Ep. 334 | Expert Turkey Decoy Strategies with Dave Constantine

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🗓️ 8 April 2024

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Do the turkey decoys you put out change based on time of the season? Renowned wildlife artist and turkey call maker, Dave Constantine, tells us why they should. Dave is responsible for the realism of many of the turkey decoys we set up to lure in that boss tom. He’s studied turkey posture and flock dynamics with incredible scrutiny. Couple that with being a lifelong turkey hunter, and you get knowledge you can take to the bank!

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Vortex Nation podcast brought to you by lovers of hunting, shooting, public lands, the Second Amendment and good food. food. What is up everybody, Mark on the mic here, Mr. Ryan Muckenhearn across me and with us today in studio, very special guest, Mr.
0:26.8	Dave Constantine.
0:28.8	Now we're going to talk, we've been talking Turkey.
0:32.0	In fact, we're a little bit late to this podcast because we were all getting our leftover Turkey tags today.
0:37.0	We're talking about Turkey decoy postures, what they mean, when to use them.
0:45.0	Dave, you dropped something before we started recording here,
0:47.7	flock dynamics, really excited to hear about that.
0:51.5	But before we jump in to this part of the discussion, I don't think we can do that without talking
0:58.7	about you and your background, Dave.
1:02.4	You do a lot of carving in fact if you're watching on YouTube we have a bunch of
1:07.2	turkey decoys on the table these are molds made off of your wood carvings yes yeah exactly they are actually would
1:18.2	I would call them the end product from life-size carvings that I did and designed for various companies.
1:26.5	I've done a lot of that over the years.
1:29.6	Make my living as a wood carver and sculptor and a callmaker.
1:34.0	That's awesome. I'm going to read something here, guys.
1:37.0	This is from an N. WTF article.
1:41.0	It's an excerpt by the author is Matthew Brewer,
1:47.0	says, Dave Constantine needs no introduction.
1:50.0	I'm actually using this as my introduction.
1:52.0	The irony he's an 11-time
1:56.0	NWTF grand national call maker of the year Earl Mickle Award winner four-time
2:02.0	NWTF Grand National Champion of Champions, and one of the most likable guys in the industry.
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