FFOD313 : The Secret Sauce Returns with Ernie Calandrelli

Fist Full of Dirt

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🗓️ 17 February 2026

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Send us Fan Mail This week we’re bringing back one of my favorite things we do on Fist Full of Dirt .. The Secret Sauce. I ask the same 20 questions to four of the best turkey hunters on the planet. Different regions. Different styles. Different backgrounds. Same questions. We’re kicking this series off with a legend. Ernie Calandrelli has spent more than 40 years in the turkey woods. He’s a Hall of Fame turkey caller, a master of the wing bone call and for 35 years he helped shape the ...

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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
0:19.4	great outdoors. Now here's your host, Ronnie Cus Strickland. It's in my life from and how to get the most from your time in God's Great Outdoors.
0:23.9	Now here's your host, Ronnie Cus Strickland.
0:25.9	This is my live from the Camo Cave.
0:26.6	Here we go.
0:30.7	I'm assuming everybody's heard the Secret Sauce song by now.
0:32.9	Yeah, I've heard it many times.
0:34.5	You're going to play it before?
0:35.8	We do the Secret Sauce. Oh, we play it.
0:37.4	You play it as you're bringing on the guest that's about to divulge the secret sauce. All right. So that's coming up. Right. I'm sure you still have it locked away in your laptop over there somewhere. Yeah, I've got it stored in separate locations so that if anything happened, I had backup copies. Well, to say the least, I'm very excited.
0:56.2	I am too.
0:56.9	That we're at that time of the year.
0:58.7	We have our first secret sauce contend, I wanted to say turkey, though.
1:02.6	We have our first secret sauce person coming up, and it couldn't be any more fitting to me.
1:08.9	It's Ernie Callandrelli, and if you've ever fallen any turkey hunting stuff, you know, he's been with Quaker Boar forever. But he's won, again, countless contests. I think he won the World Goose Calling Contest. Wow, I didn't know that. He's a fishing guy. He is a absolute Renaissance man. I love that. but I know what you like about him and I'll get you, we'll listen to his answers and all,
1:31.4	but it's just so positive.
1:34.5	He's got such good energy.
1:37.6	Anytime you see him, he's smiling.
1:40.4	You know, he comes to a bunch of the Moss Hill turkey camps now.
1:43.8	We have them in Texas for customers and all that kind of stuff. Yeah. And there's nothing. There's close as a mile away. Second place is a mile away from the comments I did about Ernie. Oh, I bet. When he's in camp. I bet. Well, first off, he's a legend. Yes. You never know what those people are going to be like when you get around, especially,
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