The Spring Legion Podcast

We sit down with Toby Dean Smith and Taylor Boland from Mississippi's 21 South crew at this week's NWTF Convention and Sports Show to talk filming turkeys with discipline, long road trips, and building a vest that fits the most active of turkey hunters. We trade hard-won lessons on gear, scouting, food on the road, and why community beats competition. • filming tips for clean turkey hunts • mirrorless vs handycam trade-offs in the field • building an athletic, run and gun style turkey vest •...

We load for Nashville, share where to find us at NWTF, and dig into why call variety matters more than pride when birds get tight-lipped. From terrain-based call swaps to landmark setups, we explain the small shifts that turn silence into gobbles. • core call kit and when to expand it • terrain, range and weather shaping call choice • comfort versus novelty in calling • letting a buddy call to trigger a response • hunting landmarks to make movement intuitive • timing progressions and saving ...

We return to the original studio and lay out a field-tested guide to turkey setups, from the pretty spots that fail to the ugly positions that kill. We share how to read gobbles, time your moves, and build options with terrain, shade, and smart angles. • gear updates, NWTF booth location, and a YouTube giveaway • why open “stage” setups make birds hang up • the power of backdrops and concealment in shade • when decoys solve curiosity too soon • reading hot birds vs courtesy gobbles • moving ...

Today, we share a field-first plan for finding and hunting tight-lipped turkeys, from reading low-pressure mornings to using terrain, water edges and smart setups that make a silent gobbler move. We talk patience, locator calls and how to avoid educating birds before the best weather window. • preseason anticipation, NWTF plans and vest update • listener questions shaping the season’s topics • defining silent gobblers vs henned-up birds • weather, barometric pressure and wildlife activity cu...

We begin this episode with the irony of trading Black Friday greed for Christmas giving, then carry that theme into the turkey woods with stories where the hunt gives… and where it yanks the rug out from beneath us. From a rattled-in one-horn buck to a public land gobbler, we unpack patience, luck, and the grind that makes hunting worth it. • cold deer hunt that unfolded like a turkey setup • gifts vs ungifts theme across multiple turkey seasons • calling mistakes that still led to a limb-ha...

On this episode, hosts Hunter Farrior and Chase Farrior are talking about a few good drumming turkeys from the back corners of their minds. From a high school before‑class bird that taught Chase his first lesson in throwing soft yelps over a terrain roll, to the heaviest Alabama gobbler we’ve ever carried—whose drum hit harder than his gobble—this one is packed with practical wisdom you can use the next time the woods go quiet. We unpack how to recognize real drumming by cadence, separate it...