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The Southern Outdoorsmen Hunting Podcast

672 - The Best Turkey Hunting Advice from a Longtime Turkey Guide: Bob Walker

The Southern Outdoorsmen Hunting Podcast

Andrew Maxwell & Jacob Myers

Wilderness, Sports

2.41.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2025

⏱️ 119 minutes

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Summary

Bob Walker is a turkey hunting legend in the southeast. A longtime guide at the legendary Bent Creek Lodge in Alabama, Bob has spent many years hunting every day of turkey season. Throughout the years, Bob has observed a lot of turkey behavior...and a lot of turkey hunter behavior! In this episode, Bob shares some of his biggest lessons learned while turkey hunting. We dive deep on turkey behavior, turkey calling, and more. He also shares some very interesting tidbits from his experience guiding other turkey hunters - touching on subtle things that most turkey hunters do that decrease their odds of success while turkey hunting. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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Being able to pinpoint exactly where a gobbling turkey is is half the battle in a successful hunt.

0:06.0

My favorite tool for pinpointing goblers is the compass mode feature on on X hunt.

0:11.0

When you enter compass mode on your app, the map orients to whatever direction you're facing,

0:15.0

and a line is drawn on the map with different distances marked.

0:19.0

So for instance, I'll be out hunting some hill country

0:21.4

and I'll have a bird goblin. So I'll turn on compass mode. I'll face the bird and I'll look at my

0:26.6

phone and it's got those different yardages marked. And basically I can say, okay, that bird is probably

0:31.6

about 250 yards away. I can look at my map and say, oh yeah, look, there's a ridge point directly where I'm facing, about 250 yards. He's probably right there on the end of that ridge point. Or, oh, there's a food

0:40.6

plot, about 250 yards out. He's probably in that food plot. So it's made a big difference for me,

0:45.2

and again, pinpointing birds. I know it'll probably help you out too. So check it out

0:48.7

compass mode on on X hunt. And you can get a discount on your onex elite membership if you use the code southern at checkout

0:55.0

make sure you use that discount code because not only will you get a discount but it helps a show

0:59.2

out as well know where you stand with on x hunt if you're going to go put a camera out or if you're

1:03.3

in the market for a camera this spring check out the multery mobile edge two and edge two pro

1:09.3

cell cameras we're using these all this past fall worked extremely well

1:13.2

for us not only great image quality and video quality but the audio we've come to find out works

1:17.4

awesome especially we have a big old butt come running grunting on camera it's a pretty sweet video

1:21.8

one of my favorite features of the muletry mobile cameras is they're built-in memory systems so you

1:26.4

don't need an SD card so it's one less

1:28.0

thing to forget when you go into the woods but also if you're on public lane or if you're on a

1:31.9

hunting club or lease someone else can't come and check your camera by you know using a card reader

1:36.3

you can pick up a multery camera from any big box store and also a lot of your local pro shops

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