Ep. 171: A Crossbow Apology, a Nugget Revival, and a Turkey Hunting Lesson for Phil The Engineer with Tony J. Peterson
The Hunting Collective
MeatEater
4.5 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 30 March 2021
⏱️ 91 minutes
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In this episode, Ben and Phil are joined by writer and turkey expert Tony J. Peterson to talk tactics and help Phil prepare for his first hunt. Enjoy.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody welcome to another |
| 0:29.9 | episode of the hunting collective on Ben O'Brien episode 171 coming to you. It's almost |
| 0:35.9 | turkey season. We are excited. Phil are you excited? Yes, I'm excited. We just got |
| 0:41.8 | a this is a sneak peek for the episode. We just got done talking to Tony Peterson and |
| 0:46.1 | you know, Eric Hall, my my numbers getting higher. It's getting higher. Ah, Eric. Yes, we |
| 0:54.2 | just got finished going through some of the ins and outs of turkey hunting with Tony Peterson. |
| 0:58.0 | Tony is a writer and a expert in all things really all things hunting bird dogs, white |
| 1:04.8 | tails, turkeys. He is a currently a new member of the meat eater team in a lot of ways and you're |
| 1:11.6 | going to be hearing from him in a lot of specifically white tail ways coming up real soon on our |
| 1:17.2 | platform. So we wanted to have him on we can't get into specifics about exactly what he's going to |
| 1:21.2 | be doing, but lot of cool things in the in the books and he's one of the best public land hunters |
| 1:25.4 | and public land turkey hunters out there. So we had him on. We're excited about that as we prepare |
| 1:31.4 | Phil for your first hunt. We're only about a month away. Do you have anything? We talked about |
| 1:38.1 | this at length with Tony, but like, you know, you just got to give the people a little taste of what |
| 1:44.3 | it might be like to have you out there for your first for you feel like when you kill this turkey, |
| 1:49.1 | you're going to celebrate. You're going to scream. Are you going to feel relieved? Are you going |
| 1:53.6 | to be like, all right, let's go. That was great. Just take people through what your emotions might |
| 1:58.9 | be. The first turkey. It's only a month away. Do we wait for this? We've been waiting for this |
| 2:02.5 | for for literally a year probably. And now we're coming up on the time where it's going to happen. |
| 2:07.9 | Yeah, we were going to be we were going to be in Texas about this time last year. So yeah, |
| 2:12.1 | it's been it's been over a year. Yeah. And we've been through a lot. We've been through pandemics. |
| 2:17.2 | We've been through Barry Gilbert. That's that's true. Wow. We've we've been through various guys. We've |
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