Ep. 062: Turkey Talk - Farm Country to Texas Rios with Rick Maxson and Alec Nebel

East Meets West Hunt

Beau Martonik

Sports, Wilderness

4.9 • 796 Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2019

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

On this episode, I'm joined by Rick Maxson and Alec Nebel to talk farm country turkeys and Rick's recent Texas Rio Grande Turkey hunt. This show is full of laughter and stories like you would expect at a hunting camp, but with some great takeaways for this Spring. We dive into the hot topic of high fence/low fence hunting, Texas hunting, gaining permission on properties, scouting turkeys, bowhunting gear and much more! In the intro, I go through my complete Sitka Gear turkey season set up and why I use it, as well. Topics My Sitka Gear setup for turkey season Background and shenanigans Rick’s recent Texas Rio and hog hunt High fence/low fence hunting debate Gear review and bow overview Locating farm country turkeys Getting hunting permission to private properties Setting up on turkeys in Pennsylvania farm country Tenth Legion - Tom Kelly book Resources: Instagram: @a_nebel @rickybob45 @eastmeetswesthunt @beau.martonik Facebook: East Meets West Outdoors Bucks & Bows Archery www.bucksandbows.com www.eastmeetswesthunt.com Partners: University of Elk Hunting Use code eastmeetswest to get 20% off of the most comprehensive elk hunting course available. Heather's Choice Healthy, great tasting, dehydrated meals for the backcountry. Use code eastmeetswest to get free shipping on orders over $99. http://lddy.no/7og2 Maven Optics Top quality binoculars, spotting scopes and rifle scopes for your hunts from east to west. Listen to the podcast for a special code to get a free gift with your next order! MTN OPS MTN OPS is the leader in providing science based supplements to help you train inside and conquer more outside. https://glnk.io/mw0/beaumartonik Wild Carrot Scents Changing the way you look at deer scents. Their tear away, no mess packaging is exactly what I need for hunting the mountains of Pennsylvania, to the swamps of the south and farm country in the midwest. Prime Archery Prime builds bows for hunters with parallel cam and centergy technology. Their free strings for life program is unmatched in the industry. Test drive one at your local shop and experience it yourself! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Are you an adventurer looking to take your hunt to the next level?
0:04.6	Then you're in the right place.
0:05.8	Welcome to East Meets West Hunt with your host, Beaumartonic.
0:12.9	Hey everyone, welcome back to another episode of the East Meets West Hunt podcast.
0:18.9	Thanks for listening this week and got another special turkey hunting episode
0:23.6	coming up. At least here in Pennsylvania, our season is opening up for all hunters. The youth
0:31.2	opened up just here this past Saturday. But coming up here, this upcoming Saturday will be opening day for the rest of us and I'm getting
0:41.3	really excited for that turkey seemed to be on fire recently been hearing a lot of gobbler's been
0:48.4	seeing a lot of them so hopefully that they cooperate on the first day there and everyone stays safe with that.
0:56.2	So I wanted to kind of continue this talk about turkeys and brought on two guys that are good friends of mine and used to work with both of them when I worked at Bucks and Bowes Archery down in Gibsonia.
1:10.2	So these guys are hunting a little bit different style birds.
1:14.1	And I talked to Jake about recently on the last podcast.
1:17.9	They're hunting farm country birds.
1:20.3	So we're going to talk about that and some different tactics with that instead of just, you know, the fact of calling birds and everything, more or less
1:29.8	from the standpoint of gaining permission on properties and different scouting techniques that
1:37.1	are just so different than, you know, what I'm used to and, you know, some others are, but
1:42.0	it's a really great episode and also get into Rick's
1:45.1	recent Texas Rio hunt that he went on.
1:49.1	So there's a lot of good information in here, even get into some gear stuff from the bow side of things,
1:56.6	archery side of things.
1:58.8	And with that being said, talking about gear, I had a listener question about what kind of
2:06.4	sick gear system am I running for turkey season?
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