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

Hunting Osceola Turkeys from 2025 Unicoi Callmakers Show This week, Cameron and Andy play the Hunting Osceola Turkeys roundtable discussion from the 2025 Unicoi Custom Callmakers Show that was held in January in Helen, Georgia. The panel for the roundtable includes Darrin Dawkins, Lon Trice, Larry Stephens, Lamar Williams, and Mark Prudhomme. The panel discusses differences in Eastern and Osceola...

2025 Mid Season Update Cameron and Andy are back after some unscheduled time off from the podcast. In this episode they explain what has been happening in their worlds that has kept them from posting shows regularly this spring and they share updates about their seasons. Andy's spring season is over now, and Cameron is squeezing in one last hunting trip for the spring. But, what happened between p...

Join us this week as we dive into a successful turkey hunt that Cameron experienced earlier this season. We also discuss a few audio mishaps and fun memories in the turkey woods.  Hopefully you can pick up an idea or two from this live hunt to help you on a future turkey hunt. 

Hunting Pressured Turkeys with Patrick Wightman This week, Patrick Wightman, a research scientist with the Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, joins Cameron and Andy this week to discuss what turkeys do when they get pressure put on them by hunters. Patrick has done hours and hours of research on this topic, and he shares his insight with us in this interview. This is an interview th...

Hunting Pressured Turkeys with Cameron and Andy This week, Cameron and Andy take on the topic of hunting pressured turkeys. They share their approaches to hunting pressured turkeys, and talk about how some private ground is just as pressured as some public ground. They also share some stories of encountering pressured birds and what they learned from those encounters. This is the first of a new se...

Turkey Hunting in New Zealand with Dink Watson This week, Dink Watson with New Zealand Turkey Adventures joins Cameron and Andy this week to talk about turkey hunting down under. This is an eye opening and fascinating episode that kind of makes you wonder what turkey populations might be like in the US without hunter or predator harvests and diseases. According to Dink, the numbers of wild turkeys...

Putting Your Best You Forward with Landowners with Dr Jack Schafer This week, Dr. Jack Schafer joins Cameron and Andy on the show to talk about an interesting topic of how to present your best you when approaching a landowner to gain access to his/her property for turkey hunting. This episode is full of very interesting and useful verbal and nonverbal cues to look for when speaking with a landowne...

Q&A with Mike Chamberlain and Patrick Wightman at NWTF Convention This week, Cameron and Andy share the Q&A Seminar with Mike Chamberlain and Patrick Wightman from the NWTF Convention in Nashville last week while they are in South Texas enjoying turkey camp with the raffle winners. This is a great episode with Mike and Patrick sharing their knowledge based on many studies completed from ar...

Better Setups for More Successful Turkey Hunts with Doc Weddle This week Doc Weddle joins Cameron and Andy to discuss some of his techniques and strategy in setting up for more successful turkey hunts.  Doc has completed 5 US Super Slams, and he is arguably one of the best turkey hunters you will ever meet. Cameron and Andy question him on what he looks for in a great setup for a turkey hunt, and...

Better Setups for Successful Turkey Hunts with Jeff Budz This week, Jeff Budz joins Cameron and Andy to discuss how to setup on turkeys to increase your odds of filling a tag.  Jeff has killed more Grand Slams than anyone has at this point, and he guides hunters as well. So, when it comes to knowing what a good setup looks like, Jeff knows a thing or two. This is a fun episode as Jeff is in his no...

Better Setups for Successful Turkey Hunts with Cameron and Andy This week Cameron and Andy discuss how setting up for your turkey hunts can make all of the difference between eating turkey or eating tag soup.  Listen in as both Cameron and Andy share some of their secrets setting up for more successful turkey hunts. Buy some merch and great sounding The Turkey Hunter diaphragm turkey calls from ou...

Early Season Tactics with Bret Collier and Nick Bakner This week, Dr Bret Collier and Dr Nick Bakner join Cameron and Andy to discuss what wild turkeys are doing early season. Dr. Bakner has extensively tracked the movements of wild turkeys throughout the seasons and in different landscapes across the country. He shares his extensive knowledge of the movements of wild turkeys during hunting season...

Early Season Tactics with Kenny Mount Part 2 This week, Cameron and Andy have the remainder of the Kenny Mount episode where they do a little deeper dive into early season turkey hunting tactics. This episode is not without its share of laughs and silliness either, but there are some tactics that will help you to have more success in the early spring turkey woods. Also, the 2nd annual hunt raffle...

Early Season Tactics with Kenny Mount This week, Kenny Mount joins Cameron and Andy on the show to discuss early season turkey hunting tactics. We are fortunate enough to get a couple of hours of Kenny's time in this interview, so you are going to hear part 1 of the interview today. We really are just getting warmed up in this episode, and we discuss trying to balance a little bit of life with tur...

Early Season Tactics with Cameron and Andy This week, Cameron and Andy kick off episode number one of their first series of episodes on Early Season Tactics. We talk about the geographical differences between early seasons and subspecies of turkeys across the country and how that should affect your strategies. We also discuss how your pre-season scouting can make or break early season success for...

1980's Trap and Transfer in MS with Benny Herring This week, Benny Herring joins Cameron and Andy on the show. Benny was with the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks for 30 plus years. He was deeply involved in trap and transfer efforts in MS during many of those years. Cameron and Andy talk with Benny about those efforts, enjoy one of the slowest and best Rapid Fire Q&A s...

2025 NWTF Convention and Sport Show Preview with Pete Muller Pete Muller joins Cameron and Andy this week to talk about the NWTF's upcoming 2025 Convention and Sport Show. This coming year the show will be held on February 13 - 15, 2025 at the Gaylord Opryland Hotel in Nashville, TN. The show is 3 days of turkey hunting bliss where experienced and new turkey hunters alike can find hot new turkey h...

Podcast and Wild Turkey Talk This week, Cameron and Andy celebrate Episode 500 discussing the podcast and wild turkeys. Cameron and Andy talk about their favorite podcast guests, topics, and tips from over the past 10 years. They also get into a little talk about wild turkeys and their prospects for the future. This is a casual, fun, and laid back episode.  Listen in! Here is the link to this year...

The 2025 Unicoi Custom Call Makers Preview Show with Mark Sharpe This week, Mark Sharpe joins Cameron and Andy again to talk about the upcoming 2025 Unicoi Custom Turkey Call Makers Show. There are some changes to the show for 2025, and Mark covers those changes with us and gives us a little preview as to who some of the new participants to this years show are.  This week's show is a good one that...

Random Turkey Topics with Jim Casada This week, Jim Casada joins Cameron and Andy to talk about all things turkey.  This conversation has a heavy lean towards talking about some of the personalities that Jim has had the pleasure of hunting with over his many years of writing for Turkeys and Turkey Hunting magazine as well as for his various books that he has written. Jim is an amazing story teller...

Pre-Thanksgiving Turkey Soup This week, Cameron and Andy share some delicious fall turkey soup with you. Among the states discussed are Maine, Illinois, Missouri, Ohio, South Dakota, Pennsylvania, and Minnesota. Cameron even shares a story with us about the recent bust of some lowlife scammers in Florida who were selling hunts for farm turkeys as Osceola turkey hunts. This is an interesting episod...

April Fools! This week Andy shares one of his hunts from this past spring with us. This is a hunt that took place in his home state of Alabama on, you guessed it, April Fools Day. Listen in as Andy shares the details on this hunt with some turkey vocalizations we don't often hear in the spring time. Buy some merch and great sounding The Turkey Hunter diaphragm turkey calls from our Shopify store b...

Legends of The Spring with Mike Giles  Mike Giles joins Cameron and Andy this week to discuss his new book,  Legends of The Spring, Masters of The Call. Mike shares several stories from the book, and we get to learn a little about Mike as well. Liaten in! Buy some merch and great sounding The Turkey Hunter diaphragm turkey calls from our Shopify store by clicking here:  https://theturkeyhunterpodc...

Fall Turkey Hunting and Turkey Dogging with Gratten Hepler This week, turkey dogger, Gratten Hepler, joins Cameron and Andy to talk about fall turkey hunting with a turkey dog. Gratten turkey hunts in the Fall with a Brittany Spaniel. He shares lots of stories about fall hunting with his dog on the show. Gratten also shares some tips that can be used during the Fall whether you hunt with a turkey...

They Mark My Steps with Michael T Simpson This week, Michael T Simpson joins Cameron and Andy on the show to talk a little about his new book, They Mark My Steps. Michael shares a number of stories with us in this episode. He shares the story of the tornado that hit his house in northeast Mississippi not long after the release of his first book. He talks about the emotions of his first turkey hunt...