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

493 - They Mark My Steps with Michael T Simpson

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

Andy Gagliano

Sports, Leisure, Hobbies, Wilderness

4.6547 Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2024

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

They Mark My Steps with Michael T Simpson This week, Michael T Simpson joins Cameron and Andy on the show to talk a little about his new book, They Mark My Steps. Michael shares a number of stories with us in this episode. He shares the story of the tornado that hit his house in northeast Mississippi not long after the release of his first book. He talks about the emotions of his first turkey hunts soon after the turkey hunt. Michael also talks about an exciting hunt in Texas with his wife this past spring where she got her first turkey ever after a long hiatus from turkey hunting.  This is a great episode that is loaded with stories and a few laughs. 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 God, 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.

1:52.9

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

2:04.1

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

2:10.2

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

2:14.6

Oh, on November 28th of 1953, I was attached when I popped out of my mom and the baby doctor spank me on the bottom, I went,

2:22.3

and I've been doing it ever since.

2:25.3

I like that.

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