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

Turkey Season Turkey Soup This week, following a week off for a turkey trip, Cameron and Andy share a little turkey soup during turkey season. Many states are starting to report their harvest and licensing statistics. So, Cameron and Andy share some stats for Ohio, Missouri, Tennessee, Kentucky, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Iowa. Overall, so far, many states are reporting excellent harvest statistics....

Check out this week's episode of The Turkey Hunter Podcast to hear Andy and Cameron discuss some questions that have been recently submitted by listeners.    Your hosts will dive into questions about hunting missed turkeys, eating turkey livers, finding a mentor, and more.    Check it out and as always Thanks for listening. 

The 2023 Mossy Oak Wild Turkey Conservation Stamp This week, Daniel Haas joins Cameron and Andy to introduce Mossy Oak's 2023 Wild Turkey Conservation Stamp and to share an awesome turkey hunting story with Tom Kelly. Daniel is the Director of Brand Marketing for Mossy Oak, so he is in the know about what is going on with Mossy Oak and all of their new projects. They've been quite busy over the pa...

Patience Pays Off This week Cameron shares a hunt that is fresh on his mind. The hunt is so fresh it is only a few hours old. This hunt takes place in a river swamp bottom with a couple of turkeys that Cameron thinks he let walk the day before. This is a great hunt in the respect that not only did patience pay off with Cameron's passing on a shot the day before, but also that he had the patience t...

Turkey Talk with Eddie Salter This week, The Turkey Man, Eddie Salter, joins Cameron and Andy on the show to share an update on his season and some of his most memorable hunts. Eddie talks about being on the TK and Mike videos from the early 1990's, and how much fun he had doing those videos. He also shares the story of how he missed 5 turkeys in one day, and how he also played a part of killing 1...

Taking Quality Harvest Pictures with Clayton Worrell This week, Clayton Worrell (aka GrizHawk on InstaGram) joins Cameron and Andy to talk about how we can take better quality harvest photos of our turkeys this spring.  Clayton is an amazing wildlife photographer who can capture images of wildlife that convey a feeling or emotion that we think the subject animal could be feeling at that moment in...

437 - TFT Update with Chase Grubbs   Check out this week's episode as Chase Grubbs gives us an update on Turkeys For Tomorrow.    Thanks for tuning in

2023 Turkey Season Goals and Roosted Was Roasted   This week your hosts give you a quick update on the first hunt of the year and then share each of their goals for this turkey season. After sharing their goals, Cameron lets us join him on an EPIC hunt under a roost full of Rio Grande gobblers on a 2022 hunt.    Check it out!

435 - Challenging Spring Gobblers with Roger Parks   Check out this episode as Andy shares the recording of the Roger Parks seminar from Unicoi this past year. Roger dives into some useful tools for challenging turkeys in the Spring of the year when they may not come running to those hen yelps. This show will be very helpful for spring and fall gobbler hunting and will add another tool into your b...

When Kings Go To Battle with Michael T Simpson This week, author Michael T Simpson joins Cameron and Andy on the show to talk about his first book, When Kings Go To Battle. Michael's book is a relatively new release, and he shares some really fun hunting stories and memories with his readers in this easy read. We also get to learn more about Michael's motivation for writing a book about turkey hun...

Turkey Talk with Kenny Mount Part 2 This week, Cameron and Andy share part 2 of the interview with Kenny Mount, aka Chubbs. They also share some stories, lots of laughs, and some BS with Kenny as well.  Cameron and Andy riddle Kenny with listener questions that were submitted to Cameron's IG account. Kenny takes the questions in stride and offers quite entertaining and thoughtful answers.  The guy...

Turkey Talk with Kenny Mount Pt 1 This week, Kenny Mount, aka Chubbs from the Pinhoti Project, joins Cameron and Andy to talk some turkey. Kenny is always one of the most listened to guests that we have on the show because of his humor, frankness, honesty, and well thought out views on many topics.  Just like past episodes where Cameron and Andy have interviewed Kenny, this one takes many turns an...

The History of Turpin Custom Game Calls with Steve Turpin This week, Steve Turpin with Turpin Custom Game Calls joins Cameron and Andy to talk about the history of his great uncle, Tom Turpin, and his great uncle's call company named Turpin Custom Game Calls, which Steve runs today. Steve shares the audio of an 80 year old box call that his great uncle built and Steve recently acquired. Steve talk...

2023 Unicoi Custom Callmakers Recap Show This week Andy recaps the 2023 Unicoi Custom Callmakers show in Helen, GA from January.  Andy revisits the show and his quest to find the perfect slate call to replace a slate call owned by one of Andy's friends. Andy shares how he failed miserably, and happily, at his goal of not buying a call at the show this year. He shares audio from the seminars by Rog...

Wild Turkey Science with the Wild Turkey Science Podcast Guys  Cameron and Andy interview Drs. Will Gulsby and Marcus Lashley in this week's episode. Will and Marcus discuss their new podcast called Wild Turkey Science where they will discuss, you guessed it... the science of the wild turkey. In this episode, Will and Marcus discuss some of the show topics and guests they have had on already. They...

2023 NWTF Convention and Sport Show Preview with Pete Muller This week, Pete Muller with the NWTF joins Cameron and Andy to give us an update on what is going on at the NWTF and to fill us in on the upcoming 2023 NWTF Convention and Sport Show happening in Nashville in February. The NWTF has set some lofty goals for 2023 - its 50th year anniversary. Recruit 75,000 new adult members Raise $500,000...

Traveling and Turkey Hunting with Cameron and Andy This week Cameron and Andy close out the Traveling and Turkey Hunting series of episodes while sharing some of their own tips and strategies for traveling to turkey hunt. They cover camping, driving, and flying to their hunting destinations. Cameron shares a great tip about breaking up a long drive to include a hunt in a state about half way betwe...

Traveling and Turkey Hunting with Ron Jolly Ron Jolly joins Cameron and Andy this week for the 3rd episode in the series of Traveling and Turkey Hunting.  Ron shares many tips he learned with all of his years of traveling around the country with the Primos team hunting turkeys and other critters. He shares some tips on how he handles traveling with his boots, and what he does to keep himself hydra...

Traveling and Turkey Hunting with Tanner Burns This week Tanner Burns joins Cameron and Andy to talk about traveling and turkey hunting. Tanner is the second guest in the new traveling and turkey hunting series. Tanner flies to turkey hunt a good bit, so they discuss the challenges of flying and turkey hunting.  Also, Tanner offers his professional advice as a taxidermist when he touches on travel...

Traveling and Turkey Hunting with Jordan Barnes This week, bowhunting whiz Jordan Barnes joins Cameron and Andy in the first episode of the new series on traveling and turkey hunting. Jordan typically drives to his turkey hunting destinations, so this show centers around camping and hunting. Jordan sleeps in his vehicle most nights on his hunting trips, so he also offers tips on how he stays comfo...

A Christmas Serving of Turkey Soup This week, Cameron and Andy serve up a heaping helping of turkey soup for Christmas.  In this week's soup episode, they discuss turkey news from Alabama, Mississippi, Maine, California, Nebraska, and West Virginia. Listen in!

Another Piney Hills Turkey Hunt This week, Scott McDonald joins Cameron and Andy on the show to share a turkey hunt he had with Andy in the spring of 2022. This hunt took place on some thick public ground in a tough southern state, but it turned out to be a productive trip for both Scott and Andy as they doubled on a couple of hard gobbling turkeys right around midday. These birds came through the...

The 2023 Unicoi Custom Callmakers Show Preview with Mark Sharpe This week, Mark Sharpe joins Cameron and Andy to talk about the upcoming 2023 Unicoi Custom Turkey Callmakers Show held at Unicoi State Park in Georgia. This year the show will be held January 13 and 14 of 2023. This show features custom turkey call makers displaying and selling their calls as well as seminars by call collectors and c...

A Waterlogged Turkey Cameron shares another turkey hunt with us this week to get us primed and ready to eat some Thanksgiving turkey. This hunt took place in what is a very common habitat for many of us hunters east of the Mississippi River. This was in a hardwood bottom that, at the time, was flooded. Cameron found some gobbling turkeys in the area. After sloshing through the water to get to them...

Wild Turkey Updates with Dr. Will Gulsby Dr. Will Gulsby from Auburn University joins Cameron and Andy on the show to update all of us on the progress and the one year findings on the ongoing studies being conducted at by his department. We discuss the male wild turkey gonad study and some of the preliminary results there. We also discuss the gobbling chronology study being done within the state o...