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

490 - Turkey Talk with Billy Yargus

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

Andy Gagliano

Hobbies, Leisure, Sports, Wilderness

4.6547 Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2024

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Turkey Talk with Billy Yargus  This week, almost first time guest and 2 time Grand National Calling Champion, Billy Yargus joins Cameron and Andy on the show to talk all things turkey. Billy talks about how he got into hunting, and shares some fond memories of his hunting mentor. He also shares the story of how he got into competitive turkey calling and some insight into some of the competition that he faced during those days. Of course, we get a few turkey hunting tips from Billy along the way as well. Billy currently is on the pro staff for Woodhaven Custom Calls and Mossy Oak as well. Billy makes a several thousand diaphragm calls for Woodhaven each year, and they definitely put out a quality product. This is another great episode of the show, so be sure to listen in. Buy some merch and great sounding The Turkey Hunter diaphragm turkey calls from our Shopify store by clicking here: https://theturkeyhunterpodcast.myshopify.com/ Join our Patreon group and get additional content, discounts on merch, and other great perks by clicking here: https://www.patreon.com/TheTurkeyHunterPodcast80

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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.

0:09.5

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.

0:33.1

Advice from old pro-turkey hunters like this.

0:36.0

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. So i have a choice i'm going to try to make it so that i'm going to be on the west side in the morning east side in the afternoon of a turkey exciting live hunts like this oh i crap, that's coming. Oh, God.

1:30.3

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

1:41.3

With some fresh rosemary and garlic, and then cool that off and spread that along the

1:48.2

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.

2:11.3

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

2:14.6

Oh, on November 28th of 1953, was attached. When I popped out of my mom

2:19.3

and the baby doctor spanked me on the bottom,

2:21.3

I went,

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