Ep. 100: Spring Turkey Stories 2023 (Part 2)

Bear Grease

MeatEater

Wilderness, Sports

4.8 • 7.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

This week on Bear Grease, Clay Newcomb hosts another all-star cast of sure 'nuff dyed in the wool, turkey hunting storytellers. Gobbling turkeys create a rare intoxication for man. It’s exhilarating to call, get a response, and watch a long beard work into shotgun range. Each spring, the turkey hunter has the opportunity to step into a world he does not fully understand and participate in it for short windows of time… it’s a rare experience. On this episode we’ve got eight storytellers that'll help you get a glimpse of that rare experience. We have North Carolina novelist David Joy, Jimbo Ronquest tells a story of a Missouri turkey hunt with his father, and a couple great Mississippi stories from Billy Johnson and David Hitt Neill. We also have some old favorites: Gary “Believer” Newcomb, Brent Reaves and Andy Brown.…I really doubt you’re going to want to miss this one…

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0:00.0	Hey folks, this is Brent Rees with the Meadeaters New Podcast, this Country Live.
0:05.0	You ever wondered how to pick out a good dog, bowl up a massive crawfish or catch catfish
0:09.3	on a trot line?
0:10.3	Well, on this Country Live, I'm inviting you into my home, where in each episode I'll
0:14.8	be telling you the story of a good hunt, close call, a hard time, a good time, whatever.
0:20.0	And then we'll talk on some good country skills I think you ought to know.
0:24.1	Listen to this Country Live starting April 21st in the Bear Grease feed on the Out Heart
0:28.8	Radio app on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcast.
0:41.4	And all of a sudden you boom!
0:43.9	And soon as she shot, I jumped up and one of the birds was flying off and the other one
0:49.6	had his head up and he was just turning his head.
0:52.6	One eyeball turned other.
0:54.2	One eyeball turned other.
0:55.2	I just trying to figure out what's going on.
0:57.8	And I start screaming, reload, reload, reload.
1:00.2	Because she's shooting this old single shot shotgun and sh**t got but one shot and she's
1:04.5	looking at me like, oh no, what in the world do I do?
1:09.0	We've found ourselves on the rising tide of spring turkey hunting.
1:13.7	It's time.
1:14.9	It's early April and surely every gobbler in America is sounding off in the pre-don
1:19.4	darkness doing the limb, strut and drum tight rope walk dance every morning, pitching down
1:25.8	with the business of love on their mind.
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