(gentle music)
- We hunt Miriam turkeys here, one of the six subspecies.
The hunters now have to apply for a tag in a draw,
whereas several years ago, the takes were unlimited so
everybody could get a tag, which made things
for us much easier.
We hunt the Black Hills of South Dakota,
quite different than 90% of South Dakota.
It's all foothills and mountains,
from pastures to rocky Ponderosa Pines.
It's quite a variance.
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Turkey hunting in the Black Hills is...
...great. It's a hard hunt,
and you can make it as hard as you want
or as easy as you want.
I like it because of the bird itself.
[turkey call]
These birds, they'll gobble at you all day.
(turkey call)
- They're not the biggest bird or they don't have
the best beards or the biggest spurs of
all the turkeys around, but they're a lot
of fun to hunt.
I personally am a guide, but I'm hunting.
I enjoy the hunch as well as anybody.
And when my client pulls the trigger and bird tips over,
it's kind of like me doing the same thing.
So it feels good that way and feels good
that you can put a smile on their face also.
[gunshot]
If you can find better guides, you show them to me.
I don't think there's probably any two people, Tom Trimble
and Bruce Briesmeister, Bries, that have probably successfully
guided people to more turkeys.
We're at 1,900 turkeys harvested in 53 years.
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Good shot, bud.
Thank you.
There you go.
That was -- Great turkey.
Didn't take long.
No, it did not.
You couldn't ask for better turkey guys than was here.
There you go.
You're now a successful Black Hills turkey hunter.
Thank you.
Ah. Awesome.
Tom and Chris.
The Turkey Track Club has influenced
generation after generation, and I
hope that it's here for generation after generation.
They're like family.
They're like brothers.
There's truly nothing like them in the turkey world.
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When you hunt at Turkey Track, you become a club member.
And you're a club member for the rest of your life.
So you're always welcome to come out here.
And we try to find a camp for you
because you're part of the group.
It's also part of Ron Scherr's dream.
So the length of Turkey Track Club
and being able to carry on with his dream
is probably the best tradition, I think, that we can share.
We find somebody who we think is professional
with what the turkey called because they've been out
and they've studied their guide and so they can do it.
And this year's victim, I mean, participant, is Marcella.
[chicken clucking]
[cheering]
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