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Gamekeeper Podcast

EP:434 | Crazy about Turkeys with Mark McPhail

Gamekeeper Podcast

Mossy Oak

Land Management, Sports, Wilderness, Mossy Oak, Bottomland, Hunting, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers, Wild Turkey, Food Plot, Whitetail Deer, Gamekeeper

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2026

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

On this episode we’re joined by Mark McPhail of Collinsville, Mississippi, to talk turkey and turkey calls. Mr. McPhail is a long time turkey hunter, call maker and call collector who loves turkeys. It’s evident when he mentions dressing for work in a coat and tie in the field after a hunt, which demonstrates his love for going every morning he can. We also learned these short morning hunts he does seem to set up an afternoon hunting strategy that seemed to work for him. His collection ...

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0:00.0

I have Jeff Foxworthy and welcome to Gamekeeper Podcast.

0:03.9

If you want to learn more about farming for wildlife and habitat management, then buddy,

0:08.5

you are in the right place.

0:10.4

Join the gamekeeper crew direct from Malsi Oakland Enhancement Studio as they discuss the latest

0:15.7

wildlife and habitat management practices, news, and of course hunting.

0:20.6

There's no telling what you'll learn, but I'm going to tell you, I bet it's interesting. Enjoy it. We're live in three, two, one. All right, everybody, Lanny. Into March, Bobby. Boy, it's flown by. It's going quick. Here we go. Summer's right around the corner. Spring has sprung early. The pecans are blooming. You know what

0:40.7

that means. You can't trick a pecan. You can't trick a pecan. Who used to say that?

0:45.3

Was that our buddy Tim Brooks? It could have been.

0:48.9

It was a, how did he say it? Peacons don't lie. Something like that.

0:53.6

Our guest, Mr. Martin McPhail over here on the couch, do you have any, have you ever heard that a pecan tree, you can't trick it, that if once it blooms, you don't have to worry about a frost after that? No, sure I hadn't heard that. Yeah. Have you planned your tomatoes plants yet? My wife has, yeah. Look at you. Yeah. No good for you.

1:11.0

I think they,

1:11.7

I mean,

1:11.9

we had to bring them in the house one night because they planted them before the frost. I did too, and I lost them, so I replanted. Anyways. It's been a, you know, good Friday is when you're really supposed to put your garden out. But you'd like to try to get a jump on it if you can.

1:27.0

Well, you would.

1:27.8

You sure would.

1:28.5

Okay.

1:28.9

But you don't want to burn them up with frost.

1:31.4

Yeah. garden out. But you'd like to try to get a jump on it if you can. Well, you would.

1:45.4

You sure would. But you don't want to burn them up with the frost. So my sawtoothes look awful. They got that. They got nipped. They got nipped. But we had that 27 degree night a couple weeks ago. It's awful. So I guess there won't be any acres this year on those. On those. I don't know if everything was that way.

1:47.1

It might have been as widespread as that.

2:20.4

I didn't notice as much. Of course, I'm down in the river bottom, so I didn't notice as much there personally. Yeah. But. So it's just us today. Yeah. Lanny and I. It's turkey season, you know. Mr. Martin McPhail. Yeah, thank you for being here during turkey season. I started saying to get up with turkey days important. Yeah. Well, we did in the afternoon. Yeah, you do. You got to do warm. I mean, probably not hunting in the afternoons, are you? I hunt over afterno. Do you really? That's my prime time. Well, you should have said something. No, that's fine. We'd have gone with you. We'd love it up.

2:18.1

We could have done a podcast in the morning and we're hunting. That's right. You know, so, Martin McFault, you're from Collinsville, Mississippi. And I think anybody that's been to the NWTF show a few times would recognize you walking. I mean, you're just, you're there every day. You're walking around.

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