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Part 2 of Advanced Trapping Sets for Wild Turkey Predators with Trent Masterson   In this week's episode I continue the conversation with Trent Masterson about some advanced trapping sets for wild turkey predators - adult and poult wild turkey predators mostly. Coyotes are extremely wary, and they are quick to catch on to trapping in their home area. When they catch on, they get more and more diff...

Trent Masterson joins me this week to discuss advanced trapping sets for wild turkey predators. If you want to have more turkeys to observe and hunt on your property, there are 2 main things that you can do to really help to increase your population.  One of those is to improve the habitat that the turkeys have.  The second activity is to trap predators. More often than not, those predators that h...

Preston Pittman with Pittman Game Calls and Longleaf Camo joins me today to discuss pre season scouting for wild turkeys. We talk about when we need to start our pre season scouting for wild turkeys, what we need to be looking for when we scout, when we should stop our scouting for turkeys, and some of the most common mistakes we make when scouting. In addition to learning some tips to scout your...

I received a show suggestion from Friend of the Show, Griff Baute, to do a show on turkey hunting gear, so today I'm sharing with you what I carry in my turkey hunting vest. I'm going to give you the list of what I keep in my turkey hunting vest 24/7, what I rotate in and out of my turkey hunting vest, and what I need to put in my turkey hunting vest before this season starts. After listening to t...

Join me as I interview Tim Knight and Corey New about bowhunting turkeys without a blind. A wild turkey's eyesight is undoubtedly the best of any big game species in North America. They have an uncanny ability to pick out any type of movement or something that is just not right in the woods. Because of their incredible eyesight, bowhunting turkeys without a blind may seem like it is an impossible...

Join Pete Muller, Public Relations Specialist with the National Wild Turkey Federation, and I as we talk about the upcoming NWTF Convention and Sports Show in Nashville.  The NWTF Convention and Sports Show is the premiere turkey hunting and outdoor show held in the Southeast. The show consist of over 600 exhibitors, taxidermy contests, turkey call contests, turkey calling contests, seminars, live...

In this episode, I share a conversation that I had with Josh Pollock, who is a wildlife biologist in Utah, where I discuss turkey populations and my best chance for success on my upcoming hunt there. I want to be sure I am setting myself and my hunting buddies up for the best chance for success, especially when preparing for a public land hunt. One of the best ways to do that is to ask the people...

In this episode, I ask you to help me help you be a better turkey hunter in 2017.  You can help me help you in 2 ways. First, email me at andy at iamturkeyhunting with one idea or suggestion for a show topic. Your suggestion can be very specific or very general.  It doesn't matter.  Your suggestion should be what you want or need help with or want to learn more about that will help you to be a bet...

This week, I have another followup interview with a guest who has been on the show before. Jenna Barron joins us to give us an update on how her fall turkey season went and an update on Ms. Jeffrey, her farm turkey who had quite the following on Facebook. Jenna shares a story on how she was able to acquire access to some private property for turkey hunting and that the opportunity to hunt that pro...

Some interviews that I do spark quite a few questions by listeners, and I thought that doing follow-up interviews with those same guests would be a great idea. This week, I have the first follow-up interview for you guys, and it is with Dave Owens who you probably recognize from Episode 053 where we talked about how to choose public land hunting spots. Dave is back on this week to answer some of t...

Roger Shields with the Florida Fish and Wild Game Conservation Commission is on the show to talk about Osceola wild turkeys. The Osceola wild turkey is great fun to hunt. Their habitat is some of the harshest in the country, and Osceola's have an amazing ability to disappear into nowhere. With plenty of public and private land to hunt in Osceola range, there are no shortages of opportunities to ha...

In this week's episode, an experienced hunter shares the story of his recent hunting accident and shares a gun safety reminder with us. Most of us, at one time or another, have a lapse of judgement when handling a firearm. Fortunately, most of the time, nothing bad or harmful happens and we often don't even realize what we just got away with because nothing negative happened. A friend of mine rece...

Happy Thanksgiving!

In preparation for Thanksgiving dinner, here are 3 quick and easy wild turkey recipes.  First up, we have wild turkey poppers.  I think they are called poppers because they are so good they'll make your eyes will pop out of your head. Second, we have a wild turkey thigh and leg wild rice soup. This soup is delicious and simple to make. And, last but not least, is wild turkey steaks. This very easy...

In this episode I take you on a little field trip to the shooting range to pattern my new turkey hunting shotgun. I shoot 3 different chokes and two different shotgun shells through each choke tube to see which choke and shotgun shell patterns the best.  

My birthday has come and gone, and my new turkey hunting shotgun has been tricked out with all of my birthday gifts from my family members. I've gotten it ready to take to the range, and I'll be doing that this coming weekend. I'll also be recording that sighting/shooting session for future playback on the show. In addition to all of this gun talk, I also have more gun talk for you in this week's...

Today I have a quick tip for our new turkey hunters, and that is to try to start thinking more like a turkey when hunting. We can never know what a turkey is thinking with 100% certainty, but I can with 100% certainty tell you that it is related to at least one thing.  That one thing is either food/water, shelter/cover, safety, and the need to breed. If we start out knowing what the turkeys want i...

I recently bought a new shotgun, and I'm now ready to turn that new shotgun into a new turkey hunting shotgun. There are some very simple and inexpensive modifications that one can make to a shotgun to turn it into a dedicated turkey hunting shotgun. Some of the modifications I am making to this gun are replacing the wooden stock with a lightweight synthetic stock, adding rifle sights to the barre...

Scott Lerich, Regional Biologist with the NWTF, and I discuss Merriam's wild turkeys in this week's episode.  We talk about the extensive travel by the Merriam's turkeys, their vocal nature, where to find them in the fall and spring, and what makes them unique and their own subspecies of wild turkeys. Listen in and get some tips on where you can find birds in the fall and spring, and hopefully thi...

A replay of one of my favorite episodes of the show where I have my buddy, John, on the show to tell the story of The Texas Decoy Massacre. I also have some wild turkey news bites for you as well.

Finding wild turkeys in the fall can be fairly difficult because as turkey flocks get larger for the winter there are fewer flocks of turkeys to locate.  Obviously, if you can't find turkeys, then you can't kill turkeys. So, in this week I talk about finding wild turkeys in the fall by looking for their food sources and water sources as well. Wild turkeys concentrate primarily on preparing for wha...

Episode 100 of The Turkey Hunter podcast is kind of a big deal, so we are doing something a little unique to celebrate. This week the tables are turned, and Cameron (The Turkey Hunter podcast intern) is interviewing me (The Turkey Hunter podcast host) in this episode. Listen in as I tackle the Rapid Fire Q&A and answer several other questions that Cameron has written to ask me.

This week I'm going to cover a turkey hunting strategy for spring and fall. Try this strategy during both seasons when things aren't quite going your way, and see if this unconventional trick may help you to fill a tag.

In this episode, I bust 3 more turkey hunting myths.  1. Turkeys won't go downhill. 2. A spooked turkey equals a ruined hunt. 3. Calling is everything. Newbie turkey hunters are often turned away from turkey hunting because they feel like there is just too much to the sport to learn and master. They hear us experienced turkey hunters say turkeys won't do this and turkeys don't do that. The truth o...

In this week's episode of The Turkey Hunter, I share a quick PSA regarding the Under Armor Hunt and Sarah Bowmar break up.