The Spring Legion Podcast
Welcome to a year-round discussion on the wild turkey and those who hunt them. Hosted by Hunter Farrior, founder of Spring Legion and author of Ballad of a Turkey Hunter, the weekly podcast is geared for all outdoor communities and dives deeper than the usual tactics and calling tips. Holding true to the brand, topics are built upon respecting the heritage and challenges of hunting, with a never-ending appreciation for all that the spring season provides. Enjoy insight from special guests like Dave Owens of Pinhoti Project, Cuz Strickland of Mossy Oak, our friends at NWTF and Muscadine Bloodline, and so many more widely known for their impact in the turkey hunting community, as well as the deer, duck, and waterfowl realm, who exhibit the obsession of which only a real turkey hunter may truly understand. Thanks for listening.
The Spring Legion Podcast
Traveling Turkey Hunting: Tips, Essentials, Advice, and Hard-Earned Wisdom
We unpack our essential knowledge for traveling turkey hunters, sharing hard-won wisdom about what to pack, what regulations to be aware of, and how to maximize success in unfamiliar territories.
• Weather is crucial – chase good conditions rather than sticking to rigid travel schedules
• Noon hunting cutoffs in certain states require different hunting strategies
• State-specific regulations vary widely – physical tags, hunting zones, and public land rules
• Packing smart prevents overloading – focus on versatile, multi-purpose gear
• Keep emergency equipment like tire repair kits, jump packs, and boot dryers
• Vacuum sealers are game-changers for preserving harvested turkey meat
• Scout unfamiliar public land for diversity in terrain features
• Be cautious of recreational lands where non-hunters may be present
• Remain flexible and willing to change plans based on conditions
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Speaker 1:What's going on y'all? Welcome back to another episode of the Spring Legion Podcast mid-season edition Coming at you. We only got a few left, really. Well, what Five, six left, probably for the 2025 tenure here in our little podcast season that we self-created? I don't think anybody else has seasons. We have a season. I mean it's not friends or how I met your mother, but we have season premieres and stuff like that around here and we will have a good season finale, so to speak. I think I've got an idea that'll be a good one and that will come at the end of may to uh, ship us off into the summer months, but we're not there yet, so we ain't worried about it. I'm your host, honor farrier, and the other host, chase farrier, is in the office again today and we're late april. Yeah, it's officially late april. I ain't mid-April.
Speaker 1:Yeah last Monday of April, that's for sure. We're sneaking up on that actually as we speak, because this is being recorded on Sunday night around 10 o'clock and this is going to be out in about two hours an hour it's going to be eating up by us talking. So we're going to talk about turkeys and we're going to talk about traveling to turkey hunt, because that's about all we can come up with because neither of us have been hunting since our last episode. Yep, I caught her at a sabbatical from the turkey woods. I've been doing some daddy-daughter time the past few days, which has been awesome. We did all kinds of stuff, paid, my wife went on a trip and got to do a bunch of fun stuff with the daughters. I mean, we did everything. We went to the zoo.
Speaker 2:AKA Tractor Squad.
Speaker 1:Went to the aquarium.
Speaker 2:AKA Pet Smart.
Speaker 1:Yep, where all the fishes are Taught them, the whole chip, sauce and water trick at the Mexican restaurant. Yep, it's a special every day.
Speaker 2:Yep.
Speaker 1:You don't get nothing else. But they wanted some more stuff so we ended up having to pay. But regardless, we had a good time, did a lot of gardening, did a lot of work. They got up to work, washed the front porch today and they did a lot of picking up and stuff like that. We ain't got a stick left in this yard. I can tell you that we took a lot of them, them put in the garden for bean balls, but mostly we got the yard clear sticks, so they did a plus job on that. I got two and three year old but, uh, had a lot of fun. Started to get a little itchy towards turkey woods though past few hours once mom got home I'm like, yeah, I hadn't really like, looked at socials or anything to see if anybody's been killing them or hearing them.
Speaker 1:And I'm, I open it up. And they've been killing them and hearing them. So I'm, I'm my, my skin started not crawling but kind of, you know, getting a little heated and, uh, as we now got the truck successfully packed they were outside most of it. I had to redo a bunch of stuff on the camper shell and stuff like that. We got a lot of stuff thrown back in the truck and if I know me and I know me there's, it's not out of the question as soon as we get done with this, if I can do some e-scouting pretty hot and heavy, right after and the weather ain't bad and something like kentucky or missouri, I might be, might be there in the morning if I can get there.
Speaker 1:I've done it before, but more than likely it'll be Tuesday to Thursday and then my plan is to be, I've got to be in Georgia on the weekend and then after that maybe finally, for the first time in my life, heading up northeast-ish. Yeah, so I've never. I've been around and about it, but I've never really done the. I'm going to go to Pennsylvania. I'm going to say it right here, right now.
Speaker 1:Y'all make me go to Pennsylvania. That's like one of my places when I think of turkey hunting, because I've always run that Cody and I feel I think they're out of Pennsylvania, are they? I think so.
Speaker 2:I thought they were from down south. Who?
Speaker 1:Oh, okay, I mean, there's just a lot of.
Speaker 2:It's just a lot of turkey hunters in Pennsylvania hunters in Pennsylvania, I think more than anywhere.
Speaker 1:Per capita, I think it is yeah, um, it's just a lot, a lot of niche. Turkey hunting stuff comes from Pennsylvania, and I've always I've never even been in Pennsylvania, so every year I say I'm gonna do that, and then so I'm using this excuse to be in Georgia already on the east side, like this is it, straight up yeah, I'm gonna do it.
Speaker 1:So I'm gonna make my way there. I'm gonna hit as many places I can before that and make a good old loop there, and I don't know yet if I'm meeting you or not. Yeah, we'll see, we've got a seat at the pan. Chase is holding down a lot right now, actually, I also have not been hunting. Yeah.
Speaker 2:We've been working a little bit more than usual right now, trying to get ready for the travel season really is what we're doing more than usual right now, trying to get ready for the travel season. Right really is what we're doing, um, and we do this just, I do this every year. It seems about about a week I have to pretty much set aside, yeah, about the end of april, first of may.
Speaker 1:Yeah, get caught up and everything but um, but yes, we're going to be talking about traveling stuff, what, what, what we keep in mind, what we have learned a lot, some lessons learned the hard way when it comes to stuff that you know, the unfamiliarities of new ground, foreign terrain, foreign legislations. You know stuff that you don't might not be a thing in your state don't mean it's not a thing in every state. So we're going to go over some of that and then a lot of the stuff that we kind of have found to be very valuable in the traveling aspect and the minimalist aspect of it and the whole nine yards really got several bullet points we hit. But before we get into it, I wanted to hit a couple updates on the spring leaching side of things, one of them being Rex Turkey's video is on YouTube.
Speaker 2:Yep got one up.
Speaker 1:We figured out how to upload one on YouTube. Again had to do a Google search on how to upload one on youtube. Again had to uh, had to do a google search on how to upload one, because it's been that dang long but finally did. And that and that's only because breck edited it, yep himself and sent it to me. I said, okay, I can do that, I got enough time to press go so it's a pretty cool hunt.
Speaker 2:It really is I didn't know.
Speaker 2:That's how it happened, right yeah, so, and I don't know if it's covered too much in the video like the words are put on the screen necessarily to say but like that bird flew down and then got on the ground for a little while and they had some jakes come in there and the turkey flew back up into a tree for like 15 or 20 minutes and strutted and gobbled one, one or two times and then flew back down and came straight to him yeah, before like even touched a call, I didn't.
Speaker 1:I didn't know that until several days after I found out he shot one, right. So I was like, well, that's really cool actually.
Speaker 2:The only reason I knew that was because that was the same morning I shot one.
Speaker 1:Really. Yeah, we got to talk, we met up and took a picture, you know.
Speaker 2:So we ended up passing. You is cool in its own way. He did a good job.
Speaker 1:I'm not going to lie Really impressed me, actually Way better than I can do, but so, yeah, been doing that and we got a daggum plethora of new t-shirts that just came in. So that's another thing that me and the girls did.
Speaker 1:We went around the whole daggum state picking up boxes after boxes after boxes of new shirts and stuff like that and got some new hats and stuff. So the new Woodsmanship tee seems to be a hit, as well as the no Sleep Till June, which we've kind of had no Sleep Till June tees that we've released every May for folks who do travel, a lot and stuff and they've done well, and several other ones. There's some cool designs that I've literally had in the drafts of the designs since February, just haven't had the time to. You know you've got to fine-tune a lot of them, you know, before you send them there and convert them into different formats and stuff. So that took up a chunk but finally got those going and got some new not new. We actually we released these hats at the convention this year and this is the first time we've been able to get them again was the the bottom land bill with the khaki, khaki, light khaki yeah, you know the contrasted caps or whatever, with the walking turkeys logo looks really I like them a lot.
Speaker 2:Yeah, um, I did not get one actually, really, at the convention I thought we would have some extras. I snuck one out and that was it. But I didn't think that we sold out of them until we got home and then I realized, like we didn't Because we got a lot.
Speaker 1:It was like day two. Yeah, I went to go grab one on day three and there wasn't none. Yeah, glad to have those back, as well as and Chase turkey plaques, oh, yeah, so I've been making those and that's been eating up a lot of my time this week trying to keep up with that y'all uh, y'all kind of surprised me and sold them out one the first round out twice.
Speaker 2:Yeah, second first and second round out, so hope they're probably showing sold out right now. Um, I think I looked two or three minutes ago. There's only one or two left on online. Um, but hopefully monday, by monday evening or tuesday midday I'll have some more, you know, uploaded on there so y'all?
Speaker 1:yeah, we're uploading those in batches just because the turkey travels and stuff. I don't want to over promise um it's like you know 20 at a time, maybe.
Speaker 1:So y'all, if it's saying sold out on the plaques, y'all come back two days, maybe would you say that's about check and see if they're. They're there again, um, which we'll try to keep you upload, uploaded, try to keep you updated on social medias and stuff like that. But a very cool plaque that I did want to mention only because this is going to be coming out on april 28th. Um was so. I went to my parents house this past weekend and my dad had found the turkey fan of the 82 and one turkey that I killed in 2018, which, if that's irrelevant to anybody who hasn't read about a turkey hunter, the.
Speaker 1:The second chapter is entitled 82 and one. It's about the turkey that I hunted for 83 combined collected hunts over a span of a year and a half, two years or something like that. Two and a half years maybe. Um, but taught me more about turkey hunting than any book, any video, any experience ever has. This one, turkey did so. It was very special. He found that fan.
Speaker 1:I knew it was in a like a pile of them and I just I'd kind of forgotten where it could have been. I remember the feathers that were out of it and lo and behold, he said that. So that was a day, on april 28th, you, breck and dad, all were in texas and all three killed one. I did not go to texas because I was. I was like I can't you know? I'm so consumed by this one, turkey.
Speaker 1:And that was gonna be the last day of the season you could hunt him yeah I remember that I that I mean I was going to hunt him the next two, if I had to, I guess, but y'all weren't going to be here until after May 1st.
Speaker 2:Maybe that's what it was Right, y'all weren't going to be back in time.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so I couldn't just leave it, right. You know I had to 20 fans by the time he found this was seven years ago. Yeah, I guess it dawned on him. I know which one it is because it was killed on the day.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we marked them. Yeah, so that was really cool. So he put that on one of chase's fan mounts and it looks really good, got the 80-20-1 burn in there and stuff the burn in. Was his doing that? Yeah, and he told me that was a B word and a half to do. Yeah, so it looks good though, yep, but anyway. So other than that, I think tomorrow on Tuesday, we're going to be on the gamekeeper podcast, our buddies over there, so y'all tune into there. Yep, if you're listening, this on tuesday should already be out. I think there's just tuesdays, ain't it?
Speaker 2:monday or tuesday it might be monday, I don't know. I tend to listen to ours. Yeah, monday, and by the end of the day, or by t, I listen to ours while I do orders on mondays and I listen to theirs on orders Tuesday Get your own rhythm.
Speaker 1:Kind of Kind of but that. And then one more shout out for turkey killing Mr.
Speaker 2:Fox. Oh yeah, mr Fox got him one, Was that 91?
Speaker 1:He was 91, I think is what they said. No, he's older than 91, I think.
Speaker 2:No, yeah, this morning, at 91 years old, really, I had it pulled up.
Speaker 1:I thought he was in his 90s when they did the vest yeah.
Speaker 2:So first one in three years, I think is the other thing though.
Speaker 1:Right, so which that was a big deal.
Speaker 2:That was really cool, wait, no, no, no, I'm looking at the wrong picture, Okay, no, yeah, I'm sorry, I don't know. So that was in 94.
Speaker 1:He's 94. Okay.
Speaker 2:Yeah, okay, the last one he killed. He was 91.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:I clicked on the wrong picture of him.
Speaker 1:I was asking for it. He was in the 90s, you know. Yeah, and they did the Fox Fails Bible, so that's a legend in itself. I mean to be doing it that much and stuff and in a collective effort from the the mossio team right there, the whole family, you know getting getting together and all hands on deck and you know seeing it doing it one last time and then doing it one last time again there was one more time.
Speaker 1:It's not one last time because it keeps me in one more time and one more time, one more time. You know dude's rolling. I mean I hope I'm able to do it, you know, at half that age, honestly me too really cool. So but, um, but you had to dive into the meat and potatoes of the episode is going to be the traveling part and we've got a. I mean, I've got uh, 10, 11, yeah, 10 to 11 little notes here. I can say some, you say some. So would you?
Speaker 2:you start, because I'll go second all right, and we talk about packing trucks, or I'll do a little bit of both.
Speaker 2:Okay, you know a little bit of everything, to kind of hedge myself in case you went one or the other yeah, I kind of went more as of what I want to find in the truck, okay, when I need it. First things first. I like to pack in plano boxes, the hard shells boxes, so you can throw them out if you need to sleep in your camper shell you can throw them under your truck or whatever, and they ain't gonna get wet. Or if it rains and you don't have a camper shell, you're covered right and I'll put my suitcases or bags you know, duffels and stuff in there right to you know, keep dust out of them, right just to have
Speaker 2:it together at all times right that's the main thing I make sure to pack first. Yeah, um, another big one I gotta have in there. There is one of those compact air compressors and a tire plugging kit. Yeah, that is a big one.
Speaker 1:Saved us last year.
Speaker 2:I know Right which I wasn't with you.
Speaker 1:All that no you weren't, I bet he's three times in one week, in one day I thought that was what y'all said. No, that was one week. Yeah, sorry.
Speaker 2:I wasn't there. I forgot. Yeah, no, it was. Uh, it was in one week, because I've had to use them several times same areas.
Speaker 1:But yeah, there's um, I wish I knew the name, because I'm nitpicky on like, if I find a tire plugging kit, that's really good. I like to make sure I get that one, just because I'm I rest assured because I've had some that don't you know you go through the whole daggum pack and you're like you know, Right Now I'm out and I've just made a bigger mess.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and it's a big old hole in your turn.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you just sawed it in half.
Speaker 2:But I mean traveling those old, you know roads and crap that are government roads or gravel roads or whatever they may be. No maintenance roads, yeah low maintenance roads and farmer's field and farmer field roads and stuff.
Speaker 1:If we get a permission spot or something you never know, yeah well, a lot of it especially the Midwest that I've learned and this is coming from a southerner so I might be wrong but the White Rock or whatever that's on all these roads or whatever those eat up. What is it like if you have, I don't know, the plies of the tire, but the dude about the third time we were there he was like y'all don't have 10-ply tires, do you Right? We're like I don't know. Probably not, you know.
Speaker 2:Y'all had three-plys on that truck. It was a dash truck, I mean he's putting rocks through it.
Speaker 1:It ain't like pinholes the whole day. I'm rocking coming through the tire kind of stuff on tires that he had in the shop Right. Him finally went there and he had a patch for him in the corner or something, but there were some there that had, I mean, half-dollar-sized rocks up in their tires. He was like that's why you don't. These roads ain't made for three-ply tires.
Speaker 2:Yeah, those 10-plies you got to about have out there, which people have said I was crazy for putting 10-plies on a Tacoma.
Speaker 1:Because they're built for heavy trucks Way more than your truck. Yeah, anyways but okay, so some of the things so. So that's some stuff to take, we're gonna, we're gonna go back and forth. Yeah, mine, I started off with what to keep in mind because that is not more valuable, but it's stuff that I wish somebody would have told me on the podcast and listed it Right as much as the helpful tips and this is like can save you some money and time and heartache tips is what to be aware of.
Speaker 1:And the first thing is weather, and down that hill is when I get to traveling I chase the weather more than I chase pleasant routes and stuff like that. So you know if I'm going and I'm not trying to do 49 state deal and stuff like that, so I you know if I'm going and I'm not trying to do 49 state deal and stuff like that, I'm trying to go where it's good turkey hunting where they're gobbling good and where the sun's shining.
Speaker 1:hopefully, all right, um, and can I say that? Because I did a whole year one time trying to. I got a plan, I got a map, I got a, I got all these things. I've got a calendar and this is where I want to be on this day. Well, guess what? Weather sucked on like four in a row and I'm like it didn't suck at the three. I just left, but I couldn't really afford time-wise to just hang around for a week.
Speaker 1:But, had I went somewhere else for four days, everything would have lined up and now I'd have had five good days of turkey hunting, where I got zero good days of turkey hunting, because I was just so bound and determined to do this little calendar deal schedule.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you know, even if you got a date and I think I had a day job then. So I mean, if you have a day job and just understand, keep it, keep it open. You know, just have turkey hunting written down on that calendar. Don't have necessarily exactly where you've got to be, you know, I know some folks do outfitters and stuff like that and you have to abide by those dates and stuff and there's no way to predict it. But you know, sometimes.
Speaker 1:I mean, I don't know, but it might be all right to come four days later, you know, keep a day or two on the bookends and maybe knock on a door or two or be e-scouting on the way up there, just in case the three days you're there, you know they're a wash At least you got something to look forward to. Yeah, weather-wise, but um, and weather apps is another one. I like to get the local weather apps like, uh, like. I mean it can literally be, they're all the same, they're duplicates, just like a franchise thing. It's like a white label like wbt3 and one in the middle of kansas with the exact same app with a new icon. But finding one with a 24-hour radar is big, because a lot of like AccuWeather, weather Channel you know the main big ones or whatever, give you like a four-hour and they'll give you the hourly updates. Yeah, but when they start saying 50% chance of rain to me, I don't know if it's going to rain.
Speaker 2:You know me neither brother.
Speaker 1:That's why I'm here, you know, that's why I'm looking. But find one with a 24-hour weather forecast, let you know. Hey, it's about to be one five minute thing of rain, and then it's gonna be calm after that, or it's gonna, you know, rain for several hours, steady rain yeah, because I don't know how many times that's screwed me.
Speaker 2:Yeah, um is you know it'll show 90% chance of rain and then it's literally a 10-minute shower.
Speaker 1:It's going to rain but it's going to be five minutes of it the whole state's getting it and it don't come until 7 pm after dark or whatever it may be you know, and that's. That 24-hour radar is a big help and stuff like that.
Speaker 1:And then another thing to be aware of is the noon cutoff states yes, that's a big one, and I hate them I hate everything about them and I'm not like saying we shouldn't have them, I'm just they just put me in such a state of mind that I'm not used to being in because patience is such a big deal. Yeah, and I'm so like, I'm just not used to confinement. That's why I'm asked why I like on big chunks public land, because I like I feel open and free and can it can go, you know, move and do what I need to do, as long as I try to get where there's nobody. I don't like going down one road where there's another road comes in the other way and you know I'm bound to that. Half maybe might not meet anybody there, but I feel like I am and I hunt differently when I, and you know I'm bound to that half maybe might not meet anybody there, but I feel like I am and I hunt differently when I'm, you know having to try to make a turkey do something.
Speaker 1:I don't think it wants to do so. Whenever they have the noon cut off and I get on one at eight o'clock, I'm like, well, I gotta hurry and kill him four hours but I treat it like 30 minutes right so and it just messes me up.
Speaker 1:You know I'm wind up not killing a turkey because I'm doing stuff I wouldn't normally be doing. If I went in there and didn't know about it I'd have killed him at 845, probably Right. But because of that noon cutoff just lurking in the back of my head, you know it screws with me a little bit, you bump three by 10 am, it seems. Right, but I'm saying that because you get in some trouble probably.
Speaker 2:Oh, yeah, you know, and I think some of them, you have to have the gun back in the truck, by one, I think, and then some of them it's just like you have to stop hunting by one. There's different, I think. That's state by state.
Speaker 1:Me and Gary actually were coming out of a spot, you know, a few minutes before the cutoff or whatever, and there was a game warden at the gate doing some work or whatever. So we were like this is advantageous, like let me ask him, because we we don't know. He pretty much told us he's like you know, here the, the rule is. I think the rule was you can even have a gun. You just can't have a loaded gun right to be hunting. But he's like that ain't like that everywhere, and that might have been a wma by wma rule. I don't even know, how that breaks down.
Speaker 1:But but yeah, I'm sure some places you can't even have the gun out of a case, out of a truck, right. So, and and some, and something I do keep is a gun sock. You know, if I, if I don't know, I keep it in that sock, I'll take that with me just in case I'm way up there, because I think technically, a lot of times that's a, that's a case, right, yeah, so I mean, push comes to shove, I got it in a sock and you know, just to let them know if I'm walking out at close to it. Or you know, god forbid, I fall on a creek or something and you're 10 minutes late, then you know you can prove, or they see you like I mean, I'm definitely wasn't hunting, right? Um, and I do, and I'm and it's. I don't even really get to five minutes before. I stopped like 15 minutes before and I'll make sure I'm at the truck.
Speaker 1:I don't want to get in a mess, especially being out of state and stuff, because there's I'm sure there's fine prints that I don't know about in mississippi, but they're definitely fine prints that I don't know about other places, so I don't even chance it. Um, but yeah, I mean I keep a case as much as I can in the truck. If I have two guns, I make sure I have that sock, which I mean if you go to a walmart they got six bucks I at least put them both in there if I'm traveling through states and stuff, because I don't know, you know some laws is a felony to have one and the same.
Speaker 1:I mean I mean not related at all they got all these weird laws about guns and stuff like that in a weird spot one time one day it was some shotgun or something just being in your truck.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and it was the the next day they were. He already knew they were voting to kneel this law, where they were like, yeah, today's the last day you this could technically be a felony because you have a gun and bullets in the same no, it's like in the cab yeah, I mean there was no like wall separating it, I don't remember.
Speaker 1:But he was like obviously I'm not doing that, but it's kind of wild that I hadn't seen this in a while. On the last day, all of a sudden I see a guy who didn't know that right, um feels like literally in eight hours that's not a thing anymore.
Speaker 1:So thank goodness yeah, I was like yeah, thank you for that, you do not need a felony sir. But, um, yeah, so now, I never. I always make sure everything's in separate things. Yeah, um, ammo boxes and everything, and I don't even like ride around with my pocket, but, yeah, so now, I never. I always make sure everything's in separate things. Yeah, ammo boxes and everything, and I don't even like ride around with them in my pocket.
Speaker 1:But that, and then let's see physical mobile tags, make sure some states have physical tags just because yours has mobile tags and you can do it on your phone and stuff like that. Some you've got to go to a store old-fashioned way and pick them up.
Speaker 2:Some you have to get mailed to you, yep, like you can't once you. Or if you get them mailed to you and forget them.
Speaker 1:You can't go get them.
Speaker 2:Right, you can't get another one.
Speaker 1:You have to be a responsible adult. A duplicate of any kind? Yep, you got them, you know, don't lose them, mm them, you know, don't lose them. Um, and, and do that before you leave.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you know, double check on that one because you can waste a lot of miles going somewhere where you got to have a mail to you, I think some places you have to have a mail, yeah, um, and then some don't even have over-the-counter tags. I found that I was headed to. I got a little bind going from kentucky to illinois, to iowa, to wisconsin and kentucky and illinois closed that day. I was in kentucky so I was headed to iowa and to Illinois, to Iowa, to Wisconsin and Kentucky and Illinois closed that day. I was in Kentucky so I was headed to Iowa, and well, you can't go there without getting drawn. And I was going to go to Wisconsin. I think I was texting, I think, jake from hunting public or something yeah and I was like I think he's from wisconsin isn't he?
Speaker 2:some. I was like trying to figure it out.
Speaker 1:I think he was like no, that, no, that's all right, you ain't getting that zone. I'm like crap. You know, someone told me it was over the counter or whatever, and all of them like what's a zone?
Speaker 2:what's a unit? You know, I've never even done that.
Speaker 1:I'm like, yeah, I need to look at. Hold on, just disregard that, let disregard that, let me look into it, let me Google some stuff. Oh, okay, I can only go to this part, didn't? It was fine? But I did not know that. Nobody ever told me that. So that's why I'm telling you all that Some folks are like, well, no, duh, but for the most part on the packing stuff, I would rather have it and not need it rather than need it and not have it to an extent, but up until about the past two or three years, I overpacked way too much. You don't need jeans, you're not going to wear them.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 1:I never wore them. I had to pack a pair of jeans and a pair of cowboy boots and stuff. What if you? What?
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's like taking a swimsuit because you know you're going to be at a hotel. What if I want to get in a hot tub?
Speaker 1:You're probably not going to be in a hotel and you've never been in a hotel hot tub. You never do. You would get in a hotel hot tub at a motel at 6. If I'm at a hotel, it's for four hours.
Speaker 2:I'll make do with what I gotta wear to a hot tub, if I gotta, if I gotta yeah, but I'm saying I would just bring a lot of stuff that I never needed.
Speaker 1:And so last year I mean I bring, like my north mountain gear leaf jacket. I literally have a tupperware box full of t-shirts, socks and boxers. Yeah, that's it. And I wear two pair of hunting pants just in case, and a lot of times I don't use a second pair of hunting pants.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and that's it I like a normal hoodie or sleeping pants yeah, if it gets cold, because I don't want to have to sleep in my sleeping bag, in my hunting clothes I don't either, because if in three nights it's and I've got to get down to my boxers and I last put boys and Ivy pants in there.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, su-mac and all kinds of stuff up in there. Yeah, it's going to be a rough week Right, and I'm with you on that.
Speaker 2:So that is the change of clothes I bring you know. Quote unquote.
Speaker 1:Normal clothes. I do that and I keep those in the back of my truck. Really, yeah, um does suck when it gets real hot, though, oof, but um, yep, that and that's really it. And I I bring like a mesh bag, like one of the football locker room bags. I've thrown my dirty clothes in there so it airs out and it's not just like stuck in something sealed.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Um, you can go, you can hit a couple.
Speaker 2:I know something you've taught me into carrying was a boot dryer.
Speaker 1:That was my next one. I knew that was it.
Speaker 2:You were looking at it earlier over there, but I've got one of those compact boot dryers. It's like just a little hot spot thing that plugs into a cigarette lighter or whatever. 110 volts or whatever it is. Those work in a pinch, you know, but I always really like to carry two to three sets of boots. Yes, well, you have two boots, well, I do have a driving pair of boots or tennis shoes or whatever your normal shoes.
Speaker 2:Crocs, you like Crocs, I like regular cowboy boots. And the reason of that is, if I do get in a bind and I rip my you know rubber boots or they're, you know, completely soaking wet and my hiking boots are completely soaking wet for some reason, um, I can hunt in my cowboy boots if I have to, you know, um, but that's also just comfort to me and, yeah, I like driving in cowboy boots. Yeah, I just prefer it.
Speaker 1:I used to until I lost mine, yeah.
Speaker 2:You still ain't found them. Nope, oh, okay, what is that? Six years?
Speaker 1:of breaking them. Benton Rails Six freaking years and I lose them.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I get a new pair of Benton Rails about once a year, or about every no. I've resold mine for four these are new. They still aren't right.
Speaker 1:they don't they don't make them like you used to, nope um.
Speaker 2:I like two pair of binoculars. I like a big pair in the truck and a pair in my hunting box. I used to do that.
Speaker 1:I haven't done that in a long time it's something I forget a lot.
Speaker 2:yep is my big pair of binoculars and we probably need to get us a spotting scope.
Speaker 1:honestly, I thought about it. I don't know if those could be $7,000. I don't know they could be $70,000.
Speaker 2:I think they've gotten better priced. I haven't looked in a while either, but I know they aren't astronomical Because my binoculars are very small. Yeah.
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Speaker 1:Yeah, I ain't trying Because you probably ain't looking over 200 yards. I'm not trying to get a spur length. I'm trying to see is that a turkey or not? And now I know.
Speaker 2:Yeah or a hog, you know, I need to know the difference.
Speaker 1:And what I do a lot of, and I think someone mentioned it the other day like what are you even looking at? I look at terrain more than I look for turkeys. I look and see what it looks like under there. You know where does it open up at? Yada yada. How tall is that grass? Is that grass wet? Can I tell if that grass is wet? Because that's going to change what I do here Like actively hunting stuff, stuff, not necessarily like scouting from a truck or something that was a conversation I think me and gresham had too.
Speaker 2:I kept pulling up my binoculars and he'd stop every time I would like you see one. I'm like, no, I'm just looking under that oak tree over there to see if it's open, or you know, whatever it is right, you know, but um, so that's, that's a big thing I like whenever we're in open terrain, yeah, or you know, riding around trying to find a good spot to start.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, and what I do do, and one last thing that I do before, because I might segue off what you just said, is I bring a food saver.
Speaker 2:That is a big one, yeah. Vacuum sealer. It don't take no space at all and they make them really compact.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it don't take no space at all and they make them really compact. Yeah, and it helps a lot if you're going to be, you know, really feeling cool with ice pretty often and stuff like that.
Speaker 2:They don't leak as much, it ain't going to have just a bunch of just nasty crap in there.
Speaker 1:You know, if you've got to put other stuff in there, a couple of rolls of dip in there, as they start tasting like six-day-old turkey, you're kind of like this might fix me, this might it never did.
Speaker 2:I remember I looked in there last year and you had your roll of dip vacuum-sealed in the cooler. I vacuum-sealed it Just to make sure nothing got on it.
Speaker 1:I'm like man, there's some funky stuff there. I mean, that's all you got to get out there. It's hard to find, yeah a lot of times I'm like no no, he's letting that happen again yeah, that is a big thing that I do.
Speaker 2:I make sure I grab a roll or two before I get on the road which I'm bad.
Speaker 1:Vacuum seal and stuff is kind of like that, that cleaning spray. If you put in a pump up sprayer like I, start off like just something needs to be bleached, pretty much. But then before you know it I'm like over at my neighbor's house doing a sidewalk and doing everything. You know, just like my whole top of my house is going to be bleached and I need a bleached trampoline. Actually, you know, you just start finding things. But that vacuum seal, I'm like what else can I vacuum seal?
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, you'll look up and Hunter will have, like a pen, out of his console vacuum seal, just because, just to make sure it don't rattle around no more.
Speaker 1:And yeah, I think I did my mouth calls one time yeah, um, yeah, I keep food saver business.
Speaker 1:I think I remember seeing that actually you're not joking um but um, but what you're talking about was um kind of truck looking and stuff and and what I do when I do travel is and what I might be doing literally which I'm. And what I do when I do travel is and what I might be doing literally which I'm. You know AD and stuff and I like turkey hunting, so I will literally be sitting here and go, hmm.
Speaker 1:I'd be here If two and two equal four. On this, we're gone and if it does, I'm gone. You know, text the wife today, I'm gone. You don't even ask where, but I would be in Missouri tomorrow. I don't know that yet, but I'll, like you know, take an app and zoom all the way out, put it on, like you know, plane mode, not hybrid or satellite, and, you know, have your layers where you can see.
Speaker 1:You know, public lands, what I'm looking for and and zoom out and whatever you can find, the dodging vine. If there's five of them, that's the five biggest probably in that little area. So, and that refines it down, and I'll try and that'll be my destinations, because a lot of times I have no idea. I don't even know north, south, east or west that I'm headed to yeah you know, if I can find something on the corner closest to me, cool, I don't have to keep driving.
Speaker 1:But sometimes I don't and we've also done that where we do have an idea and end up passing three good spots the last place I hunt is the place I'm headed towards, though usually because I find something on the way right, and that's what I do. I just head towards that area and in the meeting, in the, the gyms that I have found that are 30-acre blocks that have a turkey on it, you know, and, just so happen, hadn't been killed yet I found with my eyes. I didn't find. You know, I was driving down this road and went wait a minute, you know, yeah, that looked like a sign, and I'll go back and look, and there ain't no way you would have found that on a map, right, you know, if you weren't on that road.
Speaker 1:I have done it, though, but I mean very, very rarely. More times than not, it's just going somewhere else and then coming across and you never actually need to go to the place you're headed to, yeah, but but I mean I look for diversity a little bit, you know, especially in unfamiliar stuff. You know topo can kind of throw you off it'll, it'll look really ridgy and stuff like that. That's a good holly and stuff, but well, it's a field there's no trees.
Speaker 1:You know a hollow in a field, don't do you? No good right? Um, and the same goes the opposite. You know if it's real flat and everything, or there's a creek running by, and well, there's no trees on that creek. Don't really matter there, those exist and they don't down here, but other places they do, and and I'll try to find where it is. And in some places you go and it's too damn pretty, everything's too freaking good everything looks like the x you want to be on whole daggone places beautiful turkey woods with plenty of acorns and creeks parallel to each other the whole way across, and those are tough to hunt.
Speaker 2:They're just as hard yeah.
Speaker 1:I mean, I'd much rather that than that. But it's hard to pick a spot and go just because you're good.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's nice when you've got pockets of not so great to help you either crawl them around, those little pockets, or kind of know, you know probably not going to be there.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Don't waste a lot of time.
Speaker 1:So I look for the not a needle in a haystack, but kind of, you know, the one diamond in the rough. You know if I can be the one who actually sucks it up and gets there a lot of times. You know that turkey's still there, but you know if you can find a spot that's got hardwoods, especially if you've got a spot that has got hardwoods, especially if you got a spot, hardwoods, meat pines, and there's a creek with hardwoods around it. Going through pines, you're pretty good, you know, in the Southern part, but I think you trade the pines for ag at a lot of other places and the same principle applies, um, but I found them in some in some odd spots and I would rather not knock on doors. I have had to before um, because there are some places that just have just ample amount of public land and in some places, just like I'm like that's four hours the nearest one is four hours away that I can find yeah we'll go to a place and it's a bus and I I'm like well crap.
Speaker 2:Now I've got a four-day drive and I'm going to have to find another.
Speaker 1:I might as well just go to a state over, it's got just as much. See if they've got tags and if I'm seeing them left and right. What I have noticed is, if you're seeing a lot of turkeys in private land, yards and stuff, don't keep going towards that one big block you had. Don't keep going towards that one big block you had. You know, see if you can find a spot around there, right, because a lot of times it's kind of a main creek or a main river.
Speaker 1:You know something. They're just around and it goes through the whole, like if you drove the whole state and dropped pins and you just I mean grid drove it. There's a. You'll see a pattern. I mean where you see a lot of turkeys. It could be elevation. It could see a pattern. I mean where you see a lot of turkeys, it could be elevation. It could be literally anything.
Speaker 2:It could be redistribution stuff, and that's that's a big thing that I, you know, I like to to use is look for where you're finding turkeys.
Speaker 1:If you're seeing turkeys on the side of the road, pay attention to what they're in yes is what you're trying to say with that kind of I'm talking more turkeys being their period, but okay, what you're talking about is more micro level of that is so they're. They're in the dirt right now. If it's planting right season or something like that. You know, look for dirt yeah, um things of that nature yes don't look for. Okay, I don't know how crops work at the time.
Speaker 2:We don't have them down here, so I don't need that. Not to that extent.
Speaker 1:Right, I'm like well, they're going to cut cornfields, probably corn everywhere. It might not be corn everywhere this time of year, I don't know. Probably not. Probably was cut in October. Yeah, I don't know how that works. I don't do that. I mean, if I see him in front yards all the time what do you do there? Well, you start knocking on doors. I'll knock on a door, but I still.
Speaker 2:I don't love it either.
Speaker 1:I don't either. I like if I can find a definite. I try to find the uh, the guy. Yeah, if I start seeing the same. You know, joe Blow owns all this I can get ahold of Joe Blow and then me and.
Speaker 1:Walker Davison did it one time. He went and pulled him off the tractor. I'm like that's kind of everybody's got that one guy who owns half the town, yeah, and stuff, and you could tell this was that guy Like, look at the house, mm-hmm. Look at the equipment, look at every, like every property owner tab. You see, is it like a last name of his? You're like, yeah, he's the guy. Yeah, probably probably, probably gonna get proposed to you. You know kind of, yeah, he's probably been asked a lot and now he, you know a lot of people don't don't just ask him for stuff like that, you know, but he sort of I think it was so, walker, get out of his daggum tractor but, he was like yes, y'all can hunt it, let me keep playing yes, and um walker's, like we got
Speaker 1:it, you know, when we'd already seen two on the one field over, went back next year, didn't? Um, I saw him, he wasn't on track. Another he had to kind of like do the whole drive by a couple times and like I'm like I know that's his truck. He had it last year and I saw a guy work for him as well as that. I can't remember his name, but that's the one that was trucking. He was like yes, he is, is he in there? Or, you know, is he in the shop or whatever. I was like yeah, he's doing something, he's fixing something. I went no.
Speaker 1:I was like nope, not going to ask him why he's fixing something. Drove off and came back and literally caught him as he was coming out of okay. Oh well, anyway, you know, I was just wondering if officer still stood. You said we got 100 days, like no, not this year.
Speaker 2:Yes, sir, you know kind of like well, yeah, don't pester, nobody that says no at all yeah, I ain't gonna run that.
Speaker 1:We've had a couple wild, yeah, I mean I just just, uh, you know you can read the room and tell how this is gonna go before they even open the door.
Speaker 2:You're like they're gonna if they open the door before you make it to it. Yeah, don't even keep walking, just pretty much.
Speaker 1:Yeah, back around hey man, you gas tank was open. I just had to shut it for you. Let you know that. Yeah, I thought I was gonna ask if I can hunt these turkeys, if okay, no, all right yeah, we have one dude sling that door open like two years ago. Yeah, like no you can't on our turkeys, yada, yada.
Speaker 2:You're the fifth person who's ass has a little bit of strutter like I'm looking at 45 yards from his back corner of his house and it's like you want to. You want to solve this problem.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah and you ain't gonna be no more if you let us on it yeah, we can solve this right now, and you won't have nobody knocking on your door, but when them tires up or sign or something, something. But um and and there are some states who have seasonal lands available to the public, like yes, you got to look into some details, so some of them aren't always open, or something they're always deer only or something like that and I've done this and I'm telling you this right now.
Speaker 1:I do it and I'm gonna get mad next time I do it and I'm gonna do it probably another time. This year. Me and gary did in california a jam up spot. You get there and there's eight old ladies in some spandex, riding bikes and stuff. You're like, oh, this is one of them. You know I did that, I went and I part one night I was way up north and I pulled in about three o'clock and they got daylight like five.
Speaker 1:So I'm at an hour, maybe right and um, pretty much enough to change my clothes and, just, you know, shut my eyes and the driver's side, pull in this little this is one of those square parking areas, whatever off of a blacktop. And then I was like, well, I got my flashlight out, went, found this little pig trail, walked up. You know I don't know where it went to, but I was like, well, I'll get on that in the morning. That's all I got. That wasn't where I plan on hunting. Plan on hunting about two hours east or west of there or something another but you were gonna wake up.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm gonna wake up and try to hunt there nothing else you know. And, um, I woke up and went to go down. It went down at just a hair and got.
Speaker 1:I was like this ain't something right it just yeah, I mean it was too clean of a trail, I ain't, and this first time it's ever happened. And I go back to truck and went somewhere else. I don't know what happened, but rode back by there and just kind of coincidentally, there was, I promise you, 45 trucks in there and they were all minivans and stuff. And I'm like, oh, this ain't a, I mean you could hunt it.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:But I wouldn't, you know, I mean you're just going to be. I mean it's just people pouring out of there, pouring back in that one little literally that same little pig trail.
Speaker 2:They're like hikers or something up there not 17 dogs on leashes running around that park.
Speaker 1:I'm like dude, I dodged a daggone bullet. Imagine walking out of there. I mean, you ain't gonna have a turkey probably, but walking out there with a gun and you're like whoo, you know then I got to really like I hope that was even hauntable. You know what I said?
Speaker 2:it was yeah, yeah, but we got in a situation like that a year or two ago, me and you. Yeah, I mean Slept on the spot and it was like we didn't run into a lot of people but like you could tell About? Halfway.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we pulled in at midnight or so and then Should have been a turkey in there the woods, but it wasn't, yeah, and I was like what the heck? And then and then clean. This is one of those nature and this is just a tuesday that we happen to be in here, you know so keep in mind that and that there is rules of thumbs.
Speaker 1:I don't know them so I don't want to tell you especially, and nothing we're saying is actual law, legal advice or whatever. I might be wrong in some states, but some states, the state land, state areas. You can't hunt federal, you can and it's one of the others they're usually a different shade on the maps.
Speaker 1:Um, if it has recreational on it, I try to stay away because that's when it gets into the, the, the fine prints of some you can I mean some you can yeah, it's just got to be the right ones, or it's got to be x amount of feet away from this or that or something. I don't know. But not much value coming out of me telling you I don't know, but I'm saying look at it yeah, make sure to read, read up on everything.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because I really I have had have had a gun on my shoulder, 100 yards from the truck and going who?
Speaker 2:I better turn.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm like I see the, the last, literally paragraphs. I'm double checking everything or checking in or something. I'm like, huh, yeah, you can, but you can't today kind of hunt. Yeah, I'm going back and and wind up looking into it more and it's, you know, dodge a bullet there. Yeah, I'd have been in a bind had I. But yeah, I mean, familiarize yourself and and I don't just sit there and study them, just I don't not saying waste of time, but like I might not hunt there, so I don't, I don't know it exists, much less them. I'm not saying waste of time, but I might not hunt there, so I don't know it exists much less. But before I get out of the truck now, I try to make sure, just to A keep your butt out of trouble. B A keep people safe, because I mean, imagine me not knowing that was going on even if it was legal to hunt around there.
Speaker 1:There's probably people everywhere, you, you know, had I not even known to expect that? And and there is a turkey, or I mean you're taking a snake or something I'd shoot up in there, and not knowing you know someone could have been on the other side. So even regardless of look out, he's not doing that. No more not hunting in one of them areas until I know for sure, right because they, I'm going in and they're not hunting, they're yeah they.
Speaker 2:They expect other cars to be at the gate Right, so they're going to walk in on you.
Speaker 1:That's another big, thing, oh yeah.
Speaker 2:They don't know you're hunting and may not know at all safety precautions of any kind.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean it's kind of like I mean, do you keep kids away from guns? You teach kids how to handle guns? Exactly, you know these folks, folks I'm not saying anything gives them a like they don't know anything about them they don't know what to. You know, don't wear all black with a red hat in there. You know, I'm not saying I accidentally shot them. I'm gonna make sure they come turkey for it and I've passed up a lot of real turkeys, just in case.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because of that I can't, because I mean that's not worth it in my book and I need to see a swinging beer and I need to almost see the turkey blink before I shoot. Just, I've heard too many horror stories, right, um, and I've never had it happen, but I've, I've, I've wondered before, I'm like and I never see it again or anything I'm like could have been somebody you know, with a decoy or something.
Speaker 1:I mean, that was a turkey head I just saw, but it didn't sound anything like a turkey and it didn't do anything like a turkey would do. I didn't know about it being there, but you know, I mean, if you're agreeing to it, I mean Like you in Tennessee last year.
Speaker 2:I mean if you're green to it, I mean I like you in Tennessee last year.
Speaker 1:I mean, there was no decoys or nothing, it was my body.
Speaker 2:The guy was just pointing a gun at you.
Speaker 1:It was my body With my mask off. I took my mask off and he pulled it back up.
Speaker 2:I'm like what.
Speaker 1:That meant I'm definitely not drinking. Now I'm standing on two feet with my mask up and I was calling to be a hen yeah you know you can't shoot those, these dudes, 45 yards, two of them yeah, that's wild yeah, that's pretty crazy yeah, don't be that guy first time ever 45 years old no, 65 years old and his son, both of them first time ever hunting geez uh well, lo and behold, seals and mason were hunting a different block.
Speaker 1:They parked it and had walked from there, and this was one o'clock pm really. They they passed them like walked up on them, you know, pissed them off, seals and mason off. That morning I described me like yeah, that's the guys that really threw. Yeah, we're sitting there. I don't know if they're on target or whatever, they just like walk right by us. We're like good morning fellas, and kept walking. You know, brother, we ain't brim fishing.
Speaker 1:You know you get hurt if you do stuff like that, Right yeah. Moral of that story is keep in mind, just because you ain't drinking and driving don't mean you don't know have to look four ways across an intersection. Somebody else can be drinking and driving. Somebody else might not know what they're doing Exactly.
Speaker 2:Yeah, especially going public and stuff.
Speaker 1:Next time, first time I see a human, I'm taking my mask off, standing up, not waiting until they raise the gun at me. Right, you know, I thought it was pretty obvious I wasn't a turkey, but to them it wasn't so obvious. So keep that in mind definitely.
Speaker 2:Yeah, another thing I like to make sure to have in the truck, tool-wise, is a jump pack of some sort. They're like $50. And normally I like them for charging my phone or camera or something. Most people that are going to be gone for a while are going to have some form of charging If you're sleeping in your truck and stuff not getting a hotel. Some charging device for your electronics a good idea.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I like to have the one with the jumper cable option that was a good idea or a drill battery I've jumped up off trucks drill batteries which y'all can youtube. That one, yeah, if you have to. But, um, I keep a set of cables under my seat and normally I'll have one of those jump packs somewhere in the trunk Right Probably want to get one of them, just because if you do accidentally leave your cab lights on or your you know whatever.
Speaker 1:I've never had one die. I've never had a. I mean I have, but I've always I've had it happen like on private land If my truck's off. Usually I mean the worst case scenario. If it's off, my truck's off, it's out of gate and I can go hunt. I guess it would suck if I had already shot a turkey and couldn't leave.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's the thing that sucks.
Speaker 1:I must have had some truck trouble before and killed a turkey because of that truck trouble. So I kind of welcome it sometimes. But yeah, my camper shell shell for those who are wondering okay, there's a wreck right now. We tried to insulate it a bunch of the what is it reflectix? Or whatever it's called, the bubble wrap that's silver yeah, I saw a youtube video.
Speaker 1:Some guy in saskatchewan did that, so I thought it'd be a good idea it's not been going so far rounds with that and the 3m adhesive tape we've been using, or the spray, or whatever the heat and humidity of mississippi isn't is not it's different than alberta, yeah apparently, apparently he's falling and stuff, so I was gonna carpet it for the condensation aspect.
Speaker 2:Probably not getting around to that before we leave well, I might want to fix the leaks first, probably ain't gonna have time to do that either. Yeah.
Speaker 1:But be winging it big time in that department. But I keep, I don't know how. I'm sure I've mentioned it on the podcast, but what I sleep on is a tri-fold mattress Folds like a tri-fold wallet kind of, so it's like a queen. If you lay it out long ways but you roll it up horizontally it's about five and a half feet or whatever you can manage on five and a half feet, six foot, six point ish. So you can and I can do all right on that and a lot of truck beds, that's what they are.
Speaker 1:So it'll fit into that and but I think it's a four inch mattress but it makes 12 inch mattress times three when you fold it up. Trifold wise oh, okay, um I did just get one amazon, one of them Bed frame looking things yeah to slide them a little, got a Ranch Hand. Ranch Hand, what is it called, I don't know. Ranch Road.
Speaker 2:Ranch Road, yeah. I got a Ranch Hand in the back of my truck. Ranch Hand's a bumper. Yeah, I was sitting there thinking I'm like I'm picturing.
Speaker 1:That ain't right like that's the actual thing yeah, um no ranch road, I think is the name of the company travel tote.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's a big square.
Speaker 1:I had to take the daggone, rubber things on the box. Seals busted his mouth had blood coming out of it, putting his in his truck they sent us to last year or something we're able to use them and he he texted me and warned me about it. He's like he put up a story of the picture or whatever. He was like dude, I'm telling you when you put this in your truck.
Speaker 2:It's going to rock you because it ain't going to budge.
Speaker 1:They got that figured out. You're used to sliding something in there, you know.
Speaker 2:It's the grippies on the bottom.
Speaker 1:Yes, he told me about it and I had it in the back of my mind. I'm like I'll still, you know, put it on one corner and slide it, brother. I'm like, boom, yeah, I threw it up in there. Of course I made it really heavy because you throw everything in there. Now, everything that was in my truck is now like I have a whole toolbox worth in that thing and I went to whoo, you know, like a hay bale, like my knees under it and threw it.
Speaker 1:I can see how he busted his lip now.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Took all them off, though, so it could slide under that bed frame, and I keep every I mean my whole. I keep very organized junk drawers. That's why we made them travel bags. Yes, that's my turkey hunting stuff is in that one, and then my truck stuff is in the other one. It's got anything from frog dogs to permethrin to that food saver and stuff.
Speaker 2:Ziplocs Snacks.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean, those are usually in a little backpack I got.
Speaker 2:But then you got one for hunting that we jokingly called your bag of tricks.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that was just everything from the spare shells and strikers and scratch box calls and aluminum pot calls and stuff that got really loud and stuff that would be for if it rained. I can grab these two calls and we'll be all right.
Speaker 2:And you always know if we've had a rough day or two, because you'll look a little back while you're putting your boots on and hunter, I'll be over there digging in that bag just looking for a prayer. I'm like jesus do I have anything?
Speaker 1:from 2007 in here that worked One time.
Speaker 1:Yeah, oh wait, but rubber bands and stuff. I keep a lot of rubber bands and zip ties and all that stuff in there. And yeah, I got a piece of plywood that goes where my toolbox would sit, that I set everything on top of my feet go under there. So all my boots and my vest and everything is on that piece of plywood. And then to the left side of my bed. If I'm looking at right is the actual of my truck bed, is the sleeping on bed and then the the right side is where I got a little soft, very small quart arctic brand cooler, soft top looking thing that'll fit turkey breast and some mice and that's it.
Speaker 1:that's all I use it for I don't, I don't like cold water, and um, that's it. And then I got a little. You know I have a little small tub thing. What are the plain old box. This is my, my truck emergency stuff. It's got the jumper cables, it's got tire plugging kits.
Speaker 1:Um, got the little air compressor deal in there a couple. If you're in a bind you're gonna need whatever's in there, but that don't leave my truck at 365 days a year, you know. So I know if I'm unpacking and going in between and stuff, it's, you know what I'm what I might need in a real pinch a rope, a toe strap chain thing or something. I'll always have those. But yeah, so that's some of the necessities, and then I can't think of anything else I keep in tow. Really.
Speaker 2:And I really don't.
Speaker 1:I've built out my truck a time or two, but I don't. Best thing to do is throw it in there. Throw it in there. I figured that out. Stop trying to make it too Cool. Yeah, best thing to do is throw it in there. Throw it, I figured that out. And stop trying to make it too cool too.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, I mean, you try to make it a three level, three tier process, right, you know this can go on top and I can sleep in the middle and it goes under, you know don't over complicate it the more I try to go back and do something like that, the more I'm like dude, throw that mattress in there, throw that big junk drawer in there because that's what it's gonna look like after after day one. So roll with it after that, and less is more big time. So I don't pack snacks and stuff anymore and stuff to eat as much as I used to.
Speaker 2:If we're traveling together, I do because you don't stop for food Right, but other than, like, I keep a backpack full of stuff when I leave the house.
Speaker 1:If I'm going with you just because I know how you get we'll stop at a gas station vending machine, you know, and there's not.
Speaker 2:Keep us for three days, there's never one yeah but another thing me and you've done and I've saved our tail on that is some of those nights we're getting back to where we're going to sleep at 10, 10, 11 pm and everything closed it at eight, right, and we didn't realize that, because we're not used sleep at 10, 10, 11 PM and everything closed at eight Right, and we didn't realize that cause we're not used to that town, or you know.
Speaker 1:whatever it may be, so I don't sit that late here.
Speaker 2:Yeah Is those little uh quick heat up meals whatever with that bowl of water, Right, and I I like to take that with us if we're yeah that.
Speaker 1:Take that with us if we're yeah, that's a good idea.
Speaker 2:We're both a little bitty propane heater in one pot, you know, just to heat up a bottle of water yeah mix into one of those little quick hydration meals, mre things or whatever they're all come in handy just to get us out of a bind, you know you ain't never in a bind.
Speaker 1:You got a half a gallon peanut butter in your truck. Got every vitamin you need. I'll live and die by that. He will. You can survive off of it. It's got everything in it, yeah.
Speaker 2:I'm so tired, everybody jokes about peanut butter.
Speaker 1:I will never have a caloric deficit as long as I got tubs of peanut butter.
Speaker 2:I like Uncrustables as my travel. If I can pack for only a few days, only two or three days, uncrustables are the way I go. That's deer hunting, turkey hunting, rabbit hunting, I don't care, I'm going to have some uncrustables in my pocket, yeah. But I mean, yeah, you can get far on a loaf of bread. Oh yeah, pack a sandwich meat for $3.
Speaker 1:I mean that's all you really need, yep. Anyway, we're rolling up on an hour. I'm sure there's more stuff that I can't think of, but that's our rambling for the week, guys. I don't know of anything else. I'm kind of getting a little antsy here because it's now 1030-ish 1130 at night and this thing has to come out and I've got to get the truck finally packed because if I don't leave tonight, I'm leaving in the next 24 hours and I'm headed, I would say, north to some extent. I've had to guess, but I hope y'all are getting after them.
Speaker 1:It seems like turkeys are acting like turkeys in a lot of places and stuff, which makes you feel good. I love seeing it, and it means that we're in the hard spring. We're over halfway done, which is saddening, but there's turkeys halfway done, which is saddening, but there's there's turkeys behind it, which is encouraging. So, looking forward to it, this is when I really put the ears back and and soak it in for all it's worth. So, anyways, we're going to see you next week and maybe we might have a story to tell you. Thanks again for listening to the Sprint Leisure Podcast For a pursuit in which 99% doesn't always cut it. We've rested our liability in Apex's ammunition since they began making turkey loads in 2017. Their iconic TSS turkey shells are able to pack more shot into traditional payloads, resulting in more pellet scent, more consistent patterns and an increased pattern density. So, in other words, apex makes sure that the conclusion to those long-fought battles of spring are instant, absolute and ethical.
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