Puckett Creek
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My 6 yr old killed his first turkey this past weekend.... a proud daddy and an excited boy! We prepared for the hunt for a couple weeks to include practice shooting out of the ground blind. I also included him in scouting and setting up / brushing in the blind. He loved everything about it!
We had found a lone gobbler in one of our fields the day before the season started and that is where we set up our ground blind. I don't typically enjoy hunting in a blind as I personally prefer to "run and gun" but I knew the blind was the best chance I had for success with my boy.
We were unable to hunt Sat. morning and Sat. afternoon we sat in the blind but got skunked. We went back in Sun. morning and it was chilly, rainy and foggy. I didn't expect to hear him gobbling but sure enough he gobbled a dozen or so times on roost. I called sparing and once his feet hit the ground he never gobbled again. But, after only a few minutes minutes of silence he appeared across the field and we all started getting ready - it was quite the process getting the gun up, ear muff on etc. But that turkey kept on a coming and strutted right into our decoy spread. I used a strutting gobbler and a single hen.
Well, the video tells the story better than I can... and the boy is fired up and excited about hunting.... that is what is most important. I'm taking him hunting again in the morning.... rain or shine! I'd much rather him shoot one than me.
My 6 yr old killed his first turkey this past weekend.... a proud daddy and an excited boy! We prepared for the hunt for a couple weeks to include practice shooting out of the ground blind. I also included him in scouting and setting up / brushing in the blind. He loved everything about it!
We had found a lone gobbler in one of our fields the day before the season started and that is where we set up our ground blind. I don't typically enjoy hunting in a blind as I personally prefer to "run and gun" but I knew the blind was the best chance I had for success with my boy.
We were unable to hunt Sat. morning and Sat. afternoon we sat in the blind but got skunked. We went back in Sun. morning and it was chilly, rainy and foggy. I didn't expect to hear him gobbling but sure enough he gobbled a dozen or so times on roost. I called sparing and once his feet hit the ground he never gobbled again. But, after only a few minutes minutes of silence he appeared across the field and we all started getting ready - it was quite the process getting the gun up, ear muff on etc. But that turkey kept on a coming and strutted right into our decoy spread. I used a strutting gobbler and a single hen.
Well, the video tells the story better than I can... and the boy is fired up and excited about hunting.... that is what is most important. I'm taking him hunting again in the morning.... rain or shine! I'd much rather him shoot one than me.
