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The South Carolina Super Slam with Bubba Ross

In this week's episode, Andy and Cameron have Bubba Ross on the show to chat about his amazing accomplishment of killing a wild turkey in every county in the state of South Carolina.

Bubba is the only person to achieve this feat, and to complete it without assistance. Bubba Ross shared insights into his hunting strategy, the importance of gaining access to private land, and his preference for morning hunts, as well as the patience required for turkey hunting. Bubba Ross and Andy Gagliano also discussed the difficulties of hunting in all counties of a state compared to the "super slam" across different states. And, Bubba offered some advice for aspiring hunters based on their unique experiences.

This is a very interesting episode. Listen in!

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To All the Turkeys I've Missed Before

Andy Gagliano and Cameron Weddington, discuss their recent turkey hunting misses and some of the factors they believe contributed to them.

Cameron shares details about his single miss from the past year, attributing it to a "stupid" rushed shot and offering insights into how he improved his shooting, including patterning different shells and switching back to open sights. Andy recounts two misses, one from a Texas hunt in challenging weather and another from his home state, speculating on potential causes like different ammunition or a turkey's unexpected mid-flight maneuver. They also express gratitude to their listeners for donations to the NWTF (National Wild Turkey Federation) and TFT (Texas Freshwater Fisheries Center) from a raffle, highlighting the significant impact these funds have on wild turkey research and habitat management.

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Hunting Pressured Turkeys with Patrick Wightman

This week, Patrick Wightman, a research scientist with the Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, joins Cameron and Andy this week to discuss what turkeys do when they get pressure put on them by hunters.

Patrick has done hours and hours of research on this topic, and he shares his insight with us in this interview. This is an interview that we feel everyone will glean some useful information from because private and public lands alike can receive a great deal of hunting pressure.

You'll want to grab a pen and piece of paper before you start listening to this one because there are some great nuggets to take away from this episode that will help you to find and harvest pressured turkeys.

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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. 

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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.

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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.

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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. 

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