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🗓️ 8 May 2025
⏱️ 73 minutes
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In this episode, I sit down with NWTF biologist Chuck Carpenter to talk turkeys in the Pacific Northwest. From tough mountain hunts to population trends and harvest models, we cover what it takes to sustain healthy turkey numbers—and how understanding their biology can make you a better hunter. We also dive into hunting during the “henned up” phase, calling strategies, and how pressure affects gobbling and decoy effectiveness. If you like mixing science with strategy, you’ll enjoy this one.
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0:53.1 | Welcome back to another episode of cutting the distance. |
0:55.5 | Today I'm here with Chuck Carpenter. |
0:57.2 | He is the National Wild Turkey Federation District Biologist for New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, and Idaho. |
1:03.9 | A funny story about Chuck before I let him talk is our relationship started out with him harassing me at the Western Hunt Expo. |
1:12.8 | I didn't know him at the time, and I don't take any offense, I didn't remember you harassing |
1:17.8 | me, but he would always swing by the booth and ask us why we didn't bring any turkey calls. |
1:22.0 | And I back then, and it was turkey season about that time right before and so i took some some lumps from |
1:28.4 | but now fast forward uh eight years and uh we're hunting here in the pacific northwest and uh yeah |
1:33.7 | it's been fun welcome to the show chuck thank you jason and yeah i was the guy that harassed you |
1:38.8 | did you bring any turkey calls no and on to uh helping out uh elk customers yep yep no it's uh now we do bring turkey calls, no. And on to helping out elk customers. |
1:44.9 | Yep, yeah, no, it's, now we do bring turkey calls of the Northwest Hunt Expo in case here, |
1:50.1 | or not the Northwest, the Western Hunt Expo. |
1:53.3 | But yeah, we're currently here in the Pacific Northwest on a turkey hunt. |
1:58.1 | You know, we're kind of hunting the way that we like to do it. |
2:00.8 | You know, there's, and there's no wrong way to turkey hunt, you know, some're kind of hunting the way that we like to do it. You know, there's, |
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