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
A Special Turkey Hunt | Navigating Crowded Public Land Gobblers
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This week, the conversation turns personal, as Hunter shares why one particular spring morning matters a little more to his family, hunting on his late son, William's, birthday for the first time, and how grief can resurface years later. Most importantly, how his faith in God and the spring woods can pull you toward gratitude for God's blessings, even during the loss of a loved one.
From there, we get practical about public land turkey hunting. We cover how we handle crowded pull-offs, why we avoid crowding another hunter even when a gobbler is close, and the small habits that keep you from blowing up someone else’s setup. We also dig into early season turkey calling tactics that match real conditions: softer yelps, fewer notes, longer pauses, and using hens and terrain to help a gobbler commit instead of hanging up.
That leads into a wild play-by-play hunt with a fired-up hen, a longbeard closing hard, and a chaotic Jake almost crashing the party at the last second.
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Welcome Back To Spring 2026
SPEAKER_01All right, what's happening, everybody? Welcome to the Spring Legion Podcast. I'm your host, Hunter Farrier, joining you with the other host, Chase Farrier, again today. And this will be our first episode of actual spring 2026. Spring for us started a little while back. Um I mean the anticipations of spring started as early as I'd say at least January, if not June of 2025, whenever we started packing everything up. We've been looking forward to it. But um yeah, the calendar at least says spring now, so that's pretty cool. And uh it feels a lot like spring around here. Oh yeah. It's uh it's been a a banner week or two so far, and um weather-wise, so to speak, and and we got a uh seven-day recap pretty much of of the turkey woods that we've been in them and amongst them a little bit, and going to go over some of the stuff that that went down, so to speak, and I hope y'all hang around to listen to it. Um gonna knock a few quick updates out of the way real quick before we dive into to too much, but because because we have stuff coming in left and right, and I kind of forget to to mention any of that. I know a lot of folks hear about it on this podcast, and I'm not the best at social medias and whatnot, but we did get um some full foliage hats in not too long ago. Forgot to tell anybody about that. We got them in some more green leaf, structured and unstructured mesh back hats. Uh six new vintage bottom land tees. So six total, I guess. I guess one or two of them we've had the designs for, but went ahead and just got a whole lot of them with some of our most popular casual shirt designs put on them just like they would a regular casual t-shirt, as well as the the using the toddler camo tees and stuff like that, and the same stuff we always have. And then uh a lot of hats restocked and Chase's plaques, the the turkey pan plaques, folks are starting to buy those now that folks are starting to uh need them. Yeah, you know, um those and and some call pouches and a couple discount sales going on. We got I mean, there's a lot of stuff happening. We got to buy one, get one free gators, all the turkey gators. Uh I guess that's still running. You know, I ain't never hit pause on it. So as long as it's still running, y'all take advantage of it. A lot of folks have thus far, and then the free shipping over 100 bucks. And got a new one though, is uh code spring26. So if you buy a vest between now and April 1st, you're gonna get a free pair of gloves and a free face mask. Both.
SPEAKER_00Nice.
SPEAKER_01So you gotta add code 26 at checkout, and then you also gotta add the mask and gloves to the cart. So those ain't just tossed in there because you gotta pick your green leaf or bottom land, and I guess technically you can mix and match them or get a youth-size gloves and youth size mask or what have you there. But it's up for grabs for those who do want to to grab that. As of now, that's supposed to end April 1st. So if you want a vest, you've been thinking about getting a vest, might as well get some free mask and gloves. We got a lot of folks that have put the good the vest to good use so far, got a lot of good feedback on it, and um we've been able to break ours in handedly over the as much as you can break one in, I guess, in a matter of days. But what was uh what's your your first analysis of the first week of spring so so far?
SPEAKER_00Hmm. Um real good weather. Um Turkeys I've been hunting been a little odd, but yeah, I think that's just because I've picked an odd group and I'm doing exactly what I talked about not doing all off season and I'm sticking with them. Yeah, I'm taking it personal at this point and I'm gonna probably waste a few more mornings with them, if you know what I mean. Once you uh once you reach that threshold, it's it's personal. It yeah. And I'm I feel like I'm getting I've got about seven pieces of a hundred-piece puzzle right now. But I feel like I'm on the upper hand now, you know. But it's more than six. It's more than I had yesterday. Yep. And um Yeah, I've yet to pull the trigger. Um I did see my first turkey today and uh That ain't bad. I watched him fly down and still couldn't kill him. That's all right. Yeah, they're starting to get with hens, I think, um, which is good to see. You know, that that's they're hitting that that thing, that that mark of of time. They're starting to get hinned up. And when I worked this morning, he uh he gobbled a lot and gobbled until I couldn't hear him no more and still gobbling probably now, trying to keep keep up with me. Um so that's that's a good sign. Now yesterday was very weird. I don't know. I heard that from uh uh quite a few people. Very little gobbling. Songbirds and stuff were doing normal, but multiple people that I knew that had multiple birds on their place and whatnot only heard one or two gobbles in the morning and nothing. It's been kind of foggy.
SPEAKER_01It was a little foggy not muggy, but almost because it's a pretty day, but that gobbling time hadn't been the chippiest, so to speak. You know what I mean? So that that was a weird day yesterday. And like you said, they get in my hand, so right.
SPEAKER_00And there was a day or two last week that was like that. You know, I didn't hunt every day, but um I think I've hunted four times since we last talked, so they they get in they get in them hand up grooves, and it's it gets rough.
Early Season Birds Acting Strange
SPEAKER_01Is every man from a bad time to have a personal one? Yes. Um you know, they just they get like that, but um I I've gotten in the woods a little bit between work and birthdays and stuff like that, with family and everything. And um Yeah, I hadn't heard I hadn't talked to you hardly at all. Yeah, um, how's your last week been? It's it's been busy, but um got got to spend some time in Turkey Woods and um like I said, a lot of time with family and whatnot, and uh got a got a hunt to to talk about at least. Um that's you know a little bit more unorthodox to what we're used to. The stories y'all probably used to hearing and stuff. Um But it's a special hunt and it's um it's one I ain't gonna try to get on no soapbox or get to preaching on nobody, but I feel like it's um it's a hunt, a story worth telling at least. Right. That um this past week is always a an odd week, you know, for our family because um it's just a bunch of stuff going on. It's in the heart of spring, and there's only this it's a very finite period of spring where it where it's like this, where it's just becoming spring. It's it's not fully developed spring. All the leaves are are are tender and and light green still, and you can still see a good ways and turkey gobbles echo a whole lot, and you know, it's it's turkey season, and it's it's usually you only get this right in the the beginning part when when your anticipation is so high and everything. And so I try to get in the woods as much as I can, you know, this this week or I'd say about 10 days is uh is about all you got. Then it then it's mid-season, and then mid-season rolls the late season, and it's it's dense foliage and it's it's it's kind of the same from there on out.
SPEAKER_00You know, that's muffled gobbles and all that.
SPEAKER_01Right, yeah, which is fine. I love turkey hunting, but but but that's kind of that lasts a little longer. So it's the preciousness in the in the first few days that it's crazy how fast it happens. Right. Um but that like I said, this this week's an odd one for our family because those who have been following the podcast for a while know that a couple years ago, or I guess four years ago now, my wife and I, we uh we had a set of twins and uh William and Eva and we lost William about six days after they were born, and uh Chase and Seals kind of toted the reins there on the podcast for a few weeks until we got some stuff sorted out and everything, and kind of got our feet back under us and everything. But it was, you know, it was a it was a time of of grief and stuff like that. And you know, I tell you now that four years later that grief ain't got no textbook is is no sooner and you think you're over something you ain't, and then certain things remind you of it, and certain things you you say you're not gonna do anymore and do more of and and whatnot, but but uh Eva, who is uh she turned four on the 19th, and then William would have turned four on the 20th. So they have born five minutes apart, two different birthdays. Um, which is crazy in itself, but kind of in the grand scheme of things, you start wondering why God does things the way he does, and sometimes they make a little more sense the more you kind of reflect back on it. But I'd always kind of thought, or at least said to myself, I wouldn't hunt on the 20th, because you know, I I don't really hunt on the 19th because I'm doing birthday stuff and cake and you know, telling Eva happy birthday and everything, and she is, you know, my pride and joy. And um it it wouldn't have felt right to go on the 20th if if William were here, I I wouldn't be hunting. So um, so I hadn't for the past three years and this this year I kind of somewhere in the midst of of celebrating Eva's birthday, I kinda got to think, I said, you know what, I might might change something, I might might try to go tomorrow. It's gonna be a a a nice morning.
SPEAKER_02Right.
Grief And Choosing To Hunt
SPEAKER_01Um, you know, waking up and staring at an empty dining room with no cake or candles or anyone to sing happy birthday with hadn't really done too much, you know, and I kind of realized that I'd been focusing on the the absence a lot more than the presence of the the blessings that God has given me and and Eva and my family and and all the things that I do have. And uh wasn't wasn't wasn't seeing that as clearly as I felt like I should have, and uh kind of just didn't really uh mean to. Said I'm gonna we'll stop worrying about what what was not here right now and and and just appreciate what we do have. And um I don't I don't think there's anywhere better to to um find his presence than in the turkey woods. And and I felt like it was kind of leading me there to uh to soak in some of the the blessings that God's given us. You know, and that's one of the things I like most. Um is being out there and then I think spring is a phenomenon in itself. I don't think it's just turkey hunt. I think the being out in the woods and and the liveliness of the woods and hearing it come alive, you know, it's it speaks for itself there and um just just uh decided to shift my focus and and and and it's funny, you know, mentioning that they have different birthdays, so it's kind of in divine works, so to speak, at least I like to think it is that you know there was purpose probably in this planning of God's that uh there is no joy stolen from Eva on her birthday, and then there is a day kind of designated for the for for William in that in that sense, you know. So until we we had a second child where, you know, I mean I I was I couldn't look at empty seats and stuff like that. If Eva was sitting by herself, I I didn't I didn't make sure I was always there to go sit by her or anything 'cause there's always that fear of her not having somebody when she would have otherwise and stuff like that. But but but it but it but it kind of gave you a day to to be happy and to be sad and then this this year I decided to be happy on both. Instead of just being being uh kept to myself and and not talking to nobody and stuff like that and and really just using it to to shine a little light on everything you still got. I mean I know the folks I'm I'm close friends with who aren't able to have any kids. Yeah. You know, and and and there's a lot bigger problems in the world and I know that this is a a big deal, but at the same time, like I'm I can't look at look at my daughter and and and watch, you know, her have a great day and think I'm not blessed, you know. Think think I I was robbed or or or stripped of something. Um I have I have more than enough. My cup is over full, honestly, I think. And and I hadn't done a good job of really saying that. But um but nonetheless, felt like I needed to um shine a little light on that and and get in the voice and see what happened and and I think everything happens for a reason. So just wanted to use that and and if there is a purpose in and amidst all of this, if there's I mean heck if if all this happened for two or three turkey hunters listening to his dad's podcast four years later to hear that God is still good and and I'll be the first to vouch for that. Um then th there there's at least a little bit of a little bit of drive, so to speak, to to do that a little more and um makes the purpose feel a little a little better. Right. Um so just wanted to do my part if that were the case and and and make sure that um I got it out there that um that if that was a a small piece of the purpose, at least it it wouldn't be my fault it didn't get told, you know. Right. Um so I just wanted to tell you that before we got into the story of the hunt because it was a good one. Um it was uh it was like I said, it was it was one of those mornings where you ain't in the woods to hunt a turkey. You're just in the woods because you you need to be and and you you're not really even thinking about it. Uh I got like I got there early, I thought. Um not not early enough. Went down a familiar road and I was I was in contact with you, wasn't I?
SPEAKER_00I was telling you Yeah, we were talking about something.
SPEAKER_01I was I was telling you, there's a truck here and there's a truck here, and well, there's a truck here too. Yeah. Maybe they ain't made it. Yep, oh yeah, there's one here. And um pretty much got to the end and and pulled up this older guy. He was still at his truck, and they might have been gobbling, I doubt it. Um I don't know, might have been 6 15 maybe. Right.
SPEAKER_00Um getting close to the table. Which ain't that early, honestly. Right.
SPEAKER_01You know, it ain't like I was there at five o'clock and they were all there. Um but he was still outside the truck, smoking cigarette and pulled up and it's kind of like you were talking about last week. I rolled my window down and he kind of like flicked a cigarette and walked over to the truck. I'm like, oh gosh. I'm just gonna trying to be nice here. Yeah. Um I asked him, I was like, Is it a creek up down there? And he kind of was like, all right, so you you're not some out of state or you know, about to say, hey, can I hop hop over here or something like that? I didn't want to pull down there if he's gonna if it is, there ain't no use in me going. You know, I don't want to wasting your time and I'm just gonna get in the way of his hunt at that point, you know. Right. I I'm just gonna turn around now and instead of having to, you know, come by him twice. Or just make a you know a big loop down there in the you know, I don't know. There might have been a turkey down there he knew about. I I didn't roost one. Um and and it the road went on a good ways after that. I just didn't want to I could I could have easily hunted several other places. I just didn't want to get down there and find out I can't get to them and then have to you know make a commotion. But um, but he said yes, down, but he said there is a a tree up there that there's down. I was like, well, and he I think he knew like I might have known which one he was talking about, so he was like, all right, we're you do hunt, you hunt here as much as I do. So you know, he was kind of like informative of it and everything. I was like, yeah, all right, I'm just gonna head back then. I don't I don't want to screw nothing up on you. Um so I did, but I stopped. There were several gaps where I could have hunted.
SPEAKER_02Right.
SPEAKER_01And and I look I just listened to him gobble. Like I said, I was I was there to just kind of breathe for a second and and see what happens and heard several. I mean, I don't think it was two, two, yeah, two several for us. Right, yeah. Two gobbling. Um one of them goblin good, the one he was on, so that's why why he was holding his ground pretty good there in the middle of the road. But um could have he was on one side of it, I could have went in there and got on the you know, the right side of that creek and and just banked on him. If he went left, he got him and went right, I'd have him, but I ain't I don't like doing that necessarily. I like when I'm at when I'm at the end of the road, I want to that's my end, you know, that's this is my section, and I try to treat everybody else that way, and and I could hear some more down in there, and there's they're the ones Chase likes to get on, so I wasn't like, well, I ain't gonna go in there either. But I'll listen to them, see what happens um from the from the the roads kind of on a ridge and heard them, heard them gobble, pretty kind of stayed till fly down, and then just kind of just got back in the truck and pedaled on to spot B and spot C. And spot B had a truck on it and uh wound up at spot C that um that I was about equally familiar with, honestly. It wasn't like a preference, it was more of a just just picking one over the other with no no real reason. Um I figured this road would have been a little more crowded, but I didn't think it was gonna be one at every deck um spot. Yeah. And it ain't a long road for four trucks to be on, much less five. Right. Um and I and when when I go hunting, I like to have the I hunt the the area that I feel the most freedom, not just on this hunt, but I'm saying regardless, I I would much rather hunt the possibility of a gobbler being somewhere where I can get to it rather than there's turkeys in here, but everybody knows about them. You know, um I ain't trying to walk up on nobody or have get walked up on and and and all that good stuff. But and also I mean it was about a 20-minute drive. I mean, it was good. I didn't I didn't get there until about eight o'clock.
SPEAKER_02Really?
Crowded Roads And Public Land Respect
SPEAKER_01Mm-hmm. And I got there and wasn't nobody there. And I usually a lot of times in that situation, what I'll do if I know I'm I'm gonna be the last one to pull in. I ain't I ain't got got even a shot to lamb or anything. Or I'm just saying to be the guy who gets to hunt this area. Um I'll try to just stay in my truck. I think it's the less of the least amount of disturbance, just stay in your truck and I'll go until I would say kind of is my my listening distance, and then I'll I'll walk backwards. I know nobody's behind me at that point, you know what I mean? And and then kind of go from there just to kind of make sure ain't nobody up here. Because I've done that a lot of times. I parked her one and deck and just barreled off in there and didn't have no idea that right around the bin was a truck and I didn't know about it, and then I get in there and I hear him open up. I'm like, dang it, where I guess I didn't really look. I just I just jetted off the side of the road towards a gobbler I heard um that he had been on for 30 minutes by now. Um so I tried not to do that and got there and I lo Maholder didn't I print the send the labels to get printed, so I had to get the hot hot spot going and stuff. I ain't on nothing, so I'm just like, you know, might as well do that. And I just had to send the labels in so orders could start getting packed that day and everything. And real behind, but you didn't never know on it. Like like I said, I'm I'm just I'm just there. Right um Ain't got no time limit, ain't got nothing. Um check it in with the wife every now and then, make sure everything's good and um get down in there and and and with nobody at the end. So barreled off in there and start a calling, yeah, 300 yards in maybe. As long as it's kind of a boundary road or something. I don't wouldn't call it a fire lane necessarily or anything, but it's on the boundary like a fire lane would be maybe. Yeah. Um goes down into a bottom, comes up on a small ridge, comes into another bottom. And I know there's been turkeys in there before, and and this is also a an ironic kind of uh attribute to the story was this this this would be the area that I didn't shoot one last year that hung me up all yeah. Um I have one in about 30 yards, and I think it was it was an opening day or day after opening day, maybe, and I I could have shot him, but I I that that's when I got on that rant about wanting them to do a little more and and just having so much respect for the turkey, like man, they give you one shot, you don't you don't ask for two, dude. Right you know, um and I was kind of like what do you what do you think? You think he's gonna like walk more into the open to stick his head up? I had a I had an opportunity, and then you're then immediately, man, please go back to where you were that minute ago. They don't go back to where they were if they're in a vulnerable spot like that. And so I didn't kill that one. Um kind of makes you wonder why now, looking back. I wonder if that was the one I shot, you know, on this day, would it which was a special hunt. Right. Um, was there more to the plan that I was so caught up on why, you know, why would he not you know take one more step, one more step, one more step? I was just so mad at that. I don't know. I've heard about that that story several times. I'm telling you, I'd rather miss ten of them than not shoot one I could have shot. Yeah. And so it was it was one of those things like, well, now looking back, what if that was the one, what if that's why I didn't shoot. So he'd be there on this day when I kind of needed him. A little more than that day. Right. Get down there and I called a little bit soft. I ain't trying to every hen I've heard this year, I'm telling you, has has yelked twice. Yeah, I barely heard any. Three to four notes only. And it is not a lot of it. They're matching kind of the temp of the males and females and whatnot. And I have just not heard a lot.
SPEAKER_00Me neither.
SPEAKER_01I know they're there. I'll either see them or hear them yelp the time or two, but it ain't a lot. So I'm kind of doing that too. And I'm basing this off four days tops of analysis here, but still. But no, I yelp a couple times here and there. And I'd usually give it about honestly about seven minutes out of spot without moving my feet. I'm in a I'm in a trailish looking road. Private's on my right. Goes down and it tees, and then the public goes in to the right. But I ain't to that point yet. And so the it's private on the right, public on the left, and I'm just I'm in a good spot even on the open road that if I hear one to the right, I got hopefully enough time to to get on in about 70 yards or so to pull him, you know, don't pull him to the property line. I ain't gonna do you no good. You gotta you gotta get him over it. Mm-hmm. And then and then look. Um when you got a road there, it's kind of you can see that from kind of a lot of different places. But pretty much just just stayed on it and and about the third or fourth stop, I don't know how long, you know, might have been 400 and 500 yards up in there. Was yelping a little bit and it's starting to turn to pines and stuff, and it's kind of uh getting into between the two ditches or creeks or whatever they were. Um I I'd call them ditches. They're you know, some water in it, but it ain't you you can hop over it. Right. It ain't it ain't nothing you gotta wade through. I like I like hunting them. After after about day one, you know, it starts cutting off hunters a lot of times when it's deeper stuff, but um these these wouldn't have been technically in that category. I think a lot of folks could have hopped over them. Right. But at the same time, I do I do find turkeys in them a good bit, and I don't know if it has to do with the way they flood and the habitat that it creates and stuff when they do back up, but nonetheless, called about two or three more times. I thought I heard one. I was like, hmm, that was one. It was on the private side. I don't know. It was it could have been on the public, you know. Like I said, it it kind of L's into a public and then it continues on public, and then you then you kind of wind up kind of in and some of the eventually after about a mile here, yeah, not far from where I was gonna begin the day, I feel like. Um all those connect up there and and uh I think I might have uh hung out it for a second called a little loud or nothing. I was like, well, I'm gonna get up here and I'm gonna he's one or two things. He's on in there or he's over this lip. And if he's over the lip, then it really ain't that far. Yeah. Because I and it's it's it's kind of piney on my left, and then it's going into another bottom. And and um so I get up just where I can just reach my hands up over it and call more than stand on the top of the ridge. It ain't a ridge, it's just a little rise. Yeah, it's a rise maybe. Um two hollows, and honestly, the rise is probably just the average, is a zero. It's just two low spots. Right. And um nothing really going up necessarily. But I I reach the the call up enough to call a couple a time or two, and then he answers it, and he's in that second hollow area on the right, and uh right at the daggum L-ish area. I'm like, Yeah, not so. You know, I'd have to pass him though. If he's on the bright, I'd have to pass him to get on the public to get in his woods. So my best bet is to get left and get on in the public, just like he would have I was I was talking about earlier. Right. Um get in there and I mean it took about seven calls at that spot though.
SPEAKER_00Really?
SPEAKER_01Mm-hmm. To get him to gobble. At both times, I think he gobbled. It was about six or seven. Then I'm I I mean, I stood there ten, eleven minutes. I think they're just I mean there's probably with ins and you gotta really pique their interest. Yeah, I mean, and and they're just not gobbling at everything. Right. They don't have to, they don't need to. Especially some of these around here. I mean, you got four trucks parked within a mile. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00They ain't just they're gonna run it out there on the same thing.
SPEAKER_01Like I said, all the domes are dead, you know, about this time. Yeah. Um when it opens up on a weekend like that. So you gotta sit there and be patient with them. You know, they probably ain't gonna gobble at that first one. Even if you think it you hit the dagum note on the head, it don't think he ain't there. Um 'cause it it took a it took several to get him and eating. I mean he he had moved closer. And and so I thought, okay, now, you know, we got something going on here. And then by that time I hear another hen I heard a hen with him uh kind of amidst all this. Um and then I I I by the time I had set up, it set up, you know, 50 yards into the woods side of the public on my left and everything. I was like, well, you know, I'll call him at least if I call him the road, he's gonna have to come up an embankment. So I'm all right now. He he's gonna have to he's gonna have to cross it, cross it, not just stand there and look. He's gonna know my next call, he's gonna know I'm in the woods, he's gonna know I'm over here, not in the road no more. I'm like, okay, I like I like my my my layout here so far, the progression of events, and then lo and behold, I hear a hen to my left. And I'm like, okay, I'm gonna get back with her. You know, if nothing else, get her over here, get fired up maybe. I don't know what's with her, could I have something with her? Yeah. And um, maybe she don't like the hems with him. We we we I'm about to just stir the pot up in here, you know, kind of deal. So I I hit on at a time or two hard and one guy was with her. I'm like, okay, we all right now, you know. Could have been the same one. I don't think it was.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
Slow Calling And Patient Setups
SPEAKER_01Looking back, might have been. But I still don't know if it was. Um she she answers me. I answer her a time or two. And uh I uh uh 200 maybe. And uh eventually they're closer. And I'm trying to figure out how they got closer, what happened. I don't I don't remember. I was probably just fidgeting with some crap. You know, they she she calls again closer. Um I answer if she's closer. Um moving out in front of me now, she's in the they're in the bottom. I'm like, okay, that's a little bit of a a wave is they're gonna have to come up. Yeah. But not not elevation, but distance from the actual ditch this in the bottom about a hundred yards. And um and I can honestly, uh I heard a Jake in there yelping. And and so I hear a hint, I a Jake, and I've heard a gobble. And I'm like, Oh, ride a pack up in here, you know. Yeah. And I just I just treat it chill, and I'm just like, whatever, dude. You know, I'm just here to call, answer you. She'd answer me and wouldn't answer her back. She said something else, I'd say something else back, kind of deal. Just nonchalant. Yeah. Totally forgot about the one on the right now. Um, so this is this is all going on to my left. I don't know what's on. I mean, I never heard him again. Oh, okay. I didn't know. Um, that's what I'm saying. It could have definitely been the same ones because eventually I catch glimpses of turkeys. I'm like, okay, here we go. And it's multiple, and they're just kind of running and doing stuff. I'm like, dang, you know, I can't see. I ain't about to grab my binoculars, but it's about 100 yards in there, but you know, like you know how you just catch dots. Oh, yeah. Just flickers of movement. Right, and I'm like, that's them, you know. And I and I I I try to tell, and I do see a full fan strutting. I'm like, okay, long beard in there. I don't know what else is in there, but there's a long beard in that group. And um that's when I'm like, all right, patience is out, call them. You know, kind of deal. You know, I'm gonna call on them. Well, you you also got to let them know you're that because they're moving too. And that's another thing. You can sit in the same spot and and do as much good as you would walking and calling around this time of year, especially. When it's not 90 degrees and stuff and they ain't really setting and stuff, those gobblers, I don't see them loafing like they do April 20th. Yeah. You know, from from the moment those hens leave, they're they're they're kind of burnt out. They're out of energy. Yeah. You know, they're they're trying to reserve it, hang on to that last little bit, get them through the season and stuff. Because I as far as I know, they don't eat a lot. Gobblers don't during season.
SPEAKER_00It don't seem like that.
SPEAKER_01I think it's kind of like a fat reserve they get. I'm I could be wrong, but I I think to my knowledge, they they eat a lot, you know, winter. Yeah. Hold on to it. And they got one thing on the brand. They got two things, it's kind of just living, and they eat enough to live, but they ain't out there just picking which insect they want to eat that day. They're they're just trying to get to some hens. And they they just trying to stay alive. And so, but nonetheless, I get calling at him, and he answers me. I'm like, okay. She answers me. I'm like, so I'm going back and forth and forth with her. Then the jake starts caulking a little bit. That's how I knew about him. Before he gobbled, I heard the Jake.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_01So it was hen, then Jake, then the gobble. So however I said that earlier, that's how I heard that Jake calk twice. And it was about the cade about that 20 second, you know, I was like, okay, here we go. He's caulking on the back. And that's when I started kind of, I was like, I'm gonna get on this hen and and see what happens. And she she was having it, and she was like, okay. You want to you want to talk, we'll talk, you know. Um, which is awesome. And I love hunting with hens. Oh, yeah. You know, I hate the end of turkeys just as much as the next guy. When they're all quiet, it sucks. But it's fun hunting to me.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, whenever you can get one pop, you know, popped off a little bit, it's it's fun. Right. I like it too.
SPEAKER_01Um and you learn a lot. And that tells you more than anything. I always have the best of years moving forward after I get a morning or two with a hen, regardless of gobs with her. Right. I can just kind of remind myself of what what real is. And um, and they start coming down the bottom and and stuff, and still a good bit of ways. And I call and now I'm kind of calling trying to like steer them like, no, okay. Come up here now. You know, I know we're talking, but I'm I really want you to come up here. So I'm going back and forth. He's answered me time or two, honestly. And um, and now they're moving back to the left. And I'm like, okay. I don't know if they're on the other side or not. Yeah. And that's a big deal. I'm like, yeah.
SPEAKER_00Of the creek or water or whatever.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, like I could be pissing in the wind this whole time. I don't know. But um, but now I see see them moving back left and they now they're coming at me. Uh-huh. And I'm like, okay. We done we done talked them into it. And um all I see is a long beard coming at me for about he's about 80, maybe. He's coming right at me, you know, walking 10, 15 yards, looking at the ground 10, 15 yards, and then looking up. You know, he's looking, trying to get there quicker than he I thought. And um he comes in and he gets in about and I mean I got my safety off waiting on him. I'm like, it's gonna happen. You know, I'm he's at fifty and he's he ain't even checking up.
SPEAKER_00Right.
SPEAKER_01I mean he's he's stopping to look hard. But I don't think he's gotta care in the world. I mean he's he's convinced there's a hen up here. And uh and he gets about forty and stops, and then he gets about thirty and he's stopped, and it's it's it's some trees. It it's not it's not nearly as trashy of pines that I was in last week. Yeah. Yeah, it's a little more open, but that it's just the way they lined up and these trees did, and he was. No shots when he stopped. Yes, yeah. And I mean, and I was trying to see, you know, again, same bottom. Will you give me a little bit more of an open shot? Uh-huh. Um and there was a time or two where I thought I thought I could have, but I never had that feeling like I did, it was not the the most confident. Right. And I'm like, okay. He's you know, we're we're a matter of steps away from pulling the trigger here. And this was a little dot comes running in. And he is going Mach 90 through them Deccan Pines. And is that Jake? Oh, really? Yeah. And that Joker looked like a dang banny rooster. I mean, just 90, like he done bouncing off the wall. Yeah. I mean, just the most annoying little, you know, piece of crap, Jake just bouncing off pine trees literally just here, here, here, and here. And I'm like, here we go. And there's a the but there was uh another long bear behind him. Really? And uh the they were running the he was running the Jake around. I thought that Jake is about to just blow this thing up. Yeah. And um the other one, I I of course naturally you take your eyes off of him.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
Chaos With A Jake And Two Longbeards
SPEAKER_01And and trying to see what in the world is this going on back here, and he's he stopped and looking more back then, you know, worried about what in the world's happening back there. You know, don't make me turn around, kind of deal. And um both of us are are paying attention to them, and neither. I'm like, I could have probably shot him by now. Yeah. Um, but then they come up there and the other one's pushing him. I don't know if the other one's pushing him, like trying to also get up here to the hen, or he's just letting the other one have the hen, and he's just mad at the Jake. I don't know. Right. Either way, now there's three heads weaving around. And you get it, and they're coming close, you know, and then they're then they're at 3530, 25, and now all three of them are moving. I'm like, ah, here we go. And finally the Jake darts. And I'm like, next one up, yeah. And um, and and I had a call, you know, and luckily it wasn't one was behind a tree, the Jake was in the next county. He was like, thank God. You know, he was like, that's that's exactly what I needed was for them to stop. And then but one of them stopped right there in a in a wide open and shot him. And it was it was a good moment, you know. It was fun. It's not what I you you would you would think on something like that. Last year was the first time I hunted on the 26th was the day William died, and I was like, I I thought I'd never hunt on that. That that seemed better than the than his birthday, and I went and it was a one of those hunts that you know a long long beard comes in and sits there and hammers at you like for a long ways, gobbling every step. Uh-huh. Gets out there and just pretty stand real tall, you know. And this one was a little more chaotic, you know. You can't really pick them. They don't know what the day is, they don't know what they're supposed to be doing. And you know, but that's dirty hunt. That's what I love about it. And that's the the closest I have felt to to William in a in a good while, you know, and I look forward to spring because of that. And um, there's a lot of things that that remind me of of what I do have, and I think that's one of the big reasons why I've been able to handle it decently is, you know, I'm I'm I'm I'm content. I got a lot of faith in God's plan. And I didn't this didn't need to happen for me to to to think that way. Uh I already did, still do, and you know, and and just um if if nothing else, I think it it reassures that that there's there's faith in that timing. And I think I said in the closing chapter of any given three morning, which is kind of dedicated to him that you know you got faith in God and trust his time and it's gotta be all of it or none of it. There is no trust some of his timing or trust some of his plan or have a little faith, you either do or do you don't. Yeah. And um that was a good reminder of of that and and and getting out there in the the the liveliness a little bit and glad I went, so to speak. Right. But no, I mean it was it was a good morning, and and I think you know I and I don't I don't hold these springs like this lightly where where there is opportunity to get out there and and and and see the the spring woods come alive more than once or twice a week. Um even though I only went three or four times. But a lot of the times these are the weeks where it's raining the whole week.
SPEAKER_00Normally, yeah.
SPEAKER_01And though and it it's odd how that kind of determines your your year, so to speak. I mean, if if it's a if it's a dreary like I said, these finite ten days when they're not the best, and but those are the years I'm like, I I missed it. You know, I've waited so long for these mornings and now it's rolling into April and it's boys are starting to look like they're gonna look until September now. You know?
SPEAKER_00So those yeah, those seem to be rough rougher years because you when you miss that it's it's tough.
SPEAKER_01Right, and that's that's what I look forward to. I mean I look forward to skinning turkeys and you know, doing hanging out. But I look forward to those days in the morning and and and I just feel real real blessed to to to have that as and we all do, you know. Ain't just where I'm hunting, it's it's a lot of places right now.
SPEAKER_00So um Which I've I've kind of felt the same way. I've slowed it down a lot, you know, and I've I'm staying out in one spot, like just knowing a turkey ain't coming back, you know. But I've I just like to sit there and enjoy it and have birds around me and whatnot, and little you know, reminders of the good things that are out there. You know, and it's it's uh you gotta soak these springs like this up because like you were saying, you know, last year was not a banner year for beautiful spring days. Yeah. Um in the early season. Um a lot of rain, a lot of clouds, a lot of wind, it seems back to back to back. It was.
SPEAKER_01Um and it was I mean it was it wasn't frustrating because you I mean the whole you know point of this whole podcast is kind of like you you you get what is dealt to you, yeah, and it's how you handle it. But it but you gotta be appreciative of the like I mean two two or three years ago it was not it was not a easy feeling shooting a turkey, you know, with the the way the population was going. Right. Um you know, at least you were you were able to hunt one.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_01I can think of a lot of springs that we were hunting that same place without one to hunt.
SPEAKER_00Oh, very many.
SPEAKER_01We were we were there for the sake of hearing some birds chirping. Yeah, oh yeah, you know, like for the that was it. That was there to hear the mocking bird and blue jumping. They're gonna be there probably. You know, the wind's blowing, you might not hear as many, but yeah, you know, there's a lot of the successes were altered.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. You know. I bet a turkey was gobbling somewhere. Yeah, but somebody killed one down the road at least. Yeah, there was a many mornings that we spent that way, you know, hunting little private blocks.
SPEAKER_01And so when we have a year, we got some on there.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_01You know, we ain't going out there just taking it down. Like we know, we've we've seen the ups and the downs. You appreciate them ups, but don't take it too far, you know.
Faith Timing And Why Spring Matters
SPEAKER_00Right. And that's yeah, that's kind of where we've I've been sitting is is is enjoying just sitting under one on a familiar piece and whatnot. And it's just uh whether they do they they've thrown me curveballs. They act like they've been hunted for thirty years. And they probably have. They probably have, honestly. Even if it wasn't us. Either that or they they ain't even interested in a hen if you yelping at them. They just it i it's I kind of like if the opportunity's in front of them, they can see it, sure. I've hunted something like that. They're very screwy weird turkeys, it feels like, the ones I'm hung up on right now. And um every time I zig, they zag. Every time they zag, I zig, you know, and it's just it's it's it's but that's what's fun. Right. You know, that's what I would if there's days I wouldn't wish it upon my worst enemy to deal with it, but you know, right now I'm loving every second of it. Yeah. You know, and uh and I'm not to the I'm not stressing it as bad as I probably would have a couple years back, you know, of of me being literally the only one in the friend group that ain't at least pulled the trigger. You know and that ain't what I'm I'm out there for, you know. I'm out there, you know, enjoying a lot more small things, I guess, this year, which was what I've we talked about a couple weeks ago on the put it on the forefront of your your s your seasoning, you know, and that's that's what I'm I'm doing and I'm okay with it and I don't I don't have to tote one out. Yeah. Now it'd be nice some days. Don't get me wrong. I ain't saying you ain't gotta kill one, but um there's days that that even if you don't, it's it's nice to just enjoy it. Yeah, you slow it down a little bit.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. The chance the chance like I've said every year, the chance is what's the most addicting thing about it is the chance to do it. It it it it somehow grabs hold of you and it's it's the finding out if if you would have that day. And once you know you you ain't going to do that day, when he moves on, you hear him gobbling out the distance, you're like, well, you can kind of it's a little bit uh satisfying, you know. You know, the the chance is solved. Yep.
SPEAKER_00Sleep a little bit. Honestly, that's the most feeling I got today. Yeah. 100%.
SPEAKER_01I know I know he didn't hang out where I was gonna sit anyway. Yeah. And I would have been able to to yelp at him a little more and stuff.
SPEAKER_00And yeah, which yesterday the the chance thing messed with me a little bit because I got where I needed to be get in the dark. Yeah. Or, you know, thought I was like, if I can get in this bubble right here, I'm in the chips. And then I'd be dang, no turkeys in the county were gobbling. Yeah. And then I'm like, well, I blew I screwed up. I I blew them out or something and just didn't didn't know it. Turns out they just didn't gobble, you know, after talking to people at nine o'clock, they didn't gobble, you know. And I'm like, well, dang, okay, maybe I didn't screw everything up. But them having a a lazy day, I guess you would put it. I I don't know what a better way to put it. If they blew it out the day before, and they did they will. And they had a lazy day. And you can all 20 birds in the world can be chirping in the night. And I and I really think that's all it was was uh what was it, Friday was a was a jam up day. I mean, we got deer cameras still out on on another property I I I have access to seeing. And Lord, we had more turkeys on camera, trail cameras on there and nobody was running it that day because we hadn't seen much activity on it and everybody had to work or something. It was it was just one of the situations. And all of a sudden we started texting back and forth, like, good God seeing this? What who who's up who's in within an hour? Somebody needs to get there. Because it's it's you know, first time we've seen half of this, you know, happening. And um then the next morning, I mean, even up there, got everybody up there just to hear nothing. One turkey gobbled three times and then nothing. Um But it was you know, but it was a day that I figured some stuff out. It was I figured, okay, if I'm gonna bust into their bubble a little bit and see what's going on or has happened the last two or three days, today's the day. You know, I probably ain't gonna blow them out. They may see me at a distance, but they ain't keyed up to run a mile. They go and walk over in the bush and sit down for a minute and wait on me to leave and then come back out.
SPEAKER_01And probably what happened. I don't know. And a lot of times, and this is kind of how I go about it too, and I and I treat public land like private land. I know other folks are hunting. I went literally today, somebody was parked at the same spot, I heard them shoot. Yeah. You know, like I mean, and it didn't bother me because it I know a truck pulled in behind me the other day and he probably heard me shoot. You know, it's just one of them things that you get your turn of it. You just understand, yeah, you just understand that that's gonna happen. The first few, I mean, it'll cut you deep. You know, you're like when you when you work real hard to find them, and then all of a sudden you come back and you're like, uh somebody else has figured it out. There's probably someone that has been doing it for three years, like I have. You know, I've been I've hunted this area for several years and didn't even go listen that morning. Just showed up and I was like, I know where they're probably gonna be. And they were, you know. But um Yeah.
SPEAKER_00But I mean I did end up working one yesterday. I guess you'd say working one. I had one I I got my heart rate up.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. That's what I'm gonna say. Uh if I I forgot what I was gonna say, if treating it like Pride Land, I as long as you don't call a lot, yeah, they don't they they might not like what they see and get out of there or whatever. But it's different when they think you're when they feel like you just tried to fool them versus you're a human walking in the woods. You know.
SPEAKER_00Well, I I got into a spot that I realized, you know, this is this is why they were staying here and this is where they're staying a hundred percent. And and I just sat down and hung out for shoot, probably an hour before I called. And I finally was like, I'll throw out a Yelp or two. And I think I, you know, every ten or fifteen minutes, however the wind laid more than more than anything. And the second round of calls about four minutes after that, pow, eighty yards from me. And I'm like, and he didn't answer me, but four minutes after my call, he had made it kind of where he's like, all right, I I can see kind of that area now gobbled. And of course I'm sitting there just kind of hanging out, you know, legs asleep, all that.
SPEAKER_01Speaking of Tweety Birds and crap, like screw them dangham bluebirds, you know, real real fast.
SPEAKER_00Sitting there making friends with the squirrel trying to get him, yeah, anyways. Um and then I'm like, oh gosh, he's you know, he's in the bubble that I need him to be in. And I was I didn't call again. I just got slowly positioned to the other side, you know. We keep we filming stuff, so I'm I ease over, cut one or two cameras my camera on, my GoPro on, my gun camera on, because I'm like, this turkey it's a good chance.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, he's looking for you.
SPEAKER_00And sure enough, no less than a minute boom. I mean, I hear his wings drag the ground. And I'm like, he has made it in my bubble. Yeah, you in his bubble. Yeah, he is in my bubble. Never saw him. He's home, you know, gonna do never saw the turkey. Didn't hear him putt. I I mean I either he didn't see a hen and just kept freaking running through there. I mean it was almost like he his hen turned his back or something, and he's like, Maybe I can get a little chance real quick. Okay, I gotta get back. You know. Or he saw me, I'm sure he saw something he didn't like. Uh uh, the sun was on me at that point. I'm sure a camera glared or something he saw at a distance. But for him to drum, I'm telling you, he had to be within no less than forty. Yeah. But I felt like he was within twenty of me. And I could not find him. And of course, right in that moment he drums and all this is is going on, my face is up against the tree. Guess what crawled across my eyebrow? Uh tick. And I flicked it. That was one of those uh I felt it trying to find a way in my hat, and I was like, uh I got uh my my hands on my style.
SPEAKER_01Red meat ain't that they ain't what it's cracked up to be. Yeah, what? So red meat ain't all that's cracked up to be one drum and mine.
Drumming Close Calls And Second Guessing
SPEAKER_00Well, he only drummed one time, and this was right before the drum. Okay. I think, if I'm not mistaken, you know. But my heart rate's up, and then when he drummed, my heart rate was really up. Right. And I'm like, here we go. And never heard footsteps after that, never heard a putt, never heard another gobble, never heard another drum. Which of course I hadn't called at that point. I'm starting to think, crap, I should have called when he gobbled, you know. I would have. I'm rethinking everything I've already done. Well, I wanted to make him look for me. He knew where I was at, and he was coming from the the direction away from me, it seemed. Or he would have answered one of the earlier calls if he was already just standing there waiting for.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. I d I do I do answer them more often than I used to.
SPEAKER_00I I've sorry, yeah. I've always answered a lot, and that was me trying not to do my old ways in a stupid fashion, you know.
SPEAKER_01It's isn't say if you called six times after he gobbled, the the first time ain't the one you want to eliminate. It's the sixth, fifth, fourth, third, you know. It's the when you're calling the air when when he ain't answering you or he's you know he is answering you and he ain't moving, you know. You you still gotta communicate with him. If he he it's almost like him asking you, Where are you? I know you were over here. You know, I just walked across the Dagum cow pasture for a quarter mile. Now where you at? You know, but he you know, if he drummed right there, well I didn't he could have said, Well gone, you know, and left.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. I don't I mean I'll never know, but um I think I was adjusting my mouth call, you know, because at that point I had thrown it back in the side of my mouth and it was full of spit and all that. And I was trying to get it back where I could make a yelp on it if I had to, if I saw him out there in a gap or something, and then I heard him drum, and at that point I didn't want him to look at look at me if he could if I could until I had seen him, you know. I didn't want to yelp at that point. I probably should have answered his drum, but I felt like it was too too close for me to not be seeing him. I'm like, he's either behind me or something. And I mean I'm in a fairly open area. I mean I still don't know where that drum came from at this point. No, you know, still we'll never know. And I don't know if I heard his gobble and I thought it was off my right ear and it was really behind me.
SPEAKER_01You know, because I had one I had that happened to make one or two to go with, shoot. It's hard to justify, especially give it about three minutes. You're gonna start a second guess and you're gonna be like, ah, it could have been this way. You hear a crow behind you, and all of a sudden you turn your head like, well, that's a good thing. Well, that's exactly what happened to me.
SPEAKER_00No kidding, I heard a crow one time and I like mid me turning my head, and I thought he was in front of me and he was behind me, and I'm like, I bet you that turkey was behind me the whole time. And I faced 100% 180 degrees the wrong way. Um, I don't know. But this morning it was fun because they answered me a lot. Honestly. Yeah, at least you hear him. I I saw a glimpse of him flying down and he just cut a straight left or right or whatever and and beelined it to the neighbors. Um and um but once he got to the neighbors, I could tell when he was about to go back into some cover because he pow pow pow. You know, he hammered 15, 20 times right there. I usually think they're about to move.
SPEAKER_01Huh? I usually think they're about to move to somewhere or something.
SPEAKER_00Or he was about to go where he couldn't see me from a long distance. He was hoping I was following him, and when I would he turned around to look, I wasn't following him in the open area he was coming out of, about to go out of. I knew he was about to get in the woods again or whatever, the thicket. And um I don't I never heard a hen in there with him, but um either he left some yesterday evening or or you know, there was one with him or a couple with you. I never know. But I only I don't I couldn't hear him flying down and stuff. They were just I bet you they were over there.
SPEAKER_01I bet you that yeah. I don't think they were with him. You don't know. If if he went on a beeline like that, I I'm just saying this is precurious, but I went even there, I don't know, or have heard of it as one. But I'm the more more they just they don't they the whole way they're they're going to what they hear or see. I think more more than often is see. Yeah. I think when they see something they cut a hole, they cut a line, that could have them ditch running to it, you know. I feel like he got in that open area and could see one. And uh, and if it was if he went he probably tried to get to them before they got out of seeing, right? You know, and he he and it and he might have been gobbling at them half of them.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. And I couldn't.
SPEAKER_01Please stop, please stop, you know. I'm trying to get there. You know what I'm saying? I'm trying to get there. Um just like we would be calling it one walking away from us, trying to just cut it up.
SPEAKER_00Um but yeah, at at some point it it was obviously he was like, I'm about to go where I can't see you. Please step out so I can at least see you or something. I mean he was cutting me out, which I I kind of poured the gas to him then, trying to make him stop. You know, I was doing the same stuff.
SPEAKER_01Sometimes you just and I have done that. I have if if I notice that they're just they can't not gobble, you know, sometimes they're in that mood and they can't not gobble at you, and I know there's another hand on the side, I will I know he ain't and I he never does, he never turns around and comes to me. But I can about get in the way enough where that hand will get up where he can't see her no more or something like that, because she don't really care a lot of times. Um you either get one that does care a whole lot, like I kind of did the other day, or you get one that don't care at all. Oh, yeah. And I'll try to just keep him, you know, every time he tried to take a step, he's got that gum. Hold on. I'm gonna gobble at this one more time for the 90th time. And then finally he's just sitting there kind of like tapping his foot, like, well, that gum. I got nothing. And I'll show up and he's like looking, he's like, he's gobbled, he'll turn another one and gobble at that other hand. Who ain't there no more?
SPEAKER_00Who slipped on his gobbling at you?
SPEAKER_01Let me yelp a couple more times. He kind of after after that, you know. And he's like, all right.
SPEAKER_00At least she's still here. What doesn't make sense to me though, is there was two turkeys in there. And if you got a dominant and a non-dominant, you know, at what point, why don't one of those lessers come up there silent or something, just like I mean, he he's kind of occupied running away. I think that's hard wiring. I don't think they're getting in a big group together. That's what's I'm trying, I'm still trying to figure that out. I I don't know.
SPEAKER_01But I think it's a hierarchy. I mean they're not supposed to breathe.
SPEAKER_00He was the one gobbling on the on the limb. There was one goblin on the limb and one or two. They're they're they're his apprentices. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01You know what I mean? Sidekicks, and they don't But I've I've done that a lot. They ain't left the nest yet, kind of so to speak. You know, like they're just his entourage, yeah.
SPEAKER_00Whatever. It wouldn't make sense.
SPEAKER_01I now have pulled them off.
SPEAKER_00I've pulled a you know secondary off a lot of times.
SPEAKER_01And I but I think it's curiosity.
SPEAKER_00More than anything.
SPEAKER_01They don't come in strutting and drumming, they come in looking like, was there a freaking head over here? Whoever like you want to hang out, I guess, you know. Yeah. Yeah, you want to see them in the field and might want to give this a try, you know. Yeah. Um I mean, I ain't prejudice to if he's the dominant one or the nine. But if I got the choice, I'll shoot the the one who ain't strutting. Yeah. Just I think the the one who is the dominant one is the is the good one, you know. Um but don't let the don't let the satellite sta stand behind the drain the strutter stick is head up because it might be shifting real fast. Uh-huh. Um but um but that's how it works. I spring and it's you know, you're able to do it, which is fine.
SPEAKER_00R right. I've enjoyed myself very much this year so far. Um even though I don't have one to show for it.
SPEAKER_01I mean and I ain't alone. I know that. Yeah. I I'd rather be in your shoes right by now than because I went with Logan and we killed one in there. And they didn't go much on the limb there.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
Looking Ahead And Listener Messages
SPEAKER_01But I've been able to see, you know, put hands on quite a few, whether I shot them or not. And the few times I went hunting, and that collar starts getting a little tight after, you know, like, all right. I remember talking to Logan and I was like, You ain't getting too hot, are you? You like, don't even see it. Last year. He got on a little hot streak right at the beginning, he's like, Don't see it. Yeah. Because he knows, you know, we all know what happens when you do get a little too hot. The good luck starts running out before you wish it would.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, and and and I've started feeling that way at times. I'm not gonna lie. You know, the oh, it's gonna be another one of those years. No, I'm saying, like, sometimes you look up and you're like, mmm, yeah, it's about to get rough.
SPEAKER_01It's about to get rocky. Yeah, you know, you're waiting on the rocky topic.
SPEAKER_00I'm waiting on the tide to turn the way I wish it would not turn. You don't ever think, man, I'm getting real good at this. You think, oh god, I'm immediately like, please don't get good.
SPEAKER_01Like I'm starting this morning, I was like, please don't fly down in my daggone lap. You know, not really, but I a little bit was thinking like, man, if it's then I'll know for sure it's about to get tough. All my luck will have expired at that point. But um, nah, hopefully we'll have some more stories. Um we get we got some some not really anything planned for the upcoming week, but Weatherman said it should be able to get some stories together and stuff. We'll probably start getting some guests on here soon. Hopefully, we'll start bumping around USA and and running into folks and having them hop on. We're gonna take the rig with us and and uh connect connect with some folks at random. Yeah. So but nonetheless, we're coming up on an hour. Uh appreciate y'all listening to our rambling every week. We we can't really thank y'all enough. Y'all are are who drive this rig way more than we do. And um, if there's anything y'all do need or want or would like to hear, holler at us. Shoot us a DM, shoot us an email, something of that nature, and we'll we'll get it on there. I hope everybody's uh off to a good spring and kind of remember the remember to to soak it in for what it's worth. And um to us it's it's worth a whole heck of a lot. So appreciate y'all listening to Springleads Podcast. We'll see you next week.
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