Missouri Monster Turkey Story

The Turkey Hunter Podcast with Andy Gagliano & Cameron Weddington | Turkey Hunting Tips, Strategies, and Stories

Andy Gagliano

Wilderness, Hobbies, Leisure, Sports

4.6 • 547 Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2014

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Turkey hunter, John Rowell, recounts the story of killing a once in a lifetime wild turkey in Missouri. John tells the story of what starts out to be a tough hunt because of retaliation against his hunting party by the outfitter that John paid to hunt in Missouri. The owner mistakenly associated John with a hunter who had been to his operation in previous years and had killed more turkeys than he was allotted on the unguided hunts. After that unethical "hunter" cleared the situation up with the outfitter and let him know that John and his group should not be punished because of his actions in years past, the outfitter opened up more ranches to John and his group, but time was against John at that point who had one day remaining on his out of state hunt. On the last morning of the hunt, John heard shots from all around the ranch he was hunting as his hunting partners were filling their tags, but John was not having any luck. It looked like John was going to go home empty handed until a gobbling bird entered John's radar screen. The hunt was on, but the bird was not playing fair. John took control of the situation and made the most of the opportunity he was given. Listen in as John describes what happened next and take a look at the picture to see how John's patience was rewarded by the Turkey gods.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to the turkey hunter podcast with me, your host, Andy Galeano.
0:19.6	In this podcast, I share with turkey hunters just like you
0:22.8	how to have more turkeys on your hunting property and how to have more successful turkey
0:27.3	hunts. I teach you how to do this with tips and interviews with turkey hunting pros,
0:32.7	wildlife management tips, and entertaining turkey hunting stories.
0:36.6	Tune in weekly as I share proven and simple strategies to help you have more success this turkey season.
0:42.3	Make sure to head over to www. I am turkey hunting.com to subscribe to receive free turkey hunting tips, tactics, strategies, and product reviews. Also, please visit and like
0:56.8	my Facebook fan page. Go to Facebook and search I Am Turkey Hunting, and also feel free to post
1:02.9	your turkey hunting photos from this past season and let us know where and when you killed your bird.
1:07.5	For all of you Twitter users out there, please follow me on Twitter, where my
1:11.2	handle is at Turkey Hitman, and I will be sure to follow you back. And now, for this week's show.
1:21.2	Today I have on the call with me a good friend of mine who lives in Virginia. Yes, I have a friend
1:27.4	who's a Yankee.
1:28.9	And my friend is John Rowell.
1:31.8	I met John when we were in college at University of Alabama.
1:35.5	And that's really when he and I both got bit by the turkey bug
1:40.2	or at least got started with our turkey hunting at that time.
1:44.0	And John is a member of the group that goes with me on the trip out of state every year
1:49.7	that we go on.
1:50.8	And he and I have a common goal, and that is to kill a turkey in every state that has
1:54.0	turkeys.
1:54.9	So, John, welcome to the show.
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