I had no interest in attending a “meet & greet” with Dave before, but I bet it would be entertaining now! Count me in if you reschedule.

Dave has posted on social media talking about the importance of trapping while he was trapping. I’m not saying I love YouTube hunters but from what I’ve seen he’s a pretty good guy who truly loves chasing turkeys.

Dang y’all ease up on Dave. I have never met him but the guy can flat out kill turkeys and is a great caller. Better than me. I’m not saying the whole public land filming is right or wrong but he’s successful at what he’s chose to do and has a ton of knowledge and can most times figure out what a turkey will do depending on different situations. Like I said the attention he’s brought to public is not desirable but to question him as a person ain’t right. I would like to spend an afternoon and pick his brain and am sure he’s a good person

The hell with Dave and the horse he rode in on.

For the haters you should listen to the last 30-40 minutes of this one

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/talk-about-it-outdoors-podcast/id1541368142?i=1000530711082

Can you summarize without having to listen to tooth chipper?
He needs to grow a set and come on here and other forums to discuss his behavior that is influencing us all.

Have to say, Dave is the only one that pushes back against some of these new regulations. He pushes habitat management and purchasing more public lands and doesn’t believe in limiting access or time to hunt until all other measures fail, just wish he’d be a little louder and less worried about offending chamberlain.

Do you by any chance have a link to any of podcasts, etc where Dave discusses this?

I skimmed through the one SJ posted a few posts up, and he said a few things along those lines in the first 15-20 minutes of the podcast.

Dave better bring a bodyguard. Lol.
I don’t watch a lot of YouTube and wouldn’t know him if I met him.

Aint that the truth!!.......

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With the looks of that man of little stature, he may very well need one.

Basically any of the ones he’s been on that discussed conservation. He does his videos the best out of all the YouTube guys, leaves very little in his videos to get a bead on. It’s all the wanna be’s trying to do what he does that wouldn’t even be out there if they didn’t have a YouTube or Instagram account. They are the ones burning places for pocket change or less. Some of the podcast guests and hosts are the worst. Willing to spill their guts and drop names of places for a little name recognition that nobody cares about. I wish one of them had the guts to push back on the b.s. that chamberlain spews, wouldn’t be hard to make a fool out of him.

To hell with a meet and greet with Dave. Y’all set it up with TURKEY DOC and I’m in

Dave is the best of the "Youtube Guys" at least the last I watched. He's a straight predator. The problem though is that he gets off at everyone watching his videos and thinking that he's a predator. You can go back and search my posts, I've said it before - I just don't like his face. There's a "I'm the best" attitude. Which is unfortunate. If Dave wasn't so up on himself he would be a helluva turkey hunter to hang out with. But alas, neuroscience teaches us that by the time we are 30, we are who we are. Even before the "Pinhoti Project", Dave was the guy who got off at being a "better turkey hunter" than everyone else. He's not the guy who loves turkeys. He's not the guy who loves turkey hunting or loves turkey conservation. Dave loves the idea of people thinking he's the best. Dave, in his own words, has branded himself as a "Traveling turkey hunter". He refused to not name the spots he visited. After all, how would people know? He will continue to seek fame as he travels from state to state burning one man's honey hole after the other. It's not that hard to do if you are predator with a video camera. The only hard part is choosing to dedicate your life to that purpose. For Dave, I suspect that choice was easy.

As far as Chamberlain, the man is a self-professed fool. The most interesting thing that he has learned in his lifetime of studying turkeys... by his own words....is not a factoid about turkeys. Instead, it was the fact that he was wrong about something. I.E. That his graduate school project was proven wrong by later research.

What a fascinatingly backwards world we live in.

I agree with all of that…..It’s the truth. People should hunt for themselves and personal satisfaction………social media has turned everything into a D swinging contest and the competition to be a killer/predator makes people do crazy things for validation from complete strangers. No serious turkey hunter in their right mind would tell you they even heard a turkey 10 years ago. You’d lie to your own friends/pastor etc if they saw your truck parked somewhere on forest road. Now for the sake of likes from strange men/couple hundred dollars …. Guys are filming gobbling / killing turkeys and publishing it for hundreds of thousands to watch and dissect for location leaving enough clues for spots to be screwed. These YouTube guys are the Benedict Arnolds of turkey hunting

Dang yall sure do hate on folks who enjoy hunting and posting about their successes. Seems like Dave still kills the heck out pf gobblers everywhere he goes so the hunting cant be that bad can it?

Straight from our anti turkey hunting dr turkey minion

I hate what it’s doing to the sport I love ….. loss of opportunity through regulation is enough for me.

I think if there were 5000 Dave’s it wouldn’t change what’s happening. Yeah, it sucks that so many people hunt now , but old timers were complaining about too many hunters from 1990 to 2010. Heck the difference is that now there aren’t as many bird so the pissedoffedness is at a level that can’t be overcome. I grew up within walking distance of the West Point corp land and you could get on birds every day there in the late 90s. I can’t remember the last time I’ve heard or seen a turkey there, or even heard of one being killed. YouTube attention whores or not, it is not ever going to be like to good ole days. That sh...t is over and out.