New Territory and New Friends

The Borrowed Time crew continues our out-of-state run on this weeks episode. We put y'all right there on the tree with us and take you through the last leg of our hunts. 

We also briefly touch on the habitat we tend to encounter on our trips and compare it to what we see around home. Y'all sit back and enjoy. 

Transcript

SPEAKER_03 0:17

What's going on, guys? Welcome back to another episode of the Bard Time Podcast. My name is Daniel Half Acre, and I'm sitting here with my good buddy J.W. Johnson Wells.

SPEAKER_01 0:27

Yep, it's just us two again. That old Seth box is wrapped up at a wedding. Yeah. Uh uh shoot. We were talking. Hopefully, we can all get back in and do a podcast again. I had a brain part there for a second. I don't know what happened. I went to say something and then it didn't come out. Uh yeah, hopefully we're all gonna get back together and uh all three be doing the podcast instead of just two of us or calling in or something like that. Uh busy time of year. Yeah, it is wedding season.

SPEAKER_03 0:57

Cause I mean, my lord, whenever we get back from our spoiler alert, we leave Friday. This is coming out on Monday. We leave Friday to go to the Northeast. Yep. So uh we'll get back from that kind of almost the first of June. And then June 20th, our boy Seth Box is getting married.

SPEAKER_01 1:15

Getting married, yep. So we'll we'll have to unfortunately we'll have to attend that one. Yeah. Are you going? I I had to pay for a tuck, so I guess I've I gotta get my money's worth out of it. I paid for my tux, but I just don't know if it's worth going.

SPEAKER_03 1:30

Yeah. If a turkey was gobbling, I wouldn't be going.

SPEAKER_01 1:32

Yeah, no. I think he does. I think if a turkey was gobbling, I don't think he'd be getting married. Yeah. I think you're right. Uh but yeah, dude, I'm telling you, we leave Friday. I I mean, how long has it been since we've been hunting? Two weeks.

SPEAKER_03 1:45

Uh no, it's already been two weeks. It'll be three weeks by the time we get there. Yeah, it's gonna feel like opening day again. Uh-huh. That's what I told Johnson earlier. I said, My lord, I'm gonna have to throw a yelper in my mouth to see if I remember how. How to call it. Like, no joke, during the season, I get I keep a callus like right there on the top of my mouth. From calling from calling. And uh, yeah, but just from keeping my mouth my call in my mouth all the time, but I hadn't put a call in my mouth in three weeks, which is kind of kind of crazy.

SPEAKER_01 2:12

I I yelped in my backyard the other day seeing if I could get one to go.

SPEAKER_03 2:16

This'll be the latest that I've ever hunted. What when did we go to when did we go last year?

SPEAKER_01 2:21

It'll be the same time. We hunted we hunted the 24th and the 25th last year.

SPEAKER_03 2:25

Well then we're gonna be hunting on the 26th.

SPEAKER_01 2:28

Yeah, I'm just saying it's around the same time. One day later. Okay, whatever. Whatever. I guess you're right.

SPEAKER_03 2:34

But anyway, yeah, uh to kind of pick up where we left off last week, we kind of gave y'all uh an insight to the to the start of our trip two weeks ago.

SPEAKER_01 2:43

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 2:44

Uh, but there was a finishing leg on that trip. Whenever we we all wrapped up that good killing morning, uh Johnson, them, Johnson and Seth had a tag in another state, so they were gone and and Caitlin and I, we weren't sure how soon we were gonna tag out. So we we just kind of had a big open area, you know, of a big date of when we could hunt. And uh whenever we whenever we hit that, whenever we tagged out, we were like, well, you know, let's let's start thinking where we can go. So I started calling some folks and and seeing what turkeys was doing. And and of course, you know, normally I don't even do that, but we did have a contact that we were originally gonna should we shout him out because he's a super nice guy. Yeah, 100%. We're gonna shout him out anyway.

SPEAKER_01 3:26

Yeah, it's uh Jake Jake Cavins.

SPEAKER_03 3:29

Jake Cavins, Mr. Jake Cavins, he is uh super nice guy. A listener of the podcast is is how he how he reached out to us, but just a super genuine guy, and that's that's where I that's the guy I called actually.

SPEAKER_01 3:40

Let me butt in. It's not much of a shout out.

SPEAKER_03 3:44

But we appreciate you anyway, people absolutely. We uh that's that's who I started getting on the phone with because we had originally planned on meeting him at the end of the week. Uh I think this was what Thursday? Uh yeah. Yeah, yeah. This was Thursday. And so we were originally planning on meeting him Friday night uh and going and hunting a state, and I called him and he was like, Well, you know, the the guy I normally hunt with up there, they're saying the turkeys are still in ginormous flocks and all this other stuff, and I was like, Well, whatever. He's like, I tell you what, though, they're they're burning it up here at home. I was like, All right, well, sweet. I checked the map and we were about eight hours from him. I said, All right, well, we'll be we'll be there about midnight. So uh we struck out and uh sure enough, we we met him, and I'm sorry, Jake, I you literally now knowing what was going on, you genuinely stayed up just to wait on us. I hate that he was telling me that he uh that that day he had woken up at 2 a.m. and drove to a to a state close by and killed a turkey and then got home and he was like, I've I've had five hours of sleep in the past like seven days, and I'm like, buddy, what? I'm like, dude, go to sleep. And he's like, Yep. And he's like, be honest with you, I don't really sleep good. He's like, so I'm probably gonna toss and turn for this was like midnight, and by the time we got everything settled, it was almost one, and we were gonna be up at four. And uh he was like, Yeah, to be honest with you, I probably won't sleep but about 30 minutes to an hour tonight. And I was like, Man, you're a good fella. I was like, I appreciate you waking up with us and taking us hunting in the morning. Anyway, we uh we woke up and it was not good weather by any means. Uh, especially, you know, talking to him. He was like, Ah, this is the worst weather day we've had all season. And uh anyway, we went and and got to a spot where he had he had had some success and been getting some pictures of turkeys, and we uh we got to where he normally listened from and and we we waited and started hearing a couple turkeys way off, and like I said on the last podcast, and in this farm country you can hear miles. So I mean we we were very confident that none of the turkeys were on our property, and he was like, No. He actually went whenever I told him we were coming, he drove to the property that afternoon, and uh he heard two turkeys gobble about an hour before dark, or about an hour before flop, so he was like, I know they're here. Um so anyway, we we never did hear those turkeys that that he had heard the afternoon prior, but we did hear a turkey, and he was very confident that he was on our property, so we started striking off after him and never did hear that turkey again. The best we can figure, Jake thinks we might have bumped some deer that then again that then ran into the block of woods where he was at and spooked him and shut him up completely. But basically that that first property was a wash. We didn't end up hearing anything on that property, and so we uh we bounced to another property, and by this time it had done started raining. It had been kind of mist and rain and and blow wind blowing very hard all morning. And by the time we got over there, it was about a 20-minute drive to this next property, and by the time we got over there, it was it started raining pretty good, and the wind had done picked up, and um he knew a turkey was was had been spending time close by. So uh anyway, we we started we we were listening and and hooting and yelping and all doing everything and never did hear a turkey. Well, we didn't hear a turkey, and then after we were just sitting there actually, and a turkey just gobbled on his own. We were like, what in the world? He wasn't very far off our property where we could hunt. So we went to the property line and and I mean this turkey no way saw us, he was down in a bottom, and we we snuck around and used terrain to our advantage, and uh we we never heard that turkey again. He never gobbled again. And uh, well, after we sat there for a while, uh we started walking back to the truck, and he said, Man, he he left his binoculars. He has got like a chest pack. No, he's got like that grounded vest that's like built in vino harness. So he didn't get his uh vest out. And uh he said, What is that over there? And I was like, I I could not see anything with my naked eye. He was like, I'm pretty sure I see something off that point. And this is like no joke. This is a half a mile away. Dude has phenomenal eyesight.

SPEAKER_01 7:53

Uh opposite of me.

SPEAKER_03 7:54

Yeah, right. I I literally no, like we 100%, not a doubt in my mind, we never would have saw that turkey.

SPEAKER_02 8:00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 8:00

Like I wasn't it it's I don't know, it's kind of weird. It's we were just coming from from farmland, you know, but oh, that was like freshly tilled fields and everything. We get over there and it's like you can tell it's cornfields, but it's grown up into yellow tops that are like waist high. Yeah. And it's things that if I, you know, me just looking at it, I'd be like, man, turkeys don't spend time in this, but obviously, evidently they do anyway. I looked and all I could see, I I could just see like the top foot of a turkey, like feathers and then head. And I was like, what in the world? I was like, yeah, that's a that's a that's a turkey. I can't tell if it's a gobbler or not. And then I was like, oh, there's another turkey. And then the turkey in the back all of a sudden went up strut, and I was like, could see like the top quarter of his fan. And I was like, well, it's a gobbler. And he was like, sweet. He was like, that guy normally lets me hunt every year. He's like, let's sleep around, we'll swoop around over there and see if he'll see if we can talk to him. Anyway, he got the green light, went out there after him, and uh I peeked around the corner and I saw a turkey out there. We had done close the distance now, and the turkey was still out there like 500 yards. He was like, all right, sweet. They're just gonna it done started raining. So he was like, they're just gonna work into these woods right here, beautiful hardwoods. And he was like, they're just gonna go in there and uh piddle around. He's like, Y'all catch this drain, loop around and uh see if you can't get in front of them turkeys and call and see if you can get a reaction. And and sure enough, we did, and it was perfect setup. Like it would have been absolutely phenomenal if that's what the turkeys did, but uh started calling, nothing. I I was it was one of those things where I was expecting the very first yelp, turkey just to jump all over it. Because I mean he was sitting there, which yeah, he had a hen, but you know, just from the intel Jake had uh these turkeys have been very responsive to call. So uh was really expecting Turkey just to crush it and and he didn't. I was like, what in the world? So well maybe you can't hear us. If he's still out there in that field, the wind is done maybe it's not carrying out in that field. I was like, let me just crawl up here to the edge of the field and and see what I can do. And uh got up there and I yelped and I was still yelping with my mouth and or with my you know my mouth call, whatever, and didn't hear anything. I'd yelped back into the woods, didn't hear anything. I was like, what in the world? And I was like, I know we didn't bump these turkeys. Well, come to find out, the turkeys had done went all the way back across the field. Like I I don't know when they did that, which which it wouldn't have been anything. They literally can walk in that yellow top and they can't see anything and you can't see anything.

SPEAKER_01 10:24

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 10:25

So uh anyway, also it was just enough of a roll of the hill that they could have stayed below and got around on it, which either way, they ended up on the other side of the field, back to where like where they were coming from when we originally saw 'em. And I didn't know that until I broke the glass call out, and I was standing on the edge of the field, and I cut real loud and yelped, and then just as clear as day, straight out across that field. I was like, what in the world? It's really weird because it's like the closest, the closest trees in that direction are like a thousand yards or more. So it's like no way the turkey's over there. As clear as you could hear him, there's no way. He's just out there in that yellow top field. Anyway, uh in I well, I won't say in hindsight. We'll we'll just go through the story and then I'll tell what we should have done. But uh anyway, we sat there on the edge of the field and I was like, well, he was just over here, maybe we can call him back. And also Jake had been telling us about how he strikes him in the middle of these fields and just is has very good success yelping them all the way across the field because they can't see. They like literally, if there was a hen on the wood on the tree line there, he wouldn't be able to see. He has to come all the way in to look to be able to see. So we sat up on the edge of the field line, uh, on the edge of the wood line, facing the field where the turkey is, and uh I wait a little bit and then I yelp again, he gobbles, and sure enough, Jake starts calling me just to make sure I can hear that I did hear the turkey. And he was I I told him, I was like, You think he's in the field? He's like, Oh, absolutely he's in the field. Um he's like, We just need to stay put, he's gonna come back. Well, I we stayed put, waited a little bit longer, yelp, nothing. And uh cut on it, and he gobbled, and I was like, Oh, he sounds a little bit closer. Well, I put my binoculars up and was just looking in that direction. And then after a while, I just saw a head pop up. And if I wouldn't have been looking in my binoculars, no way I probably ever would have seen the turkey. But since I located him, I knew where to look, and I pretty much just kept my binoculars up the whole time because Caitlin, which she's looking shorter than me, so she couldn't quite see up as tall as I could. But she never she saw him maybe one time when he when he blew up strut, but she couldn't see him, and I just kept telling her he was like, I was she was like, Where's he coming? I was like, he's literally walking straight to us. And for the longest time he was. Like I said, there's a little roll about halfway out there, about well, I thought it was uh at about a hundred yards, but it ended up being at like two hundred and fifty, three hundred yards. I mean, that you know how it is when you have no kind of backdrop, that field it ends up being way bigger than it actually looks.

SPEAKER_01 13:01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 13:01

But anyway, Turkey came over that roll, and and for the longest time he was coming right to us. He probably got out there about 200. And uh I thought he was gonna keep coming, and all of a sudden I saw a hen and he started skirting right. And um he'd started gobbling on his own decently good, and this time it's it's pouring down rain now, and this turkey's still strutting and gobbling. And uh I was like, Well, I have no idea. Um, maybe he's just gonna keep on coming. Well, he disappeared over that roll, and um, I had already told Caitlin, I was like, I think you need to crawl out there. She's like, I don't even know where he's at. And you know, in that kind of it's not like a wide open field where you can peek up and see him. It's one of those things you're gonna have to keep him gobbling in order to figure out where he is. So uh she was like, No, I'm not gonna be able to do that. It's and it's it was a long crawl. She's like, you just go ahead. And I was like, all right. And Jake had already given me the green light too. I actually didn't mention my plan to him. He was like, he was like, you need to crawl towards him. He's like, Do you think you can crawl on him? I was like, Yeah, I'm gonna I'll crawl out there and see if I can get to that roll and yelp him back. And uh he was like, Yeah, go ahead. If you do spook him, this wasn't, you know, no big deal. This wasn't even a turkey we were planning on hunting, and uh, which made me feel better, you know. I'm hunting with somebody on their place. I don't want to do, I don't want to do things that that he's not okay with, you know. So he gave me the green light and I was like, uh, all right, let's go. So this is when I realized this field's way larger than I thought. So I started crawling, and like I said, I can't see anything. I'm down in them yellow tops, and I'm just at this point, I'm crawling on all fours, and I crawl about a hundred yards from Caitlin, and I peek up and I'm like, oh my lord, I'm nowhere near that roll. I'm like, this field is giant. At that point, I should have backed out. We looped. It would have taken a long time, I understand, but we should have looped way around and got in the woods on because by this time he had done gone far enough right that he was closer to a patch of woods. He was probably 150 yards off the wood line over there. Like, I don't know, it's just like the woods kind of stair stepped, like where he originally gobbled from, there was no woods, and then he kept coming closer and went to the right to where the woods kind of stair stepped down and got closer to him. That's when we should have looped way around and got in those woods with him, yelped him to the woods and killed him. However, that's not what happened. Um at this point, I had done crawled 300 yards out there, and I was like, Well, I'm kind of sold on this. This is pretty much what I gotta do. And I had been keeping him gobbling. I'd I'd stop, I'd look, couldn't see anything, I'd yelp, he'd gobble. I'm like, all right, he's over that lip. If I can get to that lip, I can call him back. Well, I finally make it to the lip, and it was so deceiving. It was literally like 150 yards off the wood line, and he's right there. He had to have been right there on the wood line, the opposite woodline, just strutting around. And uh somehow I got in between him and his hen. No idea how it happened, but I was like, this is phenomenal. Like she started yelping and cutting and putting and doing all kind of racket, and uh I was like, Yeah, he's finna come out here and I'm gonna kill him. He's gonna pop right up, right over this roll, and I'm gonna kill him. And at that point, that's when he never gobbled again. I don't know if her kind of putting and going crazy kind of spooked him a little bit, but he was definitely in those woods, and he just I don't know if he lost interest because I had already come all the way across that field, and he was like, I don't know. I was just over there, there's nothing there. I don't I don't really know. But anyway, that's pretty much it. We bounced around to three or four other properties and back to our original property we started on and never struck anything, and by that time the little boy was missing us. We were missing the little boy, so we packed on out and and headed home, and that that wrapped it up for for that that first little trip there. It was a good time, and like I said, I cannot thank Mr. Jake Cavins enough. Uh you know, he's he's done become it's kind of funny to say because I've only met him once and known him for a month, but he's done become a very good buddy and and you know one that we will definitely be spending time with in the in the future. And I think I would like to meet him. A hundred percent. Well, he's coming down. He he hopefully. He said uh, you know, he he la he I think he's killed like in twenty-seven states, and he's he's trying to kill in all 49, that's his goal. And uh he's still got another state or two to knock out this year, or he plans on going to this year. Uh but he said he he lacks Mississippi and he lacks Florida, and he said, you know, Mississippi he really wants to come to. He's like, but he said Florida's on the top of his list. So he said Florida's for sure happening this year, and he said if it all works out like he wants, then uh he's gonna he's gonna swing in here in Mississippi. I told him he loves crawfish. I said, Well, we'll boil you some crawfish and and give you get you. Do some hunting too. Yeah. I I said, you know, it ain't one of them things where I can put you on an old field bird where you can see for forever, but we got some turkeys that we can put you on or turn on. Sure, we can find one. That's what I told him. I said, Between me, Johnson, or Seth, we'll we'll put you on a turkey. I said, we I said, if you hang with us and stay about a week, we might can get you a couple. And uh he was like, Man, I'd be honest with you. He's like, I don't even care. I'm not that kind of guy. He's like, I just I like killing it. Once I kill one, I'm fine. Yeah. And uh he he uh it's just cool, man. It's just a guy that it that really it's the literally the reason we started this podcast, just to find like-minded people. He just loves turkey hunting.

SPEAKER_01 18:21

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 18:21

And uh, you know, it kind of came out of shock at first. And uh, whenever he reached out to us, we were like, you know, didn't know what to think. And he was like, No, man, to be honest with you, he's like, I just love turkey hunting.

SPEAKER_01 18:31

Well, we thought, you know, we had we had had a few people message us and they ended up being like uh they wanted you to pay. Right, like an outfit. So so we when he first texted us, we were like, So how much how much money are you wanting? And he was like, No, I don't want anything.

SPEAKER_03 18:46

No, he's just like, man, I'm just a guy that likes killing turkeys. And and and man, he like I said, I can't say enough good things about him. I've met him literally once, and uh him and his wife are actually expecting a little boy uh we'll be here, I think he said October, uh, maybe November, and he said that you know that kind of he had a he had an elk hunting trip planned somewhere out west and that wipe it out. Yeah, he said he said that little he said that little Joker's already got me uh changing my hunting plans. But you know, he he's really excited, and we're excited for him. And Mr. Jake, I know you listen to the podcast, man. I just want you to know how much we appreciate you.

SPEAKER_01 19:19

Yeah, well, I I didn't get to go, but uh I uh hopefully I'll get to meet you, and then uh uh like I say, when when you come down and hunt, I'll get to meet and we'll get to hunt together sometime.

SPEAKER_03 19:29

Come down and hunt, and we're already planning a trip to go back up there and stay a few days with him.

SPEAKER_01 19:33

Yeah, so.

SPEAKER_03 19:38

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SPEAKER_01 20:03

Uh, yeah, so when when Daniel and them left, uh they had an eight-hour drive, and then me and Seth, we had about a two and a half hour drive, so we had a whole lot shorter of a drive than Daniel and Caitlin. But anyways, we went to uh Iowa. Me and Seth got drawn for Iowa and uh Seth had to hook up somehow or another. I don't know how he managed to get to hook up, but he had us some private land we could hunt. Um and so, anyways, when we first got to Iowa, we got there around 6 30 before dark. Yeah, it was 6 30, 7 o'clock, somewhere around in there. And so we met with the the landowner and uh he showed us around his place, had us a place to stay, and uh so anyways, we went out, we tried roosting some turkeys, and uh didn't have any luck doing that. Um we woke up the next morning, um Seth and his dad, we they split up. Now we're on the same piece of property. I think it was I think it was roughly like 500 acres that we started out on. Yeah, just a little chunk. Yeah, just just a small chunk. And uh anyway, so we split up. Got a visitor. Yeah, I didn't know what that was. We uh so we split up and anyways, at at daylight, uh Seth and his dad they weren't hearing anything, or I think they heard some across the road. And then uh I was hearing some turkeys gobbling, but they were way off. And uh so needless to say, we weren't having anything gobbling on the property that we could hunt, so we thought. And uh so, anyways, I was telling him, it's kind of funny how this worked out. Where we were hunting at, there was really like like if you zoomed out on the map, there wasn't any public land anywhere close. So, I mean, we were kind of stuck to this guy's property.

SPEAKER_03 21:49

Other than there was one little Dad gum, that boy's tall enough to open the door. Yeah. Hey, my little boy. What are you doing? Come on, buddy.

unknown 22:01

Say bye bye. We have gummies.

SPEAKER_01 22:05

We're going to anyway. That one block. There was one little block. It might have been like 250, 300 acres, maybe. Like it wasn't a very big block of public at all.

SPEAKER_03 22:14

Yeah, we'll we'll just keep it vague. Because, you know, you know, I understand I was a uh but it is right. It was it is actually very I think it would be easy to find because it of how secluded it is.

SPEAKER_01 22:26

So anyways, we uh I I heard some turkeys gobbling way off. This piece of public ended up being right across the road from where the permission spot that we had. Very convenient. And so I was I was hearing turkeys gobble way off, but I couldn't tell if it was at the now this block of 500 acres looks a whole lot bigger than like I don't know, this might sound dumb when I say this, but it is a large piece of 500 acres. Like it is like it is it's crazy like how big it is. Anyway, so I I'm sitting, I'm actually I'm parked in a giant cut cornfield. And uh all the way to the back of this place, like if I heard a turkey gall, I mean you can hear it for a long ways out there, but uh that I couldn't tell if they were at the back of the property or if they were across the road. And so Seth and his dad, they were like, well, we'll ride down there on the road and uh we'll see where they're at. Well, anyways, uh they drive down there and they call me. They got out and they hooted right there, and uh he said, man, he said, there's like seven or eight turkeys gobbling over here on this public. And uh I was like, I was like, all right. I was like, what you want me to do? He's like, well, he was like, you're on the gun first. He was like, we'll come pick you up. So, anyways, uh they picked me up. We drove around to the uh it's on the complete opposite side of where we were at, to the parking spot of the public, and uh there wasn't a single vehicle parked in it. And this is uh dang, I keep burning. This is uh after, I mean, this is probably 6 30, 7 o'clock. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And so anyways, we get out and we walk, walk down through there. And uh at the start of the public, it's a big cut cornfield, and uh towards the back, it's just one it's one big ridge, but there's a bunch of fingers that come off the ridge. And uh, anyways, that pretty much sums up the piece of public cut cornfield, and then at the back is the woods with the three or four fingers that come off the main ridge. And uh anyway, so we get back there and uh it's kind of funny. Uh we we just pick a ridge to go down one of the fingers that comes off the ridge. We just pick one way. We we go walking back there. And uh I think I can't remember if Seth hooted or if he yelped. I think he yelped. And uh when he did, dude, it was like a a light switch flip. Like when we were walking back there, it wasn't nothing. Uh wasn't anything gobbling. And uh, dude, he yelped, and a turkey gobbled 80 yards from us on this finger. And uh we're standing right at the edge of where it turns in the woods, but the it's almost like uh I say it's a wall, but it's uh honestly, it's all down through there. It's like it they're they're thick. Same same story every single time. This is like that multiflorose, yeah. It's very thick, and uh so it's like a wall of it right there where the uh woods start, though. So you can't see anything like down in the wood. And so otherwise, like if this was a wide open, like around here, like wide open hardwood bottom or anything like that. Yeah, what a serious thing. I mean, what a serious we wouldn't even be able to get relatively close. Right. And uh anyway, so he yelps, and dude, I'm telling you, this turkey gobbled one time, he gobbled a hundred times. I mean, just like nonstop. There was one time he gobbled three times, like like you know how uh it's almost like you're choking themselves. Like he just like kept trying to make his gobble keep going. And uh, anyways, we I we're sitting right on the edge of Cut Cornfield. Like I said, there's this wall of crap right there along the edge of the woods. And uh anyways, this turkey's gobbling so good. We just sit down right there because I mean we're I mean, it's they live in this stuff, so we're thinking, you know, surely he'll walk out right there. Well, he kind of goes back and forth. He's just in a little comfortable spot out there. It sounds like he gets closer, and he probably got 45-50 yards at one point in time, uh, but he would not come through that that wall of stuff. And uh so anyways, we shut up on him, and uh he just kept gobbling. He was working off a little bit, and we we just let him. We let him work off, and we were like, if we can get right past that wall of stuff, you know, we can probably call him right back up there. Well, sure enough, he worked off, and uh we thought it was just a wall of stuff, and uh we thought it was just a wall of stuff, being the whole earnest thing. Yeah, it was the whole thing, and so we were thinking, you know, if we get past that stuff, it might open up and you know we'll be able to sit down against the base of a tree. Well, we get probably 10 yards in the woods past that stuff, and uh it never stops, like it just and so every a whole woods are. Yeah, I I looked at Seth, I told Seth, I was like, man, we ain't gonna be able to put a back to a tree. Like, if anything, we're either gonna have to stand up behind a tree or like sit on our knees. And so we picked out a tree that was probably five or ten yards in front of us, and uh got up there and got on our knees, and I was, you know, I was stood straight up on my knees because I mean this stuff actually, there's a video of me walking down through there, and uh this stuff, like with me walking down through there, some of it's up to my chest, but like most of it is around my hips, but some of it comes up to your chest. And uh, anyways, we we get down, I'm sitting there. Seth starts calling to him, and he gobbles, and you can obviously tell with every gobble, he's getting closer and closer and closer. And finally, there was one point in time I was I just had my gun kind of resting. Um, I had it to my shoulder, but I had my barrel propped. There was a little tree limb that was in front of me, and I just had it propped on it. Well, he got on up there and he gobbled pretty close, and uh, I knew then I was like, I probably need to get my gun up. So I went ahead and I picked my gun up. Well, I was sat in that position and uh I could hear this turkey drumming, and he was straight out in front of us when he gobbled, and I knew I needed to get my gun up, and I could hear him drumming, and then a little bit later, Seth, yep, he gobbled again, he was coming to the right, and at this point in time he's probably 40 yards, and I can't I can't see the turkey. And um I can remember I held my gun so long my arms were quivering, and uh I was like shaking, and um I I couldn't hold my gun any longer, I had to set it back down. Well, no sooner than I did that, uh Seth, yep, Seth yelps again. This turkey, he went from straight out in front of us to he's working to the right. Well, he's all the way to the right now. Yeah. And uh anyways, Seth yelps at him and uh he gobbles and then and I was like, my gosh, I need to get my gun back up. So I got my gun back up. I was sitting there and I was holding it. And uh the turkey is like well within gun range at this point. And uh I I can't see the turkey at all, neither can Seth. Nobody can see the turkey. And uh, anyways, uh the turkey starts putting and uh I was sitting there thinking, man, the gig's up. And uh, anyways, when he started putting, said, Oh, he gobbled. And uh then he went right back to drumming. Well, uh after he did that, uh Turkey finally I saw him. He popped out behind a little bush and uh he was just walking. Then he he popped up and strut one. When he first popped out behind a bush, I got my red dot on him and I was about to shoot him, and then he went in and strut. Well, when he went into the strut, he disappeared on me. I couldn't see him because he ducked down a little bit, tucking his head. I was like, what the crap? And uh, anyways, when he did that, I went ahead and I like raised on up with my gun, like getting up higher. And uh when I did that, he saw me, he stuck his head up. Anyways, I shot him, and uh I think he was 28, 30 yards, somewhere around in there. But uh I can remember I walked out there and I grabbed the turkey and I was holding him. And uh Seth was me and Seth were sitting there talking, and I was like, look, Seth, I'm sorry, you're gonna have to hold this turkey. My arms were shot from holding my gun so long.

SPEAKER_03 30:46

About like how it was that one you killed a few days earlier, meat, but that was because that turkey was just so darn heavy.

SPEAKER_01 30:52

Oh, yeah, I know. Yeah, no, he was a heavy turkey. This one was uh he was a heavy turkey, but yeah, I was so shot from holding my gun up so long. And uh, I mean, if this tells you anything, I shoot a banella M2. It's just not like the gun was heavy, it's just I was sitting there for so long holding it. And uh didn't have you knee to prop it on or nothing. No, nothing. Yeah. And uh, anyways, I don't know if I should tell what happened after that.

SPEAKER_03 31:18

Doesn't really matter.

SPEAKER_01 31:19

I mean, it wasn't a it wasn't a kill, but uh I'll go ahead and tell it. I mean, if Seth wants to tell his own.

SPEAKER_03 31:25

Yeah, because it kinda it kind of goes into it kind of goes into what I want to uh a little bit about what I want to talk about anyway. So go ahead.

SPEAKER_01 31:32

Yeah, so uh we're sitting there and uh you know his dad walks down there and we're we're sitting there and then we're enjoying it and uh kind of talking about what all happened, and as we're sitting there, a uh a turkey gobbles and uh gobbles about two ridges over. And so we uh obviously Seth has a tag, so we went and we hung my turkey up and uh we got on the next ridge, which put him a ridge across from us. And uh so, anyways, we we get over there and I don't know what it was, but this ridge that we had that we got on was completely different. I mean it was beautiful, it was wide open, what you would kind of picture. And uh so we sit down and uh Seth yelps, turkey gobbles across the ridge, turkey gobbles in the bottom below us. And uh so I he cuts up at him a little bit and I start yelping a little bit at him, and uh I answer us again. Well, so we're we're sitting there and the the turkey that was across the ridge that we originally went over there for, uh we gave it a few minutes in between of when we called, and he was kind of in the same spot. And so we were just like, we're just gonna sit here for a little bit, kind of see what he does. Well, I think probably five or six minutes goes by and uh we're like probably need to check them. Well, uh Seth yelps and these turkeys blow our hats off. I mean 60 yards, like just and so we're scrambling, pulling face mask up, getting gloves on, and uh anyways, it's a steep drop-off. So the furthest that Seth can shoot is probably 45 yards, and then I mean it just gradually goes down. And uh so the turkeys are below us, and uh they're they're coming up. Well, I mean it's not shoot 30 seconds. We see the turkeys. First one pops up, Jake, second Jake, third, Jake. Ended up being five jakes. They walk up there and uh all of them gobble right there in our face, kind of work around us to the right. And uh so we just yelped up five gobbling jakes. And uh we we were sitting there, you know, it was kind of cool. And so we I don't know why, we just kept deciding to sit there. Uh because we had another turkey. We we knew those were the turkeys down at the bottom, we knew there was turkeys across the ridge. Well, they they worked off behind us. And uh so we sat there for probably five more minutes, called again, and turkey that was across the ridge is now down below us, kind of did the same exact thing the Jakes did.

SPEAKER_03 34:12

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 34:12

Well, pretty much the same story. They come walking up there, and uh they just they don't ever crest the ridge. Like the Jakes, they came all the way up there. Like came the Jake. Yeah, came right past it 15 yards, walked all the way up there. Could see there were Jakes. Um anyways, these turkeys, they walk up there and they don't ever fully crest the ridge. They just they just get their head over. And uh they're standing there 45 yards, and Seth's Seth's down on them. And uh, anyways, he's like, I'm not shooting until I confirm it's Longbeard. Well, I at this point in time, I've got phone and I'm videoing, and I click record, and these turkeys they work all the way to the left. I mean, there's a lip and it goes all the way around us, and they will not come over the lip. They work to the left of us, they work to the right of us, and they're I it's either two or three turkeys. One of them is strutting the whole entire time. I mean, he's just nonstop drumming. Right. They work to the left, they work to the right, and they probably got 30 yards at one point in time. I mean, they were extremely close. And uh it got to the point, my video was 32 minutes long, so they did that for 32 minutes. Jeez. And it got to the point to where Seth, they wouldn't ever crest it. They were just right below it. And so Seth had picked out a tree when they got to the right of us. He picked out a tree that he was gonna try to get over there and then maybe stand up, and if it was Longbeard, shoot one. And uh he got he crawled up probably 10 yards, got over there, stood up, and it was such a hard drop-off that he couldn't even see like down there where they were at. And uh, anyways, long story short, they kind of gave it up after a while. They never would top it. Right. They went back down where they were where they were uh where they came from.

SPEAKER_03 36:06

And before some know it all chimes in and says that a Jake won't spit and drum, that he's wrong 100%. Because a Jake will. However, you know, in hindsight, believe, you know, believe these three to be long beards, but you can't call up five goblin jakes, you want to be 100% sure.

SPEAKER_01 36:29

Now we did look up afterwards uh that a Jake is legal, but I'm sorry, I I don't I don't want to shoot a Jake. Right. If you want to shoot a Jake, that's fine. Go right away. But I don't I don't want to shoot one.

SPEAKER_03 36:40

But and in that situation, the only real way to confirm is you know, you can't say, oh, he's drumming down there. It's a long beard. No, because a Jake will, oh Jake will drum.

SPEAKER_01 36:50

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 36:50

Um and you know, and a Jake will gobble. A Jake could do anything, especially you know what they call stupid Jake.

SPEAKER_01 36:55

I'll tell you what, uh, that's what we were talking about. So you know, we have some jakes down here that'll gobble. Yeah. And you can obviously tell, now some of them will fool you. But for the most part, if a Jake gobbles, you can you can pretty much tell, okay, that's a that's a jake. Yeah. Those turkeys up there, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 37:11

They all, I mean, they sound like their jakes are bigger than our long beards.

SPEAKER_01 37:15

Yeah, I I every we so we got on a bunch of gobbling jakes. And uh, I mean, I'd have told you every single time. I'd have told you every single time. That's a long beard. Yeah. Because I mean it sounded there wasn't anything funny sounding about it. But uh, so yeah, that was that. Um that the next day, I mean, I'll let Seth tell the story of the other one we got on, but ran into some more thick terrain. Yeah, it was uh the the next day or that afternoon. I was so tired, dude. We went, we probably had we probably had an hour or four, I think it was like 45 minutes before we were gonna go and try to roost some turkeys. And I sat down in a recliner and I fell asleep and they came in there and they woke me up. They're like, Hey, you gonna go roost some turkeys uh with us? And I was like, No, y'all got it. Dude, when they came back, uh I was still asleep.

SPEAKER_03 38:09

Man done feel this tag, he said he's finna.

SPEAKER_01 38:11

They woke me up, I got in the shower, and I immediately went straight to bed. But uh they went and they roosted several different turkeys. Um and uh even even went to so we had the guy that we had permission on had multiple different properties. Um and they they roosted some on him. Um and then they also they roosted those same group of turkeys. I actually have a video of it. It's kind of kind of cool listening to it. It's just a it's just a wad of turkeys all in there together, gobbling.

SPEAKER_03 38:42

You genuinely can't even distinguish when one gobble stops and when the next one starts. It's just like gobbling over. A symphony of gobble. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 38:51

At one point, they all I swear gobble and it's just like So there was at one point in time, uh, it was the the second morning we were there. We we so the second morning we started out on a on that permission property we had. Those didn't work out, so we drove back by, I think it was probably like probably around seven o'clock. This is on a Saturday. Um we'd we'd drive up beside the public and uh get out, hoot, and I swear it went on for probably 15, 20 seconds. All the turkeys were gobbling, but they were just gobbling back and forth with each other like nonstop.

SPEAKER_03 39:27

By the time the first one stopped, the last one gobbled, and the first one started.

SPEAKER_01 39:31

And uh so this is on a Saturday. We we pull around there to where we parked the next day. There was one truck there. And uh, anyways, uh it it kind of I don't want to make it sound like we're walking in there knowingly. Like the way this land kind of lays out, there's a bunch of different ways you could go um to hunt it. And anyways, so we went back towards where we went the next day. Never saw the guy, have no idea where he was at. Yeah. And uh, anyways, walked back in there. Um, I don't even know what happened. We went to the same exact spot where we had gone, and I killed my turkey, and those turkeys were back in there again. And uh we hooted one time, all the turkey or no, I don't even think we hooted. I think we just got back there and uh they gobbled on their own. Or we might have hooted, I can't remember. Um either way, they all gobbled. Yeah. And uh we're probably 150 yards uh from 'em. And so we're our plan is kind of the same thing we did the day before, just try to get in the edge of the woods. Well, uh, as we got down there closer, um we were gonna try to see how close the closest one was to the edge of the woods and uh hooted, nothing, yelped, nothing. I have no idea if uh if somebody there's no way we spoke to them. I mean, that we weren't even like if a turkey saw us, they had to be in the in the cut cornfield. Like there's no way they could see through that wall of crap that was along the edge of the woods. The only other thing I can think right down below where they were gobbling at, um there was a little fishing hole, and uh there was people fishing out there just about every day. Yeah. Um, I don't know if they could have spooked them or what, but they all every every turkey that was gobbling over there shut up, never made a peep again. And uh so anyways, we uh we stayed in there for probably another 30 minutes and nothing, and so we decided to back out. Not only because the turkeys quit gobbling, but we don't know where we didn't know where that other guy was. We didn't want to just go the rest. So uh we just kind of backed out, and uh that was that was pretty much that. The the 500 acres that we started out on the first morning, um both the first morning and the second morning, uh, yes, you can hear a very long ways out there, but also a turkey can put himself in a position to where you can barely hear him at all. Yeah. And I think that's what happened uh because I swear I didn't hear a turkey that even sounded relatively close to me the first morning. We drove back by there after I had killed my turkey, and uh I think it was three of them out there strutting with a group of hens. And uh the second morning was the same exact thing. Um it was three Longbeards out there again strutting with a group of hens. And uh never, never heard them gobble a single time. That's weird. But uh yeah, so that was that was that. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 42:45

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SPEAKER_03 43:07

And heck, I guess just to kind of wrap this up, how long I don't know how long we've been going. And it's something that we had kind of talked about uh beforehand. I can't remember if it was Jake Sproul on one of our previous episodes whenever we were doing the guest preseason or something. I don't I'm not really sure who it was, but we were talking about habitat and uh you know different areas of the of the globe or different areas of the country that you that you're hunting around and be in different habitat, and you know, a lot of people around here and around here I say in Mississippi uh give a lot of crap about the tr the habitat not being suitable and all this other stuff. But yeah, man, I'm telling you, I have gone I've hunted a good portion of the country now. I mean, you know, I ain't killed a lot of turkeys over in different parts of the country, but I've Hunted a a lot of the country, and uh I've been to a lot of different places, and when you get up north, at least where we've been in those surrounding three, four, five states, right in there, it's like and you can correct me if I'm wrong, but I feel like if there wasn't as many cornfields and as open areas and woodlines as they have, yeah, there would not be as many turkeys as there is because the woods are absolutely terrible, yeah. Can't you can't say terrible, but buddy, they're not what I would look at and say, those are turkey woods.

SPEAKER_01 44:31

Yeah, no, so uh the the places that we were hunting, actually the guy that we were hunting on, he uh he did logging. And so he cut a lot of his trees. Right. And uh it it I mean it opened up as far as trees, but it also gave more sunlight to the ground.

SPEAKER_03 44:49

There's a reason they kill 200 inch deer up there, buddy.

SPEAKER_01 44:52

Dude, I'm telling you what, it is all like deer bedding. And and I honestly, you know, which he did it for a living, right? But he also I also feel like he did a lot of it for deer. Yeah, right. And uh it's perfect for it, but uh as far as a turkey, like yeah, I mean, you just you wouldn't think, and and to your point on that, some of those turkeys we got on, they would not travel through it. They had a spot in there that they wanted to stay, and that is where they stayed.

SPEAKER_03 45:22

And those ridges are so steep that like I think that's how that they majority get around is like they'll set their wings and go to the next ridge. Yeah. Or they'll set their wings off that ridge and go down into that cut cornfield. And we could be completely wrong. Yeah, 100%. I mean, like I said, but uh you you when you say when to nine you could go to a hundred different people and you say the word Iowa. When we can say, you know, if you say Iowa, they're gonna say big deer.

SPEAKER_01 45:50

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 45:50

You know, and you know, whatever, that's what it is. But like there's whenever you hunt it, you realize, good lord, yeah, the deer live here because it's freaking bedding everywhere and you can hardly see them, and it's big cut cornfields or big cornfields. And whenever we were hunting, uh, you know, me, you and Caitlin up there, and we were trying to loop around on some turkeys, we got in, and this is on public, but we got into like it in we walked through about three or four different, I would say fifteen acres or maybe even twenty acres where you could see where they had hacked the trees and like and did like a hacking squirt. Because the trees were dead and there was like hundreds of falling over trees, yeah, and a bunch of briars and all kinds of stuff. And guess what? Guess what was all in there? Deer beds everywhere. It's like I don't know if that's what you know down here. I feel like, man, deer are gonna be everywhere down here, you know? Yeah, you it's not gonna be that hard. Maybe you gotta do some different things to find big deer. I don't know, go ask somebody that kills big deer every year. That ain't me. But I feel like that's what our wildlife agency down here is focused on. Whenever we do our habitat stuff, we're trying to get the quail back. We're trying to get the turkey turkey population to be suitable for, you know, to have a very good huntable population of turkeys.

SPEAKER_02 47:05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 47:06

I feel like that's what basically what I'm saying is I think the people that complain about how terrible it is down here need to travel to other areas. Yeah. Because I think we have it way better off than what people say just from the traveling around. Because man, like that turkey Caitlin killed, he walked a deer trail. Yeah, because it was not open woods. He walked a deer trail. We we saw his tracks where he walked a deer trail to get in there to us.

SPEAKER_01 47:32

And uh anyway, but basically that that just we kept now that was private land, but the public land was the same exactly. The public land's the same way. Like uh that's what I was saying before. I was hunting on. I mean, dude, you couldn't like literally, if I wouldn't have been on my knees up as tall as I could, I wouldn't have been able to see that turkey. Well, and the only other way you would have been able to do it is just stand up. Right.

SPEAKER_03 47:56

And it's like another situation on that hunt that you know, Seth will tell the whole story, but like I remember us talking about it. Seth crawled within 20 yards of a darn turkey. And he stood up and still couldn't tell him. Dude, like it's a different kind of thick. It's not like down here, you're like, dang, that's thick. Well, you can still see a turkey beeboping out there 40 yards. You might like you get a shot on him, but you can see him. Buddy, you can be within 20 yards of a turkey and that stuff and not know. If he's not gobbling or strutting, you will never know he's there.

SPEAKER_01 48:24

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 48:25

Because it's literally that thick.

SPEAKER_01 48:26

Well, prime example, that turkey that he did crawl within 20 yards of and stood up and couldn't see, did shut up. Right. And he was like, Well, I at least want to walk up there and see where he was at. Yeah. Well, he walked up there and the turkey flew off.

SPEAKER_03 48:42

He had no idea he was there. I don't know. It's just it's just one of those things. It's absolutely crazy. And guess I mean, you know, we're we're saying about how terrible the the habitat is or whatever. I'm not necessarily saying terrible, but it's just not something you'd look at and say, ooh, that's good turkey woods there. Yeah. Well, there's turkeys everywhere, so I mean, whatever. All the woods are pretty much the same. Yeah, it's it's all it's all the same. And and even down or whenever we went to hunt with Jake, the woods are it was really thick. It's different kind of thick than where we had just come from, but it was really thick. And also, it's just, I don't know how to explain it. Here, our woods get really green, but it's like I don't know, they have a lot of ground vegetation that like grows up and it gets really thick up to about knee to waist high. It's just really thick. I don't know how to explain it, it's just different. But uh, that's what he was saying. In Indiana, they've like they made it like illegal even for private landowners to do burns. It's it's insane. It's insane. He was like, Yeah, all these properties we used to burn like on a yearly rotation. He's like, but now they've they've outlawed burning because they like by law, they have to I mean, correct me if I'm wrong, I have no idea, but this is just from what I gathered from Jake.

SPEAKER_01 49:55

Um they have jump on Jake if he's wrong.

SPEAKER_03 49:58

Right, right. Jump on Jake if I'm wrong, it ain't me. Uh but uh, and I might have even misinterpreted from Jake, but what he's saying is by law, in order for them to do a legal burn, the they had to have the fire department come out and supervise it. Even if they even if you had a dozer uh burn lane around it or tractor burn, whatever, even if you had it maintained with the burn lane all around it, a fire department had to be there until the fire got completely was burnt out. And they were saying uh they they outlawed it because it was taken away from if there was an emergency, the fire department couldn't go, you know, because I mean obviously they're already there. Yeah. So and and he said ever since then it's gotten all the woods have gotten progressively more and more thick, which obviously uh, you know, you know, when they're used to being burned and and kept in kept in check, and then you don't burn it for several years. So he was saying that this was like the third year that they've outlawed it, and he was saying that this is why it's getting so thick. Pair that with a extremely early spring, and it was really green there way earlier than it normally is. But anyway, I just wanted to touch on that just because it kept coming up, it being, hey man, the turkeys are fifty yards and we can't see them, and turkeys it whatever, you know, whatever it is.

SPEAKER_01 51:13

Yeah, that was the that seemed to be the uh the theme. Uh I mean we got turkeys in close, but unless they were in a field, you had a tough time.

SPEAKER_03 51:21

And I mean, we ran into this our first trip up there, whenever me, you and Elliot. And we just thought we were late. Yeah. Well, guess what? We were a whole ten days earlier, and it was just the exact same way.

SPEAKER_01 51:33

I don't know if it was that was our excuse from our first trip ever going up there. Is man, we were just late. If we get there a week or two earlier, you know, we'll be in the month. No, it's just thick woods. Right.

SPEAKER_03 51:42

And those those turkeys that that um that come to my mind, and it's the exact same ones that are in your brain right now, I guarantee you. They were within 30.

SPEAKER_01 51:50

Probably closer. They were about 15. 30 from you. Yeah, I guess you're right.

SPEAKER_03 51:57

They were so close, and we never even thought we saw them. I mean, the drumming was legitimately shaking me.

SPEAKER_01 52:04

Well, we've told the story they left a cut cornfield and walked into the woods.

SPEAKER_03 52:09

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 52:09

Their hens were out there 30 yards and hitting the cut cornfield. And uh for some reason they went in the woods, but yeah, that's what we're doing. Hey, we've for some reason it worked for them because they are still living.

SPEAKER_03 52:21

Well, they live.

SPEAKER_01 52:22

As far as we know. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 52:24

Anyway, I didn't mean to get off on that rabbit trail, but I just wanted to touch on that. You know, we we have it good down here. I think our I think our uh our wildlife agency has has the turkey and the turkey hunters in mind of of what we're trying to do. Yeah. Uh, you know, doing all the burning and and all that. But heck, I guess that's it.

SPEAKER_01 52:42

Yeah, that's that's it.

SPEAKER_03 52:43

We uh this will come out Monday.

SPEAKER_01 52:47

So we'll leave on Friday. I maybe we'll record. Well, we're gonna have to record.

SPEAKER_03 52:51

Well, we'll just plan to record that Friday before we leave then. Because we'll have to be leaving like 10.30. Seth said he's gonna be in town at like 8. So we'll just record that way and go ahead and schedule it to come out. We're trying not to skip a week, but we're we're just kind of rambling on here right now. But we're trying to go ahead and schedule one to come out because we will be gone.

SPEAKER_01 53:10

Yeah, we've we've been kinda we've been kind of lazy. Yeah, so we're we're gonna try to be on the ball the next next heck couple weeks we have uh of turkey season.

SPEAKER_03 53:21

Um just gonna try to kind of soak it in, enjoy it.

SPEAKER_01 53:25

So uh yeah, we'll we'll try to have you one out for sure for we'll definitely have one out on Monday, but then the the next one.

SPEAKER_03 53:32

We'll get Seth's we'll go ahead and get Seth's uh Seth's point of view on the side.

SPEAKER_01 53:35

Yeah, Seth's got a lot of catching up. He hadn't even told a well he did tell a story last week. Yeah, he told, but he didn't get to tell his uh Minnesota or uh dead gum it. Oh well, if you can find where we hunted in Minnesota, congratulations.

SPEAKER_03 53:49

Yeah, anyway, he didn't get to tell his or or Mr. Kevin's hunt there and didn't get to tell his uh his hunt. He didn't uh spoiler alert, he didn't kill, but his hunt in Iowa. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 54:00

So uh could have killed, but like I say, I mean my Lord.

SPEAKER_03 54:04

He could have ground checked one, but Yeah, in that I mean I I'd have I'd have done the same thing, honestly.

SPEAKER_01 54:10

Yeah, I respect him for that.

SPEAKER_03 54:12

It's hard because I don't want to shame anybody that if they kill a Jake. It's just not what I want to do. It's not what I plan to do. So, you know, I would when I say this, the only thing worse than not shooting would have been shooting and walking out and it being a Jake.

SPEAKER_01 54:25

Yeah, and being disappointed of what you okay. Then again, not shaming. But if you're not wanting to shoot a Jake, then yes, you're gonna be able to do it.

SPEAKER_03 54:33

And also, I was a draw. It might be years before you get drawn for Iowa again, you know. So you want to kind of make the most of that and go ahead and get a long beard. Anyway. It's like what Sleazy was saying, he's killed 48 long beards, and whenever that one stepped out in Nevada or wherever the heck it was, and it was like eight jakes, he was like, I ain't killed 48 long beards to kill 40 to kill my 49th and be a Jake. Yeah. Yeah, I like that. Oh Sleazy. Uh yep, anyway, I guess that's it. But just, you know, what to what to be expected. We got another week, two, another two weeks of uh updated turkey content, and then we're gonna kind of we'll go from there. So we just gonna we ain't even gonna think about it.

SPEAKER_01 55:10

Yeah, y'all might want us to shut up for the rest of the year and not get back on here until turkey season rolls around again. You might want us to talk about other stuff. I have no idea. I'm not very educated on it.

SPEAKER_03 55:20

Like I said, we'll figure that out, but we have two more weeks of uh of fresh turkey stuff coming your way at least. So uh y'all, y'all uh, you know, y'all kind of tune in for that and stay up to date on that. And go ahead and send us a send us uh a DM on Instagram of what you might want to hear. We have some topics. We do. We are seeing you guys' DM. Yeah, we're gonna hit on the topics.

SPEAKER_01 55:41

Seeing your suggestions. Might as well tell the stories while they're gonna be. That's right.

SPEAKER_03 55:44

While they're fresh, we're gonna try to go ahead and get that out there and then you know we're kind of compiling all of these suggestions we're getting from you guys.

SPEAKER_01 55:50

We have a list made of the topics that y'all want us to hit on. So even if it's not this year, we will 100% hit the topic.

SPEAKER_03 55:58

We we are getting it. We but basically what I'm saying is keep sending them. We are seeing them and we will get to them, I promise. Yeah. So uh we we do appreciate that.

SPEAKER_01 56:07

Y'all go ahead and we like them, so yeah, keep sending them. Absolutely.

SPEAKER_03 56:10

I I enjoy seeing seeing the feedback, and you know, that's what we started this thing for is turkey hunters of like mind and to meet other guys and and just it's just a community. So we want to hear from you guys. Go ahead and and leave a uh leave a comment. Rating rating, rating and review. That's it. Hey, I guess you can yeah, I guess a comment is a review, whatever. A good one. Five-star one, like Seth said. Don't leave no no one-star junk. Uh anyway, guys, we appreciate y'all. Y'all uh y'all stay tuned for a couple more weeks of fresh turkey content, and heck, I guess that's it.

SPEAKER_01 56:40

Yep, you're still thinking about it.

SPEAKER_03 56:41

Ain't nothing left but to take us out of here, John. We'll see y'all later.