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Title: Son’s second bird
Post by: Vaturkeyhntr on April 24, 2023, 07:19:39 PM

After catching up on some sleep Sunday after a 2:30am alarm clock Saturday morning, my son hit me with "when are we going turkey hunting again". Well he doesn't need to ask me twice, we set a plan in motion to go after a bird my dad saw strutting by himself Sunday morning while he was fishing. This morning came with high hopes that the bird would do the same thing he did the morning before. After no roost gobbling was heard, I spotted the bird just before 7:00 in strut as he crested a hill in the field abut 150 yards out. After making a few soft calls to him I could tell he finally saw the decoys when he broke strut and came at a full run from 100 yards out. As I was getting my son situated on the gun the bird ended up right in front of us and was face to face with the jake decoy. I asked if he had it on his head, and he said yea. I only had to tell him to shoot him once and the .410 did its job.

What started as a year to hopefully have my son get to see why I don't miss a day during turkey season has turned into by far the best season I could imagine with him killing his second bird and watching him go though all the excitement.

23 lbs, 11 inch beard, 1 3/8 spurs

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Title: Re: Son’s second bird
Post by: Farmboy27 on April 24, 2023, 07:22:50 PM

That's awesome! A huge congratulations to your boy!! I'm sure he's officially hooked for life!

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Post by: g8rvet on April 24, 2023, 07:49:05 PM

Way to go young man and congrats dad.

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Post by: worth612000 on April 24, 2023, 07:59:11 PM

Congrats, some nice spurs on that one. Great to see kids outdoors

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Post by: jshark14 on April 24, 2023, 08:46:30 PM

Congratulations! That's one heck of bird!

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Post by: Number17 on April 25, 2023, 09:39:23 AM

Hammer!

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Post by: Gooserbat on April 25, 2023, 09:56:07 AM

Super nice

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Post by: JeffC on April 25, 2023, 12:23:26 PM

Awesome job dad, Congrats to the young hunter, nice set of hooks.

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Post by: Muzzy61 on April 25, 2023, 03:21:18 PM

Congrats to the young man, great bird.

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Post by: Tom007 on April 25, 2023, 04:21:21 PM

Congrats to the young fellow....

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Post by: highcj5 on April 26, 2023, 07:27:02 AM

Congratulations to you guys. That's a nice bird.

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Post by: chadly on April 26, 2023, 07:36:06 AM

Congrats. Nice bird.

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