Turkey Hunting

Category: seasons-timing
Topic keys: turkey-hunting

Current guidance

As of 2026-05-10, the most recent claim on this subject.

The show frames turkey season around an annual spring trip to Terry’s property with longtime friends Joe Johnson and Al Foster, sometimes joined by other guests, treating it as a tradition Terry has floated formalizing into a yearly hunt. Guidance on where to hunt is conditional: they favor setting blinds next to plowed corn ground where toms are expected to walk the corner, and one host notes a plantation landowner insists on planting Dixie Dozen every spring because turkeys hammer it during turkey season. Newer hunters in the group treat the outings as more about time with friends than the kill itself, and Terry has suggested hosting the tradition alongside Brandon Epperson of Homegrown Outdoors, without settling the idea.

How the guidance evolved

2020-04-27 While turkey hunting, Terry describes a bull moving closer and closer toward him through a fence gap. 13:41 — Episode #20 - Food Plot Prep Continues - Native Grass and Miscanthus in the Ground
2020-04-27 Terry recounts a bull sniffing, biting, and carrying off his seat pad after he abandoned his gear to avoid it. 14:55 — Episode #20 - Food Plot Prep Continues - Native Grass and Miscanthus in the Ground
2020-06-01 Bryan Medinger serves as president of his local NWTF chapter in Grafton, Wisconsin. 16:47 — Episode #22 - Special Contest Winner Bryan Medinger and Don has big announcement
2021-04-05 Terry mentions friends Al Foster and Joe Johnson will come turkey hunt on his place at the end of the month. 67:11 — Episode #59 - Habitat Projects like Water Holes, Food in Bedding, Structure in Bedding along with other topics
2022-08-22 Terry is most excited that the Southern Fall Blend’s spring green-up will act as a turkey magnet for southern hunters. 50:43 — Episode #131 - Don forms his own Dream Team
2023-04-16 Terry plans to plant soybeans around when friends Joe Johnson and Al Foster turkey hunt his property at the end of April. 14:03 — Episode #165 - Farmers Planting Early Creates New Opportunities - EARLY SPRING
2023-04-23 Terry announced that Joe Johnson and Al Foster are coming out next weekend to turkey hunt for three days. 12:04 — Episode #166 - Spring Herbicides
2023-04-23 Terry hopes Joe Johnson kills a big turkey on Terry’s property the following weekend. 51:58 — Episode #166 - Spring Herbicides
2023-04-30 Don calls his close friends Joe and Al his brothers from other mothers. 1:56 — Episode #167 - Turkey Season Is Here! Terry Still Hates Turkeys!
2023-04-30 Terry says he still doesn’t like turkeys but enjoyed seeing Joe and Al’s excitement as much as they did. 3:13 — Episode #167 - Turkey Season Is Here! Terry Still Hates Turkeys!
2023-04-30 Terry filmed the hunt from an elevated blind about 90 yards away since the hay bale blind couldn’t fit three people. 2:26 — Episode #167 - Turkey Season Is Here! Terry Still Hates Turkeys!
2023-04-30 Terry set the blind next to plowed corn ground anticipating the toms would walk the corner, and the birds walked right into the guys’ laps. 4:40 — Episode #167 - Turkey Season Is Here! Terry Still Hates Turkeys!
2023-04-30 Terry placed the two turkey hunters in a hay bale blind next to plowed corn ground, where two gobblers came in for a double the first afternoon. 6:45 — Episode #167 - Turkey Season Is Here! Terry Still Hates Turkeys!
2023-04-30 Al hit his gobbler on the second shot and Joe hit his on the third during the hunt. 7:19 — Episode #167 - Turkey Season Is Here! Terry Still Hates Turkeys!
2023-04-30 Upon close inspection, Al’s turkey actually had five separate beards, though photos only showed four. 11:51 — Episode #167 - Turkey Season Is Here! Terry Still Hates Turkeys!
2023-04-30 Al theorized the tom had locked up because it had previously been chased off by ganging jakes near the jake decoy, making it leery. 14:40 — Episode #167 - Turkey Season Is Here! Terry Still Hates Turkeys!
2023-04-30 Terry texted Joe Miles after the hunt, who was impressed and asked to be congratulated on the podcast. 18:32 — Episode #167 - Turkey Season Is Here! Terry Still Hates Turkeys!
2023-04-30 Terry plans to hunt turkeys a couple more days and offered to bring the guests to a consulting client’s property for another bird. 16:54 — Episode #167 - Turkey Season Is Here! Terry Still Hates Turkeys!
2023-04-30 Don doesn’t believe getting into turkey hunting would ever make him forget about deer hunting, despite people telling him it would. 70:58 — Episode #167 - Turkey Season Is Here! Terry Still Hates Turkeys!
2023-04-30 Terry, who has killed many turkeys himself, doesn’t think Don’s deer-hunting passion will ever fade. 71:04 — Episode #167 - Turkey Season Is Here! Terry Still Hates Turkeys!
2024-03-31 Terry announced Joe Johnson and Al Foster will turkey hunt on his property in two weeks. 55:26 — Episode #214 - Don says, “MAKE TURKEY HUNTING GREAT AGAIN!” Easter Sunday
2024-03-31 Don recounted a turkey gobbler strutting unafraid just yards from his side-by-side during a consulting visit. 59:26 — Episode #214 - Don says, “MAKE TURKEY HUNTING GREAT AGAIN!” Easter Sunday
2024-04-14 Don killed a gobbler with a double beard within the first hour of his turkey hunting career. 0:40 — Episode #216 - Don Shoots His First Turkey - Friends Episode
2024-04-14 Don estimates the group heard roughly 200 turkey gobbles during the hunt. 8:07 — Episode #216 - Don Shoots His First Turkey - Friends Episode
2024-04-14 Don says the experience of the hunt meant more to him than the turkey itself, since it let him spend time with good friends. 9:10 — Episode #216 - Don Shoots His First Turkey - Friends Episode
2024-04-14 Don’s next goal is to kill a turkey on his own home farm, since they hadn’t been present there until the last two springs. 9:44 — Episode #216 - Don Shoots His First Turkey - Friends Episode
2024-04-14 Terry suggests making the group turkey hunt an annual spring tradition, hopefully hosted by Brandon Epperson of Homegrown Outdoors. 59:56 — Episode #216 - Don Shoots His First Turkey - Friends Episode
2024-04-14 Don says he’ll turkey hunt again but isn’t as hooked on it as many enthusiasts, and sees nothing wrong with that. 60:40 — Episode #216 - Don Shoots His First Turkey - Friends Episode
2024-04-14 Terry closes by calling turkey season a fun experience and a great time of year to be outside. 60:49 — Episode #216 - Don Shoots His First Turkey - Friends Episode
2024-04-21 Don wants to kill a turkey on his home farm, adding it to his growing bucket list. 37:06 — Episode #217 - Now Don wants to go fishing!
2025-01-05 Terry’s second 2025 goal is to start an annual turkey hunting tradition and specifically get Dwayne Hopkins his first-ever turkey. 71:53 — Episode #255 - Deer Movement and Weather Fronts
2025-03-16 Four gobblers charged toward Terry’s group from 100 yards after the landowner popped his head up over the field edge. 13:30 — Episode #264 - Big Rope Scrapes and Big Bucks!
2025-04-20 Terry plans to plant his newly arrived trees this week while also taking Joe and Al turkey hunting. 6:17 — Episode #269 - Genetics, Nutrition, or Age (which is more important)
2025-04-20 Terry plans to have Austin come out and have Al and Joe visit over Easter to turkey hunt for three or four days. 57:35 — Episode #269 - Genetics, Nutrition, or Age (which is more important)
2025-04-20 Don plans to try turkey hunting with his bow after buying decoys and calls, once Austin’s visit wraps up. 58:22 — Episode #269 - Genetics, Nutrition, or Age (which is more important)
2025-07-06 Joe said the landowner of the plantation he hunts insists on Dixie Dozen being planted every year because turkeys hammer it during spring turkey season. 56:58 — Episode 280 - Trail Cams, Big Cats, and Camo Drops | Special Guest Joe Miles
2025-07-27 Terry invites Emerson Day and her husband to his farm’s annual spring turkey shoot to hunt turkeys with Joe and Al. 88:43 — Episode #283 “Best Corn Ever? Don & Terry Reveal 2025 Plot Results + Fall Food Plot Timing Tips”
2026-04-26 Terry said the turkey hunting video will be titled ‘Redemption’ because Al closed the deal on a huge bird he nicknamed Turkeyzilla. 19:39 — Don Shares Personal News + The #1 Mistake Hunters Make | Chasing Giants Podcast 322
2026-05-10 Terry visited his farm to turkey hunt with longtime friends Joe Johnson and Al Foster. 8:17 — Grow Bigger Food Plots, Gardens & Fruit Trees – Mike Mitchell Breaks It Down | Chasing Giants #324

Questions on this topic

An audience member asked whether spring turkey hunting on Don’s farms pressures the deer. 68:07 — Episode 159 - Captive Deer Breeding… Why Don Got Out
How does Al Foster like hunting turkeys on Terry’s Dry Ridge, Kentucky property? 14:50 — Episode #216 - Don Shoots His First Turkey - Friends Episode
How many toms did Al Foster think were gobbling before the birds came off the roost that morning? 16:16 — Episode #216 - Don Shoots His First Turkey - Friends Episode
Did the group weigh the turkey after Al Foster shot it that day? 17:03 — Episode #216 - Don Shoots His First Turkey - Friends Episode
Can I help remove some turkeys since I haven’t killed my first turkey yet? 48:40 — EPISODE #109 SHED HUNTING and LIVE FROM MASTER CLASS #2

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