678: The Story of Gould's Turkey in Arizona with AZGFD Jim Heffelfinger and Rana Tucker

Jay Scott Outdoors Western Big Game Hunting and Fishing Podcast

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🗓️ 17 April 2020

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Listen as Jay Scott talks with Jim Heffelfinger and Rana Tucker about the success story of reintroduction of Gould's turkeys in the sky island mountain ranges of Southern Arizona. https://www.instagram.com/jim.deere/ Buy Jim's book at https://www.amazon.com/Jim-Heffelfinger/e/B001JRUQ2K%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share https://www.azgfd.com/ Sponsors of the JSO Podcast https://www.gohunt.com/ Cody Nelson "Glassing Guru and Optics Authority" Optics Manager at goHUNT.com Gear Shop-Call Cody directly for info and sales at (702) 847-8747 Ext #2 or email at [email protected] Get $50 Gift Card for signing up for the goHUNT INSIDER go to https://www.gohunt.com/jayscott http://www.kuiu.com/ or http://www.kuiu.com/blog/ https://www.phoneskope.com/ Use the "jayscott20" promo code to get 10% off all orders https://www.onxmaps.com/ Use the "jayscott20" promo code to get 20% off all orders https://apexmunition.com/ Home of the TSS Tungsten Super Shot More on host Jay Scott www.JayScottOutdoors.com Instagram @JayScottOutdoors

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0:00.0	Guys welcome to the Jay Scott Outdoors podcast today is going to be a fun episode I actually have Jim Heffelfinger and Rayna Tucker from the Arizona game and fish department
0:10.5	Today we're going to be talking about Gould's Turkeys. We're going to talk about how they got to Arizona, how they're doing now, about the hunts that we have for them, and all about Gould's Turkey.
0:23.3	So Reyna and Jim, I'm happy to have you guys on here.
0:26.5	Welcome.
0:27.5	Thanks.
0:28.5	Good to be here.
0:29.0	Yeah, Jim, let's starting out, I'd like you to kind of give a little introduction and also introduce
0:34.8	Rana and her role I believe she took over your position some years back and just kind
0:42.4	of give us the listeners who haven't heard you on my
0:46.0	podcast or other podcast tell them a little bit who you are and who you guys are and
0:50.5	we'll start there. Okay, sounds good.
0:54.0	First of all, I'm the proud holder of a Gould's Tricky Tag this year in the Chiracallis.
0:59.0	Come on, good for you, I didn't know that.
1:01.0	Fantastic.
1:02.0	Yep. So my season starts May 8th and it doesn't mean that I work
1:05.8	at the game fish department so I get a gold stag different. I can attest to that because you've gone
1:10.7	you've been on a dry spell for some time.
1:13.0	Yeah I have I have and I'm leaving Friday on a junior turkey hunt with my son up in
1:18.8	unit 23 so we've got another turkey tag in between those two with my other son's I'll get a little bit of turkey hunting in this this fall
1:26.4	Fantastic so I've been I started with the game of Fish Department in the Tucson region in 1992 coming over from a master's degree in
1:36.2	in South Texas.
1:38.0	And I was for 22 and a half years the regional game biologists called regional game specialists in the
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