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This week on Borrowed Time, we relive the past week of spending time in the woods and look ahead to April.
After countless miles and hours spent in the turkey woods, it's easy to get discouraged whenever you've yet to tote one out; however it's even more important to keep hunting----- it will all come together.
The past several years of great hatches are coming into play, making the Hardwood Bottoms of Central Mississippi an exciting place to be. We've still got a couple turkeys to chase and a lot of season left, y'all stick with us.
Hey everybody, welcome back to another episode of the Bar Time Podcast. My name's Daniel Halfacre, and I'm sitting here with Johnson Wells, and we actually did manage to wrangle old Seth Box.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, he won't show up to the podcast anymore. That's right. So we just have to call in. Yeah. Say hello, Seth. Do you have any answers, Seth?
SPEAKER_02Man, I'm just astonished y'all talking all this junk about me.
SPEAKER_03Go ahead and break the news to the Sunday. Just because I'm not there in person. Go ahead and break the news to these faithful listeners, Seth. What happened today?
SPEAKER_02Oh man, the stars aligned. And uh the good Lord gave me a pat on the back and a uh a present and a sucker and sent me on my way.
SPEAKER_03Man, in the shape of a long bearded guy, bro.
SPEAKER_02You know, I think in the Go ahead, Seth.
SPEAKER_00Go ahead, John.
SPEAKER_02No, I was just gonna say in the form of a long beard.
SPEAKER_00Well, I was gonna say, I think everybody is just as happy as Seth is that he got one.
SPEAKER_03That's what I was gonna say a second ago. I was like, I bet Addy is just as happy that way, Seth ain't moping around no more.
SPEAKER_02Well, look, look, the the world might think, you know, since we started this this podcast or whatever, and turkey season has arrived and things are shaken out the way they have, that I might be the worst turkey hunter ever. And uh, which is wrong, but I might I'm not far from the worst turkey hunter ever. But I'm not the worst. No, it's just been it's just been some some tough uh I don't know, tough stretch.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, as long as uh I've ever known Seth through social media and just knowing him as a person, uh this year's been pretty rough.
SPEAKER_03It's like it's like, you know, I always seen him killing turkeys, killing turkeys, killing turkeys, you know, and then we start this whole bar time deal. I'm like, man, I'm glad to have him on our team. And then my lord, just been striking out at the plate.
SPEAKER_02Oh man, y'all put me in the nine-hole and I have Yeah. I haven't even I haven't even sacked fly, you know what I'm saying?
SPEAKER_03Yeah, you ain't even you ain't even foul balled one, buddy. It's just three strikes, just three straight whiffs.
SPEAKER_02I'm not even I wasn't even swinging up until yesterday. I did swing yesterday.
SPEAKER_00Hey, well, before we get tell us about your whole week.
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SPEAKER_02Alright, well, I haven't had a season quite like this. I'll say a first, I don't even know if we're halfway through, but a first, you know, start to the season like this in literally probably like 10 years. And uh that might be a stretch, seven or eight years at least. And uh, anyways, so yesterday, me and Johnson and old Connor now, we we got on one. Uh despite the high winds, we actually did find a turkey goblin.
SPEAKER_00Hold on. Let me stop you. Let me stop you. You forgot to tell about the the devil, the devil turkey. Well, no, no, no, no, no. You forgot to tell about the the Georgia.
SPEAKER_03Oh, yeah, you got to go all the way back.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, that's okay. Yeah, I did forget that.
SPEAKER_03We alluded to on the last podcast that that Mr. Box had a Georgia boy coming down and he wasn't gonna be on the gun. That's right.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, yeah. So good buddy Trace Larimer, uh, Johnson got to meet him. Daniel, you you didn't, but um, anyways, he came down and hunted with me for he got here Sunday afternoon and he killed Tuesday morning, first thing Tuesday morning. So we hunted uh Sunday afternoon, all day Monday, and pretty much the first, you know, till like I don't know when we killed that bird. It was soon after fly down. Right. Uh but in that little stretch of time, me and him, we walked 27 miles. I mean, we we were doing some stepping, and uh pretty much, man, they they would, you know, you'd hear gobble until about eight o'clock, and uh that was it for the day um on our end. Now I'm sure people all around were striking them up at 11, 12, uh 2, 3 o'clock, whatever, but not for us. But anyways, Tuesday morning rolls around and and Johnson met us at a spot, and uh we were pretty confident. Actually, Daniel, Daniel, you heard that turkey, right?
SPEAKER_03Yes, sir. Monday afternoon. We were riding around, it was so beautiful, and uh I told Caitlin, I said, You want to hear turkey gobble? She said, You think he will? I said, Oh, I guarantee you he will. Um, you know, I just I wasn't really didn't really think we would. But you know, just gotta be optimistic. Right. I just was like, oh, absolutely, he's gonna gobble. Anyway, we we uh we walked up and I hooted, and then we were standing there maybe five minutes, and someone just kind of got fired up and gobbled four times. Uh anyway, and then that's when I was like, Seth, I got you one in the morning, pinned down.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, yeah. My memory serves me correctly. That's why we were there is because Daniel found the turkey uh a little before fly up time the evening prior to this. But anyways, we were in there at daylight and uh heard his first gobble, you know, 620 something. Um, got in a good position, probably a little less than 150 yards from him. What'd you say, John? Yeah, that's about right. Yeah, 130 to 150, something in there. Good comfortable distance. Uh, you know, it was it was so quiet right there at daylight. I mean, uh, there wasn't a lot of leaves and stuff on the ground, but it was still loud regardless, especially with three people trying to slip through the woods. So, anyways, we set up, yeah, set up, and uh a bird kind of to the right, right hand of this turkey we set up on started gobbling, and he was he was another, I don't know, 300 yards away, so he was probably a total of like 400 yards from us. Well, he got to gobbling and was gobbling really nice. Um, flew down early, and he was just up and down a little ditch out there, man, just hammering. So uh the whole time um our turkey that we're set up on is gobbling less unless we're thinking, man, we need to we need to make a little loop on this guy out here, because he's right. But um, anyways, we stayed put, you know, we're just patient with him. And um, you know, I don't know if if it was a third turkey or if it was the initial turkey we were set up on, but uh a bird came in completely 180, uh 180 degrees from the bird we were set up on. So you can imagine our opposite side, there hadn't been a turkey gobbling over there. One just lights it up at like 110 yards, and uh we're like, oh gosh. So we repositioned real quick, had some some thick stuff we could we could get away with all that. So we got set up on him, and he got cranked up pretty good. Uh was answering us. We'd go silent on him. He he gobbled you know a number of times on his own. It was just back and forth like that, and it was your typical like hang up at 90 uh type hunt. He stayed right there at that 80 to 100 yard range, wanting us to come over there, and he would drift off, make another call, he'd come right back up there. That happened twice, and then uh he kind of shut up for a little bit, and uh the next time he gobbled, he was a good bit further to the left and then saw him actually. Um Johnson was videoing this whole time. Um, but anyways, we saw the turkey, he was working right to left, going kind of toward that other bird that was gobbling, and uh kind of getting out of range. You know, I I kind of figured he was gonna be one of them spooky birds and not really roll up in there like we wanted him to, but I actually jake-called to him. And uh Trace was watching the turkey at the time. He was he was I couldn't see him from where I was sitting, and he said, Oh man, he just he just blew up strut. And uh so I gave it a second and uh I cut and yelped, and then I jake-calked right behind that, and and he started just marching in, you know, slowly, zigzagging his way, strutting in. And uh yeah, he came to 35 yards, stuck his head up, had no clue we were ever in the world, and Trace cut down on his first Mississippi Longbeard. So that was a great hunt.
SPEAKER_00So when we got there, uh Trace handed me his camera. And uh I I had planned to come and video anyways, but he handed me his camera. Anyways, when I cut it on, or when he handed it to me, he had already mashed record, so I just kept it videoing. Well, I saw he only had half battery, and uh I had videoed this whole entire hunt. And uh when the turkey gobbled back behind us, I spun around and I got on him, and uh the camera died. I'm talking probably 10 minutes before this turkey came walking in there. I I was dude, I was like, there's no way. I luckily I had my GoPro on now. Obviously, it wouldn't be as good as if I had the big camera rolling, but I got the keel and everything on there. You can see the turkey a little bit, but I was like, man, there ain't no way I videoed this whole thing and his camera's gonna die. And he didn't have another battery or anything, so I just I was like, oh well. Sorry, Trace, whatever. Sorry, Trace. I apologize to him, but I mean there was nothing I could do. But it was Oh, and it was gorgeous too, man. It was beautiful. Absolutely.
SPEAKER_03So your week just stopped right there, huh? You just stopped hunting for the rest of the week?
SPEAKER_00No.
SPEAKER_03Tell us about the rest of your week.
SPEAKER_02Well, I did stop hunting for a few days. I had been hunting pretty much every morning. Uh, if I didn't have a job lined up for the day, I would I would really just hunt the whole day. But uh the days I did have jobs, I would go in kind of late, you know, and get to work. But um, after Trace killed that bird, I hunted the next day, and then I had a job lined up for the next two or three days. Um so I pretty much just worked.
SPEAKER_03Was it the very next day that we me and you went? I think it was.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, yeah, actually. We got on a yeah, got on a mean one uh at one of Johnson's spots. Golly.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, I didn't I didn't get to hunt with him. I heard all about it. He got a name that day. That day he was just mean enough to get to get a name. That's a bad turkey.
SPEAKER_00That's a bad turkey. He was mean.
SPEAKER_02He was a weirdo for real. Yeah, he was.
SPEAKER_00That's that was a good one.
SPEAKER_02But anyways, yeah, she is gonna take care of him, probably. Right, yeah, yeah. Actually, she is. I don't think you got a chance with him, buddy. Good luck, Shiz.
SPEAKER_00Oh but tell us about it. Okay, so so fast forward, I guess, uh your next time. To my next time. Yesterday.
SPEAKER_02Yesterday. So um yesterday was Saturday, yeah, so it wasn't working. Me, Johnson, and Connor Neil rolling to a spot that I had some previous intel on. And uh spot me and Trace had hunted and heard a bird on there, but you know, that fizzled fizzled, whatever you want to say, fizzled out. Um, but anyways, we got in there and the wind was kicking. It was like gusted up to like 33 or something.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, it was pretty rough you couldn't hear. Terrible. I mean, people say all the time the trees were bending over, they were literally bending over. There were some pine trees we were standing under, and I was like, we need to get out from under these because it's the tops could snap out of them.
SPEAKER_02Right, yeah. It was bad. There were a bunch of limbs popping and stuff. I mean, it wasn't dangerous, but it was limbs popping and stuff falling out of trees. But uh, anyways, so where we parked the truck was a pretty good walk from from where we were actually hunting. So uh I bit the bullet and I was like, well, I'll just walk out to the truck. Y'all cut the corner off right here and walk to this road and I'll pick you up right there. You know, the property goes all the way up to the road, and you know, no big deal. Well, uh I get a call when I get as soon as I get back to the truck, and I thought these guys are messing with me. Actually, Johnson texted me and said, Struck a bird. And uh I was still walking, so I was like, oh, whatever, they're just they're just pulling my shape. We were not pulling this chain. Absolutely not. And uh so I didn't really believe him, honestly, just kept on going about my business. Well, I get to the truck and drive around to where I'm I'm uh those bulls are gonna come out of the come out of the woods. And Connor calls me, he's like, hey, bird goblin in here, 130 yards. I'm like, what? And that is about as far as you can hear, honestly. The wind has died down a little bit, but is still kicking. And uh I said, Well, kill him, you know, kill him, come on out. And uh I'm just chilling. About 10 minutes goes by, he calls me, he's like, Where are you at? Like, I'm waiting on y'all. He said, Man, come in here. This bird's goblin.
SPEAKER_00I was like, All right, so I get out. I I will say, shout out Connor. Um he's nicer than a lot of people would have done because he immediately told me he's like, I don't want to shoot this turkey. He was like, Call Seth, and I didn't have any service. Yeah, and uh he was like, uh, well, I'll call him real quick.
SPEAKER_03I want him to come down here and shoot this turkey. Which is a good friend in and of itself. Then you take a look at the city. Excellent friend. Then you take into account that my man hasn't even hunted this year because he's been working. Yeah, okay, that puts it in a whole different ballpark there, buddy. I agree.
SPEAKER_02And so yeah, so me and him, yeah, he called, but me and him are like that, man. We get into arguments a lot of times when we're hunting together. Not really arguments, it's just like, all right, hey, you shoot. No, you shoot, you know, back and forth like that. Uh, but it always works out. We both kill birds, you know, together.
SPEAKER_03Me and me and John would be like that too. I'm like, I'm shooting, and he's like, I'm shooting. Right. That's that's an art.
SPEAKER_02No, this no, that that ain't even how it plays out. John shoots every bird. I know. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. No, but anyways, I roll up in there and uh we call to the turkey like three times. He doesn't gobble. I'm like, man, I knew y'all were messing with me. And uh, because they were like, This bird's answering every time you call. Well, I guess he really couldn't hear us, so we got we finally struck him, and he was probably like he drifted a little bit. He was a little under 300, I would say. Yeah. And uh, so we advanced, you know, a little bit further and get set up, and and he he's actually come come closer to us by now, and uh we're in a really good position. And there was a gigantic, and when I say gigantic, I mean like two people can't wrap around this poplar tree in this bottom. It is humongous, and uh probably 50 inches across the butt if you were to cut it down. And uh, anyways, we got set up on that thing. A great tree to set up on. Me and Connor. Johnson is behind us about 30 something yards, uh, just yelping real soft, scratching in the leaves. And this this fired up two-year-old was absolutely tearing that up. And uh, I joked with Johnson after this. I said, Man, you caught him up way too fast. But anyways, man, this sucker, he he rolls up on us. There's an old barbed wire fence out there, comes through the fence. Before this, Connor tells me, he's like, I see you, man. He's running, he is sprinting, you know, full speed. I'm like, oh gosh, oh gosh. And so he rolls up there and he's kind of he's trying to go past us and go to Johnson. So, like with every three steps he takes, he gets about a step closer to us. So he's almost parallel, paralleling us in a sense. And uh, so man, he gets in my gap, and it was a it was a touch over 40. I think it might have been 45 on the dot, which I'm comfortable with. I just like him inside 50 pretty much. Um, if I could pick a distance, I would say like 36 yards is the perfect range for me. I mean, if I had to just put a number on it.
SPEAKER_04I like that. 36. Every every measurement he has used up to this point has been so specific. I like it. He was at 110 yards. He was right there on 36.
SPEAKER_02Maybe y'all just need to look be a little bit more specific.
SPEAKER_03I like it. And the tree was not 48 inches, which is you know, four foot. No, it was 50 inches across. I thought he said 52.
SPEAKER_02Did you want me to say four feet two inches?
SPEAKER_03Yeah, you should have been. That's it. That's what I want. Four feet two inches.
SPEAKER_00Hold on. Side note. I'm sitting back behind him, and uh, I got a whole bunch of thick stuff in between us, and the back of my my phone case is like silver, and I'm sitting there and I'm just holding it and I'm videoing. I'm like, I'm never gonna see this turkey. But um, he was coming, I was like, I'm gonna get it the gunshot, but at least maybe I'll get some gobbles or something. Well, I'm sitting there videoing and uh I look over, it's kind of it's kind of straight out in front of me, but kind of towards the right a little bit, and uh I see just like a little black dot moving, and I was like, was that a turkey? And uh then all of a sudden and he blew up strut, and I was like, Holy crap, that is a turkey. I threw my phone on the ground because I mean he was close enough, he could have seen my phone right. And uh I was like, That turkey ain't very far from me. He ought to be shooting here pretty quick. And then carry on, Seth.
SPEAKER_02What kind of turkey hunter has a white phone case?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, uh I don't I don't know. I don't know, my bad. I mean, I got GoPros and everything else. I wasn't planning on really videoing my phone much, but caught me yesterday.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, but long story short, he stepped in the gap, you know, 45 yards, and I just clean missed. Uh but I was I was kind of happy. I mean, I wasn't happy, but I was relieved after the turkey, you know, got over the next ridge. Right before he went over the ridge, he was putting and he slowed down kind of looking, you know, what the heck happened. So I was confident that I didn't, you know, wound him. So that was uh that was a relief. But that was that day, and uh I needed somebody to blame, so I blamed Johnson for calling him up too fast.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, and uh I was sitting there after that, and I don't Seth handled it very well. Like compared to most people, like I sat there after the season he's gonna be. Look, I sat there for probably close to five minutes after the shot, just sat back there on my tree because I was like, first off, I had a sick feeling in my stomach. I was like, no way. But then I was like, I don't know like if I want to walk up to that tree right now because I didn't know how he was gonna be. I walk up there and Connor, Connor's sitting there like smiling, just like grinning.
SPEAKER_04And then Seth sitting there and he's smiling too, and he's like, I don't know what happened. And I was like, man, that was tough.
SPEAKER_02Some things, some things are so unbelievable, you just gotta laugh at them.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, I uh I was I was in uh disbelief. I I couldn't believe it. But uh yeah, so carry on next day, today I guess.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, next day, which is today. Uh me and Connor and uh good buddy of ours, Bradley Pinkard, we went into the same spot and uh expecting to hear that turkey, hopefully hear that turkey. And anyways, I don't I think he was with this other bird, but there was two of them roosted together, about the same spot, Johnson. Honestly, he might have been roosted in the tree we sat on. And uh bird was gobbling out there pretty good on the limb. But uh, you know, before too long, hen started calling. I was like, oh shoot, you know, and then another one started yelping. So he had they had several hens with them, and uh just your your typical kind of early season story gobbling got less and less, and we ended up seeing the turkeys after they flew down, um, you know, over a hundred yards through the timber. And they were just strutting doing their thing, man, just spinning around in circles. They weren't really picking a direction and going. Honestly, they might still be within an acre of where they were this morning. Um, but this whole time there was a bird gobbling on the other end of the property, and uh we're just you know keeping mental mental notes. And when we made the decision, we're like, okay, well, I was like, Well, I gotta leave at you know nine o'clock. Me and Addie gotta go take these engagement pictures and and uh people are going to church and stuff and and whatnot. And yeah, I know we skipped, but shame on us, but had to go take these pictures.
SPEAKER_00I understand.
SPEAKER_02But uh, anyways, yeah, yeah, yeah. But so we we said, well, let's roll over here and check this bird real quick and just see what's going on. So we we go over there and hoot turkey gobbles. Okay, and uh ease down in the woods, make a call, nothing, make a call, nothing, walk up a little farther. Turkey finally answers us, and I just don't think he could hear us. He was probably 600 yards. And uh sorry, I lost my train of thought. But anyways, so we advance on the turkey and get uh across this little creek, get up on the ridge, and I'm like, man, I feel really good about this. The turkey's kind of below us in this little ditch. It's not a big elevation change, so I don't think he he'll have any trouble, you know, going up it. But uh I don't I really like to do this. I got him fired up, you know, hitting him really hard, cutting, and and he opened the stuff after we established, you know, here I am. He gobbles at me a couple times, then I crank up on him and he hits it, man, like three or four, five times. I don't know how many times he gobbled really fast. Uh but uh, anyways, he started closing the distance, and I'm just kind of waning him off. Um, calling less and less. And when he gets to about that 100-yard range, I don't, I'm not saying anything else. And he stays right there for a while, probably 10 minutes, just gobbling, wanting us to come over the little the little rise and find him. But he gets a little closer, a little closer, and and the way we're set up on top of this knob, if we can see this turkey, he's in range. He's inside 50 yards if we can see him. And uh, which I I I do like that in some situations. But um, he gets closer and closer and he starts putting all of a sudden. Inside 70 yards, just starts putting it on. So when he started putting, that kind of threw a red flag for me. I started uh cutting at him a little bit and yelping and whatnot, and he went back to gobbling. And uh, so I'm like, okay, maybe we're cool now. So I I shut up and he shuts up. I'm like, well, he's either walking away from us or we're just about to see him somewhere. I'm not hearing any drumming or anything. And uh so, anyways, I give him a little soft stuff, nothing. I did that twice. And uh a few minutes goes by, I'm like, gosh dang, where's his turkey at? He was in inside 70 the last time he gobbled, you know, seven or eight minutes ago. And uh so I give him something a little bit louder, and he blows our hats off, man, at like like 43 yards. Because I'll tell you, I'll explain this. As soon as he gobbles, I had to move my gun like two inches to be lined up right with where I thought he was. And uh man, it was less than five seconds later. I saw him and he stuck his head up and I cut him down right there. And when I went over there and got the turkey in range back to the tree, it was 41 yards. So he was just right behind uh that little lip whenever he gobbled. But it was a really, really good hunt. Hard gobbling, probably 17-pound two-year-old. And uh I couldn't be any more proud of him.
SPEAKER_03Oh, I bet not. I bet so. My goodness.
SPEAKER_02I told Connor, I said, Man, this is gonna sound crazy. I said, Man, I don't even want this turkey to have a big beard or big spurs. I just wanted the 15 to 18 pounds, happy little two-year-old. Absolutely. But man, it would have been a good one, a video, uh, for the audio specifically. Um, because I mean the the the visual stuff wasn't there very long, but it would have been a good hunt.
SPEAKER_00You mean to tell me you had two other guys there with you, and you didn't hand one of them the camera? Man, look, I'll explain that.
SPEAKER_02Uh my previous shooting record, I needed two other shooters. I didn't need a camera guy.
SPEAKER_00I understand.
SPEAKER_02Hey, somebody was toting this turkey out, whether it be me or them.
SPEAKER_03Well, yeah, I wasn't glad. I'm glad you finally broke the ice. You can get rolling now. Yeah, me and John are going.
SPEAKER_02Oh, that was it was a gorilla, son. It wasn't a monkey.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, we're going in the morning.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, and somebody might hear this and be like, what are you talking about? It's March 29th. We got a whole month left of season. And I agree. But I had been hunting so much, like it was getting it was getting weird at this point. Oh, me. Yeah, but it was a great hunt. And uh maybe we can do it again tomorrow. Me and Johnson are gonna video this one this time.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, Johnson will video it. Yeah, I'll I'll bring the camera. I'll bring the camera. John's gonna be there. And I'll bring an extra battery. Mmm, that's smart. That's really smart. But uh, Seth, you're gonna have to get off here. Are you good to stay on, or what? You finna go eat?
SPEAKER_02Well, me and uh me and the old lady. Actually, I forgot to tell you this. So I told you we had those pictures to go take, right? Yeah, and so when I leave the woods, I go back to the house, I get you know my outfits or whatever I gotta wear for these engagement pictures. And I'm like, I need somebody to take my picture with this turkey. And uh mom and dad are gone to church. Addie's parents are gone to church. I'm like, shoot, so I guess uh she's probably in her pajamas, uh, you know, getting makeup on and stuff. So I call her up when I get 10 minutes from the house. I say, Hey, can you take my picture here a little bit? And she's like, Yeah, I can. So uh there's where they live, they got some beautiful pasture land. I said, What you got here in the pasture and taking? So here she comes, hair up, uh slippers on, makeup done, and she's trying to dodge these big cow patties. Uh that was pretty funny. I got a video, I'll show it to y'all boys, but yeah, she got it done. So came in clutch for the pictures. She's a trooper.
SPEAKER_00I did that to Maggie uh on the first one I killed. It was like seven o'clock on a Sunday morning. I woke her up. She was out there in pajamas, glasses on, and her house shoes.
SPEAKER_02But yeah, she wasn't happy about that. She told me about that, John. Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_04But she got the job done.
SPEAKER_03Um fresh off a 12-hour shift, you know. She did she was sleeping good. She was like, Man, I'm gonna sleep in today. Yeah, no, she actually wasn't too mad about it though. No, she treated it, she was a trooper because she was sending us videos and it was hilarious.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, out there in her little pink sweater. What does he have me out here doing?
SPEAKER_02But we got a little place we gotta run into. We're on the way home now, so I'm gonna leave you two with it.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, I guess y'all don't talk.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, do you don't talk too much junk about me?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, well, that's kind of hard not to do.
SPEAKER_03But uh, real quick, did you uh did you shoot that turkey today with the same gun, same shells, and everything as you shot yesterday?
SPEAKER_02Or negative. Daniel's a hater on me. He's such a hater. He doesn't believe in my hand loads. That's okay. I'll just play John and the turkeys don't believe in them either.
SPEAKER_03Actually, the turkeys very firmly believe in them. Yeah, they do. They do believe in them.
SPEAKER_02I've I've knocked a plenty down with the old box uh handloads of custom loads. So Daniel's basically saying like the turkeys feel safe coming up. That's what I'm saying.
SPEAKER_03They believe in them.
SPEAKER_02He's gonna motivate me even more in my ambitions, and I'm gonna just make it a little bit more.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, Seth's gonna start marketing these uh box custom blends, but it's gonna be like, you know, the blends you buy for your buddy that you don't like you share a lease with and you don't want him to kill the turkey. So you buy these shells, they look legit, they're they're they're the same weight and everything, but they will not do it.
SPEAKER_02Hey, you keep on, I remember that. I remember that. Hey Jonathan, if you don't watch out, he'll miss three of them next year with the apexes or whatever.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, you're gonna you go you're gonna fix them up for me. No, I probably will.
SPEAKER_02I'm gonna sabotage that away.
SPEAKER_03I probably will. You gotta ride the highway on it, and I'm on it, so that's uh I can't do nothing else but talk about everybody else now. Oh man.
SPEAKER_02Ride that thing, son.
SPEAKER_03Yep, I'm gonna tell a story of this old Satan of the swamp. Yeah, we'll let you go.
SPEAKER_02Well, I don't even want to be a part of that thing because he was weird. He was weird. Anyways, I'll haul it y'all boys after you get done with the podcast. See ya. All right, see ya.
SPEAKER_03All right, Dan.
SPEAKER_00I guess you can go ahead.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, and we'll save you actually got some kind of action, so we'll uh we'll we'll get into that. I guess it was Wednesday morning, so uh uh Trace killed that turkey Tuesday morning, and Wednesday morning, we were uh actually Seth that afternoon was like, Hey, you know, you want to go back to this turkey uh that uh the other one that we heard that day. I was like, Yeah, we'll go. Well, anyway, Johnson was that Tuesday afternoon was just sitting on his back porch chilling, and he was like, God dog, I think I was a turkey. And uh he was starting yelping on his old on his wing bone.
SPEAKER_00We're gonna have to bleep out where it was at.
SPEAKER_03Well, we didn't go hunt this turkey. Johnson was on the back porch of his grandparents' house that he don't ever talk to. It's it's like his foster grandparents in Jackson. Yeah, they live about 90 miles. That's Jackson, Tennessee, but this was last year when Tennessee was open already. So yeah, anyway. So Johnson got it had this one picked out. We we went and uh Wednesday morning we got down here and we we started listening and we heard one and we were like, all right, that's right about where Johnson said he'd be. Well, we we made it about 200 yards, and he was, you know, as far as you could hear, and it was a crystal clear morning, so we were we were putting him at about 500. Well, we walked up about 200 and hooted, and man, he was no closer. And I was like, what in the world? And we had actually gained some elevation and got on a high point, and uh, man, that turkey was as far as you could hear. Matter of fact, Seth was confident he heard him, and I wasn't so sure. Anyway, we walked probably another 250 yards, and and sure enough, Seth hooted, nothing. Hooted again, nothing, and then he was like, I don't know, heck, try him. So I just started you know, I started laughing, like, and that that turkey, I was like, all right, well, he's out there about 250. Finally, we we started gaining some ground on him. I say 250, he's probably about 300. Uh, because we we ended up walking up about 80 to 100, and uh we hooted again. Actually, no, we went ahead and sat down. And when we sat down, Seth kind of tree-yelped and and turkey gobbled, and we were like, okay, well, as soon as he gobbled, we were like, all right, we both looked at each other and said, We need to move up. And he said, Yeah, let's go. And uh, we grabbed another tree uh up there about another 50 yards or so, and it was a better setup anyway. And and anyway, we sat down and and Seth tree-yelped again once we kind of got set up and Turkey gobbled, and we were like, oh boy. I don't know if he was facing away from us that first time, but whenever he uh tree-yelped a second ago, I don't know if he's facing away, or or Turkey's definitely facing us this time because he is way closer. And we were like, all right, I had him at like just over 100, and and I don't know how because there was enough, I mean it's wide open. Uh anyway, so he gobbled, and Turkey never was just losing his mind all morning. We had to make him gobble every single time. You know, normally once they get, well, I say, ideally, uh, you know, once he starts gobbling, he's gonna start gobbling on his own, gobbling at crows, gobbling at owls, and just kept letting you know where he is. That way you don't have to make him gobble. But we were having to make his turkey gobble every time. Uh anyway, so he never really gobbled again once we sat down on him, and Seth was like, Well, I don't know, maybe we got too close. I don't know. If we got too close, I don't think he'd gobble because we we didn't move after he had tree-yelped and gobbled. We had already sat down, I'd got the camera up, and then he tree yelped and turkey gobbled. So I was like, I don't know, I don't think we got too close. I just maybe this turkey just, I don't know, he ain't feeling it. Well, we sat there, probably didn't say another word for probably 20 or 30 minutes. And uh, anyways, felt like we were gonna hear the turkey, but there was some it was kind of loud wind, whatever. And um we figured we were gonna hear him fly down. We didn't hear anything fly down, and we were watching, figured we also could have seen him fly down, never saw anything. Well, Seth did a little light stuff. Nothing. Kind of got a little bit more excited a few a minute or two later, nothing. And waited another minute or two, and then he was like, I'm gonna do a fly down. I was like, all right. Well, right after he said that, I was like, man, that was drumming. I was like, nah, no. He's road noise in the background, that sound, you know, big trucks going down, and it just sounded it it quit, and then I heard the road noise, and I was like, oh, that's all it was. Um anyway, well, he did the fly down. And man, Toki gobbled. And as soon as he gobbled, I my eyes were already on him because it was just a black dot and uh out there about 70 yards, 70, 80 yards, and whenever he gobbled, I saw his head go out and his tail fan come down. You know how they do when he's gobbled. And uh I was like, shit, I see him. And I I I knew we were in trouble then because you're never gonna yelp at a turkey when you can see him, right? And especially not having a decoy, but we didn't know. We I had no idea. I don't know how he slipped in there on us, but he just did. And uh anyway, turkey gobbled, and and that time he went behind a tree and I moved the camera over and got in on him, and you pretty good footage actually. Got to see him strut, and and he never was spooked, but he knew that he definitely, I mean, we just did a fly down, he definitely should have seen a hen fly down, or for sure should be seeing a hen on the ground walking around from 70 yards away in his bottom. And uh so he'd he'd go into strut and he never would hold it. He'd go in the strut and then he'd pick his head right back up, and then he'd kind of go, as soon as he put his fan up, he'd get right back out of strut and look. And uh I told Seth he had a little bit of thick stuff up there where the turkey was. I said, as soon as he goes behind that, I'm gonna I'm just gonna scratch and do a little bit of light stuff, see if you know maybe we can coerce him to come in here. At this point, the gig was was all but up, you know, we were gonna have to do something. Anyway, he went behind this tree and I scratched in the leaves a little bit and did a little light stuff, and the turkey popped right back out from behind that tree, full strut this time, and was facing us. And man, and then he raised that head up and periscoped and looked around, and of course he didn't see anything, so he he kind of tucked his wings and turned and just started walking straight away. And uh when he whenever he did, he went behind that big tree and was just walking straight away, and we were assuming he was, and uh we waited probably five, seven minutes and and we we yelped. Well, once again, he didn't really gobble, so Seth started cutting, and we heard turkey gobble. That let's just say if this turkey went behind this tree at two o'clock, the turkey that we just heard was at twelve o'clock, and and it's wide open bottom. We we should have seen him go that way, and and I'm still not convinced that it was uh the same turkey. I definitely think it was a different turkey, but turkey gobbled at 12 o'clock, and we were like, What in the world? We're like, well, actually, we were like, that's the best case scenario, because now he's getting getting over there and we he's telling us which way he's wanting to go. Now we know where we can loop around. And uh just before we got up, Seth hit it again. And then a turkey gobbled at 2 o'clock. And we were like, What in the world? That's gotta be two different turkeys because this is a matter of like two minutes in between all this yelping. And uh anyway, we never heard that turkey gobble at 12 o'clock. Whether it was a different turkey or whether it was a turkey, his gobble just was echoing through there, I don't know. We were both pretty convinced it was a different turkey. But then this it was this turkey, and he was about 300 whenever he gobbled, and this turkey that was gobbling at 2 o'clock was probably about 150, maybe 175. Anyway, so that's the turkey we started focusing on because I feel like that was the one that we just we'd been working all morning. Anyway, he kind of stayed out there in one spot gobbling, and uh he he kind of started gobbling a little bit better. He'd gobble, you know, you'd you'd have to cut a little bit, but he'd gobble. So we're like, all right, well, he he just wants to hang out there and he's not gonna come back up here. Let's approach him from a different way. So we backed up, went way around, and uh we got way around on him, and uh probably it was about 250 from where he had last gobbled, and and Seth, Seth yelped, nothing. He kind of got excited, nothing. We were like, what in the world? Well, I pulled out my box call and just ow. So, all right, well, he's still right there at the same spot. Uh, and where we were, it was just gonna be nothing but air and opportunity in between us and him. So we were like, we need to get somewhere else. Let's just keep looping around. We once again we backed out and and we came in on the ended up looping all the way around, got on the complete opposite side of this turkey. And so we were and honestly, it was our best setup all day. We were like, all right, we're good. And now it's some thick stuff here. He's gonna have to come looking, and it's an entirely different location. Maybe he'll be more comfortable coming this way rather than going back up there where he was. Well, once again, we got up there and Seth yelp, nothing. Yelped again, nothing, cut, nothing. Like, what in the world is going on? So then he got out his slate and he just started cutting on it, and then finally the turkey gobbled. And uh he was we had done got about 150, 175 from him, and we were like, all right, let's just sit down and see what he does. Well, we sat there 10, 15 minutes, nothing. Then every time we got he would gobble, we he wouldn't gobble at a yellow he'd just gobble, you just had to start cutting aggressively, and he'd gobble. And uh anyway, we tried to get fired up with him. He gobbled maybe twice and and nothing, and then I don't know, we had to go, uh it was due to work day, so we both had to go to work. Ended up leaving that turkey, and I don't think anybody's fooled with him since or heard him since.
SPEAKER_00No, but the reason I told him to come and hunt that turkey is because the evening prior, the turkey gobbled like eight or ten times. Right. And I was thinking, you know, early season, afternoon, he's gobbling like that. I was sitting there thinking he's lonely. He's gotta be lonely.
SPEAKER_03And you know, we never heard any hens. He might have been lonely.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, I don't know. I guess that turkey was just in a spot he knew that that he ought to be seeing some hens.
SPEAKER_03What time was his last gobble? Do you remember?
SPEAKER_00The other afternoon? Yeah. Uh probably shoot, I was sitting on the porch at like four o'clock.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_00And that turkey started gobbling. His last gobble was probably around like five something.
SPEAKER_03He had uh I was curious as to how far he had gone. And from whenever y'all were last on him.
SPEAKER_00Uh he had about uh and probably about an hour and a half.
SPEAKER_03Well he moved 500 yards from where he was. Yeah. See, because you had him pinned about uh about 200 from where he was last gobbling at. Yeah. And he ended up being another 300.
SPEAKER_00That's not where he was last gobbling at. That's where I expected him to run. Right, right. That's what I'm saying.
SPEAKER_03You had him pinned where you thought he was gonna be, about 200 from where and he ended up being about 300. Anyway, that's all the action I had. Saturday morning we went to a place of my buddies and uh several counties over. Actually, Yazoo County. I thought we was gonna get on some Delta birds. We didn't. Anyway, property looked great. You know, there's some old tracks and everything on it, which it ain't rained in freaking three weeks, so I don't know. Could have been three-week old tracks, I don't know. I knew there were turkeys on it in February, and actually somebody had had killed a turkey there, so I knew there was turkeys around. But man, it also it was 30 mile an hour winds. And uh, I don't know, if one wanted to do it, he still could have been doing it, and there was definitely breaks where we could have heard the turkey, but we didn't. We went all over and and didn't get on anything and whatever. Caitlin and we ended up coming home, and Caitlin got on a turkey at like what was that, like 12:30, 1 o'clock.
SPEAKER_05Yeah.
SPEAKER_03She went down and got on a turkey and he gobbled pretty pretty a lot, actually. And uh, she just couldn't make it happen. Every time she would advance on him and and shut up, next time he'd gobble, he'd be even further. And then she'd move up and and she'd sit there with him for a minute, thinking he's gonna come in, and and then he'd she'd shut up by him while she was moving, and when she when he gobbled again, he'd be even further and just couldn't make it happen. But that's about that's about it for me. I ain't been on anything.
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SPEAKER_00Well, uh, I guess my week. Monday I went and hunted public. Uh didn't do any good. I yep, caught up a hen to about 15 yards. That was it. Thought thought she might have something with her, but she didn't. Didn't hear a single gobble. Uh Tuesday I went with Seth and Trace. They killed it, or Trace killed it, Turkey. Wednesday, I couldn't hunt. That's when y'all hunted. Right. Uh Thursday, I can't remember what I did. I don't remember where I went. Oh, that's when you had to go up north. No, that wasn't Thursday. That was for oh Thursday I went with Ethan.
SPEAKER_03Oh, yeah, that's right.
SPEAKER_00Uh didn't do any good there. Actually, after I hunted with Ethan, I went to another little spot and caught up two superjakes. One of them, one of them had about a six-inch beard on him. Um neither one of them gobbled or strutted or did anything, but they came walking up there literally within spitting distance, like eight yards probably. Um, that was that. Uh then Friday uh went up to Cenatobia, um, hunted a property. Didn't caught up two hens. I think that might have been the only turkeys on the whole property.
SPEAKER_02It uh pretty large property as well.
SPEAKER_00It's a big property. We we walked up all over the property, didn't see anything, didn't hear any gobbles. Honestly, at the end of the day, we were planning on hunting there until like midday today. Today is Sunday, so we were gonna hunt from Friday till till Sunday, and then come home and uh Friday hunted that morning, didn't hear anything, walked a lot of the property, didn't see like hardly any turkey sign, didn't see any tracks. Uh there were some big fields on the place. Figured, you know, out of all these fields that we walked through, you would at least see a turkey, spook a turkey, something. Um before the end of the day, I actually I told Noah, I was like, look, we're about to ride this side by side. We're gonna ride every road on this property just because I'm genuinely curious. Yeah like if we can even spook a turkey off this place. We didn't spook a single turkey, didn't see a single turkey, didn't hear a single turkey, nothing. So um it's really hard to stay and hunt a place um when you know there's places back home to where you can for sure go and get on a channel.
SPEAKER_03Which and you were going to accomplish a task of doing some job, doing a job for this fella.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, I had I had uh told this guy I would I would do a job for him, and in return I could hunt his property. So I did the job for him, and then I just decided to up and come home. Right. And uh so then yesterday went with Seth and Connor. Seth missed.
SPEAKER_03Um Which is all your fault.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, all my fault. I guess I called the turkey up too fast, apparently. Um and then this morning, um Caitlin, uh Daniel's wife, uh she went with me. We went this morning um to a property um that I've got permission on. And in years past, um it's a property that me and Daniel have talked about. Like if you show up to this place, you would think like you would hear multiple turkeys gobbling and you just pick which one you want to go to. Um and in years past, hunting the place has been like just I mean, you might hear a turkey gobble, might hear two turkeys gobbling. It's just not one of those places like I mean, you just pick a direction and go. Right. Um anyways, this morning I was telling Caitlin, um, I think I've I've hunted this place once this year so far, and uh heard two turkeys gobbling on it. And so I told her when we got out of the truck, I was like, I mean, I know for sure there's at least two on the place. And uh we were walking down through there and I'm owl cranked up. And uh one goblin, he wasn't very far, he's probably 200 yards from us. And I uh I at that point in time I was like, okay, we got a turkey to hunt, like we're we're good. So, anyways, we were making our way on it through there and um stopped again because I was trying to make I was trying to figure out where we're gonna set up on this turkey. And when I stopped again, I hooted. And when I did, I I kid you not. I've I've turkey hunted for a while. I've turkey hunted in Mississippi my whole life. That's the most most turkey's goblin in Mississippi I've ever heard in my life. Like I'm I'm not kidding. 15, 20 turkeys goblin. It was absolutely insane. Every direction that you you looked, there was a there was a turkey goblin. It turned quick into it was exactly what I thought it should have been the past few years. It's just it's a beautiful place. Yeah. But with that, I stood there and I looked at Caitlin and I was like, I don't even know what to do. Like with that many turkeys gobbling, you I mean, sure, it's easy to say you just picked the closest one. Well, you'll have like that one, for instance, that I thought was 150, 200 yards. He never gobbled again. And so at that point, I was like, Well, I don't want to sit down on this turkey. He's not gobbling. I mean, there's plenty of others to choose from. And so we walked straight past where I thought that turkey was. Never heard him spook, never heard him gobble again, nothing. And there was a a wad of turkeys. It was probably six or seven turkeys that were back there gobbling. Right. And uh while we were making our way, they were they were actually the closest ones to us. But while we were making our way back there to them, uh, I told her I was like, really and truly, I don't know if I want to go back here to this wad of turkeys. I was like, I might just want to like pick one of these that are gobbling by themselves over off to the side. And uh I was like, they might, they might be the ones that are killable. Well, um after saying that, the the group of like six or seven, uh, they were on our side of the creek. The ones that were gobbling to my left, they were uh they were on the other side of the creek. The creek is I don't know, you might find a spot to cross it, but it would, I mean, if it it's it's pretty deep and it's pretty, pretty wide. Yeah. And uh the ones that were gobbling to the right, uh, one of them might have been on the property, but the others they were across the property line. So, anyways, we uh we made our way on up there. They were probably five or six hundred yards from us. And uh we made our way on up there and uh our first setup, I I stopped and I called a little bit, and I mean it turkeys gobbled, don't get me wrong, but they were gobbling so much that I don't know if they were gobbling at my call or if they were just gobbling just to gobble. Because they were gobbling literally, I think, just to hear themselves gobble.
SPEAKER_04Right.
SPEAKER_00And uh anyway, sat there for a little bit and could tell the turkeys pitched down, and uh it might have been just because they were on the ground that they sounded further, but they sounded like they might have been kind of going uh the opposite way. So we we got up, we probably pushed up another 200 yards to them and uh sat down, got right beside the creek and sat down and uh started calling these turkeys and um I I got really excited with them uh because they were gobbling when I'd yelp, but like I say, you couldn't really tell if they were gobbling at me. So I got excited with them and just started every time I gobbling, I'd just I'd answer them. And it got to the point where I could tell they were answering me, well, they started getting closer. And uh, anyways, uh they got up there about 80 yards, um, all three of them in full strut up there about 80 yards, and then uh there was a little little creek or a little slough that went down through there. They they wouldn't cross it. But anyways, up to the right, it kind of stopped out there. And uh so they got out there. I was actually I was sitting behind Caitlin probably 30 yards, and uh I couldn't see the turkeys, but I could tell when they were gone, I was like, good grief. Like I mean, they're they're really close, like she ought to be able to kill one any second. And uh anyways, um they started kind of working to the right, and uh let me think here, got up, uh kind of repositioned on them a little bit, uh, caught them back up to probably 60 yards, 60 to 80 yards again after they had gotten on the other side of the water. I thought for sure, I mean, they were drumming loud, but I thought for sure any second they're gonna pop through, she'll be able to shoot one. And uh anyways, they ended up kind of working back off. This was a group of three at this point. Well, they worked back off and they joined another group of turkeys. And I told Caitlin, I was like, instead of it sounding like ow, it was like just it was just like I don't know how many it was together, but it was a wad of turkeys. But anyways, we were kind of in a in a time crunch. Uh I had to get to church, I had to be at church at nine, and um that group of turkeys was gobbling.
SPEAKER_04No way you made it to church by nine.
SPEAKER_00I didn't make it to church at nine. I made it to church at nine thirty. I was just gonna say. I had our church doesn't start at nine, but we have music practice. Yeah. And uh, so I had to be there to practice. But yeah, I made it at 9.30. But that wad of turkeys was gobbling in front of us. We had one turkey that was raking it back behind us. Um, he was further off than these turkeys, and then there was a turkey behind the wad of turkeys that was gobbling also. It was it was absolutely insane. It it kind of hurt me to to leave. Um, but I knew I had to leave. But um I don't know, it was incredible. I told Caitlin after we left, I said, I'm glad that somebody was here to witness this with me because if I tried telling y'all this, y'all would think I was a liar. Right. And honestly, it was hard for me to believe myself. Like, I could not believe it's worth that drive across the county, huh? It was 100%. It was incredible. Like, I don't know, I don't know. Best uh best goblin morning I've ever been a part of in my life.
SPEAKER_03Um, we've had some very good morning, the the best I've ever had in my entire life this year. And I that's what I told Kat. She kept saying it's the best morning I've ever had in the woods. And I was uh which you know, as good as you can have without pulling the trigger on one.
SPEAKER_05Yeah.
SPEAKER_03And uh I was like, I don't know, is it better than you know the one when we heard 12? She was like, Oh, it's not even close. And I was like, Okay, all right. Well that kind of puts it in perspective for me.
SPEAKER_00I've I've never heard in Mississippi that many turkeys gobble. And I mean, it's uh it's a decent block of hardwoods, yeah, but like that many, and we didn't see a single hen, didn't hear a single hen, like nothing. Those three that we called up were all by themselves. And they grouped up with another group of turkeys. Now that other group of turkeys could have potentially had hens with them, but I mean they were just I mean, raking it. Luckily, as soon as we get off this, uh, we're about to go try them. Yeah. So uh we're we're gonna go see if they're still gobbling. But uh, I don't know. It was uh it was crazy. I mean, even though didn't get to pull the trigger, it was uh yeah, incredible.
SPEAKER_03Well, it's it's gonna be April, which is what you know we we s say we wait for all year. Yeah. No, I didn't even I'm not even gonna be get to experience April. Yeah. But you know, at least then, uh, well, now already states are starting to open up around us and all that. So definitely gonna be doing some weekend, you know, little small drives that I can make in the morning. Definitely gonna start doing that. But uh we just got a lot of turkey hunting left, you know. I mean, at the end of the month, we're gonna start traveling hard and and and going on that, but Seth still has a couple he can kill. You still got one, Caitlin won, so we still uh we still gonna be turkey hunting.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, but you say that you blink your eyes, it'll be over.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, I accidentally blinked my eyes and it was over.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I don't know. Um, and that's that's the other thing too. You blink your eyes and dude, you'll I mean it turned off green quick. Now don't get me wrong. Absolutely.
SPEAKER_03It's been it's been greener than usual, right?
SPEAKER_00But we were in that bottom today. Yeah, it was like I told Caitlin, I was like, this is this is it looked like late April, yeah, like it's thick. And she was like, she said that's what she told me. She was like, yeah, like down at our club, she was like, it's green, but it's not this green. Right. And uh, I mean, it was like some of the spots we set up in, like, you wouldn't see the turkey until he was in gun rate.
SPEAKER_03And we're in a wide open horrible bottom, but I mean, it's just it's it's I watched one of the GoPro clips, and it was like, even if they come up there too, y'all, it was like a bunch of green briars and yeah, and all kinds of stuff that you don't normally see until late April. Right. It's stuff we see whenever we go traveling in in mid-May. Yeah, you know, it's it's it's insane.
SPEAKER_00I don't know. It was it was cool though. I like it. I would rather have it like that though than just wide.
SPEAKER_03I mean, that that's what you dream of. Whenever you dream of a turkey comes strutting through the hardwoods, you don't you don't want it to look like October, you know. Or I mean, no, not December. Yeah. Whenever it's nothing in there, you want you you're wanting that green.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, it's still green here in October.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, right. That's why I was like, no, it ain't even the leaves ain't even come off the trees in October. Yeah, but no, it's it's uh great morning. Y'all had a great morning, and and it's been a great season. Yeah. So far. I mean, with everything, you know, they were saying as far as it should have been, it should be a loud spring because of the good hatches. For me, it has not been any more truer than that.
SPEAKER_00I I 100% now. Some people might say different, um, but I still I I can't I can't think of a morning that I've gone other than the one Friday. Right. Um, that I have I haven't heard it. Well, I said Monday too. I went to public and didn't hear anything. Those are two mornings that I haven't heard a single turkey.
SPEAKER_03Throwing a pen on a map. Yeah, I didn't have a specific spot.
SPEAKER_00I literally just threw a pen on the map and was like, I'm gonna try here in the morning. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Um, so yeah, it's it's it's held true as far as that. We we've been watching phenomenal hatches at uh at our club just because we we work all the time doing patches and and even I take my tractor back down there in February. We can't do any kind of burning, so you just gotta do as much as you can. Do a bunch of phallow disc and do a whole bunch of clover plots, all kind of work, man. And it's just we've been seeing hatch and hatch and hatch after hatch of jakes and jakes and jakes. And I'm like, man, when is it gonna well it's paid off? It's this year is is the year that everything is coming in, and I I don't oh man, it's just been great.
SPEAKER_00Well, I and I might have already spoken on this too, but uh you say stuff like that. But like behind the house, like I've I've I've seen more turkeys using this back here than I've ever seen. That turkey that I heard off the back porch the other other day, or the afternoon was in a spot that I've I've never heard. I honestly when I heard the turkey gobble and I it was the direction it was in, I was like, what is he doing over there? I was like, what in the world is he doing up? But he wasn't far from a burn that we did. That's right.
SPEAKER_03So he was there there's no other reason for him to come that far up unless he was coming for the burn.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. So which is uh I don't know, it's it's pretty cool seeing the benefits and stuff like that. But uh yeah, that was that was my week. Uh heck, up until this morning, I was wondering, I was like, I don't really have anything to talk about on the podcast. I was like, Seth, well, I was wondering if Seth was gonna be on. Luckily, he killed one this morning. I was really wondering, I was like, if Seth hadn't killed anything, he probably ain't gonna want to be on here. So I was gonna tell the stories about about Seth going hunting with him.
SPEAKER_03But I'm glad he, I'm I I am really glad. Not even, you know, we're joking with him saying we don't want to be moping around no more. Man, I've been there. Yeah, I it literally feels it's almost like you can literally feel the monkey on your back, man. It's just like I don't know. It it's crazy.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, I I don't know. Uh I feel like everybody's been there before. Um, but I mean when you look forward to something the whole entire year and then it gets here, you want to be successful.
SPEAKER_03And and it's not Seth does not go hunting once, twice a week. Yeah, no, no, no. Every day, it's been every single day. Yeah. I think the first two days he missed were uh uh Thursday and Friday, just because he one, he had the job he had to go do.
SPEAKER_00Well, he also said he said I need a break.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, he was like, I gotta have and hey, it paid off because you know, Saturday and Sunday today was uh some great hunts for him, and he was able to get it done today. And I'm I'm glad. I'm I know I joke with him and give him a hard time, but I'm glad that he got one just because you know he's our buddy. I don't want to see him be struggling.
SPEAKER_00Well, he uh he earned it too. That's right. Uh he put put a lot of miles in for it. That's right. Uh it's good to I I'm good to find success after a lot of that.
SPEAKER_03That won't be the last one he kills this year. No, not at all. He's just getting his started a little later. And that's what that's another thing. I've never never limited this early. Only this is the only second time I've ever limited in my life. And uh I mean, I don't know how you could go about it different. I mean, every single turkey I killed was a phenomenal experience, and it it's it's a it's been a great season. Those were three great hunts. I mean, what do you do? Not shoot one if it comes in? That might be the last turkey you get to get in gun range all year.
SPEAKER_00If you didn't do that, you would be you like if you if you didn't shoot him when he came in because you were wanting to kind of extend your season. If you didn't get on another turkey, I've never heard of turkey the rest of the year. You would have been kicking yourself.
SPEAKER_03I mean, I don't know. I don't know. I don't I mean I was selective. I mean, they were great hunts. It's not like I just bushwhacked.
SPEAKER_00Well, and you can't you can't hunt every single day either. You don't have certain days that you can hunt.
SPEAKER_03And I was going into the year, maybe maybe the Lord just teaching me a lesson on that. I was going into the year, you know, like, oh man, this is gonna suck. Not being able to hunt. Best year I've ever had in my life. Yeah. Oh well. Hunt when you can hunt, hunt as much as you can, and it'll pay off. Yeah. Sooner or later. I agree. I guess that's it until next week.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_03All right. Take us out of here, John.
SPEAKER_00Well, before we go, we appreciate the review we've got. We do appreciate it. Uh give us a review, leave us a comment, and uh, we appreciate it. So I guess we'll take us out of here, John. Let's see how later.
