SPECIAL DROP- Turkey Hunting with a Kidney Stone- Stories From The Spring Woods Series

Hear the last spring turkey story round up of 2025 as we go through my last hard gobbling turkey hunt home in Mississippi and Jordan tells his many tales from his Midwest turkey jaunt he took with his wife Jessi. Also, hear some changes coming in the near future for the STL podcast. Check it out!

There is few feelings worse to a turkey hunter than spooking a turkey. It's the worst possible outcome. In this episode we dive into common problems and reasons we have run into that led to us spooking turkeys and talk about steps that can be taken to keep from doing it. Check it out! 

Holy smokes where did April go? While some states are just now seeing their kickoff of the spring season, here at home, we are in the home stretch. It's been a fun one, as they always are, but man has it been odd. This week, we've got a whole new pile of fresh turkey stories to tell, some success and some failure, but hey, that's all part of turkey hunting. check it out! 

We're back!! And man, do we have a lot of catching up to do! The latter half of March and the first part of April was jam packed with action from the spring woods! You can hear the good the bad and the ugly of all of it! We have stories of turkeys flying from tree to tree, arguments while turkeys are inside of gun range, misses, and more. Check it out! 

This week we are going deep into the STL archives to the first spring turkey episode we ever did. It was an interview with the one and only, Wilbur Primos about an in depth look at the first video Primos Hunting ever made, The Truth 1 About Spring Turkey Hunting. One could argue that this video in many ways, was cornerstone piece of content for the culture of turkey hunting we live and enjoy now. Check it out! 

We are a little over a week into the Mississippi turkey season but it feels like we have been hunting for a month. We have been far from short on action so we have a pile of stories to tell. Dave Owens' hunt on the Mississippi River, struggling to find gobbles, turkeys acting like its winter, Jordan's wife's first Mississippi Gobbler, and Lake going round and round with public land gobbler in a pine thicket. This episode has it all. Check it out. 

Dave Owens is a turkey hunter, a turkey call maker, owner of the popular brand and Youtube channel, the Pinhoti Project, and also the winner of the 2025 grand national turkey calling contest.    To watch Dave's hunting videos click here:  https://www.youtube.com/@pinhotiproject 

One undeniable fact in the current culture of turkey hunting is the popularity, or lack there of, in hunting on public land. Now, Jordan and I would never dare to claim expertise in this subject, but we have spent an awful lot of time kick around out there in the government woods. In this episode we take a look at some quick and practical tricks we have learned, as well as some very important topics on public land etiquette and how we think they should be handled. As always, this spring episode is capped with a turkey hunting story. Check it out! 

Gary Simons has been a dear friend of mine for a long, long time. The first place we met was at the church that I grew up in when I was just a kid. He was my sunday school teacher for a time, and he was also someone that also had a reputation for being a good turkey hunter, and also someone who was alway willing to take a kid hunting. In this conversation, Mr. Gary has a couple of turkey hunting stories lined up for us, and trust me, you'll want to listen to all of them! Check it out! 

If you can't find turkeys, you can't hurt turkeys. It's a plain and simple fact. In this episode we dive into different tactics, strategies, and methods we have used to consistently find and locate turkeys in the early parts of the season. Opening day will be here before you know it, so dive into this subject with us and prepare for an awesome spring! Check it out!