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

The Story of a Bonafide Swamp Gobbler This week Cameron and Andy share one of Andy's hunts from the 2024 spring turkey season to help deal with the fact that spring turkey season is still over 6 months away for most of the US. In this hunt, Andy encounters high water and gobbling turkeys on a piece of property that he had never set foot on before. This was an interesting hunt, that like most of ou...

Piping Hot Turkey Soup This week, Cameron and Andy share some interesting articles and commentary with a bowl of turkey soup in the hottest month of summer for most of the country. In this episode, Missouri, Tennessee, Alabama, Louisiana, and Illinois turkeys and turkey hunters are in the news and discussed at length. With topics covered like fall turkey season bag limits and dates, harvest number...

Turkey Talk with Billy Yargus  This week, almost first time guest and 2 time Grand National Calling Champion, Billy Yargus joins Cameron and Andy on the show to talk all things turkey. Billy talks about how he got into hunting, and shares some fond memories of his hunting mentor. He also shares the story of how he got into competitive turkey calling and some insight into some of the competition th...

The Final Results from the 2024 Raffle Hunt with Mark Hatfield In late 2023 and early 2024, The Turkey Hunter Podcast raffled a turkey hunt for two lucky hunters in South TX to join Cameron and Andy for a late winter hunt. Over two thousand tickets were sold during the raffle period, and Del Ghia and Jason "Justin" Barnes won the hunts. A great time was had by all and new friendships were formed d...

The NRCS and Wild Turkey Habitat Management with Mike Hansbrough This week, Mike Hansbrough, who is the Area Resource Biologist in West Tennessee for the NRCS, joins Cameron and Andy today to discuss the role the NRCS can play in habitat management on private property. Mike discusses a few of the programs, such as CRP, EQIP, and CSP that are available to help private landowners manage their proper...

488 - A Mexican Showdown on a Turkey Hunt This week Parrey Cremeans joins Cameron and Andy to share the story of a Gould's turkey hunt that didn't quite end up the way that was expected. After hunting for several days in the mountains of the Sierra Madres for the beautiful Gould's turkey hunt, Parrey and his group were robbed at gunpoint by members of a Mexican drug cartel while on their way back...

Turkey Tips from the Window to the Walls with Chris Walls This week, champion turkey caller, Chris Walls, joins Cameron and Andy on the show for the first time.  Chris is a winner of the Gobbling competition and finished second several times in the Grand Nationals in Nashville. He also knows a thing or two about wild turkeys and turkey hunting. Cameron and Andy managed to pull some tips out of him...

2024 The Misses This week, Cameron and Andy talk about some of their missed shots from their 2024 turkey seasons. The missed shots are always humbling and are a great source of thousands of questions we ask of ourselves. There are really just a handful of reasons as to why we miss most of the shots that we miss. Cameron and Andy discuss some of those reasons during the show, and they play some of...

2024 Turkey Hunting Goals - Successes and Failures This week, Cameron and Andy talk about their 2024 pre-season goals and whether or not they accomplished those goals.  They discuss their failures and a few of the things they learned from those failures. They also discussed how those failures do not define them or their turkey season. Listen in! Buy some merch and great sounding The Turkey Hunter...

Pheasants Forever This week, Cameron shares a 2'fer with us as he shares the stories and audio of two of his turkey hunts from this spring.  The moral of the stories are that we, as turkey hunters, need to be adaptable to be successful. This is a great episode with some awesome turkey hunt audio. Listen in! Buy some merch and great sounding The Turkey Hunter diaphragm turkey calls from our Shopify...

2024 Mid Season Update This week Cameron and Andy share an update on how their 2024 turkey seasons have been going so far. There have been quite a few turkeys that have been taken so far this year. You'll hear a little about that as well as what both Andy and Cameron have learned during the season and what the highlights of their seasons have been so far. Listen in! Buy some merch and great soundi...

Beau Brooks Seminar from the 2024 NWTF Convention This week, Cameron and Andy replay the seminar about hunting western wild turkeys that Beau Brooks put on at the NWTF convention in Nashville. This is a very informative seminar that I feel like everyone can learn a little something from, especially those of us east of the Mississippi River. Beau is a phenomenal caller and natural voice caller, and...

Results from the TN Delayed Season Start Study This week, Dr. Craig Harper and Dr. David Beuhler with the University of Tennessee join Cameron and Andy on the show to discuss their recommendations from their 7 year study regarding the effects of delaying the start of turkey seasons and the potential for increase in poult recruitment. The results of the study showed that moving the start of hunting...

Turkey Talk with Mark Prudhomme This week, Cameron and Andy are joined by World Champion Caller of All Critters, Mark Prudhomme. Mark has won just about every type of calling contest known to man. He is a student of the talk of wild turkeys, and he is always willing to share information with us on this show. Mark talks about being on the stage at The Grand Ole Opry in Nashville to introduce the 20...

The Sweet Voice of the Wild Turkey with Denny Gulvas - Part 2 This week, Cameron and Andy bring you part 2 of the interview with Denny Gulvas.  In this episode, we discuss in much more detail about certain similarities in the characteristics of hen yelps and turkey talk. Denny also gives some tips on things to listen for in hen yelps and how he believes a gobbler can remember the voices of the hen...

The Sweet Voice of the Wild Turkey with Denny Gulvas This week, Denny Gulvas joins Cameron and Andy on the show. Denny has devoted the latter years of his life to videoing the wild turkey and studying their language. There likely is not anyone more expert on the voice of the wild turkey than Denny. We discuss not only the calls of the wild turkey, but practically everything else about the bird tha...

Wild Turkeys and Bluegrass with Winky Hicks This week, the very talented turkey call and musical instrument maker Winky Hicks join Cameron and Andy on the show. Winky is never at a loss for a one liner or a great sounding turkey call.  This show covers the gamut from talking turkeys to how Winky got into making turkey calls to bluegrass and some of the great artists that Winky has encountered over...

Get Off of My Lawn with Kenny Mount - Part 2  Join us for part 2 of the interview with Kenny Mount this week.  Kenny, Cameron, and Andy really sound like 3 grumpy old men sitting around the local gas station at 5 AM complaining about the youngsters in the neighborhood. Maybe it is part jealousy on Kenny's and Andy's part because they didn't have all of the amazing tools that today's younger hunter...

Get Off of My Lawn - Part 1 HE'S BAAAACCCCKKKKKK! This week, Cameron and Andy have part 1 of their most recent interview with Kenny Mount, aka Chubbs. Kenny is always an entertaining guest to have on the show, and this episode is no different. Not only is there a great deal of turkey talk and laughs, but we even get to discuss banana pudding and nilla wafers. We all get down a few rabbit holes in...

A Hodge Podge of Turkey Talk with Chad Claycomb This week, Chad Claycomb with Claycomb Outdoors joins Cameron and Andy to talk about a hodge podge of turkey topics. Chad hunts mountain turkeys a fair amount, so we discuss the challenges of hunting in the mountains. We also talk to him about traveling and hunting and competition calling.  Chad is a great guy, and this is a great interview that I th...

Talking with a Turkey Calling Champion with Matt Van Cise  This week, Matt Van Cise joins Cameron and Andy on the show for a full interview for the first time ever.  Be sure to catch the Rapid Fire Q&A. We actually discuss more turkey hunting than we do competitive turkey calling. Matt tells us what he listens to for his inspiration while practicing his turkey calling. Matt delves into the dif...

Tube Calling with Mark Prudhomme and Harold Knight This week Cameron and Andy share the Tube Calling seminar that Harold Knight and Mark Prudhomme put on at the 2024 Unicoi Turkey Callmakers Show in Helen, GA in January. This show features two turkey calling legends and some great tips about how each of them uses the very versatile tube call while turkey hunting. From impersonating male and female...

All Things Wild Turkey with Dr. Grant Woods  In this week's episode, Dr. Grant Woods joins Cameron and Andy to discuss all things wild turkey. We talked about how the frigid temps experienced a few weeks ago might affect the young and old turkeys. And, we talked about how we can sometimes do more harm than good when we begin a supplemental feeding program for wildlife and introduce foods to them t...

2024 Unicoi Recap Show This week, Andy shares the audio of the interviews from this year's Unicoi Custom Turkey Call Maker's Show held in January of 2024 at Unicoi State Park outside of Helen, GA. This call maker's show features some of the best custom call makers in the country, and it is an amazing place to go and put your hands on hundreds of turkey calls and learn from the call makers themselv...

TFT and Turkey Talk with Jason Lupardus This week, Jason Lupardus, Director of Business Operations and Partnerships for Turkeys for Tomorrow, joins Cameron and Andy on the show. Jason shares some information about some of the studies that TFT have going on. TFT is creating chapters around the country as well, and Jason shares some information about those chapters. This is a great episode, listen i...