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

460 - The History of the Wild Turkey with Brent Rogers

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

Andy Gagliano

Sports, Wilderness, Leisure, Hobbies

4.6547 Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2023

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

The History of the Wild Turkey with Brent Rogers This week, Brent Rogers joins Cameron and Andy to discuss the history of the wild turkey in America. We talk about the role of the wild turkey in the lives of settlers of the US, the decline of wild turkeys due to subsistence before and during the Great Depression, relocation, restocking, and the boom of turkey populations. This is a fun episode with lots of discussion of historical accounts of wild turkey in America. Listen in! Don't forget to get your raffle tickets this week. Two lucky winners will join Cameron and Andy in South Texas in late February of 2024. Proceeds will be split between the NWTF and Turkeys for Tomorrow. Get your tickets here.

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Turkey Hunter podcast, the original All-Turkey All the Time podcast with your co-hosts Andy Galliano and Cameron Weddington.

0:09.6

In our weekly podcast, we're going to bring you some wild turkey calling tips like this.

0:14.9

From there, we're going to go into, she's aggravated.

0:17.6

There's another hen that's challenged her, or she's challenging another hand,

0:21.2

she's going to cut an excited joke.

0:35.1

The turkeys typically don't like, I think, more times than not,

0:41.7

to travel in an easterly direction into the sun first thing in the morning,

0:46.2

especially after he gets up.

0:48.4

It's a blinding thing.

0:51.2

It's just like you.

0:52.5

It's hard for you to see into the sun.

0:55.3

So if I have a choice, I'm going to try to make it

0:59.3

so that I'm going to be on the west side in the morning, east side in the afternoon of a turkey.

1:05.1

Exciting live hunts like this.

1:07.4

Oh, I got that coming.

1:30.7

Okay. like this. Holy crap, they're coming. Oh, God.

1:42.0

Then we're going to teach you how to cook your bird with advice such as this.

1:48.2

With some fresh rosemary and garlic, and then cool that off and spread that along the inside of that butterflyed turkey breast that we've seasoned on both sides.

1:52.8

Wildlife management tips for your property, especially with turkeys like this.

1:57.0

If you look at the type of habitats that turkeys need for nesting and brooding, that tends to be

2:04.3

habitat that can be managed more successfully with growing season fire than with dormant season fire.

2:10.9

And hopefully along the way, we'll get plenty of these.

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