How To Hunt Turkey - Patience For Turkey Hunting

Sportsmen's Empire - Whitetail Hunting

Sportsmen's Empire Outdoor Network

Leisure, Hobbies, Wilderness, Sports, Technology

4.8 • 615 Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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In this episode, we dive into one of the most underrated but critical skills for successful turkey hunting: patience. Whether you're sitting in the woods waiting for that gobbler to come into range or navigating life’s challenges, patience can make all the difference. I share how my early days of fishing helped me build patience and how those lessons carried over into the turkey woods. We'll also talk about why confidence in your setup is just as important—because if you believe in the spot you're hunting, you're much more likely to stay put long enough for success to happen. This episode is part hunting tactics, part life wisdom, and 100% real talk from the field. What You'll Learn: Why patience can make or break your turkey hunt How fishing taught me to slow down and wait with purpose The connection between patience and confidence in your hunting spot How practicing patience in the outdoors can spill over into everyday life Mindset tips for staying focused, calm, and committed in the woods Our Sponsors: * Check out Thompson Cigars and use my code SE for a great deal: https://thompsoncigar.com * Check out Troll Co Clothing and use my code EMPIRE25 for a great deal: https://www.trollco.com/hunting Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:49.7	Okay. I'm Hello and welcome to the How to Hunt Turkey Podcast.
1:31.4	I'm your host, Jay Greer, and this week I'm going to be talking about something
1:35.8	extremely important to every hunter, everywhere, all the time, and especially important
1:42.9	to turkey hunters right now you see what i'm talking
1:48.5	about today is the topic of patience now how'd you do right there did you get a little impatient did you get a little impatient? Did you get a little freaked out? Were you afraid that your headphones disconnected? What happened right there when you had a moment of silence? A moment to be alone with your thoughts. Scary, isn't it? To be alone with your own thoughts sometimes. But it doesn't have to be
2:19.3	that way. And I think that if one can truly master the art of patience, a person will have a huge
2:28.4	leg up on all their competition in every aspect of life. I don't mean to be dramatic, but I think that's incredibly true.
2:36.2	Number one, turkey season is a long time from now. I don't know when you're listening to this
2:42.7	episode. I hope, my goodness, I hope you're listening to it like the night before turkey season
2:47.7	opens up for you, that just somehow're listening to the first for the first time
2:52.7	right before a turkey hunt that would be great and you wouldn't have to be patient at all but
2:56.6	you would kind of miss the whole point of this lesson that I'm trying to teach today you see
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