EP 20 | Rob Keck - Past, Present, and Future of The Wild Turkey | WC on DC

Working Class Bowhunter

Curt Geier / Working Class Bowhunter LLC

Sports, Wilderness

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2022

⏱️ 72 minutes

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The second installment of the Turkey OG Series! Rob Keck joins Mark and Curt this week. Rob was the CEO of the NWTF for 27 years, raised almost three-quarters of a billion dollars for conservation, retired after 12 years as director of conservation for Bass Pro Shops and his resume goes on and on! Rob is the first hunter to take a turkey in every state with a hunting season and he talks about the hard work that went into establishing the wild turkey population, the current state of the turkey, and what we can look forward to in the future of these amazing animals! We hope you enjoy this episode and take some notes! To find more on this series and Working Class Bowhunter in general check out these links: https://www.workingclassbowhunter.com/ https://www.facebook.com/WorkingClassBowhunter https://www.instagram.com/workingclassbowhunter/ https://open.spotify.com/show/3O6nLkcnzCmSX0A4O9GUOw https://deercast.com/ To find more on this series and Working Class Bowhunter in general check out these links: https://www.workingclassbowhunter.com/ https://www.facebook.com/WorkingClassBowhunter https://www.instagram.com/workingclassbowhunter/ https://open.spotify.com/show/3O6nLkcnzCmSX0A4O9GUOw Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I feel that like I should have been the guy to lead into that being who we are is just
0:21.4	to have a nice bottle of whiskey and dump it over.
0:23.4	I mean, I have some bourbon, but I don't have wild turkey.
0:25.8	I don't know what I was thinking.
0:27.4	We should have got a corporate sponsor mark for this four episode series.
0:31.4	Well, as a Nashville, uh, Manuel Enriquez, Mel, how cone outfitters, long time friend,
0:37.4	he always brings me a bottle of tequila and, uh, all of our Mexican hunts, I mean, whether
0:42.6	it's gold, whether it's oscillated, when we come in, he always goes to icebox and pulls
0:47.6	out the tequila.
0:50.0	And so it's always special this time of year, especially when I, when I see Manuel, he
0:56.1	gave me a new kind of tequila.
0:57.9	I'm not sure what it is because it's clear like vodka and, uh, he said, it's really powerful
1:04.1	stuff.
1:05.1	Almost afraid to drink it up.
1:09.2	That's awesome.
1:10.2	Turkey hunt in Mexico would be a blast.
1:12.8	I've never even, never even, I've had a couple of buddies have done it, but I've never
1:16.8	even, it's not, it's not on my radar yet.
1:19.8	Well, he started actually started today with oscillated hundreds coming in down at Camp
1:23.4	PT.
1:24.4	Wow.
1:25.4	Yeah.
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