Ep. 349: BONUS How to Talk Turkey with Andrew Johnson
Wired To Hunt Podcast
MeatEater
4.6 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2020
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Today on the show we're back with our final bonus turkey hunting episode and we're here with Andrew Johnson to break down the top six turkey vocalizations hunters need to be able to interpret and replicate.
Topics discussed:
- How Andrew came to be involved with turkey hunting and turkey hunting media
- Why so many hunters have one-sided conversations with turkeys
- What the most important turkey vocalizations
- Why it's important to understand what different vocalizations mean to turkeys
- Understanding and replicating a yelp
- Understanding and replicating the tree yelp
- Understanding and replicating clucks and putts
- Understanding and replicating cutting
- Understanding and replicating a purr
- Understanding and replicating a gobble
- Most common turkey calling mistakes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Wire to Hunt Podcast. |
| 0:05.9 | Your home for dear hunting news stories and strategies. |
| 0:10.1 | And now your host, Mark Kenyon. |
| 0:16.6 | Welcome to the Wire to Hunt Podcast. |
| 0:19.2 | I'm your host, Mark Kenyon and this is episode number 349. |
| 0:22.7 | And today we are back with our last bonus turkey hunting podcast and our guest is outdoor |
| 0:28.3 | writer and turkey hunting extraordinaire Andrew Johnson. |
| 0:31.9 | Who's going to be speaking with us and going deep into the world of turkey vocalizations. |
| 0:39.0 | Alright, welcome to the Wire to Hunt Podcast brought to you by Onyx. |
| 0:45.6 | Today we are joined by Andrew Johnson. |
| 0:49.3 | He's an outdoor writer and contributor to such publications as Turkey and Turkey Honey |
| 0:53.5 | Magazine and Mediter. |
| 0:56.1 | And Andrew is going to help us examine six of the most common turkey vocalizations that |
| 1:02.3 | every hunter should know and we're going to explore what they mean to a turkey, how |
| 1:06.6 | to replicate them as a hunter and when and how to do this in a hunting situation. |
| 1:11.5 | So in short, we're getting some great turkey calling advice and know how from a very well |
| 1:16.2 | informed and experienced turkey hunter. |
| 1:18.5 | I'm going to say that real quick before we move on, if you're enjoying all this bonus |
| 1:23.2 | turkey hunting content and you've got some more turkey tags to fill, make sure you |
| 1:27.2 | head over to themeateater.com and check out all of our turkey hunting articles. |
| 1:32.4 | We've put up dozens and dozens of new turkey stories and it's really good stuff. |
| 1:36.4 | So head on over there to do some reading as soon as you can. |
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