2019 Season

[mattbrooks]

My 2019 season started with my youngest FINALLY getting a turkey! He's 10 and has been on a few hunts in the last few years but never could get one. Started out on Saturday and we walked miles and miles but no success. Fitbit recorded 6.47 miles & 61 flights of stairs. Was on several turkeys but they just would not cooperate. Started out Sunday at a different place. We got on some turkeys and they wouldn't cooperate either. We finally left and headed towards another turkey we heard gobbling in the distance. Got set up on him and he wouldn't come in either. We heard the ones we left were coming closer to us at our second set up so our plans changed and we headed back towards them. After getting closer to them they quit answering us on a mouth call and wing bone. I swapped over to my Hook's Exterminator crystal call and they fired right up. They sounded like they were moving right towards where the gobbler we had just been set up on had been gobbling so we ended up setting up right where we thought he had been hung up at earlier. Well....that's all it took. I could see them coming. In came 2 jakes strutting and gobbling. When they came close enough he put the smack down on one. He didn't even wait for them to come in where big brother could shoot the other one. (Big brother has killed several already.)He wasn't waiting. Needless to say he was one happy boy.
I FINALLY got the monkey off my back. Got it done in Missouri. I hadn't killed a turkey in 2 years. I'd been close but couldn't seal the deal. I hunted the first three days of Arkansas season and was on turkeys every day but was letting someone else shoot first. He missed opening morning and he couldn't get a shot the next day. We never could get the turkey to come in the third day. We then started Missouri season off in a new spot about 150 miles farther north that we usually hunt. Opening morning I only heard one turkey and another guy I hunt with only heard one where he went. Needless to say we packed up camp and went back to our normal place. Day 2 started off good with my buddy calling one in straight off the roost. Just so happened to come where he was the only one that had a shot. We ended up walking over 6 miles and striking two separate turkeys, but neither wanted to work. Well that finally changed the 3rd day of Missouri season. We started off walking over a mile into a place only to have the only turkey we could hear gobble gobbling back the way we came. After not hearing anything else we started his way. He ended up going away from us. We were able to finally get close enough for him to stop walking away. Naturally he hung up about 100 yards away and refused to come any closer. After my buddy tried walking away calling and him still hanging up in the same spot we decided our best option was to get the strutter decoy out and for me to crawl towards him while my buddy kept him gobbling. After crawling a little over 50 yards he shut up. I just laid there behind the decoy hoping I didn't spook him. As I was about to give up I heard him cluck about 40 yards away. As he came in sight my buddy timed it just right and gave him a quick yelp. He gobbled his last gobble about 30 yards away. Federal Heavyweight #7s worked his head over pretty good. Definitely an exciting hunt.
Then it was off to Kentucky. I'd never been to there before. Hunting turkeys in fields out of a blind was totally new to me. I tagged out in 2 days there. Needless to say I had a good season.

[mattbrooks]

My son's first and my Missouri turkey.

[mattbrooks]

My Kentucky turkeys

[mmorgan9812]

Awesome man! Congrats!

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[Yoteduster]

Congrats. ..looks like you had a great season thanks for sharing your story and pics

[MISSISSIPPI Double beard]

Congrats to you both.

[3bailey3]

congrats, was the KY. hunt a guided one?

[mattbrooks]

congrats, was the KY. hunt a guided one?

No. It was on some friends' private land though.

[tomstopper]

Congrats to you both.

[kyturkeyhunter4]

Congratulations on a great season