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

521 - How Harvest Statistics are Calculated with Roger Shields

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

Andy Gagliano

Hobbies, Leisure, Sports, Wilderness

4.6547 Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2025

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

How Harvest Statistics are Calculated with Roger Shields

This week, Wild Turkey Coordinator for the state of Tennessee, Roger Shields, joins Cameron and Andy on the show.

They discussed Tennessee's wild turkey population, including concerns about rainfall impacting hatch success, the value of citizen and staff observation data, and trends in brood surveys. Roger provided insights into harvest management, the results of banding studies indicating sustainable harvest rates, and the methods for gathering harvest and hunter effort data, emphasizing the importance of CPUE. Roger also addressed the process of setting regulations and the considerations beyond biological data that influence the commission's decisions.

Transcript

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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

0:54.5

so if I have a choice

0:56.8

I'm going to try to make it

0:59.3

so that I'm going to be on the west side

1:01.5

in the morning east side in the afternoon

1:03.8

of a turkey

1:04.6

exciting live hunts like this

1:07.5

oh I got that coming

1:08.8

I'm like this. Holy crap, they're 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

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