Turkey Hunt Updates - Brodie's Bird - Real Hunt Audio

It's been a slow opening week in Tennessee but Brodie finally catches up to a few birds that are willing to play the game. Don't miss this one! 

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SPEAKER_01 0:06

All right, Rolden, once again, welcome back to the Hunting Roots Podcast. Brody Swisher here alongside me, my co-host Rimbo. Or am I your co-host? Have we established that? I think you're my co-host. I think you started to try to flip that around here more recently. Rimbo, what episode is this? We're on up in the 200s, mid-200s nowadays. What is it? 200? This is episode 239. 239. Welcome to the podcast. If this is your first time, we say a big thanks to you for joining us. If it's your first time in a long time, come on back and thank you for being a part of it. And if you've been here for all 239, man, God bless you. Big time. We've had a fun time, a fun ride with this thing. And this week we're going to be bringing you another exciting hot take on the latest update from the Turkey Woods. And so that's the deal. Last week we had Aiden, my other son Aiden, in here. And uh he had the time last week to be part of it. And it was also a special week for him. Why, Rimbo?

SPEAKER_00 1:03

Because he killed a turkey.

SPEAKER_01 1:04

He killed a turkey, so he felt obligated to be a part, and he wanted to get in here and probably do a little bragging, you know what I'm saying? And truth be told. And so he came in as we shared the story of that. If you didn't hear that one, go check that out last week, last podcast. That was a Tennessee opener and had a hot one. Rimbo and Aiden doubled up right there, boom, boom, or boom, boom, boom, boom, something like that. And uh it was good. It was a good time. And this week, we're gonna bring you the story of my bird. I had a long, slow, windy week, but finally got a punch tag here in Tennessee. So we're gonna talk all about that. This podcast is brought to you by our good friends at Onex Hunt. OnexMaps.com is the website. Go check it out. Get it in your phone if you don't have it. You need it. You need it. Your friends need it. Your family needs it. It's a good, good tool to have in the bag of tricks. And so check it out. Onexmaps.com. Also a big thanks to the guys at Mossy Oak, Mossy Oak.com. I was listening to the GameKeepers podcast this morning, Rimbo, and Bobby and the crew down there. They were I I was listening to I think it was probably a more uh along the lines of last week or two ago. It wasn't the most recent episode, I don't believe, but it was just their turkey updates and a lot of those guys and their kiddos hunting and just a really special time because a lot of them they were talking about hunting with their kids and uh hunting with their sons and uh Bobby and Jesse, I think tag team together, and Jesse killed a turkey. I don't know if I showed you that picture, Jesse um Cole got to shoot a bird, and it was her dad, Bobby, and just just sweet stuff, and that's just the good stuff of life. That's what I love about turkey hunting, is it's just that is to be able to ride along and sit in the shotgun seat for you guys over your shoulder with the camera or whatever it is, and just be a part of that. I don't have to be the one pulling the trigger. I like to see it unfold, just watch it played out again. And that was what was cool about open a day. And I'll be honest with you, when I hunted and killed my bird on Friday, it was one of those things that it was like, man, I wish somebody had been here to experience this. I wish you'd have been here. And you would talk about it, going and running the camera. You were talking big about it, actually. You're like, I'll be your cameraman.

SPEAKER_00 3:13

You never woke me up that morning, though. So that's the problem. Well, are you sure I didn't wake you up or I woke you up and you didn't get on? You never even wanted to wake me up. You didn't even come upstairs.

SPEAKER_01 3:22

I don't know. Was that the deal that day? There was a couple of those days in there where I where I didn't even bother because I knew you were gonna just shake the head and be like, no, because there's a difference in waking up and getting up. You know what I'm saying?

unknown 3:35

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 3:36

Sometimes you say, You didn't wake me up, you know, I woke you up, you just didn't get up. And there's a big difference. And that kind of changes or evolves and or sets in the further you go into hunting season, you know, you get to where you're like jumping out of bed, opening day, jumping out of bed. You got your stuff laid out, maybe even have some of your stuff on when you go to bed. You're so excited. Uh, and then as the season progresses, you kind of get like, well, you know, I'm you know, I may go. And that's the thing with you. If you say I might go tomorrow, it it's out. I'm not sure.

SPEAKER_00 4:08

If I say I might go tomorrow, that means I'm not going tomorrow.

SPEAKER_01 4:11

Yeah, you if there's any hesitation or any doubt in your mind the night before, you can hang it up. You're not going. But if you're fired up and you know, hey, I'm going, let's go, where are we going? And I'm like, hey, maybe there's a chance. Maybe there's a chance.

SPEAKER_00 4:24

And then I I went yesterday.

SPEAKER_01 4:26

You did. And I love the fact that I don't know if it was yesterday. I guess it was. I went up there to wake you up and I'm like, you in? And um and are you going? And you're like, yes. You know, you were you were you were it wasn't no hesitation. Now this morning when I went up to wake you up, I was like, dude, you there? Hello, you you good? Shook you on the back a little bit, rubbed your back, scratch your head, and yup, you you good? Well what about it? You going? And you're like, you just shook your head and no. You like, didn't say nothing. He was like, Nope. Not doing it today. And so flew solo this morning, and you made a good call today because it was it was bad. Didn't hear squat, didn't hear jack. Maybe, maybe as far as you could possibly hear, just a little you know, just just yeah, just as far as you could hear, just little maybe, and I'm like, I don't even know if that was a woodpecker or a dog barking or whatever. I could just hear something. I thought that might have been a turkey two miles away. Nothing on the farm that I was on or around me, or two or three farms around me. It was just nothing. And so good day to have slept in, but I did see a beautiful sunrise, had a uh a buck walk up. I'm gonna post this video later. Buckwalk up with his nubs, came across a little clover plot, and um I was just set up there and just chilling in my spot, and he came and popped out, saw me, but didn't pick me out, and just kind of went on by. But he had some nice nubs started up already, so nice buck. And that was right down there where not far from where you killed your buck, one of your bucks this year. So that was pretty cool. A new player on the scene. Uh let's talk turkey for just a few minutes. We're gonna make this short and sweet this week, just an upcake update, recap. Uh, but I did get out Friday, and this past week, um, it was just windy. I mean, the weather was horrible. It was wind, high winds every day. You just couldn't hear. And if you could hear it all, and you know, you had to be close. Just bottom line, you had to be close on the birds if you're gonna hear anything. And I think I think the first day or two I started out, um, went and just heard, you know, a bird. A bird gobble once or twice, fly down, and that was it. I had two of those two of those days, and just winds howling, whipping, nasty. And uh again, I knew I had to get in tight on spots, and uh it just wasn't happening. You know, it wasn't happening. Um finally got on another day in there and did hear a bird off uh on a neighboring property that was that was fairly close and you know, kind of doable. You could call from and call to and try to pull them your way. Uh and I think I ended up bumping a bird, uh, trying to get into position on that particular day. So that kind of set me up. I thought, okay, this is gonna be good. The weather was bad that day. I just I just stumbled up and got in on one I could hear. So I made plans to go back the next day, and I thought I'm gonna be in there the next day. I know where he's at, I know what he's doing. I've killed him in this field before, and uh I just knew, hey, we're we're we're gonna be ready. Got in there the next day and waiting for him, set up, ready to roll, same field, pitched into the day before, and um nothing. Nothing. I mean, I never heard a peep, no goblin, no nothing. It was a bust. And I I those those days are always so tough because then you're just like, man, you know, what are you gonna do? You just gonna sit tight? I'm I'm and I'm always in that mindset of like, I mean, I could sit here and you know there's a turkey somewhere. You know, you know what I'm saying? Somewhere there's a turkey, but I I just don't I don't enjoy playing the game when they're not talking. You know what I'm saying? What do you what do you like the most about turkey on, you personally?

SPEAKER_00 7:59

It's when you get to hear 'em and you get to see them.

SPEAKER_01 8:02

Yeah, hearing them. And if I'm not hearing them, man, my my interest level and attention span goes way down if I don't hear him. If I'm not hearing God, I mean again, there's gonna be plenty of hunts where you don't hear one gobble and you know he's there, but it sure just isn't near as much fun, and I'm ready to go do something else. If I'm not hearing 'em, like I said, some some people that will just go ride it out and they'll just sit there all day and uh, you know, I'm gonna sit here and hunt them like deer. I just hate hunting like deer. You know what I'm saying? Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 8:29

I mean just like it's it's not really that fun when you just sit on a tree all day and just waiting for 'em.

SPEAKER_01 8:36

Yeah. What in the world was that? Somebody be texting us in the middle of this thing. What in the world? Yeah, I I don't I don't I just don't enjoy the hunting a turkey like a deer, set up and just sit there and wait on a walk by. I mean there's times when that's right, you know, you've done your homework, you know he's coming right here. Um but anyway, it was just not not happening that day. And I just thought I had him pegged. I thought, okay, this is it. They were here yesterday, they're gonna do it again today. Nothing. Not a peep. Uh so I guess that was the day. Yeah, that was the day. Uh that would have been that Friday, I guess it was. Nothing happening at that farm. And so I packed up the shop, headed back, got back to the truck, and I thought, you know what, I'm gonna go check this other place out. Another farm I hadn't messed with in a bit, and not far down the road, and so I go up there and I start walking old log and road and thinking, okay, I'm just gonna walk this you know big loop and do the log and road thing and just call. Walked up in there and thought, I'll go up in here and sit down. It's still early. Uh everything's good. They ought to be talking still if they are. And I hadn't been on this part of the farm in in all, you know, yet this year. And so I get up in there, make the first sit, sit down a while, let things settle in, listening, nothing, nothing, call some, nothing. And I just begin walking that logging road. And I'm just walking it out. Got the tall timber gabriel, that's my striker call. I love just making them pop off of that thing. And if they don't gobble to that, usually I feel like they won't gobble. You know what I'm saying? That thing's loud, you can cut through the wind, and it's just a great striker call. And so I'm just going through, making the loop, hitting that box call every hundred yards or so, and nothing. And I get to end of the loop where it cuts back to the field, and I look out in the field and there's a hen, and she's out there just bugging along, doing her thing, and she's just preening and bugging and just chilling out there by herself in this field. Now I'd seen that you know particular situation before, you know, it's a pretty regular routine in this field. You know, the hens get off by themselves, and they're just always, it's not uncommon to see a you know, hen out there just doing her thing in this field, and so that's what was going on. But I did kept you know looking with my vinos, looking back across the field, like, where's the gobbler that she's left? I mean, you know, we're you know, an hour and a half or two into the day, I guess now, maybe an hour and a half, I don't know. The gobbler can't be too far, but nonetheless, I didn't see anything, not hearing any gobbling, hadn't heard a peep out of them. So I just watched this hen. I just laid down in the trail so she didn't see me and just kind of sat there watching and chilling and relaxing. And she kind of bugged across there, went right to left across the field, and I thought, okay, I've got to get out of here, I don't have time to keep messing with her. So I was just gonna kind of test out my slipping skills, and I thought, I'm gonna see if I can get it behind this brush and sneak down to there to the edge of the field. And, you know, this is like I said, still windy kind of, and um, she ain't paying much attention. She's in the field, I'm in the woods, it kind of disguises you good. Uh and so I slipped right up to the edge of that, just walking real slow. She never knew I was in the world, and you know, she's probably 60, 70 yards out there in the field. And I walked up there and like I said, she didn't uh give a rip. She's out there just doing her thing. And I'm standing there watching her and thinking, come on girl, you need to move on so I can get out of here. And I didn't want to bust her out. And I'm just standing there watching her, stand there in the in some foliage in the edge of that field, edge of the timber, and all of a sudden, pow. I mean, I'm just like, what in the world? I mean, don't we have a tone for that? What is our tone for that? Is that this one right here? Yeah. I'm standing there watching her and thinking, and I don't like I said, I'd glass the field several times, nothing. I ain't heard a peep, and then all of a sudden, dude, you just jumped like a big dog. It's scared you didn't. That's what it did to me, man. It made me jump. Because uh, I'm like, wow, and the sucker gobbled. I'm like, oh my gosh, that sucker's in the field. You know what I'm saying? You can tell when they're in the field with you. It's just a different sound. And uh sure enough, man, I get my vinyls back out and look up there, two struters, probably 400 yards away, I don't know, three or four hundred yards away. All the way over there. And I mean they were slamming them because they were up above me, they sounded loud. I mean, they were loud and and uh they're just hammering. And they're just and I thought, oh my gosh, man. So then I I mean, of course I got a hen standing in front of me, 60 yards maybe. And so I'm like, okay, I've got it now. I've slipped up to her, now I've got to make sure I slip away from her and don't bust her. I'm thinking if I bust her, she's probably their hen. She probably came from them or whatever, um, or they're following her, or she just left them, or whatever it is. I thought if I bust her and she runs back to them, the game's over. You know, she's gonna freak out and blow the deal. So I just kind of melt into the ground, into the brush there, and then try to get out of sight of her, and then I crawl back away from the edge of the field, and there's a big treetop right there in front of me, you know, right behind me. So I thought if I can get around behind this, this game on. Because I felt like she was coming to that login road and going to go up into the timber right there, and um, and I thought, well, those gobblers come with her, they're you know, they're gonna do the same thing. So I get up in there and make a little loop around. I'm kind of watching for her with my binos, and I'm looking for them, and they're up there just slamming, man, just slamming. And I thought, here we go. That's like 8 and 15 in the morning. And I thought, this is a perfect situation. They're by themselves, looking, you know, it looks like they're by themselves. I got a hen that's walking off. They surely probably know about her. And I make a little, kind of small little loop where I can kind of loop back around and get back out to the edge where I can see again. And I crawl back up to the edge where I'm watching the field and look up there, and I see those gobblers, and the hen's gone out of sight, and I don't know where she is, but I see the gobblers back up there, and I look and they're kind of making their way to the right. They're not coming the path that she took across the field. They're cutting back to the right, they're gonna go off, down, off in the field, into the bottoms. And something, okay, I need to go, and I'm gonna cut around, jump in the woods, and I'll just cut a big loop around. You know how that usually works?

SPEAKER_00 14:36

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 14:37

Not at all. You know what I'm saying? When I go into the woods and you think I'm gonna go make this big loop and get in front of them or you know, cut them off. It seems like most times it never works. It never works, man. It seems like I always lose them or I always pop out where I think they're gonna be, and they're nowhere to be found. You call, they don't make a sound, and it's like, did I bust them? Did they see me? You know, whatever, and it just it just gets blown so many times.

SPEAKER_00 14:59

You make the loop and then they're not even there.

SPEAKER_01 15:00

They're not there. That's right. And uh, and then I'm like, man, they're going off, but they're just going off because they're they're not going off because I was they're call shy. I haven't set a peep yet. They're going off because they just think I'm gonna get back in the bottoms. That's what turkeys do. They go in the bottoms and spend the day down there in the bottoms looking for acorns and whatever and just chilling in the shade. And um So I'm like, man, get back, don't blow it by losing sight of them. Get back up there to the edge and call at them. They're hot, man. They're they're slamming right now. So I did. I crawled back up there and I get where I could see them, and like I said, they're they're kind of making you know, cutting the path down to the, you know, to the just away from me, kind of angling away from me. And um so I pulled a mouth call out and get it out there and just gave them a little Just nasty. And do they both of them simultaneous and I watched them going from walking, angling away from me, that first call, they both slammed on it, and then they just turned on the dime. They just immediately turned and started walking back up the hill and come in my direction, both of them, and I thought, dude, they they ate it up. You know what I'm saying? I'm just thinking they they ate that. It's it's cool when you know sometimes you see turkeys and you call at them and they just kind of go in the strut, but they're holding their ground. But these were walking away, and then when I called at them, they turned and here they come. And it wasn't a matter of like, uh, let's stand here and strut them in it. No, they they just started marching my way and they're gobbling and they're marching, and here they come, dude. And they came, that was like I said, they were probably 300 yards maybe at that point. A long way. And um, and they just started marching across there, and so I'm I'm sliding down, getting tucked in, thinking, okay, I start breaking branches to cut, you know, making sure I could shoot, making sure I'm good and hidden. And I slid down on the edge of this stuff and it was just thick. All right to my right, it was thick, and then I had kind of a little opening to the left, so when they walked out behind that, I mean I'm just like, it's game over. And I watched and they kind of walked across the field, got up high, where they could see, and they're just doing it, gobbling, strutting, coming, and they got up high, didn't see me, and then they just marked marched right down in front of me, man, and walked up to I thought 20 yards. It looked like when I walked out there about 30 yards, and um again, they're just gobbling the whole way. One of them would strut. You hear them spitting and drumming, man. It was just so textbook. And I quit calling, you know, and it's crazy how those turkeys will, you know, we've talked about it before, how they'll pinpoint you. I mean, they know exactly where you are from a long way off, and and they just march them right up in there and um just came up, you know, perfect. I didn't have to call anymore. They just came right to where I was and they were just kind of walking right out in front of me, stopped out there about I don't know, there was one point where before they cleared, you know, the brush right in front of me, they stopped. I'm like, oh crap, do they see me? Are they seeing my watch shining? I always try to make sure my sleeves cover my watch, but what are they seeing? You know, and I had my phone on the ground, I didn't have a camera or anything, but I just had my phone recording on the ground and um they stopped for a second, and I just kind of went in that panic, and I was like, oh no, don't don't leave now. You know, because I felt like they were maybe 30 to 40 at that point. Um and I thought, oh no, do they s are they seeing me? You know, what's up? And then um then they start walking again, and they just didn't have any idea I was in the world. It was it was pretty cool. I've got the audio. Let me play a little clip, just let you hear the the sound of them as they were coming across there. I think I've got it right here. A little audio clip here. Some real hunt audio from my kill. That's out there probably eighty eighty to a hundred yards maybe. And they're miss marching right down there to me. I was had them on a string. And again, I just put this set the phone up there, just pointed it right at me, and they're 50 yards or so, and they finally get in there to 30. Like I said, I thought there were 20. And uh when I walked out there, like I said, it was 20 to 30. And it was just perfect. And uh shot the one and just melted him. He never he never flopped, he just hit the ground, shooting that little 20. Same 20 gauge you hunted with. That's a bad dude, isn't it?

SPEAKER_00 19:38

Mm-hmm. It's a really good gun.

SPEAKER_01 19:39

Yeah, and uh flopped him, and then that that other one just stood there like, what in the world? That's what's crazy about him. I think, you know, they hear that boom, and because and that bird just melted into the dirt, and that other one's just kind of like, what, what, what, what are you doing? Where where are we going? You know, he's just kind of like It's like what? What happened? Yeah, I mean they hear the boom, and you know, of course they hear crazy boom and thunder and stuff all the time. So I don't think they're really, I mean, they didn't see nothing.

SPEAKER_00 20:04

And and besides, like they gobble at like stuff like that.

SPEAKER_01 20:07

Yeah, absolutely. And uh, and so it's just big boom, and then the dude hits the dirt and he just kind of stands there like, You're not coming? We we let's go. There's a hint, you know, whatever. And he's just sitting there for a few minutes and then he finally turns and walks off, like, this ain't good. And he got out of there, and I thought, okay, that'd save him for another day and another hunt. And um bunch of bunch of birds in that area, in that vicinity. Uh so it's exciting. So man, it it just you know the deal. Every year we talk about it, you're the same way on opening day. Like hunting these turkeys, it's like a ghost. You're hunting you just feel like you're hunting ghosts, you know, and you think, man, it's not gonna happen. You know, it just seems like this this challenge, this quest that you're on, it just seems like something that you can't even understand it happening or see it happen, or just don't expect it to happen. Killing a turkey and having a turkey up in your face just seems like this this special, special thing that's like, man, I can't even remember how that went down that I can't even remember how it felt last time, and I'll probably never experience it again. And then you do, and it's just like, oh my gosh, that's just amazing. And it it's just this it's just this weird deal. Like I said, every time you kill one, you uh leading up to that point, you feel like you'll never kill it again or never experience it. And it's like this untouchable critter. And then it happens and it's m unfolding right in front of you, and you're just like, This is it, this this is really happening. This is really happening. I don't know if that's what they call that surreal, you know, feeling situation, whatever, but it just when it's going down and you see it unfolding, it's just a crazy, crazy thing it does to your body. And uh the adrenaline and everything in you know, it's just it's wild and addicting and I love it. And uh it happened on Friday and it was it was good. I keep saying Friday, I don't know if it was Thursday or Friday, whatever, last week and so good, good time and um Got the punch tag, so it's good. Tennessee we got two tags here. So you got a tag, I got a tag, and Aiden's got a tag and um That's pretty good. First week, three birds, first week of season, not too shabby at all.

SPEAKER_00 22:13

And uh That's pretty good.

SPEAKER_01 22:14

Well it's good because I love you know having those birds. I mean, I don't know. You know, when we start thinking, oh man, we hadn't killed a bird or you know, the youth hunt we didn't have that weekend, and I'm thinking, man, we didn't we didn't kill one on the youth weekend. That stinks were kind of behind the game now. It's not because it's not because I feel like we're behind the game because everybody else killed a turkey. It's not because I feel like, oh man, look at all these other kids killed a turkey. We didn't kill one.

SPEAKER_00 22:38

It's because you we feel like there's not turkeys where we're hunting.

SPEAKER_01 22:43

No, well, you got some of that sometimes you think, man, are we even have the birds on our property anymore or these properties? Uh but no, for what I'm saying is w my in my mind, the way my mind works is my gosh, we didn't kill a turkey open a weekend. That means we're behind. We don't have two that's that's less turkey breasts we have in the freezer right now. I know it's kind of weird to think it like that, but I'm thinking, all right, you got you got your birds killed, and then I'm sitting here seeing y'all do breasting out those turkeys. All right, there's two turkey breasts, Aiden's got two turkey breasts, and I'm starting to think turkey nugget dinners, you know what I'm saying? And then I killed a bird, I'm thinking, okay, six turkey nuggets, uh, you know, six turkey breasts for nuggets, and that's how I'm thinking. I'm thinking dinner. I'm thinking meals. Because I just love I heard Toxie say on the podcast earlier, he was saying that, you know, turkey's his favorite food, you know, favorite thing to eat, wild game or whatever. I guess he was saying. And I thought about that. I thought, I do I'm I'm kind of the same way. I mean I love elk and I love um, you know, I love deer meat. You know, it's fine. We eat a lot of it, I'm kinda used to it. You know, I love backstraps, that's some fine eating. But I guess it's because they're so much fewer and farther between, you know, the turkey just is super special. And when we do them deep fried turkey nuggets.

SPEAKER_00 23:55

Yeah, I think turkey nuggets is my favorite wild game to eat.

SPEAKER_01 23:58

Yeah. And so I guess I just feel like, dude, this is this is golden. You know how when we we can vegetables and we're like, oh, here we go. We canned this whatever, and it's like, you know, really good stuff. Hey, this is so we worked hard for this, here it is. Protect it, it's golden. And I don't think we feel like that about green beans anymore and peas because we've eaten, we've put some of those up. But when you get that turkey breast, it's like you're you're holding Yeah, you're just like, this is this is sacred meat. Um and it is. It's it's special to be able to put a tag on a turkey and and have that turkey breast, knowing, man, it's gonna be good. And even the legs, man. I pulled them legs off the other day, and I'm thinking, I carried that stuff in there so proud. Your mom, I was like, here you go, woman. Here it is. I I killed it. I kind of cleaned it up a little bit. You can take it from here and wrap it up, and she makes those uh she'll make sliders, turkey sliders out of that, and she'll do that uh turkey salad. I don't I don't think you like the turkey salad. It's like chicken salad, but turkey salad.

SPEAKER_00 24:57

I mean, turkey salad's good, but I don't really like the turkey uh sliders. Why not? I don't understand how you don't like that.

SPEAKER_01 25:03

I've got you just don't like that dark meat. You just don't like the turkey meat.

SPEAKER_00 25:06

I've never really liked that meat.

SPEAKER_01 25:07

Yeah, it's the darker meat for you. Uh so then we fast forward to Was it yesterday? Yesterday morning. Yesterday morning. What did we find yesterday morning?

SPEAKER_00 25:18

We had two jakes is all we saw, but we did hear another one, though.

SPEAKER_01 25:23

We did hear a lot of turkeys. Yeah. A lot being how many would you say? Because you say a lot.

SPEAKER_00 25:29

Four or five.

SPEAKER_01 25:30

Oh, come on. Now you're see, I like how you work there. Four or five, I don't know. Maybe so.

SPEAKER_00 25:35

I think it was four.

SPEAKER_01 25:36

Yeah, that's probably true because we heard two jakes, and then there was another one or two over there were big birds gobbling over on the other side, a farm or two away that were untouchable, at least for us. Um but we did hear the Jake, and I remember saying on the way in, that sounds pretty close. He's even closer. That's uh, you know, I felt like that was on the property we had, but this other bird's just going crazy, you know, just really getting at it. And again, he was not on our property, but I thought, you know, who knows? If he flies down into this pasture, then we got to play. And if he you know flies down in a neighboring farm, and um, you know, we we try not to call, if we know, obviously, if we know, hey, there's a hunter over there, he's hunting, and you know, let's don't call somebody, you know, try to call a bird. You know, I just don't do that. Don't do that in duck hunting, try to call birds off somebody. Don't try to do that in turkey. You know, if you know somebody's over hunting, but we've if we've got a farm, uh neighboring farm, and nobody hunts it, but they don't let other people hunt it, by golly, we'll sure enough try to call a turkey off of it onto us. And so um, that's fair game in my world as far as ethics or whatever, you know, we're gonna we're gonna call them over our side of the fence. But that's what we thought might happen again, because that bird often pitches into that field over there. Didn't happen that particular day. And then we thought, okay, this other bird's got some goofy gobble. Sometimes those jakes that sometimes they gobble and it just sounds like a weaker gobble, but then sometimes it's more of a dragon sounding. I thought, I can't tell if that's a Jake, just a horrible sound of Jake, or if it's just a old bird, whatever. So we ease back over there. We heard him a couple times, thought, he's not that far off. Ease back over that other side of the pasture, get set up, call a little bit, nothing, call a little bit, nothing. And then we get down in there and we're thinking, all right, we we probably need to go. I think we were getting ready to do something like, all right, let's get back out, we'll go back to that other bird. We could still hearing that other bird gobbling, and all of a sudden that thing went and he wasn't far. 100 yards. I saw you spin around on the tree real quick, and we got set up, and um, it wasn't long a few minutes later, we called a I turned my head and kind of cast the call because it sounded like you're trying to get behind us, which would have been bad. Um big fence there that you probably wouldn't try to get through. So I tried to cast that call again back to the right, and sure enough, here they came. You you're like, I see them. You know, I kept asking, just tell me, you know, don't look at me, just tell me when you see them, and sure enough, you're like to the right, and uh, let's play that little piece right here. I think we got a little clip of that. I had two come and weren't sure at this point whether Jake's or not. Suspected they might be. And then the confirmation, I was like, oh man.

unknown 28:33

Oh wow.

SPEAKER_01 28:34

But it's still fun. It's still fun when jakes come up there. And these these birds were a good example of the fact. We hadn't called in several minutes here. And they're just kind of walking across the field, even though they're young Jakes. But what do they do? They're just walking across the field. Right to us.

SPEAKER_00 28:51

Right to us.

SPEAKER_01 28:52

Listen to him right here. And I love it. They're standing there about 25 yards, 30 yards from you right there.

SPEAKER_00 29:11

I mean, that's not a terrible gobble for a Jake.

SPEAKER_01 29:13

Oh, I know. And that's just it. And the way that the way that sounded, it's a short gobble, but the way it sounded across that pasture and across that bottom, it kind of echoed, and so it sounded nastier than it, you know, than a Jake. He's like, and like I said, just that reverberation or whatever you call it, going across the woods in that open ground, it it sounded it sounded good. And um anyway, it was it was cool. And uh, yeah, they marched right up, and again, that was my point, is they they came right up in our business, came up to 15 yards, and they had us pinpointed. You know what I'm saying? They walked right to where they heard that sound. They're young birds, you know, they're young birds, but that's the that's the the incredibly keen senses that God's put into them with their hearing and the pinpoint ability to have heard that sound from 100, 150 yards away and know exactly where it is, and they walked right up there to the tree and uh come up there just looking, like, where is it? I I heard it right here. And uh that's just such a cool thing. And so it jakes, but it was still a fun little encounter, and just to hear one gobble, see one gobble, doing it, is they're so goofy, but uh fun, fun stuff. So that's been the week. This morning went out, didn't hear Jack Squad again. That was kind of a bummer. Went to a place that I heard them, saw them kind of starting to figure out this is kind of a newer piece, and kind of figured out in the two times I've been there this season, kind of figured out a routine that they've done twice. I thought, okay, I got them today. And I went back in there today, never heard a bird, and that was kind of disappointing. And uh so I don't know. Know if I go back in there or do something different. I think we've gonna try something different tomorrow. But we've got rain coming in. We'll just have to see what the rest of the week looks like. Uh it's fish fry week here in Tennessee, though. What does that mean, Rimbo to you?

SPEAKER_00 31:03

Um, not really that much, but the carnival, the fish fry parade, the uh all fish tent, and a bunch of other good stuff.

SPEAKER_01 31:11

World's biggest fish fry, Paris, Tennessee. If you've never been, come on out. They do uh they got what they call the fish tent. It's not a fish tent any longer. It's actually the you know metal building. It's a big thing. It's a convention building now, but it used to be, I guess, the fish tent. Now they call it the fish tent still, but it's it's just too big to Yeah, it's gotten outgrown the the fish tent. And uh but it's good. Fish is good. And uh it's just all you can eat. Fish, 20 bucks, I think it is. So it's gotten spinny. Used to be like twelve dollars or ten bucks back in the day, and like everything, prices have gone up, but it's a good time to get out, always see some people you know, and hang out. And like you said, they got the carnival and all the stuff the kids can ride, and uh just gonna be a just gonna be a good time. The parade, I think, is on Friday, um which we still sometimes I guess we still go. Last year last year y'all were in the parade, and uh so mom and I went and watched that. And just a good time. So if you're anywhere close to the Paris Henry County area, it's Fish Fry Week. World's biggest fish fry right here in Paris. Come on out, we'll maybe see you there. It's gonna be a good time. Hey, here's the word from the word for this week. This is uh Matthew chapter 16, verse 24. It said, Then Jesus said to his disciples, if anyone wishes to come after me, he must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me. You've heard this verse before, haven't you?

SPEAKER_00 32:32

Yeah, I have.

SPEAKER_01 32:33

Yeah, we've we have. You have. We've uh we've heard it before, we've shared it before, I'm sure, many times, because this is a good one. Um but again, he's saying to his disciples, hey, if you want to uh come after me, anyone wishes to come after me, he must deny himself. You know, we've talked about that. Die to yourself. We sell those t-shirts, something's got to die. That's what that's all about. Deny yourself, die to yourself, get over yourself. He must deny himself or die to himself, take up his cross and follow me. Take up that cross. That cross was a symbol, a tool. Uh we've it's become a symbol, but it in those days was a tool, an instrument of death. The cross, your cross that you had to bear, you had to carry was your execution, and uh that's how you were gonna die. Take up your cross and follow me. Died yourself. Again, just getting it's that's kind of the name of the game there. The point is you you've got to die deny yourself. We live in a time where we're all about self. You know, we literally have people taking what we call selfies, pictures of yourself, and that happens all day, every day. People taking photos of themselves. Usually it's the girls, right?

SPEAKER_00 33:41

It's always the girls.

SPEAKER_01 33:42

Yeah, we're well, you can't say it's all it it always is mostly the girls, but it's not always because we do sometimes ourselves. Usually our f the difference in girls and boys, girls and guys, is that our selfies girls are just like holding it up like an actual selfie, but like when a guy does it, it's we're usually holding a fish or holding a turkey or holding some ducks or squirrels. So our selfies are usually hunting selfies, and we can we we we allow that. But the girls are just fruit fruiting their hair, doing them kissy lips and duck lips, whatever they do, and just taking pictures of themselves, and it's like they're self-absorbed, and they just man, it's it's it's thick. It's scary how caught up we are in ourselves these days. And again, it's a lot of the students, but it's a lot of other people too, grown adults acting the same way, so caught up in themselves, so full of themselves. And the Bible's clear hey, deny yourself, take up your cross and follow me. Get over ourselves and follow Jesus. That's encouragement, that's a challenge this week. I hope you make the effort to do that. I need to do that. We all need to do that. Follow him more, chase after Jesus more this week. And that's the word from the word. Guys want to encourage you to chase him with all your heart, soul, and strength. We look forward to seeing you right back here next time. Next week. Shoot straight. God bless.