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This time of the year I always think back to my first turkey hunt with my dad. It was 1998 and it was our first time to chase the birds. I will never forget getting on top of the ridge and hearing the long beard gobbling his head off about 150 yards from me. I sat down, my dad circled him, and we had the bird in between us. We were both new so all we knew was to throw the calls at him. I was calling to him so hard he was hoarse before it even broke daylight! Needless to say he flew down and went away from both of us. We each killed our first bird later on that year and I've been hooked ever since, but I will never forget about hearing that first gobble! What say you?
 
I remember it well. I first got into turkey hunting in I think 2001. We had alot more birds back then and it was just crazy to me. Dad and I would get out of the truck and hear a dozen birds sounding off. Head off toward one, work it a bit, give up and move on, only to hear it gobble right where we were LOL We just didnt know anything. But we had the luxury of plenty of birds to hunt,now we dont have near the birds to hunt, but we do have some know how. I only wish I could go back to those days of having so many gobblers around.
 
Hmm... first may have been the first time I was ever turkey hunting, in 2010, a friend took me to his spot and threw a gobble shaker call at em before fly down. They started responding and gobbling at everything, even a siren in the distance. Only reason I didn't connect that day was because the one bird that came in saw my buddy's struttin decoy and shied away.
 
Friend of my dads took me to the pha behind Big Hill Pond state park hunting and he got one to shock gobble right at sun up, decided right there that I was gonna start hunting them.
 
I was deer hunting in college when I had one come through and had no idea what that thing was hanging out of his chest. Some buddies that had grown up hunting them got me into it and so one of them and I went to my great grandparents' farm in Perry county for the weekend. Put one to bed and the next morning he was gobbling his head off. Within 20 minutes he was dead and I was hooked. :)
 

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