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

Turkey Talk with Walter Parrott - Part 2 This week, Cameron and Andy have part 2 of the interview with Walter Parrott for you. Walter shares several more great stories and tips in this part of the interview.  Walter shares story about getting permission to hunt a place that no one had gotten permission to hunt. Cameron asked whether Walter thought his having video cameras helped him to get permiss...

Turkey Talk with Walter Parrott This week, Cameron and Andy have a first for you guys. Walter Parrott joins the show to talk turkey. Walter shares his introduction to turkey hunting and competitive calling as well. He shares how he got hooked up with Knight and Hale to be on their pro staff and do some filming for them in their early years of business.  Walter eagerly joined in on the rapid fire Q...

Podcast Rebrand and Important Announcements for 2024 This week, Cameron and Andy launch the rebrand of The Turkey Hunter Podcast to celebrate the start of their 10th year of the podcast. We discuss the origins and final copy of our new The Turkey Hunter Podcast logo that was designed by Clayton Worrell, @grizhawk on Instagram. Clayton is an amazing photographer and artist, and he was the artist wh...

A Little Alabama Afternoon Delight This week, Andy shares the audio from an afternoon hunt in his home state of Alabama. Although this turkey did not gobble a great deal, he showed just enough interest in Andy to keep Andy's interest in him. Sometimes the old longbeards just don't gobble a whole lot, but they eat just as good as the two year olds. If you hang in there with them for a long enough t...

Christmas Turkey Soup This week, Cameron and Andy discuss wild turkey news from around the US (and the world), in what we call a "turkey soup" episode because it contains a little bit of everything. States discussed in this soup episode are Missouri, North Carolina, Illinois, Kansas, Nebraska, Texas, and West Virginia (with a little exploding fried turkey). Listen in to this week's episode and do...

2024 Unicoi Custom Call Makers Show Preview Show This week, Mark Sharpe joins Cameron and Andy on this week's episode to talk about the upcoming 2024 Unicoi Custom Call Makers Show. The show in 2024 will take place January 12 and January 13 in Helen, Georgia at Unicoi State Park. Mark shares who the new call makers attending the show will be at the upcoming show. He also shares what other products...

Turkey Talk with Adam Butler This week, Adam Butler, the Wild Turkey Program Coordinator with the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks, joins Cameron and Andy on the show. Adam discusses the state of the wild turkey within the state of Mississippi, recent regulation changes made in the state, and the history of the wild turkey within the state and how trap and transfer efforts...

Home At Last Is The Hunter with Chip Gross This week Chip Gross joins Cameron and Andy on the show to talk about his book, Home At Last Is The Hunter. Chip is a former Wildlife Officer with the state of Ohio, and he is also the author of the book Poachers Were My Prey that is about RT Stewart's undercover Wildlife Officer work. (RT Stewart was on the show a few weeks ago talking about some of his...

The History of the Wild Turkey with Brent Rogers This week, Brent Rogers joins Cameron and Andy to discuss the history of the wild turkey in America. We talk about the role of the wild turkey in the lives of settlers of the US, the decline of wild turkeys due to subsistence before and during the Great Depression, relocation, restocking, and the boom of turkey populations. This is a fun episode wit...

A Little Afternoon Delight This week, Cameron and Andy share one of Cameron's hunts from this past Spring season where Cameron was able to mark off another state from his list of states needed to complete his Super Slam. As you can probably tell by the title of the show, this is an afternoon hunt, and we all know those can be fast and furious. This is an exciting hunt with some really good audio a...

Turkey Dogging with JT Byrne This week, Cameron and Andy have JT Byrne back on the show to talk about the unique form of turkey hunting called turkey dogging.  JT explains what turkey dogging is all about and talks about the "breed" of turkey dogs that his dad created several decades ago, which is the Appalachian Turkey Dog. In addition to that, he shares a few hunting stories with us as an exampl...

The Man Who Hunted Men This week, RT Stewart joins Cameron and Andy again to share several stories from his time being an undercover game warden, infiltrating poaching rings, and bringing the poachers to justice.  In this episode, we hear about the trial of the turkey and deer poachers from Operation Redbud as well as stories from bringing duck hunters to justice as well. This is another fascinati...

The Man Who Hunted Men with RT Stewart - Part 1 This week, Cameron and Andy present you with part 1 of the fascinating interview with RT Stewart who is a retired conservation officer who went undercover to bust what was at the time the largest poaching ring ever busted. The bust resulted in 26 convictions of poachers who illegally killed wild turkeys and deer out of season, over the legal bag limi...

The Slam of All Slams This week, Chip Davis joins Cameron and Andy to talk about completing the slam of all slams. Chip is the second person to complete the Grand Slam, US Super Slam, Royal Slam, World Slam, Canadian Slam, and Mexican Slam.  This process took Chip over 30 years to complete all of the slams, and his last turkey in Canada presented him an absolute fit. Chip shares that story with us...

Check out this week's episode to hear an exciting hunt that Andy and Cameron shared together this past spring out West. Join us in Ponderosa Pine Country as we locate and make a move on a rowdy bunch of Merriams turkeys. After the hunt, stay tuned for one of the greatest recipe's the world has ever seen that was concocted on this trip.  Hope ya'll enjoy reliving a spring memory with your hosts. 

Early Fall Turkey Soup This week, Cameron and Andy cook up a little turkey soup to help warm you up with the first cool front of the Fall season rolling through most of the country. Wild turkey news articles from Ohio, Nebraska, Kansas, California, and Tennessee are among the states covered in the articles and press releases in this episode. There are some great wild turkey research projects going...

Fall Turkey Hunting with Roger Parks This week Cameron and Andy bring part 2 of the Fall Turkey Hunting episode with Roger Parks to you.  Roger shares a little bit about what a typical fall turkey hunting morning looks like for him. The guys talk some spring turkey hunting as well. And, yes, the answer to the million dollar question is... Roger shares his contact information with all of us.  Get y...

Fall Turkey Hunting with Roger Parks - Part 1  This week, turkey call maker Roger Parks joins Cameron and Andy on the show to talk about fall turkey hunting, among other things. Roger makes one of the finest gobbler callers on the market today, and the guys talk about that call for a bit. Of course, there's lots of turkey call talk as well. I don't think it is possible to have a turkey call maker...

The Monkey Off of the Back We are back! Today we have Scott McDonald joining us on the show to share a hunt in Tennessee that he enjoyed with Cameron.  This was Scott's third time to hunt in Tennessee. Even though he had some close encounters, he had not been able to mark the state off of his list in his pursuit of his super slam. Cameron offered to help Scott with a hunt to see if they could make...

A Turkey Hunting Survey with Jay Cantrell This week Jay Cantrell with the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources joins Cameron and Andy on the show to talk about recent public meetings and a survey for South Carolina turkey hunters. Over the course of the summer, the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources held meetings across the state to talk about the declining wild turkey popula...

Season Recap and Turkey Talk with Preston Pittman This week turkey hunting legend Preston Pittman joins Cameron and Andy on the show to recount his 2023 spring turkey season. The show starts off with some fishing talk because Preston has just arrived home from a great fishing trip off of the gulf coast. After a bit of fishing talk the discussion turns to turkey hunting. A wide array of topics are...

Mountain Pine Forest Turkey Hunt This week, Cameron and Andy share one of their turkey hunts with us. This hunt took place in the mountains of the western US in the spring of 2023. Cameron and Andy were together on this hunt, and it turned out to be a good one with some cat and mouse being played. Although there is not a whole lot of gobbling in the early stages of this hunt, patience, persistence...

2023 Season Recap and Turkey Talk with Donald Devereaux Jarrett This week, turkey hunting outfitter, guide, hunter, and author Donald Devereaux Jarrett (DJ) joins Cameron and Andy on the show to recap his 2023 season hunting Merriam's turkeys in South Dakota. DJ also shares his thoughts on the Merriam's turkey population in the part of South Dakota where he guides turkey hunts after the harsh 2022...

Season Recap and Turkey Talk with Jeff Budz This week wild turkey killer extraordinaire and guide, Jeff Budz, joins Cameron and Andy on the show to share how his season went both personally and professionally. Jeff's passions for the wild turkey and turkey hunting are obvious and show every time he speaks. Jeff shares his thoughts on the direction of the turkey populations in Florida as well as in...

2023 Spring Turkey Season Recap Andy and Cameron are back this week to recap their 2023 spring turkey hunting season.  Both Andy and Cameron share three takeaways from the 2023 season. They discuss some of their experiences in their travels around the country and some of the interesting people they met along the way. Andy shares a story of hens with poults on the same piece of ground as henned up...