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Hey, everyone, welcome to the Wired to Hunt Foundation's podcast. I'm your host, Tony Peterson. Hey everyone, welcome to the Wired to Hunt Foundation's podcast.

I'm your host, Tony Peterson, and today's episode is all about scouting turkeys,

and how if you do it right, it can make turkey hunting almost, almost too easy.

This is an extra drop.

In fact, you might get a couple of these this week since we are celebrating turkeys here at Meat Eater, which you can check out by heading over to the meat eater.com.

While you're there, you might want to pick up a new decoy from Dave Smith or maybe some calls from Phelps, or you might want to vote in our turkey calling contest. Now, I don't really care if I win, even though I kind of think I should,

but I do really want to beat Mark Kenyon, so I'll take every vote you guys can give me.

All right, well, I'll be talking hunting pressured white tails tomorrow in our regularly

scheduled episode. Today is all about scouting turkeys, particularly early season turkeys,

and how it can make your limited time in the

field this spring, but super productive. This is almost a must if you bowhunt birds or you take

newbies and kids out, but it's also just a good idea for anyone who just likes to run and gun with a

shotgun. So listen up, because it's time to talk turkeys. wasn't that long ago that i thought scouting turkeys

was pretty stupid oh you know what that's not true i didn't really think about it at all growing up

we didn't really intentionally scout turkeys but we would go out and look for birds on places

we could hunt before the season now if we saw thoms a certain field, we were pretty likely to set up there.

So I guess we scouted without acknowledging it. But we were also just running and gunning with

shotguns. So even the limited scouting time that we did spend, you know, really didn't play

into a lot of our hunts because as soon as that first gobble sounded off from somewhere, all bets were off. It wasn't until I really got into bow hunting turkeys that I

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