The Turkey Hunter Podcast With Andy Gagliano | Turkey Hunting Tips, Strategies, And Stories

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 hydrated while hunting as well.    After he shares many tips with us about traveling and turkey hunting, Ron shares several exciting updates about Turkeys For Tomorrow. They have several exciting research projects going on currently, and they have many other big developments coming down the pipe in the near future as well.    This is a great episode that you do not want to miss. Listen in!

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 traveling with caped out turkeys as well. This is another great episode in this series. Listen in! 

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 comfortable while sleeping. This is a great show with lots of great tips for those who like to turkey hunt and travel.  Listen in!

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 thick woods, split up, and eventually got back together about 45 yards in front of Scott and Andy. It took a lot of patience and trust in their hunting partner to make this hunt a success, but it all paid off as it turned out to be twice as successful as they had hoped. This is a great hunt that will get you fired up for spring. Listen in!

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 call makers as well. This is one of the premier turkey caller shows in the country, and the event is a fantastic time to immerse yourself in turkey hunting with other turkey hunting nuts to prepare for the upcoming spring turkey hunting season. Listen in, and make plans to attend this show in 2023.

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, he setup, called, and soon had his hat blown off by a loud gobbling Eastern wild turkey. The gobbling in this hunt will get your blood boiling and get you wishing for springtime again. Listen in!

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 of Alabama, and the very interesting early findings from one year of that study. We also discuss the nesting success study being conducted as well.  This is a must listen episode for the turkey hunting nuts like us.  Listen in!

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 great episode to share with other turkey hunters as well. Listen in!

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 nesting habitat is extremely difficult to do because there is not one particular habitat that hens are likely to nest in.  According to Dr. Lashley better brood habitat is much easier to create because it has several features that are commonly found in the different areas around the US. This is an excellent presentation, and we have part 1 of 2 for you this week. There is definitely something to be learned by all of us from this week's show and next week's show. Listen in!

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 week's turkey soup episode are Maine, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Maryland, and Missouri. A story of a wild turkey breaking into a home in Ohio may be the story that takes the cake in this week's episode. The story involve the police, a net, and body cameras that captured the whole debacle for our viewing enjoyment. Listen in!

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 any ideas for an upcoming series you would like to hear to the hosts.  Thanks For Listening!

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 while trapping for wild turkey nest predators. Listen in!  

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 weapons and ammo to use. Geoff also shares some predator calling stories as well. So, if trapping predators is not your game and you want to hunt raccoons, coyotes, bobcats, and foxes by calling them into your setup, then you will definitely not want to miss this week's episode. Geoff is one of the best at calling predators, and Cameron and Andy pick his brain about all things predator calling. Listen in!

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 or in his traps. His wild turkey population has exploded as a benefit of his trapping program. Listen in to Chip tell the story about how his hunting property has become a wild turkey mecca due to his trapping efforts.

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 with a great guest interview. Listen in!

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 talk about the convenience and ease of dog proof traps, setting up traps, and trap maintenance as well. Alan also shares some tips on trapping for coyotes, bobcats, and foxes during the call as well. This is a great episode, so listen in!  

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 success. This is a good learning opportunity for all of us.  Listen in!

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 few more gobblers next spring. Listen in!

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 last topic leads to some discussion on late season turkey hunting tactics as Harold shares a few strategies that have worked for him in the past. Listen in to this week's episode!