Chasing Feathers: Education and Conservation in Hunting

What is Chasing Feathers about?

Chasing Feathers documents one woman’s first-ever turkey hunt — focusing on education, decision-making, and conservation rather than the outcome of a shot.

Practice makes perfect 🦃 Aleigha Elston getting hunt-ready and on target

There’s something about the woods before sunrise that makes everything feel possible.

In the cool, quiet hours of a Georgia spring morning, with dew settling on the grass and songbirds slowly coming alive, Aleigha Elston steps into the turkey woods for the first time ever. She has no prior hunting experience, no muscle memory, and no assumptions about how the morning should unfold — only a shotgun, a tag, and the willingness to learn.

Chasing Feathers — a MadLadTV original, filmed at Broomsedge Rod & Gun in southeast Georgia, where education, stewardship, and new hunters come first.

Chasing Feathers is a MadLadTV original short film filmed at Broomsedge Rod & Gun in southeast Georgia, a working hunting lodge built around education, stewardship, and access for new hunters. What unfolds isn’t a highlight reel — it’s a real introduction to hunting, from the nerves of preparation to the responsibility of restraint.

Four gobblers sound off through the hardwood bottoms as first light breaks.

Four gobblers echo through the hardwood bottoms as daylight breaks. The woods feel alive. Every sound matters. Every decision feels heavier than expected. Guided by experienced mentors, Aleigha learns how to listen, how to wait, and how to identify birds correctly before ever thinking about pulling the trigger.

When turkeys finally appear, they aren’t legal toms — they’re jakes, young birds that will grow into mature breeders. The shot is there. The moment is real. And the decision not to shoot becomes the lesson.

This isn’t a story about harvesting a bird.
It’s a story about learning when not to.

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