Welcome back to another episode of cutting the Distance. Today I'm joining with

John White of Northwest Spirit Chasers. John served 35 years in the military

doing military aviation work. He's originally from the Northwest Hardwoods of Connecticut

where he started hunting at the young age of 10. He moved to Washington 28 years ago and

started hunting Turkey shortly thereafter and he's never really looked back. He's a dyed in

the wool mountain turkey hunter with a run and gun style of chasing and setting up on gobbling birds and prefers this 100 to 1 over a hunt out of a blind or pattern turkeys.

Welcome to the show John. Hey how's it going? over hunt out of a blind or pattern turkeys.

Welcome to the show, John.

Hey, how's it going, Jason.

Good to see you.

Good, we're only about two months away

from opening day here and it's getting close.

Yeah, the countdown is rolling and everybody's pumped.

How, uh, I mean you're over there more than I am.

How was the hatch last year?

Everything looking good, numbers

looking good. Yeah, the hatch actually was pretty decent. Birds are actually strutting and

moving up already amazingly because we just don't have much snow so that's great.

Yeah, yeah these these mountain mariams that we hunted together last year they love to be at that

snow line they love to be at the top of the mountain if the weather and the

food sources let them so I imagine this year even more so than last year we're going to be up high

Jason Birds. Oh I sure hope so looking forward to let them spread out a little bit before

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