Welcome back to Cutting the Distance. I met today's guest about 15 years ago on our

local hunting forum, HuntingWashington.com. I was just getting into turkey hunting and

his tag name was Yelp. And so after kind of exchanging turkey hunting information with

them for a few years, we finally just decided to go on hunt together, you know, mentor

us a little bit. And so, ended up joining up with Eric Broughton. Great turkey color,

great turkey hunter from here in Washington. Works for Fish and Wildlife. It's out in the

field of ton. Just really had these northeast turkeys kind of dialed. Another cool fact

about Eric is his turkey camp. They share probably one of the most famed turkey camps on

the east side. A ton of history, a ton of knowledge. I got to actually go back to home

with Eric last year and stay at their turkey camp. And you can tell when you go in there,

all the posters, all the lists on the wall. It's just rooted deep in turkey hunting.

And there's been a lot of camps that have shared that. So welcome to the show, Eric.

Thanks Jason. Great to be here.

How are things looking over there on the east side this year?

A lot of snow this year. Things are starting to hopefully get closer to spring. But up

North, we have a lot of snow. But birds are active. I watched a group this morning, a bunch

of Jake's strutting around with some hands. So the birds are on the right schedule. I just

don't know if the weather is. Yeah, yeah, a little, a little extra snow over there, more

so than normal. And I'm going to before we jump into our typical podcast here, I got

to go back and kind of relive a short moment on the first turkey hunt we ever had together.

We were hunting a piece of ag that we had some permission to against the piece of public

we had been hunting even more so. But we found ourselves that day out in the ag. And we

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