Mar 23, 2026 · 1 hr 9 min · 18 segments
In this episode, Nick sits down with Warb and they unpack the first leg of the 2026 Turkey Tour! They discuss some of the hunts that took place, Warbs favorite moments of the trip, a few rabbit holes…
That's all right.
That's right.
This is a podcast.
It's made for long-winded folks and rabbit holes.
Yeah.
thinking here's here's a squirrel for me is uh talking about rios and easterns and you know how easterns it's always like the hatch is either you know a fraction better or a fraction worse and it's never really just too dramatic up or down boom or bust whereas rios and miriams And I'm assuming that's just attributed to the landscapes that they live in because Rios come from an area that's much more and Miriam's much more arid.
So you may have a far more extreme drought, you know.
couple years in a row whereas you're going to lose a lot of birds whereas in the southeast it seems like the the drought situation stays pretty you know in you know similar year after year just like it does kind of in i feel like in the midwest or in the northeast you know that those populations or those areas always have similar rainfall where west it could be overly wet and then it's a boom year and you got turkeys everywhere and quail and whatnot or it's overly dry for a year or two and you got no turkeys at all
When there's no vegetation on the ground and there's no moisture, there's not many insects, and that makes it a tough road for poults.
But with Miriam's, you also got to worry about, you know, those mountainous birds, you got to worry about winter.
Yeah.
You know, the further north you go, if you get into, you know, super deep snow and super hard winters, you can have some winter kill on turkeys.
You know, everybody's always trying to find where the best place to go hunting is, but that's going to change all the time based off of...
Especially when it comes to population dynamics and hatches and things like that.
Mm-hmm.
That's all right.
That's right.
This is a podcast.
It's made for long-winded folks and rabbit holes.
Yeah.
thinking here's here's a squirrel for me is uh talking about rios and easterns and you know how easterns it's always like the hatch is either you know a fraction better or a fraction worse and it's never really just too dramatic up or down boom or bust whereas rios and miriams And I'm assuming that's just attributed to the landscapes that they live in because Rios come from an area that's much more and Miriam's much more arid.
So you may have a far more extreme drought, you know.
couple years in a row whereas you're going to lose a lot of birds whereas in the southeast it seems like the the drought situation stays pretty you know in you know similar year after year just like it does kind of in i feel like in the midwest or in the northeast you know that those populations or those areas always have similar rainfall where west it could be overly wet and then it's a boom year and you got turkeys everywhere and quail and whatnot or it's overly dry for a year or two and you got no turkeys at all
When there's no vegetation on the ground and there's no moisture, there's not many insects, and that makes it a tough road for poults.
But with Miriam's, you also got to worry about, you know, those mountainous birds, you got to worry about winter.
Yeah.
You know, the further north you go, if you get into, you know, super deep snow and super hard winters, you can have some winter kill on turkeys.
You know, everybody's always trying to find where the best place to go hunting is, but that's going to change all the time based off of...
Especially when it comes to population dynamics and hatches and things like that.
Mm-hmm.
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