Ep. 7: Elk Hunting and Turkey Hunting Are Damn Near the Same Thing

In Pursuit

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Life Sciences, Science, Sports, Wilderness, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 5 May 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Out west it's a contentious topic: turkey hunting. Some love it and feel it’s the same as hunting elk during the rut, while others seem to be insulted by the idea. In this episode Dirk Durham and I dive into all of the similarities and a few of the differences. Some of the topics we dive into for our comparison: how to locate them, prescriptive approach, where we can typically find them, how the setups are similar, wallows vs. dusting areas, and cold calling.

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0:00.0	The NFL is headed back to Las Vegas for the reimagined Pro Bowl games presented by Verizon.
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0:11.8	New skills challenges on and off the field and even a special live concert performance.
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0:53.5	I'm joined today by my very good buddy, the marketing manager here at Folbe's Game Calls,
1:17.3	Derek Durham. For everybody out there kind of wanting to know his tricky calling credentials,
1:22.0	he has one exactly zero tricky calling contest. He's been in exactly zero tricky calling contest,
1:27.9	but he's a dang good elk hunter and one thing that we're going to kind of explain here is we love
1:32.1	tricky hunting. We may not be the best at it. We may not know everything about it, but we're going
1:36.7	to dive into why it just got this bad image amongst the Western hunters. Why it's not as cool as
1:43.5	calling in, you know, maybe an 800 pound bowl elk, but then maybe why they should consider it
1:49.2	cool and why it is a bunch of fun and something to do in the spring. So welcome, Derek. Oh, hey there.
1:58.2	Yeah, so I have been in some tricky calling contests. Oh, you have. All right, I'm going to
2:02.9	correct myself. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. The real judge. Yeah, exactly. Okay. So we've got to chase
2:11.6	elk all over, you know, every fall we also love the tricky hunt. I wouldn't say as much, but it's
2:16.9	definitely fun. It's something to go out there and do every spring. And so that's what we're going
2:20.8	to dive into. But first, we're going to jump into a few of our listeners questions here that we've
2:26.8	got. So the first one is I've never hunted turkey before. What are the must have? So I'm taking
2:32.9	this question as I don't need to go out and buy everything. But what are the must have? I'll let
2:37.6	you take this, Derek, and I'll see if I can add to your list at all. But I feel we should keep
2:41.9	the list simple, you know, whatever it is for calls, whatever it is for gear, you know, shotgun,
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