Ep. 440: Turkey Stories - Bears, Bows, and a Pot Belly Pig
Bear Grease
MeatEater
4.9 • 7.4K Ratings
🗓️ 8 April 2026
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
When Cody Villines prepared to draw down on three dark approaching turkeys, he definitely gets more than he expected. Janis Putelis hangs in for a fourth quarter double, Clay and Lake get a big surprise about what comes into their call, and a miraculous retrieval—all exciting stories from Nebraska, Missouri, Arkansas, and Texas, sure to get you fired up for Spring Turkey Season.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.4 | Hey, it's Clay Newcomb here from Bear Greece, and I want to tell you about my new 12 and 26 film |
| 0:10.9 | presented by Maltry and Onyx. |
| 0:13.7 | These are 12 of meat eaters' biggest and baddest hunts from the last year that are going |
| 0:18.6 | to be released through 2026. |
| 0:20.7 | These are long-form episodes, or what I call films, so you are going to be released through 2026. These are long-form episodes, |
| 0:23.1 | or what I call films, so you're going to get more of what you love. My film will take us |
| 0:27.6 | into the deep and cold, rugged country of southwest Utah on a lion hunt with hounds, where we |
| 0:34.6 | traveled over 80 miles and five days on mules. But the best part, I'm hunting |
| 0:39.9 | with the legendary lion hunting family, the meekums, but also one of the country's top mule men, |
| 0:46.6 | Ty Evans. This is about mules and lions. This is the kind of place where winter hangs on tight |
| 0:53.4 | and every track in the snow tells a story. |
| 0:57.4 | If you've ever wondered what it's like to pursue a mountain line in big country on muleback, then this is the episode for you. |
| 1:05.3 | Check it out now on the Meteor YouTube channel and be on the lookout for more 12 and 26 in the coming months. |
| 1:14.1 | That bird was right there, 20 yards from me up that hill. It was just one of those moments where I |
| 1:20.5 | just paused and went, man, what are the odds? Thank you, Lord. What an amazing story. |
| 1:31.1 | This episode of Turkey Stories is full of surprises. |
| 1:37.1 | Probably a good title for this one would have been April Fools. But some surprises are good, |
| 1:47.1 | and some are bad. We've got stories from Missouri, Nebraska, Arkansas, and Texas, with some new voices and some old ones, |
| 1:53.5 | but they're chock full of goblins, strutting, laughing, some fear, some grunting, |
| 1:55.6 | and maybe even a tear. |
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