Mama Doesn't Care About Your Turkey!

We're finally turkey hunting here in Tennessee and we're looking back over the recent TN Youth Hunt, the highs and lows and talking all about who really cares when we find success in the turkey woods. Don't miss this one! 

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Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:07

Welcome back to the Hunting Roots Podcast. I'm Brody Swisher. This is episode two. Why are you laughing? I don't know. You're laughing at me. Did I come in a little hot? Huh?

SPEAKER_02 0:17

I don't know why I'm laughing.

SPEAKER_01 0:19

Because you're just happy to be here, right?

SPEAKER_02 0:20

Yep.

SPEAKER_01 0:21

We gotta start this over, roll with it.

SPEAKER_02 0:22

I think we should roll with it.

SPEAKER_01 0:23

Just roll with it. This is episode 237. And I've obviously got Ding Dong back in the studio today. Rimbo, welcome back to the podcast desk. How are you? I'm doing pretty good. It's a beautiful day here in the neighborhood of West Tennessee. And I don't know where you're listening from, what you got going on, but man, turkey season is finally here. We're going to talk a little bit about that today, kind of recap uh Rimbo's youth hunt from this past weekend. You didn't see any photos pop up from us. I know you saw probably a blue million photos out there from a variety of folks. All kinds of people killed turkeys this weekend, didn't they? All kind of photos. Lots of people. Lots of folks. Just not us, and that's okay. But hey, this podcast is brought to you by our good friends at onxhunt, onxmaps.com. That's the place to find it. Go check it out. You can search it there on the web, but I think probably most folks nowadays or uh are just getting things done right there from the palm of their hand with their smartphone. You can do that, knock it out. Yeah, Remy, you got a nice. I know they can people can't see, but you got a probably a killer. One of the baddest looking hats right there. You want to describe that hat? It's an on-x hat. While we're talking about it, I'm not just chasing rabbits here. This is a this is a legitimate plug, shout-out, whatever you want to call it, to on X Hunt. Just go ahead and give me a little rundown. Describe that for the folks because they are not able to see. We don't do this visually, no video here, just all about the words. Tell us about that hat, why it's so cool.

SPEAKER_02 1:56

So pretty much, of course, it's cool because it's got the bottom line all across the front.

SPEAKER_01 2:01

Yep, yep.

SPEAKER_02 2:02

And then it's got a little patch on the uh front of it that has a little onyx above it, and then it's got a turkey feather below the onyx, and that's just really cool to wear.

SPEAKER_01 2:13

So yeah, it's got that uh what you call that? Kind of like a leather leather patch. Leather looking, we should say. It's probably more of a like a pleather, uh, leather-looking patch, turkey feather, onyx hunt, sitting there across the top of the uh a bottom land hat, man. I mean, that's a hard combination to beat right there. And so um anyway, who should we give that to? We need to give a new membership out uh on X membership while we're talking about it. What are we gonna do? Somebody send us in Turkey photo, send us your turkey photo, and best turkey photo, we'll send a couple of these memberships out.

SPEAKER_02 2:46

Yeah, I think we should do that.

SPEAKER_01 2:47

On X Hunt Premium membership, let's do that. On XMaps.com, go check it out again on your phone, smartphone, the on X Hunt app. Good, good stuff. You gotta have it for turkey season, okay? Um, I don't want to say you gotta have it, but you it will greatly improve your turkey. I don't want to be that guy. I don't want to be the guy that said, Oh, you have to have this if you want to be a turkey hunter. No, you don't have to have it. We've we killed a lot of turkeys before it, but it's just an incredible tool for efficiency. And um just an awesome scouting tool, awesome tool to have in your arsenal. Check it out. Onyxhunt at onyxmaps.com. Also, big thanks to the crew at Mossy Oak, Mossyoak.com. Uh, some cool articles popping up there. A buddy of mine sent me an article the other day I thought was a trip. Um, just some old school stuff there at Mossy Oak. Always some good content flowing through there. Great place to find your camo, your bottom land goods. Speaking of which, man, on the youth hunt the other day, I had, and this is historically how it always goes, the one piece of equipment. You know, do you remember what uh piece of equipment or apparel that we were we were struggling with trying to find?

SPEAKER_02 3:56

Your two gloves.

SPEAKER_01 3:58

Two gloves. Two gloves of opposite hand. Yeah, what did I have?

SPEAKER_02 4:02

You had like a spring legion bottom lane glove.

SPEAKER_01 4:08

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 4:09

And then you had a Sidka, just one of their pattern gloves.

SPEAKER_01 4:13

Yeah, just a I I don't know. I don't ever wear those. Uh obviously. I don't I don't I don't wear those. And then I felt so dirty. That's your typical being one of those Sidka guys on my right hand.

SPEAKER_02 4:24

I know. That's your typical uh I've I don't I haven't looked at my stuff all year long until the night before uh turkey season and scrambling to find my stuff.

SPEAKER_01 4:34

Yes, yes, exactly. It was uh we just didn't do a good job of of a preseason prep this time around uh as far as getting the vest loaded out. I mean, I say we did. You did. You did a good job. Me and Aiden did pretty good. Yeah, y'all were loading up the vest. I grabbed my vest. Of course, I keep my vest in top-notch shape, so I don't have to do like y'all do. But I always the what always gets me is I'll have my gloves and my mask. I kind of swap those. I need to get doubles on that stuff because I usually take them, my favorite setups, put them in my deer hunting pack, and have that mask. I don't wear a mask much for deer hunting, but uh, I have it in there for more for bugs than anything, keep the mosquitoes off. But uh, the gloves, the little fingerless gloves, uh I like those, I use those. And so again, I just take them from my hunting, my deer pack and put them back in my turkey vest, and that's kind of what I did, but I found one glove for left-hand. And then I start going through my drawer over there. I got a whole drawer, just uh a little tote, I should say. One of them little plastic drawer totes. Full of gloves. But they're all left-handed gloves. I don't understand that for the life of me. I don't understand how I can have twelve gloves of all varieties, and they're all left-hand. I don't understand it one bit. But that's kind of what the deal was. I have my left-handed glove, and I I say fingerless, I it's like the trigger finger and the thumb or a cut-out glove. Yeah, I don't and I like that. That way I can I can use my fingers, I can message my my phone, you know, whatever, and I need to do. And so anyway, that was kind of the hang-up. Uh, I feel like I woke up really early the other morning, kept thinking about things in the middle of the night, uh, the night before the youth hunt, uh, which was this past weekend, and I remember waking up several times thinking, oh my gosh, I don't have a thermocell. And where we're gonna go, we would have getting we were gonna get eaten alive because it was about 70 degrees, just perfect mosquito weather, and I thought we're gonna get eaten alive if I don't have that thermocell. And um so I was like, all right, I'm not getting up in the middle of the night to get it, but I gotta make sure we get it the next morning. So we did round up thermocells. I think we were still rounding up gloves and just different stuff. I'm trying to think of what else.

SPEAKER_02 6:42

What about the disappearing sock?

SPEAKER_01 6:44

The disappearing sock, mine?

SPEAKER_02 6:46

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_01 6:47

Yeah, yeah. I had socks laid out. That's right, on the front porch. I had sprayed my socks down, and I had a, you know, I don't know what they were. Darn, I love wearing those darn tough socks. Um darn tough brand. They're just good, good socks and tough, as the name implies, and and I sprayed a pair down with permethrin, and we sprayed our britches down, all the stuff, and I get out there and my socks, I got one sock on the porch. I had them both laid out there, sprayed down, just drying out on the porch. Get out there with one sock. I thought it blown off in the bushes, and I'm looking all over for the you know, all over the place for it. Um nothing. So I go back to plan B socks, come in and grab some other socks. It didn't get sprayed down.

SPEAKER_02 7:30

I was so proud I had all my stuff sprayed down, fighting them ticks, trying to prevent the alpha gals and uh Lyme diseases and I heard cricket um on the back porch broke out of her kennel, and mom said she went on the front porch, grabbed your second uh sock, but they must have like heard her in the middle of the night, so they had to go get her, and then they put your sock back inside.

SPEAKER_01 7:57

Are you kidding me?

SPEAKER_02 7:58

No.

SPEAKER_01 7:59

Why am I just now hearing the story? The dog did it?

SPEAKER_02 8:02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 8:03

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_02 8:04

Because they're saying she broke like her kino wasn't uh latched up all the way in the middle of the night, and so she like licked her licked the locks off and stuff.

SPEAKER_01 8:13

She licked her way out.

SPEAKER_02 8:14

And then she was running around and on the front porch and just start like grabbing stuff there and like grabbing.

SPEAKER_01 8:21

It's always my stuff. That dog's a devil. And so the sock ended up on the back porch.

SPEAKER_02 8:26

No, and inside for some reason they found it with her.

SPEAKER_01 8:30

When she came inside, I I I can believe that they didn't tell me that story. That they wouldn't have told me that because she does that. When she's left out, sneaks out, she comes to my office back here and she'll grab my stuff.

SPEAKER_02 8:44

She loves grabbing your socks.

SPEAKER_01 8:45

She'll grab my sock, a sock of mine, a whatever of mine, and she'll take it back to her dog bed and lay there and chew on it. Now she's run some, but a lot of times she just takes it back there and lays it down, like, you know what? You leave me here by myself, you know, without anybody, I'll chew on your sock. And man, them them socks are expensive to be doing that kind of crap with. So I didn't know that. And you know, like I said, I'm sure they're probably like, don't tell dad. She ran all the way to the front porch, brought a sock to the back porch, and brought it inside. Dirty stinking dog. If anybody wants a squirrel dog, let me know. We'll make a deal. I'll make a deal with you. You wanna sell that dog?

SPEAKER_02 9:21

No.

unknown 9:21

No.

SPEAKER_01 9:22

Alright, we'll see. Um what else? Hey, uh, missed another coyote.

SPEAKER_02 9:28

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_01 9:28

Was that yesterday?

SPEAKER_02 9:29

That was yesterday.

SPEAKER_01 9:31

I'm I'm terrible. Uh I need to get out and see if that gun's dialed in, but I'm sure it's just me. I was rushing. My adrenaline got jacked through the roof with that man. I was sitting here at my desk reading my Bible early morning, and Easton had started uh he went out on the front porch, walked by the office window here, and then like I said, I'm just reading, and he walked by, I saw him go by. Well, it wasn't twenty seconds later, he comes back up and you know, running back up on the porch, comes up to my window, and I could hear him, Coyote, Coyote. That's all I could hear, you know, through the window, and he's just like, Coyote, I could hear coyote, I can make that out. So I jump up from my desk, run to the other end of the house, and we got the old AR in there, and uh, it was actually where it's supposed to be this time, right there in the corner. For such a time as this, I grabbed it, ching, ching, drop it. I'm like, hey, all right, dude. I'm standing at the sliding door back there. I told Easton, you grab the stick from the door. We got the little stick to lock the sliding glass door, you pull that up, he's up. Well, the dog's going crazy. She's like, rah, she's just going nuts. And I she didn't see the coyote out there. The coyote's 80 yards. She didn't see it because she was she just couldn't see from the angle.

SPEAKER_02 10:39

Barking at all the commotion.

SPEAKER_01 10:40

I think she's just barking at all the excitement. And I'm I'm dropping the hammer on that, you know, that AR, so she's thinking, oh, it's on, and she's just going nuts, like she's thinking she treed something. And we got it all worked out. So I'm telling Easton, hey, you slide the door open, I'm gonna post up. And then I'm also yelling, shut that crap up, dog.

SPEAKER_02 10:58

Shoot up, shoot.

SPEAKER_01 10:59

You know how you try to whisper yell, you know?

SPEAKER_02 11:01

Yeah, shoot up.

SPEAKER_01 11:04

Got myself choked up. Oh, I'm whisper-yelling at the dog, whisper-yelling at your mom to get the dog quiet, all the stuff, just crazy commotion. And I'm like, Where's it at? He's where's it at? And he's like, It was going from the kit chicken coop. And I look out, he's right by right by the pear tree, and so it's going past the apple trees, at the pear trees, and I just see it kind of just walking along there, post up on the door, and I'm like, I tried to lip squeak, but I was too excited to lip squeak. I looked I couldn't make a noise. I'm like and um it kind of stops, but I just rush. I know I just ripped the trigger. You stopped. Just yanked it, yanked the fire out of it, I'm sure. And anyway. And it was not a hard shot. Like we've got an archery target down there that's a hundred yards for long bombing, a hundred yards from the porch. Or when you know, sighting her rifles. A hundred yards, and it was closer than that. It was probably fifteen or twenty yards closer. I mean it's an eighty-yard shot. And I just choked. And I'm like, you know what? Uh I've got to practice. You don't people don't think you have to.

SPEAKER_02 12:07

Not only did you miss once, you missed twice.

SPEAKER_01 12:10

Well, the second one was a hasty retreat, you know what I'm saying? It was bugging and I just kind of got on it, saw it in the scope, saw it kind of flash by the crosshairs, nice shot. You know, it was kind of getting away, shooting into the bushes with it. Safe and all, but it was just not, you know, I don't call that yes, it was a miss, but it was not a legitimate opportunity. Uh so and again, I I was just I was so excited. I was my heart was pounding like it was crazy, how excited I think just because of how quick it was and the fact that a coyote is back and the fact that a coyote just killed our chickens a few weeks ago and just all the stuff just made for an adrenaline dump like nothing else. I mean, it was just like, oh my gosh, I'm I'm my heart's beating down in my chest, you know, and after it was over, I was just like you know, it was coyote fever. It was crazy. All on a coyote in the backyard, 80 yards. And I choked. And so we need to one, we need to dial that gun, make sure that gun's dialed, and I I guarantee it is. It's just me not shooting good. And I need to get out there and squeeze the trigger, go through some um practice, which is back to the drawing board, because I mean I I I do, man, dear season, late season with a rifle, shooting does, but I yanked the trigger so bad, got so much buck fever, doe fever. Um crazy.

SPEAKER_02 13:27

Well, so do you think you get more excited about the like a couple of big old does in a big pasture or a coyote running at you?

SPEAKER_01 13:38

Hmm. That's a tough one. I think the the a coyote charging in when he's when a coyote's charging into the call, that's pretty pretty, pretty strong.

SPEAKER_02 13:48

One of the I've only gone coyote hunting about five times, and most of the times I've never really even seen any.

SPEAKER_00 13:56

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 13:56

But there's about one or two times I did, and one of the times there was like we saw five coyotes and three were running in at the same time.

SPEAKER_00 14:05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 14:06

And then one was already there, and we sh and we tried and I think you shot that one coyote, the first one, and then we we looked back to our right, and there's like three running straight to the decoy.

SPEAKER_01 14:17

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 14:18

And it was just crazy.

SPEAKER_01 14:19

That was probably the most action-packed coyote hunt of my life, and it was with you. We killed one out of five or whatever we saw, I don't remember, but um, yeah, that's pretty cool. Uh hey, you want to talk about this past weekend's do a little turkey recap from the youth hunt? I said we do. Not a lot to recap. We uh we started off going to a place that I don't know we've hunted there. You you killed one, yeah, you did kill one there several years ago on the youth weekend. It was up in the afternoon, actually. Um you killed one that was what was it, two or three o'clock in the day? You remember how windy that was, and it was crazy, crazy windy afternoon.

SPEAKER_02 14:58

There was like tornado warnings and like watches and I think that was last year.

SPEAKER_01 15:01

Last year was a tornado.

SPEAKER_02 15:03

Oh, we're talking about the same thing?

SPEAKER_01 15:04

No, I'm talking about the one from several years ago. We're not gonna say anybody's names. Don't use any landowner names.

SPEAKER_02 15:09

Oh, I yeah, when Aiden was with us. Yeah, I remember that one.

SPEAKER_01 15:12

That was maybe two years ago or I think it was two years ago. I don't remember. Um It wasn't the year you killed tagged out in 24 hours. That was several years ago.

SPEAKER_02 15:23

It was 2024 season.

SPEAKER_01 15:24

Maybe so. And um you killed one on that farm. We went in there at like two o'clock and I don't know, sat down, made a few calls, boom, two goblins came out and you you killed one. It was a great hunt. And we've had several, you know, we've killed birds on this farm, you know, every year, last four or five years. Um but I don't know that we've ever hit it on an opening morning or a you know, youth hunt morning, and so that's what we did. Uh we got a different farm we save every year for opening day of regular season. And so we took you in there, and we're sitting there, the day's breaking, not hearing any gobbling. We're like, man, this is uh this is not looking good opening day. And um, and then we finally thought, I you know how it is. Well, I thought way back behind us to the right, I'm like, was that a turkey? And you're like, Yeah, it was. And I didn't know if you even heard, I think you're just making stuff up.

SPEAKER_02 16:13

No, I actually never said that, I don't think. Yeah, I was like, I heard something, but I don't know if it was a turkey.

SPEAKER_01 16:18

Oh, I got you. Well, I kept hearing way off, and I'm like, that's not on us. Um But then finally we hear one out front. And uh we I heard it, and of course Aiden's sitting over there to our left about 10 yards, and he's like pointing at it. Like, there it is. And then we heard it again, and I thought, okay, it sounds like a long way off, but across that field it's really not that far off. And we've played that game there before, and we know if you can hear them right there, you better buckle up and and get into position because again, they sound like they're a country mile, but they're really not.

SPEAKER_02 16:50

And they can hear just a couple hundred yards.

SPEAKER_01 16:52

Well, yeah, for less, maybe. And um, so we're like, hey, we need to make a move. We can get we got two spots we can get that are better than here, closer to that bird. And so that's what we did. Moved the one spot up, and then we realized we're hearing two birds, one further off on the neighboring property and one pretty close to the property line where we were. Um, and sure enough, we throw that call out, the old tall timber Gabriel baby, put that sucker out there and he slammed, and then a few minutes later he slammed again. And I remember telling you, dude, he's in the field with us now. He'd left the the neighboring farm, he's into our field now, and uh, you know, it was it was to that point of, hey, you better be watching, you know, because we're looking up through kind of old stubble and cornfield from last year, and it was gonna be tough to see, you know. You see the stubble, and I was like, it's just gonna be a head popping out somewhere, or maybe a tail fan coming over the ridge, whatever, because it was over this ridge line in the field, we just couldn't see. And we waited and we waited. I caught a little more and nothing. Caught a little more and nothing. I was like, oh man. So we're waiting, waiting for it to pop out. You're shaking, I'm shaking. Everybody's fired up, and just like, all right, anytime he's gonna be showing up here. And then anytime came and it nothing happened, and we're like, oh, crud, man, what's going on? And we sit there a while and he hasn't gobbled. I'm thinking, oh boy, that's not good. So I thought, okay, he's either left us, I'm thinking the hens probably freaked out, they didn't like us talking to him, and they left us. And so we say, we're gonna go boogie across the field, we can get across the tree line and get up there where we heard it last. So that's what we do. We get up there, nothing. Nothing in sight, no birds gobbling. Well, then I, you know, and the other thought was he got on the other side of that ridgeline of the field and he scooted all the way down. Like he shut up and just went, and sure enough, that's what happened. He got out of sight with us, and he was over that other side of the ridgeline over the field, and he went way down the opposite end. And I'm got my glasses up, I'm like, there they are. I see three birds, or I I saw at least three. I don't know how many was in there altogether. And we're thinking, okay, we can make a move back on this, we can go back to the way we came, go all the way down the creek, make her move around, and all this stuff. We're thinking how we can make a play on it. And while we're thinking that, right about the time we're thinking that, and the other bird had gone off. I think the other bird had gone off in the pasture on the neighboring property or something. Uh, I hadn't heard anything out of him in a while. And we're sitting there making a plan, and while we're thinking about it, let's do this, let's do that, what'd you hear?

SPEAKER_00 19:20

Boom!

SPEAKER_01 19:21

We heard and it was like, oh dang, that was that was on this property. And uh we hear this big turkey cannon go off.

SPEAKER_02 19:31

Not only was it on our property.

SPEAKER_01 19:34

Not our property.

SPEAKER_02 19:35

Not sorry, not our property, but property we had permission to be on. Property we have permission to be hunting on that we're hunting on right now. Not only is it on the property we're hunting on, but they're also just shoot they just shoot the turkey we're trying to.

SPEAKER_01 19:51

Yeah, oh yeah, yeah. Yeah, it was on that end of the field where we had just watched, I'd just seen them in my binoculars, and I'd watched them across the field over there. I'm seeing them. They're they're they're a long ways over there, you know. They're they're a long way over. Um, and then they kind of disappeared. You know, I was trying to tell y'all as I got they're over here and I couldn't find them again, and the gun goes off way over there. But it was, you know, it looked like it was a long way over there, but at the same time, as soon as we hear it, we could hear them hollering, you know, hooping and hollering.

SPEAKER_00 20:20

Wow, all right, man.

SPEAKER_01 20:22

We hear these hunters hooping and hollering. I'm like, where is that, man? And Aiden's like, they're right there, and I'm I'm looking in the wrong spot and get my binoculars out again. And and I look over there and I'm I'm seeing them. You know, they're high fiving and chest bumping and fired up and slapping each other on the back. And um So I see this going on, and it's it was crazy to watch somebody else's celebration. I'm trying to think if I'd ever really experienced that before. Uh I've been places where somebody shot. I've been places where you know the neighbor shot or different stuff, somebody else got the bird, got the deal.

SPEAKER_02 20:57

But I don't know that I've ever um watched like somebody celebrate. You're just like having your binoculars up there watching them do their thing, like hugging each other, taking pictures and stuff.

SPEAKER_01 21:10

It was so weird. It was kind of cool, but kind of weird too at the same time. Now we talked about the other day. I've seen I've watched as people have killed, you know, killed an animal or whatever. I I watched a buddy, I was on the property I have, and I watched him uh reap a bird over on the property he's on. I've you know, I watched that go down, and he was by himself. I guess this is probably the first time I've ever watched somebody that it was the whole crew, and you know, they're hooping and hollering, and I'm just watching it from 500 yards away. And and I, you know, I'm sitting there telling y'all, I'm like, oh yeah, yep, they got him. And I walk you know, look over there and oh, yep, he just picked up the bird off the ground.

SPEAKER_02 21:49

They're high fiving.

SPEAKER_01 21:50

They're high fiving. Oh. Yep, but one guy's got pictures. Yeah, one guy's got his camera out, and he's he's taking pictures of the other two. Now they just swapped camera, and then now the other two are taking pictures and you. Father son, you know, father-brother, whatever. And then, you know, you watch him there showing the little video, playing the vac, and you know they he he leans over and shows him his phone, they watch it, and then they're all like, Oh, yeah, it's crazy. You know, and and it was it was just a weird moment. Like I felt like I was eavesdropping on, you know, these guys from five hundred yards away. Um, and I know it's easy to be like, oh man, it stinks, you know, crap on y'all. What what you know it's easy to get mad, and you may have gotten those emotions of been like, man, it stinks, whatever. But it's also, I remember us talking about, it's like, good for them. You know what I'm saying? Not good for us, but good for them. Like they they got the deal. And this is a turkey that that did walk past us.

SPEAKER_02 22:42

I say walk past us, I mean it didn't we were really close to seeing it. Like up close.

SPEAKER_01 22:47

Yeah, I mean it was a it was 150 yards probably up and over the hill. But a bird that if we had been up, moved up one more click, we'd have been in the chips, you know what I'm saying? It walked right by our corner of the property um and then goes over there and and and gets killed. And what was your what was your just honestly, what was your reaction when you heard that and when you saw that you realized those guys just killed a bird that we didn't get into on our side? What was your honest?

SPEAKER_02 23:15

I was kind of depressed because I was kind of like, oh, there goes the turkey we were gonna try to kill. So I'm like, where are we gonna go now? Because they just shot a turkey, so of course all the other birds they're not gonna want to be around here if they heard a big boom, you know.

SPEAKER_01 23:29

Yeah. And you said that they're not they they shot not just a turkey, they shot the turkey.

SPEAKER_02 23:36

The turkey we were trying to hunt.

SPEAKER_01 23:37

Yeah, yeah. That's I think that was to me the most depressing. Because I was I did for a moment there, I was just like, all right, we're done. That was it. You know what I'm saying? You go from the highest of highs to kind of the lowest of lows. Now, I mean, that sounds awful, like the lowest of low. You ain't rock bottom, it's a dang turkey, you know, get over it, not a big deal in the grand scheme of things. But you are, you're like, all right, man, we got this bird. Hey, let's make a move, let's do this. You know, you're playing the game, it's open in the morning, first 45 minutes to an hour of the day, and it's game on. You know, it's what you've been you've been looking forward to forever, and this is it. We're fired up. Here we are. And then and then with one shot and one person's success over there, you're just kind of like, oh man.

SPEAKER_02 24:21

I guess I was just most disappointed because our hunt was cut a little bit short than I was h hoping it to be.

SPEAKER_01 24:27

I think that's it too. I wasn't I wasn't irritated for them. In fact, I I even told you, I said, man, that they're very excited. They're they're over the top excited over there. This could have been that kid's first turkey, who knows? And good for them. You know what I'm saying? Um stinks for us, but good for them. And and I think that's how we have to kind of look at it is um look for those celebration moments and and celebrate with somebody else, you know. They got it. They didn't like our calling. Maybe they were reaping them, and that maybe that's why um, you know, that's why they because they did those turkeys did boogie over there really quick, you know. And I so I don't know, they were kind of wide open. Maybe they're reaping the bird. I don't know. I'm not gonna blame it on that, but uh, for whatever reason, they cut the distance and who knows. I mean, that may have been their routine every day. We try to pull them a different way, and that just never seems to go, pull them off the routine. But um I just feel like we need to be able to celebrate with people and be like, good for y'all, man. Good for you, whether that's your first turkey or 15th turkey, good for you. You got it, you played the deal, you had you were on the X, you know. Uh whether you called them to that spot or whether you um decoyed them to that spot, you were there, you got the job done, good for you, you know. And unfortunately for us, we were on the wrong side of the field and didn't didn't have it happen. Now, I think we learned from that after several years of hunting this place. I think we, I mean, I know we we said this has got to be the spot we come to every time because there's been so many times we've been sitting elsewhere, and it's like we should have been there. And just on that hunt, if we'd have been up there, we'd have smacked that turkey when he came by. And um, because he came right up the fence line, and no doubt my mind, you know, decoy over in the corner of our field, you couldn't have popped him right out there and made it happen. But um but that's part of it, you learn in every time you go. And uh I think we gotta be conscious of celebrating other people's victories, um, not being one of them losers that are like, oh, you stink, you killed the turkey, man. You that was our turkey, you called it off of our place, you blah blah blah. You can't be that guy, you know what I'm saying? You can't be that guy or that girl that has that kind of attitude that you got our bird, you took my bird, you called my bird, you you know, my bird, my butt, man. You that ain't your bird, you know what I'm saying? It's a wild turkey. He goes where he wants to go, and if somebody else calls him their side or, you know, whatever.

SPEAKER_02 26:56

I mean, there was it'd be one thing if it was like they're on our actual property, like on the Swisher family property, like poachers on our property. That'd be like, that's our bird, and I don't even know why you're still here.

SPEAKER_01 27:07

Sure. Different ball deal for sure. Yeah, if they'd come on. Yeah. You're right. If it it'd been a different deal if like they come over on our our land and and now we got somebody that's the trespassing, or you know, you I'm not celebrating that, you know, like you you didn't have permission to be on our property. These people had permission to be on that same place as well. Um, you know, I think they were from I think they live up the road or something. They had to, you know, they had permission. I've talked to them before, and I um they've got permission to be there as well. And so good for you, man. You got you had permission, you did it right. Yeah, if it's if it's somebody that's doing it wrong, if it's somebody hunting over a big corn pile, they've got a big pile of corn over there, that's why them turkeys sucked right in there. Um, then we got a different conversation, you know what I'm saying? Or if they snuck across there and they don't have permission to hunt. If I'm the only person that's permission to hunt that property and then they snuck in there, yeah, now we're not celebrating. You know what I'm saying? Now we're going over there and and uh having a conversation. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? Um if they trespass on our home property, and um yeah, that's a different conversation for sure. I'm not gonna celebrate with you on that. It's gonna be a matter of, hey, uh, I'm gonna need you to leave and never come back, and maybe I'm just gonna take your guns and and to my possession too. You know, we'll see what we get into on that one. But different ball game. Uh so we gotta celebrate those moments when that dude or dudette, whatever it was, he, she, um had success. And there was a lot of that, man. There's a lot of, like we said earlier, there's a lot of people that killed turkeys on this youth opener in Tennessee, youth turkey opener in Tennessee. And um who all let's just let's just sh give some shout-outs to people that killed turkeys, um, as far as that goes. I mean, who was the first photo that came through for us? I'm trying to think who the first one that popped up.

SPEAKER_02 28:59

I think it was Blair Moody.

SPEAKER_01 29:01

Blair, yeah, Blair.

SPEAKER_02 29:03

Killed it with a bow.

SPEAKER_01 29:04

Killed it with a bow.

SPEAKER_02 29:06

Which is very cool.

SPEAKER_01 29:08

I think that was well, I know that was his first. I I I didn't realize at the time. I thought he might have done that several times. John Paul, his dad, and I bow hunted turkeys for years, but I didn't realize the boys really hadn't done a lot of that. And Blair had never killed one with a bow, and he killed a big Tom opening morning of the season with his bow. And so, well done, Blair. First bird with a bow. Um, I think he had a wild western uh bow hunting turkey situation that morning, so good for him. Um who else? Let's just go through our list and and shout outs on turkeys of all our friends that killed a turkey while we're sitting there getting our butts whipped and uh and then because that's how it goes. When you're having the worst hunt, not and we didn't have a worst time. I mean, it was we had an exciting hunt, actually. But usually it's how it goes when you're you're sitting there and you can't find a turkey. You can't buy a turkey at the store. You're just struggling to come up with a turkey of any kind anywhere. And it seems like that's when all the pictures start coming in, or your buddy's like, hey man, look at my bird. Hey man, I killed another bird. And you're like, Oh, good, thank you. Celebrate, yeah. Thank you, Jesus. Good job. You know, well done. Good and faithful servant. You did good. Oh, good, good, good. You know, and you're like, oh my gosh, I can't even, you know. That's usually how it happens. But um, again, work fired up for him. So who who was the next one? You remember?

SPEAKER_02 30:29

We had Clay Hamilton kill his second ever turkey. So that's really cool.

SPEAKER_01 30:34

That was his second bird of his lifetime. Yeah, so that's a job to Clay.

SPEAKER_02 30:40

And then I think we long bearded. Marshall.

SPEAKER_01 30:44

Oh, Hayden, yeah. Yeah. She uh Hayden's, I mean, she's a killer, let's be honest. She she's a killer. Um she's not only cute little young ladies, she just she just makes it happen. Deer, turkeys. She's really just quite honestly, she's a better hunter than you boys all the way around. You believe that?

SPEAKER_02 31:06

I don't. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 31:08

Well, no, she's good. She's good, and so she got one killed pretty quick that first morning too.

SPEAKER_02 31:15

Um You had Wyatt Jackson killing too. Wyatt.

SPEAKER_01 31:19

Yeah, Wyatt killed a turkey up in the morning, I think. I don't know when he got it. Was that the was that the first day or second day? I think it was the first. Yeah, I can't remember.

SPEAKER_02 31:29

Speaking of the second day, though.

SPEAKER_01 31:31

Can't remember when its picture rolled up. Um, yeah, he killed a bird.

SPEAKER_02 31:35

Um Speaking of the second day, old Luke Boyd killed on the second day.

SPEAKER_01 31:41

Yeah. Yeah, Luke had told us, I guess at church, Easter Sunday morning, he's like, Yeah, I said all day, worst hunt of my life, you know, whatever. He he just he said he hunted all day, just was not in the action all day on Saturday. So Sunday, you know, he's up there doing the Easter service. I think I don't know if he's at sunrise service or just a regular service or what, but um Sunday comes and Sunday morning goes, and I it wasn't long in the afternoon, you know, mid-afternoon, uh Easter afternoon on that Sunday, and I think I think Aiden got the first picture popped up.

SPEAKER_02 32:19

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 32:20

And uh Luke's like 20 minute hunt. And uh yeah, so they get their Easter uh family lunch done. I think Luke told me he went to the woods at 2 o'clock and killed the turkey at 2.20. I mean, it was a matter of he walked in the woods, he heard him pop off, um, went down there and called at him, sat down, and here they come running. And I think of several gobblers and he killed one of them. So um shout out to Luke Boyd. Just turned 16 yesterday, by the way. Luke Boyd, 16-year-old, sweet 16 for Luke, got to kill him a turkey the day before that, and so pretty cool deal. I love those mid-afternoon hunts like that where um, you know, you just find those birds, they're lonely. We've said it for years. If you can find those lonely toms, and it seems like it's getting tougher and tougher. Um, you know, they just don't seem to be as lonely. It seems like there's always a hint around these days. But uh when you get those birds by themselves, they're looking for some loving, and they'll come running. That's what Luke did. So well done, Luke. Um trying to think of anyone else. Carl King posted it. What's his youngest daughter's name? Killed her first turkey. Is it Kenna or McKenna?

SPEAKER_02 33:25

I think Kenna, I think.

SPEAKER_01 33:26

Keniston.

SPEAKER_02 33:27

Kenna, I think.

SPEAKER_01 33:28

I thought it was Keniston.

SPEAKER_02 33:30

It's not.

SPEAKER_01 33:30

Yes, it is. I promise you. Anyway, whatever it is, we're gonna call her Kenna for short. Because it's really Kenniston. No, it's actually not. I don't know. I I don't know what it is, but Kenna King. I think it was her first turkey. And uh another little cute young lady, Remy, that's doing the work and uh killing birds when you're not. And so uh tell me how that makes you feel.

SPEAKER_02 33:55

Deep down inside, are you proud or are you like uh I mean I'm happy for some of those people that killed some.

SPEAKER_01 34:03

Some of them are don't say which ones you yeah, don't say which ones you are and which ones you're not.

SPEAKER_02 34:07

I'm proud for my friends that killed them.

SPEAKER_01 34:09

Yeah, you're proud for all of them. That's true. Um and we are. That's that's something that's uh you know, we we talked about it this past week. Uh I was I was fishing with a guy and we talked about that very thing. You know, how how you know it's it's tough to you know we get out there and we oftentimes think, oh man, I killed a turkey. Everybody's gonna be so excited for me. You know, I killed a deer, or I caught this big fish, and you you know, you post it thinking thinking that everybody's gonna be so excited for you, that everybody's gonna be like, man, they're such a great hunter, good job. You you know, you're a great fisherman, good job. You you you are the stuff. We kind of like to think in our mind that's how it is. You know, we post that picture and they're just like, oh, you you're the man, you know. But I was talking to this guy the other day, and you know the reality is, you know who really cares about your turkey or your deer you killed?

SPEAKER_02 35:06

Your family.

SPEAKER_01 35:07

Maybe your family. But at the end of the day. Just really your dad. Just you. You know what I'm saying? At the end of the day, yeah, your dad. Like, I mean, for me, it's e you got me. You know what I'm saying? When like when you kill a buck, I am. I'm I am sincerely, genuinely proud for you. But for the most part, man, when we kill something, it's really just you. Nobody, yeah, it's just you. Nobody really cares. And I know we've talked about this.

SPEAKER_02 35:33

Like, if you really have a really good true friend, he would might care about it. But are you?

SPEAKER_01 35:39

Sure. They are, yeah, they're gonna care. But that's about it. For the most part, at the end of the day, nobody really cares other than you. You know what I'm saying? Because you say you're family. You think mom really cares when we kill a turkey?

SPEAKER_02 35:53

She doesn't care. She just says good job just because she wants to make me feel good about it.

SPEAKER_01 35:57

Right. She comes out there and she's she's like, oh my gosh, Remy, good job on your turkey. Or when you killed that big buck last year. She's like, oh my word, that's a great buck. And she was sincere about that. It is a great buck. You did good. I'm so proud of you. But you think she's going back and like, man, I can't believe my son Remy. I'm gonna post this on social media.

SPEAKER_02 36:14

Yeah, she's not even gonna post about it, so it doesn't even matter. And then uh the little eight-pointer I killed the last season, um, she was like, Oh man, that's a big buck. And I'm like, it's ground shrinkage.

SPEAKER_01 36:26

Yeah, yeah. She's just trying to be nice and then trying to encourage you and and all the stuff. And but they don't really like they don't really care. You know what I'm saying? They don't really, you know, they're not gonna talk about it the next day. They're not gonna say, hey man, tell me your story. I want to hear your story. I want to I want to hear that. I want I want to put your picture on my wall. And and I think I'm different because I love it, and that it's my you know, I live that out, you know what I'm saying? That's kind of my uh career, that's my life, uh, uh, what I do. And I do have a lot of these pictures, you know what I'm saying? I have these, so it does I do care. You know, you look at my wall here behind all these eight by ten photos of me and you and siblings and friends and Avery and her little old dinker, you know, that's one of my favorite pictures ever, right there, and her and her little Bambi that she shot a couple years ago and Christmas time, and and just uh we're holding things up like a darn rabbit. I mean, it's so small. But I mean, I love that and I love these memories, and I do care. But at the end of the day, most people don't. You know, even your buddies, they're like, hey, good job, but you know, deep down inside they're like, oh, he killed another one. I wish I could kill one. You know, I'm not sick of seeing him kill. I'm sick of seeing it.

SPEAKER_02 37:33

Maybe you'd be like, good job on the first nice buck you kill, but then you go out there and kill another one, and you're like, oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 37:42

Yeah, yeah. You see the progression. The first one's like, way to go, opening day, good job. Second one comes around like, oh man, cool.

SPEAKER_02 37:49

Wow.

SPEAKER_01 37:50

Third one comes around, they're like, oh, must be nice. Hey, or you then you start hearing like that, must be nice. You get to go hunting all the time, and then the next, you know, deer or whatever, like you know, I've seen people say that, like, save some for the rest of us. You know, that's one of the most jealous, jealous comments you'll ever see. Is I've I've seen people post that, hey man, save some for the rest of us. And like, you think I'm gonna save you one? You go get out of there and get your own, bro. You know, like There's plenty of does out there. Yeah, go get your own stuff. Save some turkeys for the rest of us. No, go get your own turkey, man. Oh, we worked for these turkeys. We blood, sweating beards. Beers, not beers, beards. Oh blood sweating beards. Um that's our other t-shirt. We got we got the blood sweating deer. We need to oh, you're wearing that, aren't you? Blood sweating deer t-shirt. Now we need the blood sweating beards. Um but yeah, so jealousy's as an awful thing. And I mean, don't let it be you. Celebrate with people, encourage people, and try to do it as genuinely as possible. I think that's the the takeaway here. Um so anybody else that killed birds? I'm trying to think of anybody else. We mentioned all the ones we mentioned, and let me just look back through the little gallery here of images. Did you see this? Uh let's let's just address the elephant in the room if we can for a minute here. This isn't gonna be an official posted uh segment this week, but this is what we what we've got. I I saw this posted on social media and it looks like it was posted by 615, which is Nashville. It says 615 Nav, uh 615 NAV in Nashville there. And it's just a little uh photo and just kind of an announcement. It says Tennessee Spring Turkey hunting season opens April 11th, statewide. And it sounds good. They got their logo and everything on there, and it's it's all good. But do you see the turkey they've got posted? They're like making this announcement. It's the oscillated oscillated the turkey that's in like Mexico. Yeah, it's like the peacock looking thing. And I'm like, good gosh, man, who who does this? You know? I mean, they're making this announcement like they're trying to be relevant to the sportsman community or something, I guess. And it's just like, hey, hunting season opens April 11th.

SPEAKER_02 40:03

But we got the old peacock turkey, the old oscillated and I mean they could have at least tried to get a turkey that was in the United States. Like they could have tried like a bird in Florida or like Texas or Montana, any of them would have been better than this.

SPEAKER_01 40:17

Yeah. Like I mean, if they'd have done the Miriams or whatever, we'd have been like, uh, dude, that's a Miriam's turkey. That's not even a Tennessee turkey or something.

SPEAKER_02 40:24

But at least it's close enough.

SPEAKER_01 40:25

It would have been close enough for most people that are not turkey hunters to realize this looks like a joke. I thought when I saw it, I was like, that's gotta be April Fool's joke, but then it's not, I don't think. So um maybe it was. I don't know. Let's see. I don't know. Anyway. Doom. Bless their hearts. Nice try, whatever you want to call it. That that was bad. That was bad that day. So uh coming up, stuff coming up. We'll wrap this one up here in just a second, but uh tomorrow night. What's the plan tomorrow night? Where are we going?

SPEAKER_02 40:56

We're going to I forgot where.

SPEAKER_01 40:59

The wild game dinner tomorrow night. You remember where? Um Scott McFarlane. Scotty Mac. Scotty Mack, Wild Game Dinner Thursday, April 9th, uh, 6 to 8 p.m. at New Life Christian Church. That is in London, Tennessee. 1102 Lobelville Highway in London. Um we're gonna be having a big time. We did that one last year, going back again to hang out with those guys, and they do have some of the finest food, and you're kind of out there. You know what I'm saying? You're kind of out there off the main drag. Um you gotta find it. You know, it's one of them churches, and I I I've said it a million times, those churches that you have to go kind of drive a little bit out of your way to, they always got the best food. Always got the best food. But that's what we saw in Florida, me and Easton did last month. And this one here. You went last year to yeah, you were at Scott's last year, right? Yeah, I was there. Yeah, it was some good eats, man. And I think, I think that Scott may have a coon on the table.

SPEAKER_02 41:58

Oh.

SPEAKER_01 41:58

Yeah, you said ooh, like ooh.

SPEAKER_02 42:00

They could do fried coon.

SPEAKER_01 42:02

Well, I told him, I said, dude, you need a whole hog or whole whole barbecue, whole coon barbecue that sucker. Kind of like Joey did. You remember Joey? Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 42:12

I'd probably eat a fried like coon nuggets.

SPEAKER_01 42:16

Well, yeah, I mean anything fried's fine, but we'll see. Let's see if he does a whole coon barbecue.

SPEAKER_02 42:22

We should bring a possum.

SPEAKER_01 42:23

Well, you got you got 24 hours to make it happen. Just over 24 hours. I know where you can get one right now. There's a bunch. Or an armadillo. We got armadillo's tearing in the room.

SPEAKER_02 42:32

It's fine on the side of the road.

SPEAKER_01 42:34

Yes, and so if you're in the area, want to make the drive tomorrow, Linden, Tennessee, Wild Game Dinner 6-8 at New Life Christian Church. Hope to see y'all there. It's gonna be a fun time. Catching up with our buddies, hanging out, doing the deal, and uh getting fired up for turkey season coming up this weekend. For the big kids, the big dogs. Now we're since we didn't get one on the youth hunt, now everybody's pocket full of tags, and and I guess you're I'm not sure yet if you're going to the back of the line or you're gonna be up to bat still. On open one. Where do you think you should fit in? Like you are you and Aiden kind of the shooters this weekend and I just run the camera, or are you um or you think you're gonna be the camera boy because you had your chance and I think me and Aiden should have a gun.

SPEAKER_02 43:22

Okay, and then either he can hunt by himself now and or he hunts with us, and whoever gets a closer, better shot at the turkey gets to shoot it.

SPEAKER_01 43:35

Got news for you. You're going we're going to the fly down, we're going to the LZ, we're going to the landing zone in doubles. Doubles have happened on this place. This is kind of our opening day spot. He and I doubled here before. He's killed several on opening morning here before. You've never been there, dude. And we might blindfold you and take you in there on this one. Um it should be good. Last year had Wheat growing up in there and it was tall, and so it just killed the spot. But this year I think we're back to good. It's clean, and it should be, as they say, fire for opening day. We'll see. Hey, here's a word from the Word this morning. It's Isaiah 53, 5, and it says this. This is a great follow-up to Easter Sunday. I hope you made it to church Sunday for Easter. I know some of you maybe that was your one time of the year to go, and there's folks that do that. They just show up on Easter, and that's the one time they go and they're good to go for the year. But I encourage you to go, you know, every week. Be there every week. Get up into church and the fellowship that goes with it, and the Bible's pretty clear. Don't don't forsake the fellowship, man. Get together with people, hang out. We need that. We need that big time. But this verse here says in verse 5, but he was pierced for our rebellion, crushed for our sins. He was beaten so we could be whole. He was whipped so we could be healed. All those things he took for who? For us. Pierced in his side. Why? For our rebellion. Our rebellious nature, our sinful nature. He was pierced for that. He was crushed for our sins. Crushed. Again, crushed. I mean, you think about that. He was pierced. He was crushed. Literally, crushed. Um, you know, just his body beaten. Pierced, crushed for our sins, beaten so we could be made whole. Okay? He was beaten down so we could be made whole. He he was beaten, crushed, pierced, so we could be made whole. He was whipped so we could be healed. And so just the irony of that, you know, just the you look at that. He was taken down, beaten down, bruised, all the stuff so we could be made right. You know what I'm saying? You you gotta have somebody pay the price. That's our something's gotta die, t-shirts, uh, talk about that very thing. Something's gotta die, something's gotta pay that price. He took it. He took it for our rebellion, for our sins, so we could be made whole, so we could be healed. He went through all the pain, all the agony on our behalf. It should have been us, but it was him. He took that price, he paid that price, he paid that debt, a debt he did not owe, uh, a debt we could not pay, and he he paid that price for us, and man, that's that's the story. That's the good news that we need to be telling everybody we know. You know, everybody we can. The good news of like, hey, I don't know where you're going, what you're heading, what you got going on in your life, where you stand, but man, here's the deal. If you don't know Jesus, he paid the price for you, for your rebellion, for your sins, so you can be made whole, so you can be made righteous. And it's awesome. Awesome story. Thank you, Jesus, for what you've done. Really, really good stuff. Rimbo, a couple more days. We're getting back in the turkey woods. I'm excited. Uh, I've got to get out there and spray some promethrin on some more socks and make sure the dog doesn't get them this time.

SPEAKER_02 46:51

Make sure she's all latched up correctly.

SPEAKER_01 46:54

Latched up. She can't lick her way out. She's kind of got a little houdini action. She will, like you said, if you don't have a lock on the cage, she will lick the latch. She's a latch licker and will lick herself out to freedom. And uh, she's a shameful little beast. So all good. Appreciate you guys listening as always. Hey, be sure to send us some of your photos when you get some birds killed or big fish caught. We're getting ready to get into do a little fishing.

SPEAKER_00 47:21

I think I talked about fishing.

SPEAKER_01 47:22

Yeah, I think I talked about that maybe some last week. Uh I've had a buddy taking me on this crappie deal, and I've got the bug, bit by the bug. Now, that doesn't probably gonna carry over to turkey season because um I'll have to fish around turkey hunting. You know, I'm not gonna crappie fish instead of turkey hunting, but maybe after we punch a tag, then we go fish. Go chase turkeys, then we go fish. But I'm gonna get into a little bit of that. And uh so anyway, send us your turkey photos, fish photos, all the stuff you get into. Encourage you to chase him with all your heart, soul, and strength. And we'll see you right back here on the next one. Shoot straight. God bless.