 2018 Alabama Turkey Season and Musings This week I recap week 7 of Alabama's 2018 spring turkey season, and I offer some deep thoughts on the season as a whole. Listen in.

Week 6 Recap of 2018 Alabama Turkey Season This week, I recap my hunts from week 6 of the 2018 Alabama (and Mississippi) turkey season.  I'll let the cat out of the bag, there was a male wild turkey spotting and a shot fired. Listen in as I try to finally kill my Alabama turkey and I try to fill a tag in MS.   

Turkey Hunting Safety This week I have a replay of a must listen reminder show about turkey hunting safety. I'm going to touch on the 3 aspects of turkey hunting that are the most dangerous and how we can be more safe. I also stress that we stop and think before we do something that is even remotely dangerous and ask ourselves, "What is the worst thing that can happen to me if I do _________." Lis...

Week 5 Recap of 2018 Alabama Spring Turkey Season This week's show is a recap of week 5 of Alabama's 2018 spring turkey season with a little twist thrown in as Cameron and I took a trip to North Carolina.  I don't want to let the cat out of the bag about what happens in this week's show because the cat has turkey feathers in his mouth this week. Listen in as Cameron and I talk turkey!

Week 4 Recap of 2018 Alabama Turkey Season This week, I recap all of my hunts from week 4 of Alabama's 2018 turkey season. There was some quick heartbeats again this week in the woods chasing turkeys. Listen in and hear about my hunts from this past week.

Week 3 Recap of Alabama 2018 Turkey Season Week 3 presented me with a little bit of action - much more action than week 1 did.  This week's journeys took me to Bibb County, Chilton County, Wilcox County, Perry County, and Dallas County - all in Alabama. Listen in and enjoy the show.

Week 2 Recap of Alabama 2018 Turkey Season We finally have some action in our spring turkey season. Listen in for the story.

Week 2 Recap of 2018 Alabama Turkey Season We finally have a little action in a turkey hunt. Listen in!

Week 1 Recap of Alabama 2018 Turkey Season This week I recap the happenings from my first week of hunting the 2018 spring turkey hunting season in Alabama.  I also interview Richard Dunkin with Strutt'n 360 mechanical decoy stakes and JR Holly with Dixie Fowl Company to pick and announce the winners of this week's giveaways. Adam Moser with Federal Premium also joins us to tell us about their new...

Matt Morrett Seminar This week I am playing the Matt Morrett seminar from the 2018 NWTF Convention and Sports Show in Nashville. I also announce the winners of the Dixie Fowl Company and Strutt'n 360 giveaways that we are doing on the show. Listen in, learn, and hopefully win something as well.

Wild Turkey Records with Karen Cavender This week, I have Karen Cavender with the NWTF on the show to talk about the wild turkey records department.  Karen is responsible for gathering and verifying all of the wild turkey records and registration forms that come through the NWTF. I ask her why hunters would want to register their birds with the NWTF, the process that we need to take to register ou...

Grand National Calling Championship and Turkey Soup This week I have JR Holley with Dixie Fowl Company and Richard Dunkin with Strutt'n 360 on the show to announce a couple of giveaways that we have partnered up on. JR is giving away 3 products from Dixie Fowl Company over the next 3 weeks, and Richard is giving away 5 Strutt'n 360 mechanical decoy stakes over the next 5 weeks. Be sure you listen...

2018 NWTF Convention and Sports Show Recap This week, I share with you some of the highlights of my trip to Nashville for the 2018 NWTF Convention and Sports Show. The weekend was filled with turkey hunting seminars, calling contests, an exhibit hall full of vendors selling anything and everything related to turkeys and turkey hunting. I was fortunate enough to be able to record a great deal of co...

Mid and Late Season Public Land Strategies with Tony Reynolds This week, I have Tony Reynolds with Reynolds Custom Calls back on the show with me to talk a little more about turkey hunting public land. This time, however, we are talking about mid and late season public land turkey hunting strategies. Tony has many years experience turkey hunting public land, so we can gain a great deal of knowledg...

In this episode, I take you along with me through the process of planning my spur of the moment turkey hunt to Wisconsin. I'm going to try to tack on at least one more state on that trip (likely Minnesota) as well. I'm way behind in the process for where I need to be at this point, but mainly because I did not know I was going to be in the area until about 3 weeks ago. Since I am way behind in the...