How to Close the Deal on Your Next Gobbler with Wise Eye Cameras

Join Alex Rutledge and special guest Cole Legnon from Wise Eye Technologies for an in-depth discussion on using trail cameras to maximize your turkey hunting success. Learn how Wise Eye's innovative camera technology and Hunt Control app can help weekend warriors and serious hunters alike pattern gobblers, save time and money, and close the deal on your next tom.

In this episode, you'll discover:

• How Wise Eye cameras use AI to automatically pattern turkey behavior and predict the best hunting times and locations
• The new Ranch Plus Plan starting at just $8 per camera
• Strategic camera placement tips for food plots, water sources, and strut zones
• Camera setup techniques specifically for turkey hunting
• How real-time notifications can guide you to active gobblers during your hunt
• Additional uses for conservation, trapping, and property security

Plus, stick around for the bonus segment where Cole shares his favorite Cajun-style wild turkey recipes, including turkey neck gumbo and fried turkey nuggets!

Whether you're a weekend warrior with limited scouting time or a dedicated turkey hunter looking for an edge, this episode will show you how modern trail camera technology can transform your spring season.

Chapter Markers:

1. Introduction & Current Events
   • 1:15
2. Cole Legnon Joins - Wise Eye Marketing Team
   • 10:37
3. Wise Eye Technology & Conservation
   • 13:57
4. Ranch Plus Plan Pricing
   • 18:52
5. Camera Placement for Turkey Hunting
   • 26:20
6. Camera Setup Tips & Techniques
   • 28:08
7. Additional Uses - Trapping & Security
   • 30:42
8. Bonus: Wild Turkey Recipes
   • 37:52

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You can really use the same setup for turkeys really. Um, but if you want to, if you want to get a little bit more intricate with it, you can always just kind of move the camera down a little bit and maybe put it at a little bit of an upward angle, just kinda looking over the field, whatever. Uh, especially if you go on a food plot, they kind of upward angle's gonna give you more, uh, the range of view than, uh, the five downward angle wheel. But for turkeys, I would say just kind of take it by ear. Just try to figure out a, a good situation for your camera. Uh, put it wherever you like, and, uh, just check your view on your, on the control app. Or if you're using the DC two, you can always just look at the screen and see what the camera. Been my stand, Alex. I know it's about food plot planting time. What are you gonna plant this year? Okay. In the spring I like to plant different things and also in the fall, but my go-to all the time is the eagle seed smorgasborg because as a variety of blends, you know, when I was a kid and even as an adult, I loved to go to a smorgasborg. I bet it's the same for deer. It is. They, they have a variety to choose from. Instead, eating one thing all the time. They got a variety. Just like you walking into a restaurant, get smorgasbord today and you'll hold more deer and Turkey. How can I go about getting that smorgasbord to go to a dealer near you or go to ww dot eagle seed.com. YZ technologies presents. Welcome to American Roots Outdoors. I am calling via phone from my lodge, my cabin. Mech Street, Missouri, and it is a overcast day here with snow still on the ground and it's still cold. The wind chills probably in the thirties, mid thirties. Uh. I dunno what the temp is. Red moment. It's still cool out there. Yeah, and, and let's specify that we're recording actually at Wes on Wednesday. So yeah, temperatures are in the mid thirties. Wind wind's about five to eight miles per hour. So that cool day today. But boy, by the time this show airs on Saturday, temperatures are gonna be in the sixties. Matter of fact, Friday we're supposed to be a high of 63, Sunday 64 for Super Bowl Sunday. It's gonna be a great day to get outside and barbecue up some food for the Super Bowl. Yes, sir. I got a friend coming in Friday. Mike Wheeler, my buddy from Arkansas, and another friend from, uh, by St. Louis coming in. I think we're going to, uh, cook and, and we're gonna watch the Super Bowl together. Uh, we talk about current events here. We got some things coming up this Saturday and some of you'll be listed this show this Saturday. But we're doing a cruise then at the Lead Hill Church in Mansfield, Missouri for Mr. Danny Van Eaton. Mm-hmm. He, uh, helped create the car shows in Mansfield for many years. Rick Lynch had called me and said, Hey, Danny has been put on hospice and he has a last request. He'd like to see as many old muscle cars as he could see, and we're having a, a event for him. Saturday again, Mansfield, Missouri, lead Hill Church. Uh, for all the muscle car guys to go up and show the respects to him and, and see him, uh, before he leaves. Uh, again, he's put on hospice Mr. Danny Van Eaton. With that being said, I hope you can bring your muscle cars, pick up whatever, support this guy, but also. We got some stuff coming up. Uh, Craig Morgan's gonna be here for the Cystic Fibrosis fundraiser. Uh, yeah. Coming up on March 21st at the West Plain Civic Center. And Alex, here's the thing about this show. Excuse me. And you know you've been to it many times. It's a family friendly show. Bring the whole family. Yes. Tickets are$35 per adult and then$5 for kids 12 and under Now you won't go see anybody else in concert anywhere. For 35 bucks and this is Craig Morgan. It's gonna be fantastic. And, uh, and all is a fundraiser, uh, done by, uh, K Country 95 Radio and Cystic Fibrosis of West Plains. And every penny we make on this show goes to the University of Missouri. And every penny we make on this show goes to the University of Missouri for research into better treatment and eventually a cure for cystic fibrosis. And I have a family member, uh, a cousin, uh, who suffers from cystic fibrosis and uh, uh, we do this for, for all the cystic fibrosis patients across the Ozarks. And so everybody gets your tickets. West Plain Civic Center. You can get tickets there, a number of other locations around the Ozarks and help us raise a lot of money for this cause. Yes, it's a great cause, great event and uh, Craig Morgan will put on an awesome show. And again, I'm gonna reiterate it is a family-oriented show, so I encourage everybody to attend this to help raise money for a great cause. Uh, moving on here. Current events, uh, super Bowl's coming up. Who you picking? Seattle or Patriots? Yeah, Seattle is head and shoulders the better team. So I'm going with Seattle. I'll go there as well. Uh. College basketball. Who are you looking at right now? Who do you think the top teams are in your opinion? You know, I've, I, I just really haven't paid much attention to college basketball, to be honest. And the reason is because I'm so involved in high school basketball. You know, I'm broadcasting games four or five nights a week, and I just don't ever have any chance to sit down and watch college basketball. And, you know, when I do, I'm usually watching something else. So I, I really. It makes no difference to me. Uh, I think Arkansas's really good. I think they're underrated right now, and I think Mizzou is better than people think they are, but, um, oh yeah. You know, other than those two, I, I just, I really can't say, I don't know. Yeah. Alright, then let's talk about high school basketball. Girls and boys. Start with girls. Okay. Well, uh, a lot of good teams around the region. Fair Lady Bobcats. All of a sudden they've won like eight games in a row and are in first place undefeated an SCA conference play. Now, I, I do know we're recording on Wednesday. They play at Salem on Thursday. And, uh, Thayer's got, you know, one of the best players in all of southern Missouri, uh, in Riley Davis, who is closing in on 1000 points in her high school career. And Alex, she's only a sophomore. Hmm. Yeah. She's what? An athlete. What about Scott City? Scott City and Dexter and Pomper Bluff over there. Uh, what kind of teams do they have this year? You know, with the, with the girls? Uh, I'm really not sure. I know Bunker, which we kind of consider in the southeast bunker, head and shoulders. Uh, the best girls team in the southeast part of the state. Not hearing much about any of the others at all. Uh, most of the good girls basketball right now, this time of the year anyway, uh, is in south, uh, southwest Missouri. And you folks in the southeast, you know, don't. Don't get too mad at me about that, but it's just kind of a fact of the matter. Look at the state rankings and all of these top rank teams are in either Southwest or South central Missouri right now. So that's just the way it is. Yeah. Well we got a lot of good boys teams. I know that Van Bur, Missouri's shining. They're playing really good ball. Yeah. And Bernie? Uh, yeah, coach's really good. Yeah. Coach Black's got his good, his kids at Van Beer and playing really good bunker. You know, still they won't, they haven't lost a game yet this year. They're, they're really good. There's a lot of them around. I mean, and you know, in the, and when we talk about the SCA Alex and just the teams in our conference, there's a lot of parody. I think on any night somebody could upset somebody that nobody ever would've thought about, uh, they are bobcats just only put a shout out to the Bobcats. They're playing so much better right now. The footballers are starting to get in basketball shape. They beat Hartville last Friday night. Up at Mountain Grove and uh, beat Mountain Grove last night. In a, in a pretty good win. They were up by 14, late Mountain Grove. Had a couple late three pointers to get back to within six, but, uh, Thayer handled them pretty good. And I know your Liberty Eagles are still rolling. Uh, they, they got a, they got a miracle shot that went in at the end of overtime on Tuesday night and beat Willow Springs at Mumford Gym in Willow Springs. And that's always. Not an easy thing to do. So, uh, I think there's a, I think in the SCA anyway, there are about five teams that are all pretty equal, and it's just who's gonna be on that night as to who's gonna beat who. Yeah. So you said that Thare Beat Hartville? Uh, yeah, we beat'em by 10 last Friday night. Oh my gosh. That's gonna be a tough game for Liberty then. Bobcats are getting, bobcats are getting better and when they get healthy, and we did that with one of our starters on the bench. Matter of fact, we beat Hartville and for three quarters of the game we had two freshmen, a sophomore, a junior, and one senior on the court. Oh my gosh. Yeah. Thas team to beat Thas has team to beat. I just wanna give a big shout out real quick. Uh, uh, Mr. Danny, um, from, uh, Mr. Phil, I'm sorry, Mr. Phil from Gainesville, Missouri. This man, I met him, he is 97 years old. We took Linda to Colton's to eat, eat dinner the other night, and we met Mr. Phil and his son and his and his son's wife while he was eating dinner. He's 97 years old and he served in World War II and he was a paratrooper. I give a shout out to him in Gainesville, Missouri. Yeah, absolutely. Thank you for listening, Mr. Phil. Yeah. And thank you for your service. Alright, Alex, we need to go to break here. Phil Ortega is his name. We're going to a break and we come back. We're gonna talk to you about how to close the deal on Gobbler. By using cameras wise, I Daddy cams don't go away. We'll be back with more right after this. Hey y'all, it's Tyler Far and you're hanging with me and my good buddy Alex Rutley on American Roots Outdoors. Wishing on some been on Big Red. Bone Wise Eye has just gotten better with these new cameras that they come out with. How could it get better? Well, they got the new mini and they've got the new DC two. They have DC two. Yeah, DC two. You can actually go live anytime you want and film your own hunts with the wise eye data count. Now wait a minute. You mean I could be getting ready to shoot a deer and I could go on my phone and activate my camera and boom, film your own hunts? Well, that's amazing. That's amazing. Okay, Alex, you convinced me. How do I get one of these cameras? Go to a dealer near you or go to Wise Eyetech Do com. Order yours today. Take it to across the creek of a big old 12 point Hunting Blinds presents. Welcome back to American Roots Outdoors. This is segment two of the show and we're gonna be joined with Cole Legan of Yazi. Why is our marketing team, this gentleman is gonna talk to us about the ranch program and we're gonna talk about his roots whenever he calls in here in just a second, but he's calling in right now as we speak. Let me merge the call. Red bone. Stand by. Okay, very good. And while Alex is merging that call, I'll tell you, you're listening to America Roots Outdoors with Alex Rutledge and friends, and sounds like we've got it told. Hey, what's going on? Hey buddy, you're, you're on the show right now. Thanks for calling in. Uh, we're gonna kick this thing off. Cole, you, you're part of the marketing team with WI and, uh, talk about your roots real quick. Where you born, where you was raised real quick? So I was born and raised in Santa Mall, Louisiana, which is, uh, about 20 miles south of Baton Rouge. And I grew up real close with my family and all of that. And my dad was good friends with the owner of Yeye. Mr. Harold Monk, uh, they worked together at a different company and then fast forward 10, 12 years down the road, I'm, uh, part of marketing here at Wise. I, so I get to kind of operate the, the sales side of the business and try to grow us every day, which is a huge blessing for me. I, I, I love being in the outdoors. I, I grew up hunting. I grew up fishing. I grew up doing all that stuff. Get to have Alex Rutledge and Hank Parker in my phone contact, which is something I'd never thought would happen. But uh, yeah, it's, it's something, it's definitely something. Well, I'll tell you what, you, you're a fine young man and I gotta spend some time Red Bone in our listeners with Cole and Colton. Colton Monk is the son of Darrell Monk. He's also, I guess he's the lead marketing guy there with Cole. And, uh, these guys came up and assist with me. We shot some infomercials. For Yeye, and I must say Yazi is taking the country by storm. Cole. It's impressive. Yeah. We've, uh, we are growing every year by leaps and bounds, and so it's definitely something for us to be thankful for. I mean, it, we've had some incredible growth rates and it's, it's truly just remarkable how far we've come. Such a little bit of time. Yeah. So, Cole. Cole. Yeah. Cole, how long have you been with Wise Eye? I've been with Yeye for three and a half years now. Okay. So that would be about the, about the right time when things kind of took off, because I know at one point, and, and Alex has been involved with Yeye and, and American Roots Outdoors, uh, you know, since early on, and it used to go, and Alex, you can confirm this, it used to go from, we were talking about Wise Eye and people were going, who? And now when you talk about Wise Eye, everybody knows immediately what you're talking about. And for, and for Cole, that's gotta be something that you, the slogan that I say, and Cole, uh, is wise, I doesn't lie because you're capturing video and pictures instantly and it's transmitted to your laptop, your computer, your cell, whatever. And, and they, they are just leaders in this technology. And, and let's talk about that real quick. What separates Yeye from other camera companies? Well, y is not just a, a camera. Uh, and Y is not just a camera company. We are a technology company who just so happens to make a trail camera. And so we use that trail camera for conservation work, uh, like with black bears and deer and waterfowl, turkeys, all that stuff. Uh, we do a lot of conservation work. Uh, we also use our technology to help hunters track and manage their populations across their properties. Uh, for example, like if I have a a 20 acre piece of land and I run four or five cameras on it, I wanna make sure I know what's coming in. I can track them by, uh, weather, I can track them by all kind of different, uh, things going on on my property. Uh, weather, temperature, moon phase, all those, all those. Kind of things. And, uh, every time your camera receives a picture of whatever you're trying to capture as, for example, deer, uh, your camera and hunt control, the technology that we have is going to automatically start patterning those deer and it's gonna help you build a data metric profile based on what's coming across those cameras. You know, ZI is also used to pattern turkeys and keep that on turkeys. That's what I like the algorithm that it creates. Helps you close the deal on goers quicker, can help people save money. Would you agree, Cole? Oh, absolutely. Um. Our technology is really helping people get out in the woods and try to figure out, like, it really kind of gives them a hand on learning about their property, learning about the wildlife on their property, uh, especially helping them try to get out and hunt those, those types of game on their property. Um, and so especially with turkeys man, this time of year, turkeys are on everybody's minds. And so what we start doing is we start looking at big data for turkeys like we have across. Uh, certain regions of the United States and we start figuring out, okay, the turkeys are strutting here, but they're not strutting here yet. Why is that? Maybe because the weather's different, maybe because the temperature's different. Um, there's all kind of different variables that'll go into it, but we can always look at this data that Yeye and home control has collected, and we can see what's going on in different portions of the world. Uh, and just trying to piece together like what's going on with the turkeys here, what's going on with turkeys there, uh, just all kind of different stuff that we can look at. Yeah, well the technology is really amazing and, and I know we're gonna get into all that as we go on here with the show, but I think the thing that has made, I know Alex agrees with this, the thing that has made Wise Eye so good, aside from the technology and the quality of the photos and quality of the videos is the customer service. And we don't see a whole lot of that with some other products in the outdoor industry. I'll put it that way, to be nice. But the customer service is a number one. It's almost above reproach. Nobody else can touch you. We don't even call it customer service. Uh, we call it customer success because that is our main priority is to make sure everybody who trusts us and trusts our products comes out successful. Uh, whether that be in the field, whether that be just ordering a camera and trying it out in your backyard, whatever it is, we just wanna make sure you're successful because your success also promotes conservation. That is unbelievable. Great word. We're going to a break folks, when we come back. We're gonna talk more with Cole Legman, part of the marketing team for Yeye, how to close the Deal On Your Near Next Gobbler. Don't go away. We'll be back with more right after this. This is Brenda Valentine and you're listening to American Roots Outdoors with Alex Rutledge and friends. Remember when a hunter was measured by how well he shot? Not how much he spent. When memories were measured in rooster Tails, not dollar bills. We do. We are spanned out. Reliable, easy to operate, extremely balanced, premium firearms offered at a price that proves you still know the true measure of a hunter. Stand down, making the American hunting tradition available to us, so you never worry. Eagle Seed presents. Welcome back to America Roots Outdoors, segment three of our show. Again, the topic of our show is how to close the deal on your next gobbler. And again, our special guest is Cole Legman. Part of the marketing team with Yeye. If you see any of the videos of a young man talking about the Yeye data cams, it's called Nan. Pretty much this guy has come the face of Yeye and he's very knowledgeable. Uh, one of the smartest guys I know about these cameras. And what we wanna share with you is, is how to save money using these cameras. And for the weekend warriors, they'll, excuse me, they'll only get to work the hunt the weekends. These cameras can help you figure these turkeys out, where to be and when to close the deal. Can't they, Cole talk about that? Absolutely. So what we created here recently is called the Ranch Plus Plan. Um, and the Ranch plus Plan is something we made to get everybody on board. Uh, we used to have the regular ranch plan and the ranch plan started at 10 cameras, but we kind of knocked that off of the way just to make sure everybody gets access to a good plan. So now you can start at one camera. And that'll run at$8 per camera until you get to nine, nine cameras. And, uh, so that's$8 a camera, and then you'll pay for the data that you use. So, uh, it's$10 a gigabyte of data, which is really, really affordable. Um, and once you get over 10 cameras, that rate drops to$6 a camera. Um, and so when everybody is officially starting to move over to the Ranch Plus Plan, it's going to be a whole lot more streamlined across the board for all of our subscription users. Um, and so with that. We try, we're trying to, uh, manage these subscriptions in a way that people can just go into the store, buy a camera, and it, it'd be super easy for them to activate the camera, uh, put it in the woods, do all these different things with their camera, just to make sure that it's super streamlined so that they can go out in the field and have success. Good stuff. Good stuff. You know, I run my cameras year round red bone. I talk about it all the time on the show. Mm-hmm. And the reason I do that is I can control, I say control, I can monitor and help control predation, trespassers, uh, and take, keep an accurate count of what my wildlife's doing, you know, and I encourage anybody's listening. If you are serious about wildlife, you wanna look at this ranch program and you wanna run your cameras year round because it'll become a better gamekeeper on your properties red bone. Yeah, I would agree. And, and I, and I think the thing that Cole, you know, was kind of talk about there for a little bit was, was the fact that you can take all this data and your camera puts all this together for you and then, you know, when you get up on Tuesday morning of Turkey season. You can look at your daddy and go, okay, today I need to be at this place and maybe tomorrow I need to go hunt that place. I mean, it really does help you plan your hunt and to be in an area to take the most advantage of the conditions and maybe, you know, seal the deal on the, on the gobbler of your choice. That's exactly right. So what our, what our technology does is it. Not only build that data metrics profile for you, um, but like, let's say I got a brand new piece of property with a bunch of turkeys on it. I'm gonna set a camera up and, uh, as my camera takes pictures of turkeys, it's gonna tell me when and where is the best place to go hunt a Turkey. So if I have multiple cameras set up, uh, this camera may have more Turkey activity in this one. So you can bet on opening morning I'm gonna go to that camera and I'm gonna hunt there. Uh, based on the time and the weather and all that stuff, that hunt controller tells me when the turkeys are gonna be there. I think that's so neat because, you know, like I said, the weekend warrior, the guy that only gets to hunt the weekends if he's running the wise eyes again, I'm reiterating it tells you where you need to be instead of assuming, you know, for, I'm gonna paint a picture for our listeners real quick. You know, my farm, I've been running these wise eyes for the last six years, plus years, and I, I can tell you numerous turkeys I've killed because of the wise eye and, uh. If you're hunting the morning, say you put cameras on your eagle seed food plots, and you, you, you start out in the bluebird morning where there's no gobbling going on, well, you're getting frustrated. You're thinking, well, maybe I should run a gun and, and, and go call. And all of a sudden your phone dings and you look on your hunt control app and there's a gobbler with three hens and a food plot, eagle seed food plot. It tells you instantly where you need to be. And I think that's the thing that'll help our weekend warrior or any hunters. Close the deal with more go and be more successful. Yeah, I would agree, Alex. And, and you know, and that kind of takes, and, and again for the weekend Warriors that. You know, who are at a disadvantage when it comes to Turkey hunting. I mean, they just are. And, uh, uh, that's gonna give them a couple of legs up on the folks that are available or, or are able to get out every day and scout their turkeys and do all those things. These cameras, they kinda, even the playing field among the hunters and even maybe tilts. The playing field a little bit toward the hunters and away from the turkeys. Now, I'm not saying it makes it easier'cause it's still very difficult to kill a Turkey, a wild Turkey, but it does give you a bit of an advantage. Yeah, it certainly does. Yeah. I think, I think the thing is there's no more assuming, uh, again, I'm repeating myself, there's no more ceiling. When you're using the wise eyes, you know exactly where the critters are at. Where the churches are at and what we're gonna talk about in segment four, and it'll be brought to you by HO the ammunition, and we're gonna talk about the locations to put these cameras to help you be more successful and to help you save money. What I mean by saving money. As you won't be running and gunning, spending all this gas money going to different locations when your ZOS telling you exactly where these turkeys are at. So that's gonna save you money. And number two is when the Turkey, you know where the turkeys are at. Again, repeating, it's going to create you a chance to get the deal done by knowing that turkey's there. Alright? All right. And we'll be back. More American Roost Outdoors Radio with Alex Rutledge and his friends right after this. On. Hey, this is Eddie Salter, and you listen to American Roots and Outdoors with Alex Rutledge and Friends, American Roots. Hey everybody. Alex SRUs. I'm excited to tell you about 12 point hunting blinds, seven foot walls, perfectly camouflaged. Snow proof, waterproof tinted windows. They will not reveal you in the 12 point blinds. We're proud to work with this Amish Made Blind, made in America, made in USA 12 point hunting blinds. For more information, go to 12 point hunting blinds.com. Morning the ammunition presents. Welcome back to American Reach Outdoors. I am calling via phone from my lodge, my cabin in Birch Street, Missouri. Again, our special guest, Cole Legman. He's part of the marketing team and he's the face of y Eyei. When you see all these promotional videos going on, this young man, uh, you know, I wanna say something, red Bone Cole was a football player in high school, wasn't he? Cole? Yes, sir. Oh, what? He was a lineman. Was I right in the center? Yes, sir. Played in the trenches. Oh, sure enough, yeah. Played down where the games are won and lost. Yeah, that's right. Did you guys have a pretty good high school team coach? Yeah, we've been pretty good. We had a, we had a couple of good seasons, um, after I left. It's kind of gone downhill after I graduated, but, um, we had some, we had some good seasons. Yeah. Did you make All State or all conference? What did you win? We didn't win any big conferences, but, um, we got, we got to state one year, it was my junior year, and, uh, we lost, uh, 36 2 29 on that one game that we were supposed to advance. That was a tough one. Anyway, I just wanted to throw that in there because many of our listeners can relate to Cole being a, a, a football player in high school, et cetera. What I wanna talk about now, uh, to help create success for our listeners. Some of the areas that I target, I set my WIS up in Yeye, cameras up in to monitor, to figure out these turkeys. I'm gonna name some locations. Number one is food plots. When you've got clover, you're gonna have turkeys. Okay? The eagle seed food plots, the hens will be in there eating on that clover. They need the protein. And another place I like to set'em up at is Ponds Watering Source water source. You can figure these turkeys out in those two locations. Food plots and water. Another location is what we call strut zones. Strut zones can be a food plot, it can be a power line, it can be an old log deck, it can be a field anywhere. Set these cameras up in these locations, and what I do is with these locations, I got several different cameras monitoring different locations like this. Again, it lets me know where I need to be. Can you imagine? Having a bluebird day and I'm repeating myself again, having a bluebird day and nothing's going on. All of a sudden your phone dings and it says food plot three, and you go look at it, says Turkeys, and you go there and there's three long beards in there all by themselves. Again, where are you going to go? Right, co. That's exactly right. You're gonna go straight to them turkeys. Yeah, I would agree. You're gonna go to where those turkeys are. And you know, I would like to ask here, as we kinda get into this, you know where to put these cameras and we've had folks on have told us how to position these cameras for maximum viewing of deer. Now, I would assume turkeys are a lot shorter than a deer, so I would assume that you actually want to reposition these cameras. To catch turkeys and, and coal. What, what are y'all suggesting for monitoring Turkeys the best height to, to place these cameras and how to place them on a post or in a tree, whatever you're doing. So usually what we do is, uh, we, we tell everybody when you go to set your cameras up and we kind of just mainly focus towards deer. Mm-hmm. Uh, we usually say to set the camera up at chest level, so that's about five, five and a half foot tall. Um, and put a five degree downward angle on the camera. Mm-hmm. Uh, that usually takes the motion sensor and kind of focus it towards where you need it to be. You can really use the same setup for turkeys. Really. Um, but if you want to, if you want to get a little bit more intricate with it, you can always just kind of move the camera down a little bit and maybe put it at a little bit of an upward angle, just kind of looking over the field, whatever. Uh, especially if you go on a food plot, they kind of upward angle's gonna give you more, uh, the range of view. Then, uh, the five downward angle will. But for turkeys, I would say just kind of take it by ear. Just try to figure out a, a good situation for your camera. Uh, put it wherever you'd like. And, uh, just check your view on your, on your hunt control app or if you're using the DC two, you can always just look at the screen and see what the camera sees. Um, so just take it by ear and try to figure out, play with it so that you can make up. I gotta share with you, uh, I have the go was strutting on an old logging road last year and I got some good footage of him gobbling, strutting coming down the road. I need to send that to you sometime I can find it. Thank you. In my library. I put it about three foot off the ground and I tilted it down about a five degree angle where I knew he was strutting his tracks in that road. And, uh, and I set that. And what I way I check my camera is when I do my test, you hit you, you actually turn the camera on to setting, you wait for it to search and it'll let you know. Once it searched, it finds a GPS signal. Then once you do it, you hit okay. And what it does, it triggers the camera to, to capture video or that picture. And what I do is when I set that, I set it in a direction where I think the turkey's gonna come from. Then I go back after that. Then you set it to on, then your camera's activated. So what I do is I go ahead and double check my cameras. I go ahead and walk in front of the cameras each time I set them to see what I capture. And I may try two or three times to see what distance I capture that Turkey from as well. Yeah, that's what we like to do. We'll set it up, press the okay button. You get a test picture. Um, and when we get that test picture, we just kinda look at it and make sure, uh, that the center of the photo is exactly where you want your subject to be. So if it's a little too high, you can move it down or you can tilt it either way, it doesn't matter. Um, that's just a surefire way to make sure your camera's set up in the right position. I think the neat thing too, with the new DC two, you got the blackouts and you, and then the blackouts are really popular. With a lot of deer hunters and predator hunters. And I wanna share this with our listeners as well. I had a, uh, deer that was killed by a coyote captured and killed, uh, here not far from our property line on our property. I set my camera on this dead deer, and last night I had a, uh, cat and I had that gray fox come by the dead deer. So a lot of trappers are using these cameras, red bone to monitor those traps and it saves them gas. Money and it saves them time. When they set these cameras on these traps, they could tell if something's been captured or not. So it's another great thing for the trappers and, uh, I, I think by buying a wise eye and the investment's gonna save you time and money in the long run. That's exactly right. Here in Louisiana, you have to, uh, you have to check your traps every 24 hours. So every time I set a trap, whether it be for protecting my chicken coop back home, or just trying to manage Turkey populations and keep predators under control, I always set a camera up on the trap just to make sure nothing's in it. So if I don't have to drive an hour, I'm saving myself time and money. There you go. And, and you know, Alex, we've had, you know, we, we did a series of shows on predators. Hunters and, and trappers, uh, here earlier in the, in the year. And they were all talking about the fact that they, they have begun to use, uh, wise eye trail cameras, uh, to monitor their traps and even to pick the spots where they're gonna set their traps or where they're gonna go to Predator hunt. I mean, these things are becoming so important to all facets of the outdoors and, and people that, uh, like the outdoors that, you know, you almost can't get by without'em. You know, and I want to add lib to that. You know, a lot of the conservation agents are using them all across the United States now. Even the Yellowstone Park, the federal agents are using them to, to monitor the prop, the, the government lands. And, uh, it made a lot of cases using these cameras with people, uh, breaking the laws, haven't they called? Yeah, guys, I had a guy show me a, a device. It's an extended pole and you can take and mount your cameras up to 17 feet up in the tree. And a lot of agents are using it now by putting their cameras up in trees and to monitor the back of people's pickup trucks. And they're making a lot of cases with people's killing deer and turkeys, whatever, and not having tags on them. Uh, you know, you can't hardly go anywhere anymore without being monitored by some type of, of video or device. And, uh, a lot of people also use that device to monitor deer or their property lines or their gates, et cetera. And I know some cattle farmers are using the yeye data cams to monitor their cattle now. Uh, we actually had a guy send us some pictures. He was, uh, using them for watching, watching his cows give birth and Calvin and stuff. So that was a neat, neat little experience to see. Um, but yeah, there's, there's a million different use cases for Wi Eye cameras and. You can, if you can think of it, you can use it for that. Um, it's, it's very versatile. If you need a camera or camera trap or anything that picks up motion, this is your go-to. You can use it for security, you can use it for hunting. You can use it for literally just about anything you can possibly think of. Awesome stuff. Yeah. It really is stuff. Yeah. And Cole, real quick, tell people where they can go to get more information on Wise eye cameras or if they don't own Wise eye cameras now where they can go to purchase their cameras. On our website@witech.com, we have a dealer locator. So if you're in Birch Tree, Missouri, you can just type in your zip code in Birch Tree or you can type in the city and uh, near city to you. And you can find your dealers that are near you based off of, uh, where they're at and where you're at. Um, you can always visit wisetech.com to learn more about our cameras and our software. In fact, this year we just released our first Conservation Impact report. So if you are on Wise Tech's website, go ahead and check out the Conservation Impact Report in 2025. Um, you can also always call Mr. Alex Rutledge and he'll tell you exactly where to get some cameras. But, uh. We will be around in some shows this year, especially NWTF in Nashville. So if you're going to that show or you're a big Turkey hunter, make sure you stop by the booth and check us out. We'll be right next to the Woodhaven booth, right as soon as you walk in. Yes, sir. I'll be there. And I wanna teach people how to save money and how to close a deal on Gompers by using Yeye. Last thing I wanna mention, you can also video your hunts with the Live now on some of the DC twos. And uh, you can record your hunts with the Yeye cameras. That's pretty cool. Oh yeah, we got the action shot. You can command your camera to take up to a five minute HD video on command. So like, if I'm ready to shoot a Turkey in my decoys, I'm gonna go ahead and hit that button. My camera's gonna automatically film it. And we also have a new livestream feature for the GC two. So if you have a gobbler in front of your camera and a food plot, you can always just hit the livestream video and maybe you'll catch some goblin or something. It's, it's pretty neat. Yeah. That's awesome stuff. Red Bone, a great show, awesome stuff. And we need to wrap it up. I know we're gonna do a bonus with, uh, uh, with Cole as well. And, uh, folks, you all need to go to your favorite podcast carrier to hear more, including the bonus segment. Alex? Yeah, uh, Cole, I know you got some recipes, how you like to cook Wild Turkey. We're gonna share that with people in our bonus segment, but I wanna close with this here. This world needs more love and not hate. And we need to teach our boys to become men. Teach our girls to become ladies and coal. When your roots run deep and strong. Don't have to fear the wind. Oh, man. Hang on. I know. I, I, I, I had it on the tip of my tongue, man. I remember. I didn't wanna say the wrong thing. You're good, dude. I had it too. I had it. That's all. That's all. God, dude. Yeah, folks, we'll see you next week, so you never gotta worry what the win might do. American Roots, thank you for joining us for today's American Roots Outdoors Radio with Alex Rusch. You can find us on Facebook. Look us up on the worldwide web@americanrootsoutdoor.com. We'll be back again next week on this great radio station. Accurate, deadly, dependable, Horty ammunition from a two man operation in 1949 to a world leading innovator, A bullet ammunition, reloading, tool and accessories designed and manufacturer. Today horty. Each piece is hand inspected. To ensure consistency and quality ammunition engineered to perform flawlessly, simply put the best. Hor ammunition. Find hor ammunition at a retailer. Dear you and at hor com arms presents, welcome back to America Roots Outdoors, our bonus segment. You're listening to it. You're listening to it on your favorite podcast carrier, possibly again, our special guest, Cole Legman. Part of the marketing team with Wise Eye Technologies and we're gonna talk about recipes. Cole's an old Louisiana boy, and I know you've eat it many different ways. What is one of your favorite ways, Cole, that you like to eat while Turkey? There's a million different things you can do at Wild Turkey. I mean, you got the, the breast, you got the legs, you got the neck, you got the wing meat, even though there's not much wing meat. But, uh, Cajuns will find a way to cook anything. So my, one of my favorite things to do is, uh, fried breast. You can just fry it in some peanut oil, like a, like Chick-fil-A does, or chicken nugget. That's always a really good way to eat Turkey. Um, we like to take the necks, you know, like take Turkey necks when we make a gumbo with them. Uh, you can do a gumbo with'em, you can do some jumbo eye with the breast meat. You can do apostle eye with the breast meat. Um, there's a million different things you can do, but I think my top three would be the fried nuggets, the Turkey neck gumbo, and uh, a rice and gravy with some Turkey legs. Hmm. So, so Cole, how about, and I dunno much about Cajun cooking, but I like to smoke the Turkey breast. They're my smoker. Do do you like to smoke Turkey breasts? I do. I do smoke a lot of stuff. Um, I don't think I've ever smoked the Turkey breast, but I've done Turkey legs. And the Turkey legs come out really good. Yeah. Well, I'm gonna share a recipe with you guys. You ready? Turkey tacos. How about that? Yeah, so you take your bread and I like corn tortillas, you know, or reheated bread. Take the corn tortillas, you heat'em up or whatever. I like to cook on my gourmet guru or my Oklahoma Joe's, uh, smoker. So you take your Turkey breast and you and cut'em in two strips, like chicken strips and uh, what I like to do is season them up. Uh, well, some of my favorite seasoning is cavenders or strawberries seasonings and, uh, roll'em and buttermilk water and season them up. And, uh, you could, you can marinate'em with butter as well. Uh, one of my favorite ways on the smoker or the grill is marinate and butter and strawberries and lemon juice, and drill it real slow. Okay. Oh, man. So when you get, then you get all your meat done. You get all your, your, uh, your feed are bread ready or your, your corn tortillas and you create your, your other stuff, your bashed tomato, chopped up tomatoes, onion, jalapenos, lettuce, um, guacamole, and you at your sides. And you take your Turkey breast and you put it in the corn tortilla. Okay. Then you take your, your, your ornaments and you put them on and you wrap it up in your, your corn tortilla and you got you a, a Turkey taco right there. You talk about Good. That'll make you wanna Oh, bet too. That'll make you wanna shoot more turkeys for sure. Red bones. Well, yeah. I love Louisiana. Hot sauce on everything and the jalapenos to a preference, you know, but Turkey tacos, if you haven't tried it, tried. It is something great and, uh, your whole family will love it. Yeah, my whole family wouldn't love it because I wouldn't let them have any. I got a question for you. When you boil the Turkey necks and the wings and stuff, you, you pull all the meat off the bones when you do those gumbo right after you boil. Usually we just, we just cut the necks up in the, about two, two and a half inch little sections, and we brown it in the mag, the white pot, and then add the sausage and all that stuff, and then just simmer it all down with the gumbo. So we usually just leave it on the bone. Yeah. Yeah. That usually gives it some more flavor. Hmm. You know, a lot of people throw away the brown meat when they should be keeping it. Some of the best flavored meat there is in that Turkey. And you know, I wanna encourage all of our listens, you Turkey. Do not throw that brown meat away. I'm telling you. Take it and boil it down or whatever. Get, pull all the meat off the bones. You can create all kinds of Turkey salad, all kind, even Turkey tacos off the brown meat. Uh, spice it up. Create your, your old Turkey tacos with brown meat as well. This is one of the best times of the year down in Cajun country.'cause we have king cakes right now. And then shortly after the king cakes comes crawfish season and after crawfish season comes to Turkey season and boy, there's a lot of food going around. So a lot of people up north always gain weight around Christmas. We gain it right in the spring. I can't, I can't wait for Nwtf. Probably 40 or 50 of those king cakes. Red bone, I think they, I think they older 50 this year. Wow. Oh my gosh. And I eat so much king cake and I usually bring one home to my family and uh, every year it, I'll bring one to your red bone. Sounds good. You've got any left? Alright. All right, Alex, time to wrap it up for today. Again, thank you for being a wonderful guest, Cole. And how can people contact. And learn more about Yeye Technologies. Well, thank y'all for having me. Yeah. But, uh, if you wanna learn more about Yeye, if you wanna contact us, you can always reach out at our office number 2 2 5 4 7 8 4 0 2 6 and you can ask for any department you'd like, uh, especially customer success. We'll be very, very happy to talk to you. Um, you can always check out our website@wiseeyetech.com. Uh, you can look at our website, you can view our products, you can view our 2025 Conservation Impact report. Uh, there's a million different things going on on our website, but give it a look if you have some time, and we'd be very, very blessed to have you as a customer. There you go. How to close the deal. More gobbles with Cole Nan, red Bone, Mike Cre. And Alex. Alex Rutledge. What a great show. We're gonna help you save money and close the deal with more gobbler. Remember, this whole world needs more love and not hate. Teach your boys to become men, your girls to become ladies cold, and when your roots run deep and strong. There's no reason to fear the wind. 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