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

Creating Better Brood Habitat with Marcus Lashley Part 2 This week, Cameron and Andy bring the last half of the Marcus Lashley seminar on creating better brood habitat from the Alabama state chapter of the NWTF Field Day from August 2022. This episode is full of useful information that all of us turkey hunters can use to improve our turkey populations on our hunting properties. This is also a grea...

Creating Better Brood Habitat with Marcus Lashley This week, Cameron and Andy share part of the Alabama NWTF Field Day seminar where Dr. Marcus Lashley talks about brood habitat. The general theme of Dr. Lashley's seminar is that as a whole brood habitat is severely lacking across the US. We all already know that having great nesting habitat is essential to having good hatches, but creating great...

A Heaping Helping of Fall Turkey Soup This week, Cameron and Andy share some wild turkey news. In this week's episode, Cameron and Andy discuss recent news about an encouraging wild turkey and poult survey in Arkansas, as well as a positive wild turkey and poult report completed in Tennessee. Also, the NWTF has announced this year's inductees into their Hall of Fame. Other states featured on this...

A Clucking Mountain Turkey Check out this episode to hear the story and audio behind one of Cameron's 2022 turkey hunts. This one is sure to get you fired up about the upcoming spring turkey season. In this hunt he comes across a gobbler that has a strange tactic on his approach. Cameron also shares an update about how his fall turkey season is going at home. Check it out and make sure to send in...

Trapping and Predator Control for Better Wild Turkey Hatches  This week, Cameron and Andy share some of their tips for trapping and predator calling to lower predator populations and have better wild turkey hatches each year. Cameron shares some statistics from a quail study conducted years ago in the southeast as well as some numbers from his own trap lines.  Andy shares a tip on what not to do w...

Predator Control for Better Wild Turkey Hatches with Geoff Nemnich This week, Geoff Nemnich with The Last Stand, Coyote Craze, and Eatman's Predator Pro Podcast joins Cameron and Andy to discuss calling in wild turkey predators. We will learn some predator setup tricks as well as places to locate wild turkey predators. We also discuss the types of calls used to call those predators in and what wea...

Trapping for Better Wild Turkey Hatches with Chip Davis This week, Chip Davis from Expand a Trap and Trapping Radio joins Cameron and Andy to talk about trapping. Chip shares stories and statistics about how trapping has changed the dynamics of the turkey population on his hunting property. Chip had a bobcat problem, and after trapping constantly for 3 years, he hardly sees a bobcat on his cameras...

Trapping for Better Wild Turkey Hatches  Bill Duke with Duke Traps joins Cameron and Andy this week to discuss trapping predators for better wild turkey hatches. In this show, Bill shares some of the history of Duke Traps, fur buying around the southeast, and the trap business.  There is some talk of trapping nest predators as well as predators of adult turkeys. This is a very interesting show wit...

Trapping for Better Wild Turkey Hatches with Alan Probst This week, Cameron and Andy kick off their series on trapping for better wild turkey hatches. Alan Probst with North American Trapper joins them on the show to discuss trapping nest predators and the predators going after the hens sitting on nests. Alan shares quite a few tips on how he has success trapping raccoons, skunks, and possums. We...

The Honey Hole Hunt This week, Cameron shares another hunt from this past season with us where he killed another turkey from the same ridge that has been good to him over the past several seasons. This is an early season hunt that took place in some hilly hardwood country with a hard gobbling Eastern wild turkey. After the hunt, Cameron shares what he thinks was the key to making this hunt a succe...

Late Season Turkey Hunting Tactics with Cameron and Andy This week, Cameron and Andy wrap up the Late Season Turkey Hunting Tactics series while giving some tips and tactics of what works for them during late season. Among those tips, hunter comfort and covering lots of ground are some of the many tips offered during this episode. This is a great episode with several tips that may help you kill a...

Late Season Turkey Hunting Tactics with Harold Knight Turkey hunting industry legend, Harold Knight, joins Cameron and Andy this week as the last guest in the Late Season Turkey Hunting Tactics series. It seems no turkey hunting topic is left untouched in this week's episode as Harold covers everything from predators to his thoughts on moving hunting seasons later in the spring to bag limits. The...

Late Season Turkey Hunting Tactics with Eddie Salter This week, Eddie Salter joins Cameron and Andy to discuss late season turkey hunting tactics in the latest in the series covering the topic. Eddie discusses the changes he has seen in the late season in his home state of Alabama, and he talks about some of the changes he has made in how he deals with those changes. Eddie also talks about calling...

Late Season Turkey Hunting Tactics with Mike Chamberlain This week, Mike Chamberlain joins Cameron and Andy to discuss late season turkey hunting tactics. Most of you know that Mike is a wild turkey biologist with the University of Georgia, and his students are spearheading quite a few studies on wild turkeys. In addition to his full time job of managing his students and grad students, Mike is a t...

A Hot Bowl of Turkey Soup This week, Cameron and Andy have a nice hot bowl of turkey soup for the listeners to help beat the summer heat. In this episode, we spend a great deal of time talking about wild turkey news in Pennsylvania. We also cover some turkey news from Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky, North Dakota, Maine, and Rhode Island, as well. Listen in!

Hunting the Big Flock Cameron shares one of his hunts from this past spring with us this week. In this hunt, he and his brothers have setup on a big mixed flock of turkeys roosted in a creek bottom next to an ag field. This hunt is full of amazing turkey talk audio that any hunter can use to practice with. It also has a couple of gunshots and an odd ending to it. Listen in!  

Woodsmanship with Cameron and Andy This week, Cameron and Andy wrap up the series on woodsmanship. Cameron and Andy share their thoughts about what woodsmanship means to them. Several woodsmanship and hunting tips are shared throughout the show. Quite a few stories are shared as well just to give some examples of different techniques that have paid dividends in the past. Listen in as Cameron and A...

Woodsmanship with Ray Eye This week, Ray Eye joins Cameron and Andy on the show to talk about woodsmanship.  Ray is a former turkey calling champion, writer, video host and producer, radio show host and producer, and all around great guy. Ray is known for being an amazing story teller, and he does not disappoint on today's show. Listen in as Ray talks about what woodsmanship means to him and how h...

Woodsmanship with Jeff Budz This week, the Grand Slam King, Jeff Budz, joins Cameron and Andy on the show for another discussion on the series of woodsmanship. Jeff has more Grand Slams registered with the NWTF than any other hunter in the country. so who better than to talk about woodsmanship than another great hunter who travels the country hunting turkeys and guiding hunters who want to kill a...

Woodsmanship with Doc Weddle This week, Doc Weddle joins Cameron and Andy in the first episode in their Woodsmanship series of shows. Doc shares some things that come to mind for him when he thinks of woodsmanship, and he shares how he uses some of those woodsmanship tactics to help him kill more turkeys each year.  This should be a very interesting and educational series of episodes and our first...

A Piney Woods Turkey Hunt This week Andy shares the story of his second successful turkey hunt from the 2022 season. This hunt marked another state off of Andy's list and left him with needing 7 states to finish his super slam. This hunt took place on some public ground in some beautifully managed piney woods. Listen in as Andy calls in 2 good gobbling turkeys.

Hunting Henned Up Gobblers with Cameron and Andy This week, Cameron and Andy tackle the topic Hunting Henned Up Gobblers in the last episode of that series. Cameron and Andy both share some great tips that they have learned on their own in their travels around the country, and they share some tips that they have learned from listening to industry pros talk about the topic. Listen in!

Hunting Henned Up Gobblers with Brian Lovett This week, Cameron and Andy are joined by Brian Lovett for another week in the Henned Up Gobbler series of episodes. Brian is the author of several turkey hunting books and more turkey hunting magazine articles than we can count. Through the years, Brian has had the pleasure of turkey hunting with some of the biggest names in the hunting industry, and h...

Hunting Henned Up Gobblers with Donald Devereaux Jarrett This week, author and guide, Donald Devereaux Jarrett, joins Cameron and Andy on the show to give his strategies for hunting henned up gobblers. This is part 2 of our Hunting Henned Up Gobblers series where we have different hunters on the show to discuss the exact same topic. Donald shares his strategies for hunting henned up Easterns and M...

Hunting Henned Up Gobblers with Andy Cantrell Andy and Cameron are joined by Andy Cantrell this week to talk about some strategies he uses to hunt henned up gobblers. This is the first episode in our new series of episodes where we will discuss the exact same topic with different guests from different parts of the country. This week Andy Cantrell, author and certified turkey killer, join Cameron a...