How to Talk to Turkeys When You Hunt Them | Interview Clip | Profoundly Pointless

So what you're trying to do is get them to trust their ears enough to second guess their asset. That's the whole drawl to turkey hunting. What is the importance of having like a turkey call? Where Why do you need this? Where does this come from? Well, the calling aspect of turkey hunting is kind of the defining factor. That's what kind of makes it different. Because we have a communication with our prey, we are able to carry on a conversation carry on a dialogue, what we're essentially trying to

do is, is enter their flock convince them that we are one of the flop. So like when you're doing the call, you're not just like, hey, Turkeys come here, like you're going back and forth with them. It's like any other conversation like the one that we're having here. Now. I mean, there's, they have a whole vocabulary. I mean, you can get excited, you can do subtle stuff. It's no different than saying, Hey, how you doing Nick? Hey, Nick, how's it going? Like you just learned over time, how to the

Daleks and the different you know, the excitement levels and what to say, I mean, they have a couple off the top like a most standard Turkey sound as a Yelp is what everything else is kind of developed around and kind of builds off of you have cutting, which is a very excited sound, which typically means aggression, or excitement of some level, you have purring, which is can be a contented call, which is what they do when they're just, you know, just kind of subtle talk, because, you know, like

you would do if you were, you know, in your office chatting with a co worker while you were, you know, doing something else. But that same purring sound can also get aggressive because that's what they do when they're fighting. You know, it's almost like when you're fighting you're grunting and growling and whatever. Could you give us an example of like those what the calls sound like? I don't know how that comes across with audio when these earbuds in the machine here. But that's your yield. T

hat's the essentially like a people saying hi, or hey, or where are you? You can take that to so many different levels, it can be a curiosity deal, it can be a demanding deal. And it's all going to be with the personality that you want to put behind that hand the voice that you want to give the hand that you're trying to portray. But what so then what are you doing on the other end of it in the sense that like, eventually, even if you making all these great sounds right, like doesn't the turkey

expect to see another turkey? Absolutely. And you're hunting turkeys which are hunted by everything. 365 days a year, you're hunting the most paranoid critters out there. I mean, they are hunted from the air, they're hunted from the ground, they're hunted all the time. So what you're trying to do is convince them to trust their second most important since they live and die by their eyes. That is how they stay safe is their acid is incredible. So what you're trying to do is get them to trust thei

r ears enough to second guess their asset. That's the whole drawl to Turkey honey, hardest call to do easiest call to do. That's all going to be do it's going to be up to the individual but the most difficult call for most people it's like a like a clock and per it takes a fluttering of the tongue or a gargling of the throat when a mouth call that causes that little bubbly sound and that's typically harder for people to accomplish. The easiest call is the easiest and the hardest and I'll explain

what I mean by that a Yelp is probably the one that people start off with typically they'll pick up a boss call or a pot call and they can mimic that call well enough easier but in my opinion when it comes to judging a turkey sound it's harder to fool my ears with a turkey yield like very few people in the country can Yelp on a call and me here and go that's that's a turkey and it not be a turkey so I googled some stuff right and you were described as the best turkey hunter alive now it's it's

it's pretty subjective considering that you don't keep score this game you know. So yeah, that's you know, that I've never and I don't think anybody that turkey hunts and considers themselves a big turkey hunter or whatever. Like be gunning for that accolade. I don't think anybody will really wants that title because the guys who really love this stuff. I would much rather be known as like a an ambassador for the sport somebody that wanted to see turkey hunting popular wanted to see turkey hunti

ng done in the right way and wanted to be a champion for the resource wanted to see that tomorrow. There's more turkey hunters than there was I mean, turkey hunters and turkeys is there was yesterday. So as funny as it sounds, Turkeys themselves have put me in places that I would have never seen had it not been for Turkey. So I've done things in my life that I never thought was obtainable. And it's all due to turkeys and I just had the fear I'll just always hear these you always hear when I reti

re or one day I'm going to do that when I retire, I'm going to do this and I just had a fear much younger hearing horror stories, that man, you don't ever know if that day is going to come. So I've always looked at, you know, man, if I could, if I could make if it was possible that I was going to try to obtain it. And that's kind of the way I learned early on with this turkey hunting thing. That is what I love to do is what I want it to be good at. And I'll work and just add a passion. It's not

like when when you say you work, it's not like a professional sport where you got to go to run wind sprints, it's not, you know, it's not it's almost involuntary, your passion is so strong that you're gonna get out there and do it either way, you're gonna get out there and do it because you love it. And that's kind of what I've fallen into is just strictly a passion that's caused me to love this stuff as much as I do. And it's, like I said, it's provided me with so much that I just like Man, if

there's somebody that never is exposed to this, this could potentially have such a profound effect on them as it just as it did me. But if they're never exposed to it, how would they ever know? So that's why I thought it was a really good idea to start making it available for folks you know, putting out content that they could find and see how it had affected me and how more fulfilled I am as a person in life just because of wild turkeys and wild things wild places and getting to go I've travele

d to all 49 states that have a huntable turkey population I find it turkeys in all 49 states there's no way I would have ever went to Rhode Island or Delaware or you know Nevada I mean these places are just I mean man I'm just a guy from southeast I'm happy being in the southeast you know I'm I'm a Georgia Florida Alabama that's that's kind of where I like to do my thing but this attraction to want to experience wild turkeys and and all over the country has put me in these places and I've seen t

hings and had experiences that man I'm just every time I do I think there's somebody out there that that won't ever see this and you know, exposing them to wild turkeys. Maybe they will so that's smart. That's my place. What's the Hawaii is the one state that doesn't I'm assuming it's gotta be Hawaii, right? No, it's Alaska. Hawaii actually has a lot of turkeys. Really? Absolutely Yep. How the hell they get to a Hawaii not to Alaska. They don't have well Alaska see turkeys function on a photo pe

riod like length of day that's how they know when it's time to breed. That's how they know when it's not you know, this the length of day and if you're aware of Alaska has this point of time whether it's daylight all time and dark. So turkeys can't deal with that they function off the photo periods. Hawaii's actually got a ton of Turkeys because they don't have any natural predators like we do in the continental US. You know, the turkeys have a lot of predators here. Like I've mentioned earlier,

they're hunted by everything. Everything needs to Turkey.