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

The Great Turkey Fanning Debate This week, Cameron and Andy take sides on the great fanning debate going on in the sport of turkey hunting.   Fanning is, and likely will be for a long time, a controversial topic, and one many people feel strongly about.    As many states begin to outlaw fanning, this is a topic that will be discussed and debated between our conservation advisory boards and legisla...

Traveling and Turkey Hunting Cameron and Andy share some tips about traveling for turkey hunting that they learned over the years. Tips given in this episode include coffee drinking, boot wearing, boot drying, electronic device charging, sleeping bags, star ID's, traveling light, and several other great tips. Cameron also shares some camping tips that will come in handy as well. Listen in!

The Story of the Disappearing Arkansas Turkey This week, Cameron joins the show from his turkey hunting road trip, and he and Andy share the story of Andy's 2020 Arkansas turkey hunt. This is a wild hunt with some awesome audio, if you like gobbling wild turkeys, that is. Listen in to the story of the disappearing Arkansas turkey.

Some Turkey Season Turkey Soup This week, Cameron shares a little about his upcoming turkey hunting trip, and Andy shares some info about his recently ended turkey hunting trip. Cameron and Andy also share some turkey hunting news stories as well. Ohio, New York, Virginia, Tennessee, and Illinois are all featured in the turkey soup portion of this week's episode. Listen in!  

2021 Mid Season Recap This week, Cameron and Andy discuss how their turkey hunting seasons are progressing thus far as well as a few things they have learned or relearned along the way.  In addition to that, there is some huge news shared by the Weddington household that everyone will be excited to hear.  Listen in to this week's show for some lively discussion about turkey hunting and wild turkey...

Black Death Strikes in Minnesota This week, Cameron and I share day 2 part 2 of my hunt in Minnesota with my buddy, Chip.  This is a great hunt with a hard gobbling Minnesota Eastern wild turkey who was playing hard to get.  Listen in!

A Deafeningly Silent Minnesota Turkey Hunt This week, Cameron and I share my 2020 Minnesota turkey hunt with you. Chip, Yankee John, and I hunted there in the spring of 2020 to try to get those 2 guys each a bird in the state. When you stumble across a public land bird that wants to play ball, that is usually all it takes to make a trip like that an amazing one. Chip and I found one this particula...

Hearing Them Helps with Killing Them with Bill Dickinson This week, Cameron and I have Bill Dickinson with Tetra Hearing on the show with us to talk about Tetra's push to educate us on hearing loss and how we can help to protect our hearing so that it will last for years to come. In this interview Bill discusses the correlation between hearing loss and dementia and Alzheimer's. We also discuss how...

Ballad of a Young Turkey Hunting Book Author with Hunter Farrior This week, Cameron and I have the author of a new turkey hunting book on the show with us. Hunter Farrior wrote the book entitled Ballad of a Turkey Hunter while he was sick with COVID around Christmas this past year. Hunter shares a few stories from his book with us, and we just talk turkeys, in general.  Despite being written in a...

Early Season Tactics with Eddie Salter Eddie Salter joins me and Cameron this week to discuss some early season turkey hunting tactics. Early season can be a difficult time to be in the turkey hunting woods for all of us. Dealing with henned up toms can present us with many mornings and entire days with very little gobbling. Toms that don't gobble can be hard to locate and hunt. Listen in to get s...

Great Stories, Positive Attitudes, and Box Calls with Tim Murdock This week, Tim Murdock from West Virginia joins Cameron and me on the show to share his story along with a few turkey hunting stories as well. Tim turkey hunted for many years before completely losing his eyesight after having 2 different and rare eye diseases. Tim thought his days of turkey hunting were over until some fellow turke...

Social Media and Turkey Hunting with The Bayside Legion Bonce Stanley and Derek Anderson with The Bayside Legion join Cameron and me this week to talk about turkey hunting and social media. We talk about the good, the bad, and the ugly of turkey hunting and us turkey hunters that comes out from us on social media. We also get to hear a little about The Bayside Legion and Bonce and Derek share how...

A Utah Turkey Hunt This week Cameron and I have a long episode for you.  First we share some of the experiences of our Utah turkey hunt and our thoughts about our harvests. This was a fun trip where we both learned a great deal about winter hunts and got to see some amazingly beautiful countryside and meet more great people. We also get to introduce our new sponsor to you guys. Cullen Lord with Re...

Turkeys for Tomorrow with Ron Jolly This week, Cameron and I interview author, videographer, turkey hunting addict, and all around nice guy, Ron Jolly. Ron joins us to tell us more about the new nonprofit that he and several others started called Turkeys for Tomorrow. Ron tells us how the idea for this new nonprofit came about as well as what their mission is.  Turkeys for Tomorrow is a much diffe...

Talking Turkey with Dave Owens This week, Cameron and I are joined by Dave Owens with The Pinhoti Project.  We talk about everything turkey related from trapping to setting bag limits to setting season dates. And, we get a little insight into what Dave's 2021 spring turkey season looks like.  This is a great episode, and I know that you guys will enjoy this one.  Listen in!

A Minnesota Turkey Hunt This week, Cameron shares his awesome Minnesota turkey hunt with us from the spring of 2020. This was a bit of an impulse trip for Cameron as he could not stand me sending him pictures of dead turkeys from my trip to the midwest with Yankee John and Chip. After getting several of those pictures, he decided he needed to load up and make the short 11 hour drive to Minnesota t...

Talking Turkey with Kenny Mount aka Chubbs Kenny Mount joins Cameron and me on this week's episode where I think we talked about everything turkey and turkey hunting related that one person can think of. This is a great episode with lots of different topics covered and a few laughs mixed in as well. Listen in and enjoy the show!

2021 NWTF Convention and Sport Show Preview with Pete Muller Pete Muller with the NWTF joins Cameron and me this week to discuss the 2021 NWTF Convention and Sport Show to be held online this year. Normally the sport show is held at the Opryland Resort in Nashville TN each year, but this year the show will be held virtually due to COVID. This is something new that the NWTF is trying out and hopefu...

2021 Unicoi Custom Turkey Call Maker's Show Recap Cameron and I start this week's episode with a huge announcement for all of you listeners. So, be sure to listen closely to the entire episode. After the announcement, I recap the 2021 Unicoi Custom Turkey Call Maker's Show in Helen, GA. This show features many of the top custom turkey call makers in the US. Even in a year with a worldwide pandemic...

The Ocellated Turkey with Tony Caggiano The Ocellated turkey which calls the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico its home is the topic of our show this week. Cameron and I have Tony Caggiano with World Slam Adventures on the show with us to discuss this beautiful trophy and very exciting hunting trip. These birds have spurs in excess of 1.5", and many of them have 2" spurs. They are beautifully colored, a...

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Save the Poults This week, Jay Hembree joins Cameron and me for a great interview. Jay started Panola Brand a couple of years ago where he films his own turkey hunts and chronicles the stories of his turkey hunts with his video camera. We are talking with Jay about his trapping efforts on his property in order to reduce nest predators and #SaveThePoults and  his quest for his super slam. This is a...

The First Ever Listener Spotlight Episode We have our first ever listener spotlight episode for you guys this week, and it is a good one. Brent Rogers from Iowa joins Cameron and me this week to talk about his vast book, turkey caller, media collections. Brent has spent a great deal of time, money, and effort immersing himself in the sport of turkey hunting. He is just as passionate about collecti...

More Wild Turkey Research Talk with Mike Chamberlain Mike Chamberlain with the Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources at the University of Georgia joins Cameron and me on this week's show. Mike is always a great interview for all of you wild turkey fans. This week we talk about wild turkey trapping, brood surveys, COVID-19, predators, and some of the research projects Dr Chamberlain has...

Some Christmas Turkey Soup This week, Cameron and I have some delicious turkey soup for you guys.  We discuss turkey news from West Virginia, New Hampshire, and Ohio. In addition to our state turkey news, we have a story of the only known case of death by wild turkey and the story of a homeless man who wrung the neck of the town wild turkey. This is a very entertaining episode, so listen in!