FFOD311 : Follow Your Calling with Chris Kirby

Fist Full of Dirt

Mossy Oak

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🗓️ 3 February 2026

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Send us Fan Mail Hard to believe it’s been 50 years, because I remember when this all started. This week I’m visiting with Chris Kirby of Quaker Boy, a turkey calling champion, Hall of Famer and the man now carrying the torch for a company built by his father Dick Kirby. We talk about honoring his dad and what it means to follow something you were truly *called* to do. From competition stages to call-making benches to spring mornings in the woods, this episode is about legacy and staying true...

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0:00.0	Welcome to Fistful of Dirt, the official podcast of Mossy Oak Properties.
0:09.3	Whether you own a small farm, lease land, or just love hanging in your backyard.
0:14.8	We're all about the outdoor lifestyle and how to get the most from your time in God's great outdoors.
0:20.7	Now here's your host, Ronnie Cus Strickland. This is my alive from the frigid Camo Cave. Good morning. Yeah, we're shivering down here. We ain't used to this kind of weather. I'm a fish out of water. You know, back in the day. I had to ride to work with you today. You were worried about
0:39.1	the road. That's what that was. Oh, goodness. Back in the day, I would have just been all out in this.
0:44.0	I couldn't, you know, I was like, man, the deer moving on it. And I was looking at the
0:48.6	tent yesterday and I was like, I'm going to wait until the last day. It gets up to, you know, 38 or something.
0:55.1	It just cold hits a little different when you get my age.
0:59.9	It just, it is what it is.
1:03.0	It makes turkey season feel like it's a million months away.
1:07.3	Yeah.
1:07.6	Well, it's, look, the older you get, the more time flies, I get it.
1:11.8	Yeah.
1:12.2	And the only time it drags for me is between the end of deer season and the opening of
1:17.1	turkey season, which is not long for me.
1:19.4	No.
1:20.1	Because, you know, first Saturday in March.
1:23.8	It's on.
1:24.8	Yeah, we're gone.
1:25.6	We're headed to Florida for the wounded veterans hunt.
1:29.9	But, yeah, that month or whatever it is, although we're trapping, we'll be trapping
1:34.9	and all that, it's still just drags and drags and drags.
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