Whether it's the ups and downs of travel or the thrill of the hunt, we invite you to laugh along and maybe even learn a thing or two about the spirit of perseverance that defines this spring turkey hunting trip to the Florida turkey woods. Austin, Chase, and Hunter can't wait to take you along for the ride.
There's something about the suspense of a turkey's gobble that sets a hunter's heart racing, and that's precisely the rollercoaster of emotions we unpack in this episode. Austin and Chase explore the strategy, all lows and highs included, behind their every move as we recount the day we pursued those long-bearded beauties with shimmering green-tinted backs. The camaraderie we share is palpable as we reflect on the seasoned wisdom of the chase, the decisions made in the heat of the moment, and the patience required when the hunt tests our mettle.
Finally, what's a hunting story without its share of road trip mayhem? The episode wraps with a hearty dose of humor as we relive the fatigue-laden drive across Southern states, the challenges of getting our hands on Chase's hunting tags, and the unexpected joys of a successful last-minute Hail Mary.
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Whether it's the ups and downs of travel or the thrill of the hunt, we invite you to laugh along and maybe even learn a thing or two about the spirit of perseverance that defines this spring turkey hunting trip to the Florida turkey woods. Austin, Chase, and Hunter can't wait to take you along for the ride.
There's something about the suspense of a turkey's gobble that sets a hunter's heart racing, and that's precisely the rollercoaster of emotions we unpack in this episode. Austin and Chase explore the strategy, all lows and highs included, behind their every move as we recount the day we pursued those long-bearded beauties with shimmering green-tinted backs. The camaraderie we share is palpable as we reflect on the seasoned wisdom of the chase, the decisions made in the heat of the moment, and the patience required when the hunt tests our mettle.
Finally, what's a hunting story without its share of road trip mayhem? The episode wraps with a hearty dose of humor as we relive the fatigue-laden drive across Southern states, the challenges of getting our hands on Chase's hunting tags, and the unexpected joys of a successful last-minute Hail Mary.
Check out the SPRING LEGION YouTube Channel to watch the hunts referenced on our show, as they happened and as real as it gets.
New Bottomland Woodsman Series Shirts and Pants are HERE for Spring 2024 at spring legion.com
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Speaker 2:Alright, everybody, welcome back to another episode of the Spring Legion podcast. Today I'm joining you alongside Austin Seals to my right, jay's favorite on the left. My name is Hunter Farrier. Today we're going to be talking about some Osceolas. For the first time this season I'm going to be diving into a couple stories that I haven't heard yet, so I'm looking forward to that. Let's see, I don't know where to start. We're going to dive right into it, but I'm going to kind of let you all take it away after I just let folks know we appreciate you all listening and kind of do some of the housekeeping stuff that we would appreciate any kind of reviews, shares, likes, follows, subscribing to the YouTube.
Speaker 2:I remind you all that this is a hunt that Chase self filmed. Because of the way it turned out, which is we're going to kind of get into that reason in here shortly that he self filmed down in Florida. That turned out to be a really cool one. So it was a pretty quick one, quick little episode, so to speak, but a lot of details were missed without a camera. So we're going to kind of dive into that and that's why I'm looking forward to hearing about it, because this is one of those that we haven't. Really, this was kind of before.
Speaker 2:We made our little vow to each other that we're not going to talk about the hunts, that we go on after a certain point, so we can kind of come in here and get a good authentic storytelling for folks to hear, for us to listen to, and get some real reactions, real questions, stuff like that Nothing rehearsed or staged or anything at that point, nothing that has been heard, that we already know the answer to, and kind of just filling up a bunch of time on the podcast SD cards. So this is going to be some real convo. I know a little bit of it just because I saw the video that everybody else has been able to see. But that's about the extent we hadn't sat down.
Speaker 2:I wasn't able to head down to Florida this year. This was a right around time, but having a wife was having a baby and birthday and my other one and all kinds of stuff. So I might have a couple questions for y'all, but I'm looking forward to hearing about it because I do love hunting in Florida. It's one that we've gone to see. You've gone three years in a row, I think, and I went to two years prior, so first time a little odd for me not to go.
Speaker 3:That's my first time in Florida period too, so yeah, it's a bunch of new things, old things and the mix, I think.
Speaker 2:Which I love hearing other folks first experiences of stuff, regardless if we've been able to experience the same, it's always fun what you expect versus what it really looked like, what it sounded like, what they acted like, the differences in them, and so, yeah, I'm going to let one of y'all dive on into it.
Speaker 4:This was kind of a wing in it hunt for sure, because the year prior well, I guess two years prior it was just me and you kind of winging it on with Kimbo, kind of giving us the idea.
Speaker 4:You know pretty much gave us a gate and gate. Keen said here it is. We had a lot of land to cover too, a lot of pretty good land. And then the year after that it was with NWTF and then last year. So last year Kimbo didn't have the land that me and you've been hunting, but he hooked us up with a guy that we traded a deer hunt with and he let us come turkey hunting.
Speaker 2:So we never met him and I called him Explain Kimbo. Kimbo is a. We kind of met Kimbo while we were down there, so we knew the guy that had a lease down there in 2021.
Speaker 4:Yes, so we knew a guy that had the lease down there and Kimbo was kind of his groundskeeper. I guess.
Speaker 4:He had the lease or was in the camp, I guess is what it was, but it was several of them that just leased it all and he let Kimbo hunt it, and Kimbo, in turn, just checked deer and turkey season to make sure you know, throughout the year, to make sure there was no trees down make sure nobody was just kind of overseeing it, kimbo, because I think the best way I understood it was a couple of other folks in the camp or the area or whatever, didn't live nearby necessarily, and he was at least pretty local to the area.
Speaker 4:Yeah, he lived like 10 minutes from.
Speaker 2:yeah, lived like 10 minutes from, so he was there you know, if he needed to meet for services or whatever they had coming out there, he was the guy that did all that who did all that checked on things and yeah, that was our first experience with Florida and this is geographically, this is centralish. This is, yeah, west side, yeah, central of the west side. I mean, I know we're around O'Collage area or that might have been the year after that, I don't remember.
Speaker 4:No, it was the same general area. You know, it was kind of around Chifland.
Speaker 2:Yeah, okay, I do remember that. It was kind of where we were but we showed up there and this is, you know, in the same area. Yeah, okay, yeah same.
Speaker 4:My man. I think we were probably 35 minutes from where we went. Okay, but we showed up there and met the guy and this land is absolutely beautiful for dog hunting. Oh, yeah, yeah, how many acres was it.
Speaker 3:It was a bunch of land.
Speaker 4:Like 6,000 acres yeah.
Speaker 3:And so the whole time like we're thinking, man, we got 6,000 acres free range on you know, all this and we roll up and we're like oh yeah.
Speaker 3:I mean it. He says he's a deer hunter and we're like, oh, you know, it's probably pretty managed for the. You know food plots and stuff like that. And then he rolls up and he's got a dog box sticking off about two feet out of the back of his truck and we were like so you dog hunt? He's like a fox hunt and run deer dogs and we're like okay we get about 100 feet in past the gate and we were. We both look at each other and say, yeah, miss good dog, dog hunting area.
Speaker 4:I mean, it was like the way where, you know, we knew nothing about it. So we kind of looked at our own X coming in the main chunk of it and kind of had what we thought was an idea. No-transcript, it didn't look the same when you looked at it in person, because obviously you're looking at from the top. But we got out and he's like, yeah, this is probably where I would start out and look to the right, look to the left of the road, and it looked like a solid wall. I looked at Chase and I was like, oh man.
Speaker 3:We've got to have a long week here.
Speaker 4:Yeah, but so that kind of gives you an idea of where we started, right? So we stayed there. We didn't get in there until four o'clock. Well, it's probably later than that.
Speaker 3:It was cold if I remember, yeah, it was like mist and rain. Was it mist and rain the first two days or?
Speaker 4:something like that. It was on and off and it was real foggy.
Speaker 3:It was real foggy and cold.
Speaker 2:Because I was, was I with y'all. Yeah, we know, before y'all were doing something kind of trade show or something, because I remember I had to meet some of y'all. I wasn't in Mississippi, but it wasn't long before that.
Speaker 4:I was keeping up with y'all. You were in Mississippi and you left the day that we did the trade show, going back to Georgia.
Speaker 2:Because this was right after we had our opening hunt. Yeah, this was no time after the Mississippi.
Speaker 3:Delta Right, so you left that one week or whatever, yeah.
Speaker 4:When we left to go to the trade show that morning, you left and went back to Georgia.
Speaker 2:Gotcha.
Speaker 4:We wrapped the trade show up and we actually went to them. We stayed in Arden Beach with my family Right. And then got up the next morning and drove the rest of the way, but it was, yeah, it was very cold, very foggy and it did do some misting, and because we were supposed to go to the trade show.
Speaker 3:We were planning on staying at the land in our truck.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 3:And when it got so cold we were like you know what, let's just cash in on the one night hotel room and stay the first night and get some good sleep, Because we've been driving and stuff and we slept in the condo. That was not necessarily fit for as many people as we had and stuff. So we were like let's get some good sleep. Then we started out the next morning. I guess you want to get to that point now, or you want to finish what you were saying.
Speaker 4:Well, we stayed and we, I mean we didn't get there until later. We met him. He kind of rode us the roads and he finally said here y'all go, carl, we can do anything. So me and Chase, we had probably 20 minutes till dark and we sat there and listened to see if we can hear anything fly up. Just stay there till dark, mainly Right.
Speaker 2:Where else are you going to go, right?
Speaker 4:And nothing happened. So we went back to the hotel, got the best game plan we could together, which- was no game plan, which was nothing to go on. Nothing to go on. So it's kind of like throwing a needle in a haystack on 6,000 acres.
Speaker 3:We'll stop the truck here pretty much and go from there, right, but I guess we got lucky.
Speaker 4:And we stopped the truck, we eased up, walked up, probably I don't know, 300, 400 yards to where a road teed into the main road and we listened and we did have one gobble.
Speaker 3:No, no, no, Actually we had pulled the truck up toward that tee.
Speaker 4:That's right. Pee in the road, that's right.
Speaker 3:So I forgot about that part. So we had that one up there gobble in front of the truck. Was it 200 yards in that farm, maybe 100 yards in there? And I mean it's thick, it's palm meadows, it's I mean thick pine plantation. Just they're big enough. Everything's grown up underneath it you think of like thin pines after two years. I mean it's thick, thick and we're like ain't no way there's turkeys Roosting up in there. So we think we need to go down the main road, get around the bend from the truck and we'll be about level with them as far as depth from the truck goes. Right.
Speaker 2:You know there'll be After you heard them.
Speaker 3:Right, we heard them. Did we hear them at the truck?
Speaker 4:Is that right? You are right. I forgot about that. We got out of the truck and we're getting ready and they gobble. Yeah, that's what it was.
Speaker 2:And I was like Chase, that's kind of close.
Speaker 4:What's this thing? A neutral, and let me push it backwards, yeah, because I mean they were that close.
Speaker 3:Wow.
Speaker 4:But anyway, we got it in reverse.
Speaker 3:No, no, we left it there. We went and set up one time and then they ended up headed back towards the truck.
Speaker 4:Remember that you moved it.
Speaker 2:The second time and I moved it, that's right.
Speaker 3:We ran to my truck, got in it and I backed it up around the curve 50 yards just so it couldn't be seen down the T of this road, and we sat probably 20 yards in front of where the truck was originally parked.
Speaker 3:Yeah, you moved it after we got on them, so yeah, because we had went down the main road around the little bend so you couldn't see the truck from the Hunter George or so, and we were level with them in the woods to the open area that was still tall grass. We thought it was going to be bush hogged but it wasn't. But it wasn't trees in there and we figured they'd get on that main road on the edge of the transition there. Good spot to cut them off or call them to.
Speaker 2:But Florida and Turkey's a little different. They can pop up in here and there and wherever they want to be they can go through some crap.
Speaker 3:And see, I don't know this.
Speaker 4:So well to backtrack a little bit. If you remember, we did see Very little sign in that sand, really.
Speaker 3:Right that evening before, yeah, which we've seen a tracker to or something like that.
Speaker 4:It wasn't nothing major but like what nothing to hang your hand on.
Speaker 3:Turkey had been on this road in the last four or five days.
Speaker 2:That's all as good as news you can get. You know, right, that was all and the T road.
Speaker 3:We never saw any tracks or nothing. So we were kind of like they probably ain't going to go that way and that was our game plan.
Speaker 2:We saw a few tracks.
Speaker 4:Right. That's all you got we start. But yeah, we did, we, we sit there and we, you know they answered us, they, they it was two of them, they gobbled, had the camera going and we were it's. If you take a block, the way this land runs, because it's dog place, it's set up in blocks so you have roads to cover all the four sides and so we set where we you know where we saw the tracks and these turkeys flew down and they paralleled us kind of.
Speaker 4:And that's when we ran back to the truck and Chase backed it up Like I said, not probably 50 yards and we went down that T road and set up and by the time we got down that T road, these turkeys.
Speaker 3:They were about there Really.
Speaker 4:So what you, you know, franzy, just set up where we could right and we did. We mean, we've positioned herself pretty good because we we set up where that being was, where they had to come around. Mm-hmm we're sitting there and they, they did. They crossed the road on the other side of that bin, probably what chase 80 yards.
Speaker 3:They're about 80 yards from us. Yeah, 75, 80 max and it was.
Speaker 4:It's too long beard, it was too long beard. It was it was pretty because the way the Sun was shining on that road you can see and that's when Chase first noticed that green tint. They have that sun was hitting them just perfect. You can see that green tint on their back. And it was, and one of them stopped in the road for a good little while there.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I thought. I thought he was like he's gonna have a break off you know, and come up here something or they're gonna circle in His woods. You know we're, we're ready, like even though it's a bot set up. You know, everything's just kind of going wrong Unexpected. We now have a turkey in a hunt where we didn't expect that Sounds like yeah, it was a plus.
Speaker 3:But like it was just like you know, a little bit of chaos there for a minute and if we would have had another Five minutes before they, we felt like they were gonna pop in the road which they were answering calls and everything, and you know we were like we're just trying to get Further down that road because I had a feeling they're gonna, you know, go on one side or the other. This little mild bend in the road or a little pinch in the road or whatever it might it was a pitch, but it was also like a little drain.
Speaker 4:Yeah because me and chase like we can get up there and gun range of that drain was where it was a thick wall of stuff.
Speaker 2:Where that?
Speaker 4:little and I said drain. I'm talking about like a half-foot Elevation drop, just a very small drain. We're like it's open there if I guess that's where they're gonna cross. So, and that's exactly where they cross.
Speaker 3:But just we, just we couldn't get right within 40 yards of that, simply because the turkey gobbled on the edge and we were like, down, like Jump kind of glad I did probably 100%, but we never heard those birds again really now.
Speaker 4:We sat there for another hour and, like chase said, we were sitting there and just knew that they were gonna Just get the edge of the woods and and loop on yeah but and never like once they got into the woods.
Speaker 3:I don't remember them goblin, maybe one more time, right off right when they got off the road and then so yeah, the last time they gobbled he was right off the edge of the road and I was.
Speaker 4:I could still see right once they went out of sight.
Speaker 3:That's it.
Speaker 4:Yeah, here nothing found the hands where they had them with.
Speaker 3:They had him with bad hands, so like it would have been tough to put, like that was the thing. They were answering us a lot on the limb, or you know when they were roosted, but they weren't coming to the left Any, they were going straight line.
Speaker 2:That's one of those you kill on the day too. Now that you know what, now you know where he goes.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, yeah so I mean, it was just he had a place in mind, or they had a place in mind, they were headed. If I do it alive- and they were getting there and the next morning they were not risked there.
Speaker 4:Oh really, they weren't anywhere, they were not in earshot. Well they, they may have been roasted, we did not hear.
Speaker 3:We may have spooked them or something they gobbled they weren't in here in range. But yeah, we, we. So after we realized that, you know, we sat there a good while because, like, at that point, we were like this may be the only turkey that we can hunt.
Speaker 2:That's. That's a you know mindset. You get in real quick if it doesn't look promising. Promising Bird in hand is worth a lot like a whole week, sometimes Mm-hmm.
Speaker 2:I've been on the wrong side of that, where I Know that the chances aren't great and I kind of let one slide by. You know we'll have other. Those opportunities don't, don't come. That was it. You know you should should have honed in on that one turkey, because that's all you had, and then we waste two days looking for One. That's not there as a mental note that I've always kept in back of my mind the past several years. It's like do not leave a goblin turkey for a turkey that you don't know exists.
Speaker 3:That's right, you know don't.
Speaker 2:Don't leave this one, even if he's not doing what you want him to do or doesn't not what you thought he was gonna do. Backtrack and replay that through your mind a couple times slower. I'm gonna leave this turkey that I've been hunting, where I know where he is to go. Try to find a turkey where I don't know who he ain't and I don't know where he's going, where he's being, if he's, if he's there at all, if he exists. Right, you know, I at least know this situation, but it has have lucked into a lot of turkeys by leaving them. You know I'm going to find one, but there's been several times I'm kicking myself like why did I do that? I knew where this one was. He just wasn't doing what I wanted, that's all it was down to well on this one.
Speaker 4:We didn't leave him.
Speaker 3:We stayed in the area, really.
Speaker 4:Same area but now step. Yes, they're probably lunch and then finally we're like and I have no, we need to put eyes on the rest of this place. Yeah, yeah, I don't know where this turkey went.
Speaker 2:You might not be in a good spot right. Right so maybe ten in the backside that we didn't sit and go to.
Speaker 4:You know yeah, so we ended up. You know, we would drive a mile in there and we'd stop and we would walk.
Speaker 3:And walk and never I mean still think, yeah, yeah, we try to stay on the roads majority of it, but then at one point we're fine, like we're going off ever, my thoughts on that.
Speaker 4:Or is it so much land and it's so big? They're not really gonna see us right? So if we just ease around and listen, on the roads because if we had a walk, yeah, we had never covered it. And then finally, I think we found some decent looking, you know, not as thick areas, that had not only the boundary roads but had little small four-wheeler lanes. I'm going through it so we, you know, we walk them, chris, you know, just listening.
Speaker 2:And is this like white sand roads? So you?
Speaker 4:it was not the main road is, yeah, the main road you walk quietly if you're walking, yeah and everything else is we were silent walking around. Yeah, I mean even in the truck, though, with an exception of the money you couldn't hear.
Speaker 2:I'm like man. This is like golf cart right. But this thing of neutral, let it ride and you can gain a lot of right.
Speaker 3:So we we get to a fork in our road, or something and we'd get out and walk, you know, or we get before we go around the bend, we gonna stop, cut the truck off, go walk glass above the bends. And you know, as far as we can see these straightaways and things like that, we know we we weren't just like cruising around the whole day, we were just using it to get to certain areas different, different blocks.
Speaker 2:Yeah, almost have too much land on your hands. It doesn't have been cut in half. You couldn't hunt that half hundred hundred, a little different hundred, I agree but we, we hadn't found another turkey. You got to this point.
Speaker 3:So we're like just get everywhere we can today. It's checking them off if we bump one, we bump one, we got five more days to hunt because we had no worries. Yeah, we at least know there's a turkey on this prop, this side of the property, or not.
Speaker 4:You know, we're also like just looking for sign like that's all around, just seeing if we could see where some of walks, some of yeah. You know dust, did some struck anything?
Speaker 3:and we didn't find one of any. Nothing. We may as well need one more track the whole day, so that was pretty much our day. We we stayed from daylight to dark and was it that day we ended up going to the cut over area just to just to check out our camp spot?
Speaker 4:No we did that the night with him, with him, yeah, the night I met him.
Speaker 3:So we pull up to this. There's another gate on the other side of the property. I guess they have a corner that meets at some point or something. Very small track Mm-hmm, and we pull up and apparently when they log down there or this may be a normal thing, it's just first time I had seen it, but it was like.
Speaker 4:Turn right.
Speaker 3:Yeah, but it was Smooth.
Speaker 4:I mean it was, it was the same thing on me and yours. Your first turkey we kill when we were sitting between those two. That's what it looked like Okay so.
Speaker 2:I didn't ditches everywhere, it's just a ditch every other foot yeah.
Speaker 3:It's probably something with their erosion of the sand of some sort, like with no, when they log it, they have to do that, but it's big.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they're big homes and this is of what?
Speaker 3:a 80 acre block, of that hundred acre block maybe, and it's just a square and they own, like the fence line, you know, not necessarily the fence line, but there's a, you know, a hundred dollar buffer of trees on each side of it. And that's the only woods on this section except for the corner that touches there other property.
Speaker 3:So we wrote that place off, yeah, 100%. And there was like a old run-down camper or something there that somebody used to stay at a Dear you know, consider the deer camp. And we were like that's what we'll truck camp as close to the road is Ain't a turkey gonna be over here, you know. So like we didn't think in about hunting that that side at all, well, that'll come back in later but, I just want to say that now to give the visual of that.
Speaker 3:But pretty much that was day one. We, you know, hunted till dark. You know, walking calling Air. You know we were. We were pulling out locator calls.
Speaker 2:We never thought about using coyotes and you know, like just trying new things which, from what I've learned the little bit of Ozzy over hunting I've done is also is a coin like Sometimes they go up or sometimes they don't, and they don't, they don't. When they do, they do yeah, and there's really no rhyme or reason to half of it. I feel like I don't know.
Speaker 3:Also, I may have mentioned this a minute ago, but this is first time me and sales ever hunted together alone without you. We've hunted those two hunts with, you know, buchanan, and the year prior, all three of us, and that was the only yeah, I'm just y'all, that's my first time. So this is the first day of me and sales hunting one-on-one. You know we're trying to figure all that out, you know, so you gonna wait.
Speaker 2:Yeah, do we do this.
Speaker 3:You know, just get, just working out and yeah, and, and we're throwing them the camera in which is new to us too. You know, that's it's, it's a, it's a learning curve to this whole trip. And I did, we did, we expect you to be there, hunter. We knew you weren't okay. I couldn't remember, okay, okay.
Speaker 3:I couldn't remember if you had or hadn't, you know, and but like it was new for me to hunt with Austin and and all that, so I Mean that was our first day was just get. I mean, we felt like I got our tail whooped after, oh we did a.
Speaker 4:Yeah, we went to the dang huddle house that night and like just look to each other and like what are we doing?
Speaker 3:Yeah, we do and yeah, well, we were, we got on the map, for we're trying to find public around us.
Speaker 2:We're like we got six thousand acres handed to us we were calling you for you know, ideas of pens or people.
Speaker 2:It was a friend like hey, do you know anything about this area? I'm like no. I ain't never been, but like, at the same time, like hold on, let me look like I start pulling up like I was there and they try to hunt it and figuring out what I would. This is where I would go to, you know, this is where I would, with no Eyes being laid on it. I try this and I don't know if any of them worked on. Yeah, we'd already seen some of them.
Speaker 3:Yeah yeah, we knew that pen looked good, mm-hmm.
Speaker 4:We got there, it wasn't it was yeah, I had several pens dropped on where I thought we needed to start and it Like me and Jason looked at him like that looks like a pretty good starting point and got there and it like and that was what we did a lot the first day after, after those birds worked off, is we went to every pen that we had, you know, thought about backup spots, extra spots.
Speaker 4:We went to all those and I mean I'm telling you every single one of them didn't match up what we thought was gonna be on the map and also to say this this was Before on X had the recent imagery, yeah, so what we had a lot of was like deer and deer season. When they had food plots planted and some of this stuff right Look which is now head high Sawgrass you know and stuff turkeys won't walk in or what you know avoid and and we were.
Speaker 3:You know we were scratching our head hard for a lot of that first day or two.
Speaker 4:Yeah, this end day to you know, after we got to the huddle house, our plan for the next day was you know, let's just go back where we know, those turkeys were where they were roosted. We'll park the truck at the gate rather than driving, and we'll slip in and just listen.
Speaker 4:You know maybe who let them give themselves away, we'll go sit down if they're in the same spot, we'll sit down where they cross, because you know there's not really. I mean I'm sure they would, but there's not. Look, there's was no other spot that looked open.
Speaker 3:To where they would want to cross right so and we did that and waited.
Speaker 4:You know, we sat there and listened. Nothing Easy to round. Made a couple more where we thought we just we didn't see any sign but potentially turkeys could be that we found the day before nothing. So about lunch I looked at Chase like man. I don't know where we're going, but we're going somewhere we're gonna find public land.
Speaker 4:So I was like let's just pull over there, do the camp area and we'll change clothes, get some street clothes, get comfortable again. It was cold and when we hit the road I get on the map chase was driving like I get on the map and try to find us some public land that we can just ease into. We put up there and I was actually Taking my pants off to change clothes and chase it. You know what. Yeah, while we're here, let's let's just walk to that tree line and see if we can at least hear anything on the property line.
Speaker 3:Right.
Speaker 4:Like, oh, whatever, yeah, and, and it was. I almost didn't want to ask him at this point because we. We were both Fist off a hundred percent defeated off, but defeated aggravated.
Speaker 3:Yeah. Yeah, this y'all last day I was a second Was this the second time to be the last day. Yeah, y'all had plans.
Speaker 4:That wasn't the third day, it was the second day, yeah.
Speaker 2:And so, like at that point, we had called on and we were like if we don't sit here in the morning, we're, we're.
Speaker 3:We got turkeys that we can hunt in. Mississippi. Yeah, you know it's kind of what we're at Mississippi's hitting right now yeah.
Speaker 2:We're we're trying to wrap it back. We were gonna try to.
Speaker 4:I mean, I, I think our plan was halfway to you know not give up on Florida, but you know, leave there that we were leaving around lunch and find some public land on the way home. See, if we can find anything promising, and we do hunt at the next morning Got you right, and then Was Alabama open at that point. No, that's what it was.
Speaker 3:We had Alabama the next weekend open or something another. I can't remember quite I feel like, yeah, we were. We were thinking like oh, we can, we can phone a phone.
Speaker 4:A phone and we can call a friend?
Speaker 3:Yeah, we were. We were thinking like, oh we can, we can phone a friend in Alabama and probably find a spot somewhere on the way home to hunt at least a day or two. Season wasn't right, or something.
Speaker 4:It wasn't open because our, if our plan was remember to stay that week in Florida and on our way back through, it opened that Saturday.
Speaker 3:We're there with Hunter and them. Yeah, we're meeting.
Speaker 2:Hunter and them that.
Speaker 4:Saturday right, and so we were. We were just gonna come home.
Speaker 2:Yeah, missy was in Mississippi for a while. Right, look like we might as well go hunt Mississippi while you can.
Speaker 4:Yeah, nothing's happening here. We're gonna go. You know.
Speaker 2:We may try one piece of public on the way home If it doesn't look promising we're gone back to Mississippi, so yeah, so I'm sure it didn't help seeing snapchats and other things about the folks Killin Mississippi.
Speaker 3:No, no, yeah we got.
Speaker 2:We were getting plenty of that.
Speaker 3:Well, that was that was what was was driving about half of it, but yeah, I put my pants back on.
Speaker 4:we walked 100 yards across the cut over and hit this little Tree line that I couldn't have been 100 yards wide, yeah maybe 200 max I get, including the neighbors property.
Speaker 3:We had probably 100 yards in there to hunt, to hunt and I guess. But you were you, you know you were up to bat the whole trip right, but we were, we were, but it was if, if you get a shot, get shot. Yeah, that's how we were on everything. Yeah, you know. Um we.
Speaker 4:I mean, we went there and, um, I think you hit a crow call, nothing happened. We walked another 50 yards and you yelped. Nothing happened a couple of times, you know it was to their five or ten minutes listening. So I sat down and I was looking on On X and I was trying to find public land. Um, I was sitting right there and I Chased like I'm gonna make just ease up a little bit less, I don't go right. I said I look and right keeping the air shot.
Speaker 3:It's kind of what I was four years to two years, yeah right ease on up whatever.
Speaker 4:And I was looking at on X and the text message popped up from chase. I was like that's weird, mm-hmm. And then the text message said don't move, I like.
Speaker 2:Whatever, somebody coming here, somebody behind me, you joking.
Speaker 4:I mean, I was like he's just yeah joking around and I said okay, I haven't moved, I'm trying to find us some land or some or something like that. And I was like I can hear him call. So he called again. I was like yeah, funny, you're going to find a. We got 6,000 acres. You're going to find it on a 100 acre block with two acres of trees Right, that's fine. And I. I sat there and heard Chase keep calling him and you take over Chase, as you saw it.
Speaker 4:But, from my perspective. I was just sitting there looking at my map.
Speaker 3:Yeah, so, yeah so. So when you sat down, I mean I pretty much just said I'm going to kind of walk around a little bit and just kind of look around I honestly think you told me that you were because the preference of the store.
Speaker 4:The guy said there's a bunch of airheads in that area.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I'm pretty sure he's. I'm going to use around a call to see if I can find some airheads or something I probably did, yeah.
Speaker 3:Cause I was. I know I was looking down cause I found that was snail, or whatever, or hermit crab looking shell. I don't know what it is, but it's as big as the palm of your hand and I found it and I thought that was really cool. Put it. I had it in my hand and I cut the GoPro on when we stopped, I guess, and so you can see it in my hand and I'm walking and calling and kicking, you know, and scratching sounding and I'm like I'm throwing the kitchen stuff out.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, you got to.
Speaker 3:Like I'm, I'm going to call in a lot Blind calling, you know, and it's a, it's kind of a good example of walking and calling in the video. In my opinion, you know what I like to do when it is no chance and anything fine and one.
Speaker 2:And you just you know you're something that's not there.
Speaker 3:Right, and it was windy at that point.
Speaker 2:What yeah?
Speaker 3:The wind was cutting up on that open area of cutover. So and you got palm metas in there making racket and all kinds of other stuff and I hit a. I hit a Yelp or something and I hear and I'm like either that was my shooter 22 or that was a Turkey Galvan Like I know what a Turkey Galvan Like I put up, put the two and two together, like ain't no way I found a Turkey on this, a hundred acres of dirt and you know two acres of timber. You know I'm thinking that too. And sure enough, I, you know I kind of stopped and I'm like I, I say that to the GoPro or whatever, I'm like I, I say to myself I'm like that almost sounded like a Turkey that might have been a Turkey and I'm in disbelief so I Yelp, wowed again one time and I hear it again.
Speaker 3:I'm like I'm pretty sure that was a Turkey. So I kind of look back for seals and I apparently have just gotten out of sight of seals like 50 yards. So it shows you how thick it is, you know.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:I'm like where the heck is seals. And I finally like see his leg or something. I'm like seals, seals, seals, nothing. I'm like I got it, like I got to figure something out and I Yelp again. He got one, he's closer. I'm like, sorry, seals.
Speaker 3:At that point I was like it is what it is. I slip, I slip up and there's like a little open area. I don't know it was some water tailed in there or something at some point. And so you know I can tell when I rewatch the video, I you know I remember a lot of what was going through my head. You know I was. I didn't move without kicking some leaves. I threw that cool beer bottle down in that snail shell down. At a certain spot I remembered, like there it is, come back and get it. And I mean I slipped up another 50 yards maybe, just kind of quiet and quick, all at the same time Didn't have my gloves. They were on the dash of my truck, like, found a random pair that had full fingers in it and I'm like, oh, I got to run a camera with full finger gloves or something like that, and like, or I just remembered not being happy about whatever gloves I had.
Speaker 4:And I don't even think we had the big camera. No, you had the big camera. Yeah, yeah, I think it was in the truck.
Speaker 3:No, no, I've carried it in there, but I left it when you sitting.
Speaker 4:Cause I remember you walking up with it holding it like well, oh yeah, I knew it wasn't me, Didn't get him on the big camera, but I had my little quick stick.
Speaker 2:Yeah. And it's good to have.
Speaker 3:It's good to have. I mean, that's what I film most of my stuff on, but anyways. So like I get set out, stick my stick in the ground and you know, I up one or two more times and he's come and at that point I'm like he's coming quick and I can see 20 yards maybe in there pretty good. And he goggles one time and I'm like ain't no way I can see this turkey. And then I see two hens pop up or you know, cut through something around the palm of that or something.
Speaker 3:I'm like, oh, it's about to happen. And they kind of come up between me and the cutover where I can kind of see their silhouette a little bit, and he curve back to the, I guess, left from in front of me and I remember his big palm metal limb or kind of palm tree looking thing hanging up over and I had one window and after that it was a wall of palmettos and the coolest thing about that, I and he gobble not to shoot him in the gobble Like it's pop, you know. And man, it was a quick hunt, fast time and I didn't even know what had happened at the same time.
Speaker 4:I'm like I'm like I'm like, I'm like, I'm like. All I heard was like I mean, he did, he shot like mid yeah, like it was calling, and at the same time he shot.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I mean, and it wasn't no, like like you would normally do, like pop, pop, like just one little, like he was moving across that gap and I had to cut loud enough, but he was fired up enough. He stopped long enough to gobble, but to tell you how, thick.
Speaker 4:It was Chase. I heard him shoot, so obviously I took off the seat. And we probably weren't. I mean, I know you said 50 yards ahead of him and then you walked 50 yards. We were probably not 70 yards apart.
Speaker 3:I would you know he was looking down, I had moved around, I mean, I was cutting asses.
Speaker 2:Kind of I was zigzagging around. A lot of times you kind of moved left, yeah right.
Speaker 4:We were 70, probably 70, 75 yards apart and I never heard a gobble.
Speaker 2:Really, I heard a shot, wow, I never heard a gobble Cause.
Speaker 4:I asked Chase when I said did he come in quiet, chase?
Speaker 3:I don't think he got a gobble like right there and a lot of those gobbles are not caught on camera because I'm filming with that little camera that ain't got a microphone. You can't hear, but like two or three of the gobbles you know barely, and I mean he probably got a 15, 16 times in that three minutes of a hunt.
Speaker 2:you know and you know it was a good hunt by the end of it.
Speaker 3:It just all happened quick and I mean he, he was coming in ready to roll, I mean, and I get it was what 1130 or something like that. Oh yeah, and he was late in the morning 1130, 12 o'clock by the time so he had bred the two hens that he had.
Speaker 3:I think we had found the four turkeys that were on this whole side of the road, or whatever whole block of timber and he knew if he got there quick enough it was his, you know, and it just the hens were almost came in running Like the hens were like no, this is our block. You know almost the quick glimpses I got of them and almost felt like they were running in like a, like a gobbler heard another gobble you know they were, he was like no, not in my territory.
Speaker 3:Them hens were like nope, not in my house, you know, whatever, and and he was just trying to keep up behind them, you know, and and and work them through that that thicket and not lose sight of them. But it was weird, when he got to where he heard the call he cut off just just far enough to. He was about to. He was trying to get around me there to get back in that thick stuff and I just had a window, you know, and I mean I shot him like 18 yards or something like that. It was something real close. I don't remember exactly but it was close.
Speaker 2:Sometimes that's all you need you know, but that's why you I mean it's hard. There's so many times I've won last call, one last check here that doesn't work and then it takes one for it to now. I'm going to be late to a lot of things. That's kind of we're going to get into it another day. Yep, we're going to get into it another day. In Alabama, we were leaving the state and I turned around we were had an option. I said I'm not going, I can't leave and not try this one spot.
Speaker 3:And I looked at you and like, you got 10 minutes.
Speaker 2:He did not want to. He was like because we were worn, slap outs, you'd done them. Been him in Sippin we stayed the next day and we were both dehydrated. It's all get out and I was like, try one more spot. It worked.
Speaker 2:But now I know for the next two years I'm going to have to go try every spot because that reminds you that sometimes those last you know Hail Mary's make a lot of miles, a lot of efforts, a lot of mornings, a lot of money. Sometimes you know if you're going to get hotels and through gas stuff makes that worth it.
Speaker 3:Right.
Speaker 2:A whole lot more than you know, coming back with nothing tags in your pocket.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that was. Another funny thing I forgot to talk about was us trying to get tags in Florida. They didn't sell them at Walmart or something, oh really, or they. Their machine was down and we get to the town like where we're hunting and you know we want to do it the old school way and get our tags at Walmart it's. You know we needed to get a few groceries and stuff like that and we're like let's just make it and Seals that already bought.
Speaker 3:it is, I think, online, but I hadn't just because I'd been kind of had a hectic couple of days before that and I was like, and I'm a last minute guy.
Speaker 2:Yeah, y'all will learn this.
Speaker 3:But either way, I walk in and I get that on so many license or no, no, it was more expensive.
Speaker 3:That's what it was, and Seals knew how much he had paid for his and it was like $80 more expensive at the store for a processing fee or something Another and I was like, well, heck, I can buy it in the parking lot. So you know, then that almost didn't work. We had to set up some other account and like I didn't know if I had the right card or something, it was a hassle there for a minute. I remember I had to let Seals drive and let me figure it out and took me like 30, 40 minutes to get a tag and finally got it worked out. But there was a few things like that on the way down. That was funny. You know us driving, stopping and picking back up. You know we were on the beach the morning of and that is kind of wild.
Speaker 2:Yeah, Went, you know which we?
Speaker 3:didn't hang out or nothing on the beach. We woke up eight breakfast and rolled, so I don't get to do that too often, you know no, no, and that was the only two days I didn't hunt for until that point, which was, I mean, I'd only not hunted like four days, like four or five weeks in a season, which was unusual for me, you know, because I normally I've had a day job- a lot longer than you know or more recent than y'all had it.
Speaker 3:You know y'all have day jobs, but y'all make y'all schedule a little bit easier than. I could in years past, and so, like I I didn't know I could could wear myself down the points that I did this year and I'll get on that more towards Alabama hunts, but that was the following week after this and I mean this is I don't remember the day that I shot that turkey bit. It wasn't long yeah.
Speaker 2:A week of the 20th usually.
Speaker 4:So before Alabama got down there on the 20th, so it's been the 20th Sure Second.
Speaker 3:Yeah, are yeah, and and of of March, mm-hmm, oh, never mind.
Speaker 4:It felt like a week, real quick. We hunted, but we hunted with Buchanan that Friday we went to the trade shows Saturday left out.
Speaker 3:What trade show is that Birmingham?
Speaker 4:No, it was a Raymond the Raymond thing.
Speaker 3:That's what it was.
Speaker 4:Saturday Stay the night. Got there Sunday and our first time was Monday right.
Speaker 2:Right so yeah, they start going into each other, and this isn't Ain't quite the easiest thing in the world.
Speaker 3:That's a blur. Yeah, it's a blur, for sure.
Speaker 2:Things you forget to do is sleep neat and stuff like that, oh that.
Speaker 4:I was gonna get into that one when we went wrap up the hunt about that. Drive on oh.
Speaker 3:Oh man, yeah, so I, far out the hunter, doesn't know any of this either at all. You want to start it off with that seal, so you're gonna talk about my, my mishaps. That's the end of the drive home. Yeah, so.
Speaker 4:We got the turkey. You know we did. Took the pictures. Chase his first ICO. So, we took time and made sure that we had some good pictures with a big camera and all that, and then we Went back to our camp spot where we were gonna change and leave. We did change, we left, we put it in the GPS and it was like 13 hours or something, which ended up being wrong, but I put that in and chase is like no, this is bad.
Speaker 4:It's cuz we were in his truck, yeah, yeah and we started out and I look at Chase like you. All right, thank you, I was like I'm gonna sleep. Yeah, thank goodness I did as I promise you. I think we switched drivers like every two hours. We were absolutely beat. I mean that that first date, well, obviously hunted the opener most of the day. The second day was when we hunted in Mississippi and we didn't sleep you got there.
Speaker 2:We were by the time we moved everything over we just load wet to live like 230.
Speaker 4:Mm-hmm, this is a good good chunk from where we were right so and we didn't get back to a lake because it was a long drive. The next day we had the trade shows and then chase were up early.
Speaker 3:Then we left straight anyway, it was a little me. I'll be entire before leaving my week. Up to that, you know I was kind of over at it to videos too. So we keep. I killed on the opener, y'all killed on our hundred and be can't kill them the next day.
Speaker 3:You know those videos we were posting day up yeah so like I'll stand up till midnight trying to get that finished every night and waking up at three because everywhere I hunted was an hour plus from my house. You know, things like that will Three, four hours of sleep a night for two weeks straight, or weeks straight.
Speaker 2:Right now, yeah, no thank goodness got to work outside of work man.
Speaker 3:Yeah, so we were tired. Tired, but I remember we swapped up, you slept till, probably mobile, I don't know.
Speaker 4:It was four or five hours. I slept a second time, almost immobile. Yeah, yeah, we had swapped and yeah.
Speaker 3:But I remember I was tired, I drank like three months or some stuff. You know we were drinking tons of caffeine trying to, and by the time it was my turn to fall asleep for the last leg, I was gonna get to sleep. You know, had planned to get to sleep. I couldn't fall asleep.
Speaker 2:And so I'm over here just kind of like, like just force forcing myself to close my eyes.
Speaker 3:And, and you know all this. And when was it? Hattisburg. We did the final spot. Yeah, I made it Hattis, where we I'd last Swap back from me supposed to be asleep to not to driving, and seals, you know, took his shift sleeping at some point and and it started wearing on me on. You know what is that? 49?
Speaker 3:Wherever 49, wherever the exit is to get on 49 and Hattisburg, that weird from, yeah, the New Orleans to Mobile, to Jackson intersection there, we were In sight of that turn and I was thinking, if I can just get off here, I'm waiting, I need gas, will pull over, I'll get sealed and I done got in a glaze and I, I remember I don't know if I, if I nod at all for not but I remember there was a blue Honda Civic in front of me that slammed on the brakes and I locked them up. And I look up from locking them up and they're in a car in sight.
Speaker 4:I'm gonna, when he says he locked them up. I'm gonna like my forehead at the back.
Speaker 3:We're going like 74 to zero On the, and this is like 2 am.
Speaker 4:About time we get situated. Yeah, what a car Breaking. I looked up and they wouldn't, have had like that you can see, you tell like nothing, nothing dreamed of wrecking.
Speaker 3:I dreamed of a car slamming on brakes and it might have saved us Probably did but I look, so I look over at Sears at his house, your biggest mind I gotta work by 9 off for a while.
Speaker 4:Oh, no, I dream the rest of the way wide away.
Speaker 3:Yeah, Sears said I think it's time for me to drive.
Speaker 4:I said I think it is on a serious note I made like I knew we were about to stop for gas. I may chase pullover in the exit. Yeah, I was like before the exit I'm driving, yeah, and I get what I was got gas and drove home, yeah, yeah and it was and it was not.
Speaker 3:I was not. I was like I'm okay with this because I'm not sure I can make it around that loop and pull in that gas station after that easy a little minute ago, but not no more. No, I had met my Max of driving and it wasn't anybody's. It wasn't just fall, it was just like my shift had come. I knew I was changing and how to spur. They say, if you're gonna fall asleep driving, it's gonna be 10 minutes in from your house.
Speaker 3:Yeah 90% of those happen that way because you're thinking of getting in bed or whatever. And I think I was thinking I just got to make it eight more miles because I knew I was like Getting iffy and like I was, I was, I was debating, waking cells up and I was like, yeah, I'm making that extra two miles, I wake somebody up. I didn't mind driving a little. I'm bad and I slept from Hattiesburg to Sills a driveway and he said you want to. You know, just crash here, ma'am.
Speaker 4:No, yeah, I was legitimately worried, like Cheshire. You just sleep here. I got a. I gotta guess right now I'm gonna go to the house.
Speaker 3:Nobody let the dog out this evening because they, because I thought I was coming home.
Speaker 2:I'm making no and I'm, but by the end, I would say it up to the rest of the day. Yeah.
Speaker 3:I actually got home, edited the Florida video and posted it at 5 30 morning or six or eight or whatever time. By the time I got done it was eight nine o'clock the next day. I hadn't slept since Hattiesburg to.
Speaker 2:Sills house by how it works, you know I'm finally can and then I got a yeah then I went hunting that afternoon.
Speaker 3:I think I slept for about two hours at nine o'clock and woke back up around lunch and Can't, you, can't make it up.
Speaker 2:Yeah, your body might be back awake, yeah.
Speaker 3:I wasn't any kind of rhythm of anything, so I was like you know, I was much aggravated.
Speaker 2:I couldn't sleep through the whole day and I was fine, like I guess one good job on.
Speaker 3:Turkey Of course, didn't hear. One walked about nine miles.
Speaker 2:Got home and really knocked out, but that's what makes you appreciate them a little more, that's for sure.
Speaker 3:That was. I forgot all about that right home.
Speaker 2:You know that was we're gonna have three people in the truck this year, so yeah. I'll still do. Probably gonna be one want to be driving. Yes, yes, so I ain't gonna wait nobody else gonna use on in the ditch.
Speaker 3:Yeah, we know if y'all ever noticed, when me and Hunter go out of state, I'm in one truck and he isn't. He is, and that's not necessarily just so we can cover more ground and meet back up At night. It is some of it, yeah, but most of it is cuz I ain't got the nerve.
Speaker 4:Hunter always offers a young. Take my truck.
Speaker 2:No we're good man, you just follow us. Yeah, I gotta have my. I don't know, I'm such on a whim I can appeal often. Call me, I'm headed up.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I'm four hours on the other side of the state that we're supposed to be hunting together. Yeah what, I'll be back. I'll see y'all in a week.
Speaker 2:Well, it looks good, and it looks good both places. But all of a sudden I want to hunt Easter's. I want.
Speaker 3:There's no more I've been on those trips that that has happened, so Mm-hmm.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm on drumbeat sometimes, but I guess that's not just turkey season. But no, that's uh. We'll have a well, I'm looking forward to taking trips all three of us. I put it that way yeah, we haven't been able to do that really yet.
Speaker 3:Yeah, having you back in Mississippi and I'm starting point at the same spot as gonna be, and I'm looking forward to play better.
Speaker 4:I'm looking for jobs and stuff. Y'all been able to drive or hunting. Pick me up at the airport.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, I almost did that this year one time with that state no more, yeah, I thought him.
Speaker 3:Somewhere between Jackson Airport and wherever we was headed.
Speaker 4:We decided to turn. No. That uh the like you said. The driving is Half the fun.
Speaker 2:It is.
Speaker 3:You know it's a lot better when you with somebody. Yeah, I will say that.
Speaker 2:There's times and places where I like the last hunts of the year, I want to be by myself and do my own thing one more time and, you know, soak it in and stuff like that, and. But there's sometimes my man. I Really use somebody in here to just talk to you know, I hate talking on the phone.
Speaker 2:I don't like talking on the phone. I'm not good I'm barely good at driving. I'm really not good at talking on the phone and driving and I usually got emails and stuff going on left and right and stuff that if I'm pulled over, that you know that's maximizing that period right there, ten minutes has be used for that and all that stuff. And and then I'm also trying to figure out where in the heck I'm going, where I'm hunting, what I'm doing.
Speaker 3:But and hunters a lot easier one.
Speaker 2:Some you got a copilot, there's hunters rather directionally challenged to.
Speaker 3:So yeah, as far as driving somewhere goes, you you give him a gate, he's good, but but getting him to the gate, it's gonna be the hard one.
Speaker 2:He kicks in real quick and I'm thinking Better. Hope I don't see a turkey on the side of the road, because I'm starting to think, okay, and I'm looking for land around here and I'm trying to find. If I have no public land permission to get around here, I think it's Turkey's everywhere now.
Speaker 3:Just gonna grab it.
Speaker 2:Hold on, I'm up on top of this mountain I'm like, well, this is good spot. I find love more than a group of turkeys. Yeah, I'm like, well, I'm on here now, right, colorado, yeah, I got something. You know, wherever I'm at, I've stopped several times Tennessee, cuz. Tennessee's a long state.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I want to get into the thing and driving down and I always buy license Tennessee like a yearly license. I gotta go through it a lot coming from Georgia. Right, a lot of times I got to come out the west side of it from the east side and I can happen on that drive.
Speaker 4:You know if.
Speaker 2:I come across something or the weather's real good, I'm thinking, hmm, my, I'm getting got tired. I've been driving four hours and I might just on here and I don't even make it to the West out there to say I want there for three days and turn around, come back or something Right?
Speaker 3:No, yeah, you did that.
Speaker 4:Say some guys A few times.
Speaker 2:I don't, I don't, really. I mean I don't. I don't disregard anybody trying to kill them in all the states or even kill Grants Lambs, but I Like hunting turkeys. Period of his you know, if I got a tag in a state, I'm okay with this one close by just as much and I visit back. Kill 50 in Mississippi, they let me you know, I'm down with that.
Speaker 2:You know a turkey, a long bridge, long bridge, long beer. But do I go into see new stuff like I was a little bum not being to go? I missed the white sand and the palmetto's and the the green sheen on the backs of turkeys. Way more. Not missed Killing a nasiola or anything.
Speaker 4:I miss.
Speaker 2:You know the cattle farms and stuff like that you know, look different than the doom Miss. If you everywhere else and it's just anywhere like that, it's kind of New Orleans ain't but one place in the world, let New Orleans ain't but one place you can turkey hunt like Florida and that is Florida. You can have some characteristics, I'm sure, in the low country Carolina area. I think that's right areas. Um, never on a dam, I don't. I'm kind of speaking on behalf of what I've seen right but and you got Spanish Moss and Mississippi, but it's a little different little different, you know.
Speaker 2:And that's the little stuff you miss, miss out on. More than that, for you know, killing a turkey part, like you said, there's the truck stops to car rise. That stuff I'm looking forward to this year and hopefully they know rabbit patch we had to and how much briars I don't need to bring my car, heart bibs, yeah.
Speaker 3:We might just need to go ahead and load up the bush all and try to turn talking it on down with a push them.
Speaker 2:We're in the back of the. Let's get a weed eater or something, yeah yeah you know yourself out of there. But Well, that's good. I thought that was a lot more details than I thought I had missed out on, so it's cool to get. Yeah, you're anything else they have. Before we wrap it up, hop on the next one.
Speaker 3:I Think that's about all covers most of it.
Speaker 4:That's about all the.
Speaker 2:Florida stuff. Yes, an eventful few days down there, sure.
Speaker 3:Yeah, these would be done in two or three days.
Speaker 2:It was a lot happening that whole seems like it's always like that though I. Think last two times we went to like that. Remember we had a yeah, but it this was worse, yeah, it's different.
Speaker 3:Well, these are some of the most tempted days, like test, tested days. Yeah, we've had in a while, or I've had in a while, because normally, you know, I only have a few handful of times right because of you know, exceeded the number of times you hunt the whole season by this point, at this point yeah, I think I the year before, which would have been 22, I think I care to go in like less than 10 times.
Speaker 3:Just because of work and other things and be in places that I, you know, didn't necessarily need to have to be, yeah, or had to be at. I should say that wasn't it involved turkeys, so being able to do that this year was amazing.
Speaker 2:Oh, you know in a way.
Speaker 3:But I learned a lot of you know how rough it can be and how how good it can be and how how rough it can be on your body and things like that. So definitely a new world for me, but I'm glad I'm getting to experience it like y'all. Do you know, are you do or whatever? How everybody does you know, when the people that do it. But yeah, that's about it, yeah.
Speaker 2:Yep, this year, before we head down there we're going to hop on some treadmills or something, bust a couple of loops around neighborhood, because I know that feeling of you ain't used to the the toll that'll take on your you know kind of endurance. So you forgot how quickly you can dehydrate when you're. You know the days, the days along. You know hunting, all days a little different. You're hunting a box stand December 19th, and it is hunting all day in the middle of March, late March, and stuff and days are longer and you're moving a lot more and hotter and all kinds of stuff and Lot to get used to.
Speaker 2:But all right y'all. Well, we appreciate y'all tuning in and and listening in on this. Remind y'all that y'all can go to the YouTube channel and watch the hunt. We've been referencing what little bit. I don't know how much y'all got Aside from the GoPro and the small camera footage, but I'm sure we'll piece together a good little episode for the whole Florida trip and kind of see some of the woes that they were talking about as well as some of the highs.
Speaker 2:I've seen the part where you do shoot Turkish pretty cool, you got that pretty good. Him gobbling in the middle of the little hole, it's pretty cool. Encourage y'all to go give it a watch and why you added good, subscribe to it. That'd be much appreciated. Shoot us over a rating and If you listen to this on Apple or Spotify or wherever Couple stars never killed nobody that'd be good. Yeah, I really appreciate those who have. You know, gave us a good rating and a good review and Share the podcast and subscribe to the. The YouTube. That really drives us. That's the only thing that does drive us, necessarily. That and the chance to get to talk turkey hunting. We'd just be doing this without a mic and these mics ain't cheap. So that kind of stuff, you know, really propels us forward so we can, you know, increase our audience and grow and and do what we need to do. So from us to you. Thank you, and with that, we'll see you next week. Thanks again for listening to spring Legion podcast. I.