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Hey, everyone, welcome to the Wired to Hunt Foundation's podcast. I'm your host, Tony Peterson. Hey, everyone, welcome to the Wired to Hunt Foundation's podcast.

I'm your host, Tony Peterson.

I want to deviate from deer this week to talk about turkeys once more before we get out

of this season, but specifically late season turkey is what I want to talk about, and how

most hunters get everything wrong when trying to beat a buzzer, beat or bird.

Look, I know that down south some turkey seasons are already wrapped up. While up here in the north country, there's quite a bit of life left in the spring season.

For anyone still sitting on some turkey tags, you know, with some days left to chase them,

the late season is going to become a reality one way or the other. This is the least desirable part of the season for most hunters,

but that doesn't mean it's not worth it. You just can't approach it like earlier hunts, which is what

I'm going to talk about right now.

If you look at the stats from most states, probably all of them, at least all of them with turkeys,

you'll see that the earliest parts of the turkey season are all front-loaded with pressure.

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