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

514 - Hunting Pressured Turkeys with Patrick Wightman

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

Andy Gagliano

Hobbies, Wilderness, Leisure, Sports

4.6547 Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2025

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Hunting Pressured Turkeys with Patrick Wightman This week, Patrick Wightman, a research scientist with the Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, joins Cameron and Andy this week to discuss what turkeys do when they get pressure put on them by hunters. Patrick has done hours and hours of research on this topic, and he shares his insight with us in this interview. This is an interview that we feel everyone will glean some useful information from because private and public lands alike can receive a great deal of hunting pressure. You'll want to grab a pen and piece of paper before you start listening to this one because there are some great nuggets to take away from this episode that will help you to find and harvest pressured turkeys. 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 Whedington.

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.

0:37.1

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 so if i have a choice i'm going to try

0:58.0

to make it so that i'm going to be on the west side in the morning east side in the afternoon

1:03.8

of a turkey exciting live hunts like this oh Holy crap, they're coming. Oh, God.

1:34.7

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

1:42.2

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.

2:10.9

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

2:14.4

Well, on northern the 28th of 1953, I was attached.

2:18.2

When I popped out of my mom

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