EP 71 | Ernie Calandrelli & Mark Drury - Turkey OG Series - Working Class On DeerCast

Working Class Bowhunter

Curt Geier / Working Class Bowhunter LLC

Sports, Wilderness

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2023

⏱️ 69 minutes

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This week Ernie Calandrelli joins Mark and Curt for another episode of the DeerCast turkey OG Series! Ernie is a turkey hunting legend from New York, retired from Quaker Boy calls after 34 years, and placed in the top 10 in over 100 calling competitions! Enjoy! Save some money on your DeerCast Elite + and Unlimited plans at https://deercast.com/ with code WC10 To find more on this series and Working Class Bowhunter in general check out these links: https://www.workingclassbowhunter.com/ https://www.facebook.com/WorkingClassBowhunter https://www.instagram.com/workingclassbowhunter/ https://open.spotify.com/show/3O6nLkcnzCmSX0A4O9GUOw Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Tune into real animals at 10.30 a.m. Eastern every Sunday during Waypoint TV's mornings on the flats
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0:30.4	Everybody, welcome back to Deercast, another installment of the Turkey OG series. Hope you're
0:36.7	enjoying this and some of my hope we just keep doing Mark. I'm having a lot of fun with these, but
0:42.0	Mark, my co-host again this week and Mark again, lining up the original gangsters of the Turkey
0:48.8	industry. Ernie's even got the gangster look. Man, look at it. Mover up in New York there. Ernie
0:55.4	is and they just said, gangster, I thought you were just put an old guy. It could be that, but
1:01.7	we didn't, you know, you said it, not us. Yeah, we got Ernie Callendrelli with us this year.
1:07.7	Long time Quaker Boy Foundation. He's been there for nearly 50 years. Worked full time for him,
1:14.1	retired. He's now working harder in retirement than he did when he worked for them.
1:19.6	Mossy Oak Pro Staff Guy. He's won or placed in well over 100 contests. He's MC'd probably more
1:26.8	than that. He's judged more than that. Ernie's been a huge part of the Turkey industry, his entire
1:32.4	life. And we're so proud to have you on the show today, Ernie. Appreciate you, buddy.
1:37.0	Well, it's good to be here and God bless the wild Turkey. Boy, it sure has been a great part of
1:43.9	your life and my life, has it not? It's been a wild ride, but it's been a fantastic ride, Mark.
1:50.4	How would you think that you could ever make your living, especially when I first started?
1:56.2	I was a welder and I said, you know, you don't even think about these things just happen. You
2:03.0	don't plan for them where you ended up, you know, making most of your living off of a bird,
2:08.0	off of a turkey. Yeah. Pretty amazing. When did you call on your first competition, Ernie?
2:14.0	It was 70. It was 70s. Seven, I believe. Ernie, you said you were a welder. Were you a welder
2:22.9	when you called on your first competition? Oh, yeah. I used to drive the guys at work nuts.
2:28.7	Every time I flip my shields, that's all I heard was Turkey call coming out from underneath that
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