National Turkey Calling Champions Billy Yargus and Scott Ellis talking Turkey Hunting

I recently went to the NWTF National Turkey Hunting Convention in Nashville, Tennessee and had an unbelievable time checking out new turkey calls, decoys, and other turkey hunting equipment.  One of the highlights for me as a turkey hunter is getting a chance to go to the Grand National Calling Contest which is the equivalent of the Super Bowl for football fans or the World Series for baseball fans.  The best callers in the world assemble to compete for the title of the "NWTF Grand National Champion"

All of the callers that enter into the contest are amazing and they had to have won or placed very high at their state level in order to compete.  Their are many divisions of the contest including youth, head to head, friction, gobbling and the Senior Open which is the Best of the Best.  In 2013, I literally listened personally to all of the preliminaries and the finals.  This year I just went to the Friction and Senior Open finals.  If you missed it and like turkey calling and the process of trying to improve your calling.  Check out Shane Simpson's site, CallingAllTurkeys.com, he has every contest on his site where you can listen to all of the competitors.

As host of the Jay Scott Outdoors Western Big Game Hunting and Fishing Podcast, I had the pleasure of interviewing three 2015 Grand National Champions, Billy Yargus the Senior Open winner, Scott Ellis the Head to Head Champion and Joe Slaton the Gobbling Champion (episode to air soon).  They all are demonstrating their calls and discussing turkey hunting strategies.  Listen as they breakdown scenarios on from roosting birds, setup on roosting birds, calling to roosted birds, run and gun techniques, and many other calling scenarios.  If you are going on a turkey hunt this spring these are three episodes that you don't want to miss.

Episode 8:  2015 Grand National Champion Senior Open Finals Billy Yargus Interview

Episode 5:  2015 Grand National Head to Head Champion Scott Ellis Interview

Episode ?:  (Coming Soon waiting to be edited) 2015 Grand National Gobbling Champion Joe Slaton

"Live" 2015 NWTF Grand National Turkey Calling Contest

One of my favorite sites is hosting the NWTF Grand National Calling Contest Live on his website!  Check it out at www.CallingAllTurkeys.com  Check out his sites for times.  The owner of the site is Shane Simpson who is a fantastic turkey caller in his own right and a darn good turkey hunter.  Watch the contest and I promise you will learn something!  I am headed to Nashville to see it in person.  I went in 2013 and just had a ball at the national NWTF convention.  This year should be no different.  Turkey season is just around the corner so its time to dust em off boys and girls.  Gobble Gobble!

2013 NWTF Grand National Senior Finals

I had the privilege of being at the contest this year and the quality of turkey callers was amazing.  Here is the 2013 NWTF Grand Nationals Senior Finals.  This is the event where the best of the best compete.  The intro to this video is sweet with all of the past champion callers.  All of these 15 callers were unreal.  The winner Matt Van Cise is at 1:23.  For more competitive calling go to CallingAllTurkeys.com Enjoy!

2013 NWTF Grand National Friction Calling Championship

I just returned from Nashville, TN from the 2013 NWTF Convention.  We spent all week and had a fantastic time checking out the exhibit hall and listening to all of the great turkey callers.  I learned alot and look forward to sharing some pics and video of our trip.  I will be posting all of the contests but you need to check out this cool website by Shane Simpson called CallingAllTurkeys.com.  I met Shane and he is a great guy and competitive turkey caller from the land of 10,000 lakes.  His posts most all turkey calling competitions on his site and it is a great resource.  Turkey season is right around the corner! Gobble Gobble!