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581 - Andrew's Last Bird Of the Season & THOMAS TAGGING OUT! May 09, 2024

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We have a great episode for our last turkey podcast of 2024! Andrew was able to tag another longbeard on his club, meanwhile, Jacob's brother Thomas was able to tag out on public! We relive all the hunts on this episode and talked about what made each one successful!

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580 - The ULTIMATE GUIDE to WHITETAIL HUNTING TERMINOLOGY May 06, 2024

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This is a HIGHLY requested episode that we have had in the works! In this episode, we go over all the whitetail terminology that you need to know to hunt or scout for whitetail deer. We cover terms for deer hunting in flat land, hill county, and mountains - and we cover terrain terms as well as habitat terms. Some of the terms we cover:

Terrain saddles
Bluff gap
Bluff
Bench
Creek crossing
Ridge example in swamps
Ridge top hub
High crows foot
Thermal hub / hubs
Oak flat
Sapling thicket
Oxbow lake / oxbow
Beaver dam crossings
Compounding habitat edges
Select cut
Clearcut / cutover
SMZ
Compounding Terrain features (examples)
Glade
Leeward side of a ridge
Logging roads / road bed / skidder trail
Ditch/drainage
Secondary points
Ridge points

and more! Want more? Here are more videos that go even deeper on some of these terms with map examples:

3 MUST KNOW Deer Funnels - https://youtu.be/YNhIZWd_1UU

FLAT LAND Deer Funnels - https://youtu.be/WN_-5K_pw6M

How to use Slope Angle Shading to Find Deer - https://youtu.be/dUf7GBf8buk

How to Tell if Woods are Thick from a Map - https://youtu.be/Zx2WN-qFkd4

Mountain Hunt Success on Compounding Terrain Features - https://youtu.be/NE5iAeneJ_k

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579 - JACOB TAGGED OUT! 4 Birds in 7 Days Using COVERT CALLING May 02, 2024

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Jacob called his shot and tagged out last week! He was able to take 4 birds using covert calling tactics he picked up from our interview with Ron "Coach" Watters a few weeks ago. In this episode, we discuss the calling tactics and give some calling demos.

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578 - DEER HUNTING! Farm Update, Bouncing Between Public & Private, STALKING a Bedded Buck In Thick Pines Apr 29, 2024

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DEER CONTENT IS BACK! We are excited to dig back into all things deer hunting EVERY Monday! To kick off deer season 2024 we had Anthony Troncalli, Jacob's uncle & owner of their family farm stop by the studio. Subjects:

How the habitat work on the farm has been going
How burning the farm late last summer affected the deer hunting, and more specifically buck bedding on the property
Hunting through a timber cycle
The best part of a timber cycle to hunt
Why you should hunt public AND private land
Traveling to hunt
Anthony's experience planting soybeans in < 2-acre food plots in central AL
Stalking a bedded buck in a thick pine stand

and LOTS more!

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577 - TACTICS to Call GOBBLERS THROUGH WIDE OPEN WOODS! Apr 25, 2024

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We have a combo podcast this week! Today we are walking through a recent successful turkey hunt between Jacob and Greg Maher - but the hunt film playing in the background (available on our Youtube channel). We then walk though some trail cam pics from this past deer season and discuss how we are using these pics to plan our upcoming deer season.

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576 - SIMPLE & EFFECTIVE Turkey Hunting! Don't Overthink It! Southern Turkey Hunting, Greg Maher Apr 22, 2024

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Today we are joined by our friend Greg Maher to discuss his & Jacob's recent successful turkey hunt on some Alabama public! Subjects include:

- Overthinking a setup can hurt much more than you realize

- A good push button call

- Calling to a bird that can see where you are sitting

- Working jakes to make a longbeard come in

- Friction calls & why they should have a place in your vest

- Calling to a gobbler as you reposition on him to add realism

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575 - Not Quite a Textbook Roost Hunt! Andrew's Longbeard! Apr 18, 2024

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Andrew was able to put down his first turkey of 2024 this weekend which we are discussing today! Subjects:

Having to do the opposite of what we normally do to make it happen
Using Ron Watters "death call"
Jacob missing a bird
Jacob missing another bird
Learning from real hens
Turkey target panic

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574 - Hunt like an OLD PRO! with Ron "Coach" Watters Apr 15, 2024

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This week we are bringing you an interview from the home of Ron "Coach" Watters, a man who has tagged more birds than we have probably ever seen! Ron is a true old-school turkey pro and a custom call maker. He began hunting turkeys in the 1970s and has a family history of turkey hunting in Alabama going back to the 1930's and earlier. We discuss:

Ron's grandfather, who was killed while turkey hunting in 1939
Ron's scratch box call made by his grandfather in the 1930's
The "3 p's" of being a good turkey hunter (or any kind of hunter)
Covert calling tactics
Find where a bird calls "home" and hunt him there
Hunting a bird on his terms, and winning
The "Death Call"
Learning from good hunters while still charting your own path

and TONS more! This episode is a real treat and we are very excited for you guys to hear it! If you enjoy the show, please share it with a buddy!

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573 - SPRING DEER SCOUTING, Hunting Very Small Properties, Tree Saddle Recommendation Apr 11, 2024

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On today's episode, we are going through some of our recent turkey hunts and discussing some deer scouting we have been doing over the last few weeks this spring! Subjects include:

Jacob trying the "yo-yo" calling tactic on a gobbler
Hunting turkeys in thick areas with small openings
Finding well-used licking branches to start doing buck inventory on
Scouting feed trees in spring
Listener question on hunting 5 acres that border a huge clear-cut
Listener question on tree saddle recommendations
Listener question on how to determine deer bedding vs feeding areas.

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572 - Yo-Yo Calling Gobblers with Shane Parker Apr 08, 2024

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This week we are joined by our buddy Shane Parker to talk turkey! We specifically get into calling techniques for dealing with gobblers who just seem like they don't want to budge, or the ones who will cut some of the distance but won't fully commit to coming into your setup.

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