522 - Are There Really Fewer Turkey Hunters with Dr. Will Gulsby and Dr. Marcus Lashley
The Turkey Hunter Podcast with Andy Gagliano & Cameron Weddington | Turkey Hunting Tips, Strategies, and Stories
Andy Gagliano
4.6 • 547 Ratings
🗓️ 26 June 2025
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Summary
Are There Really Fewer Turkey Hunters
We hunters hear it all the time, "Hunter numbers are declining." But, are hunter numbers really declining? Are the number of turkey hunters declining as well?
This week, Andy Gagliano and Cameron Weddington host Dr. Will Gulsby and Dr. Marcus Lashley to discuss hunter recruitment trends, particularly for turkey hunting. Marcus Lashley presented research indicating an aging turkey hunter demographic and scrutiny of national survey data suggesting a decline in hunter numbers, while state-level data presented by Cameron Weddington showed increases in many states.
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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. |
| 0:37.1 | 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. |
| 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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