191P - Challenging Gobblers with Ray Eye

The Turkey Hunter Podcast with Andy Gagliano & Cameron Weddington | Turkey Hunting Tips, Strategies, and Stories

Andy Gagliano

Hobbies, Sports, Leisure, Wilderness

4.6 • 547 Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2018

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Challenging Gobblers with Ray Eye In this episode, I interview the ever entertaining Ray Eye about challenging gobblers. Ray talks about using gobbler yelps, jake yelps, and gobbles to challenge a male turkey's spot in the pecking order. We talk about the best times of the spring mating season to try this strategy. And, Ray also discusses how he uses gobbler yelps to pull Toms away from a flock of hens. Challenging gobblers can sometimes be the only way to kill a stubborn old boss gobbler, and Ray is certainly an expert on the topic. Incorporate some of Ray's strategies into your turkey hunts next season and see if it will work for you. For those of you who do not know who Ray Eye is, well, here's a little about Ray... Born to a Missouri Ozarks farm family, Ray Eye has more than 50 years of turkey hunting experience and 30 years in the outdoor industry. He is the lead hunting expert for MidWest Outdoors magazine and a host of MidWest Outdoors Television, on Pursuit Channel, many regional networks, and local stations. He produces and hosts Eyes on the Outdoors, the highest-rated outdoor radio show in the Midwest, on KFNS 590 AM, St. Louis. Ray travels the country giving packed-house seminars featuring video projection loaded with “teaching segments” that bring his brand of turkey hunting to show-goers. He appears regularly on a range of outdoor television shows, and his amazing wild turkey footage has been seen by millions of viewers. He has written numerous books on turkey hunting, the latest being Ray Eye’s Turkey Hunter’s Bible. And he produces a series of “Calling is Everything” instructional DVDs, available at RayEye.com. Honoring his body of work, Ray has been named Missouri Conservation Communicator of the Year, National Wild Turkey Federation Communicator of the Year, and he’s been inducted into the national Legends of the Outdoors Hall of Fame. Simply put, Ray Eye is synonymous with turkey hunting, and people who want to become better hunters flock to him because he honestly loves teaching what he knows best.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the turkey hunter podcast with me, your host, Andy Galeano.
0:19.5	In this podcast, I share with turkey hunters just like you
0:22.7	how to have more turkeys on your hunting property and how to have more successful turkey
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0:32.6	wildlife management tips, and entertaining turkey hunting stories. Tune in weekly as I share proven and simple strategies to help you have more success this turkey season.
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1:15.8	And now, for this week's show.
1:20.0	Hello and welcome back to this week's episode of the Turkey Hunter podcast.
1:24.1	You are listening to episode number 19 hundred and ninety one challenging goblers with ray i
1:33.4	and i am your host and a guy who had a moment of excitement this past saturday morning so i actually saw my first Polts for 2018. And, you know, I want to jump up and down and get all
1:50.8	excited about it. But truth of the matter is, it causes me a little bit of concern. So Saturday morning,
1:57.5	I was headed to my property south of Birmingham to do some fishing and saw
2:04.3	two hens in a fallow field and they freaked out when they saw the vehicle coming and flew across
2:11.2	the road that I was driving on. But before they flew and before they completely freaked out when they saw the truck,
2:20.0	I happened to see some little heads poking up above the grass.
2:25.4	And when the two hens flew across the road, I drove by,
2:30.6	I was watching in the side mirror to see what the p polts were going to do, and lo and behold,
2:36.8	they took off flying across the road as well. So two hens, eight pults, which got me very excited,
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