Strut10 Posted May 5, 2012 Report Share Posted May 5, 2012 My little girl is going on her first actual hunt for anything !!!!!! Pickle is 7 and in 1st grade. She has been in a treestand with me in gun season for deer and along on a fall turkey hunt. But today she's got her license and we're going to try to put a gobbler on the ground !!! I have not been this excited about a turkey hunt in 20 years !!!!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whitetailfreak55 Posted May 5, 2012 Report Share Posted May 5, 2012 Good luck to her! That's awesome! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strut10 Posted May 5, 2012 Author Report Share Posted May 5, 2012 Well............. We are going to work on our patience skills between now and next hunt. After a pretty stiff chug uphill to our listening point, we began to hear a number of gobbling birds at a distance. Then we had a bird open up about 350 yards below us. Most times I would move on a bird that far. But I knew there were 3 ways for him to go and we were standing right in one of them. So we plunked down a decoy and when it was tme I gave him a flydown which he answered. For the next half hour or so, I would call softly every so often. He was gobbling below us, still in the 350 yard area. Pickle started getting antsy around 6:30. Told her to give it til 8:00. Told her that turkey hunting was waaaay more walking and waiting than anything else. At one point around 6:45 the bird gobbled noticably closer..........still a couple hunderd yards or better down the valley. But they will generally hop on the gaswell road that comes up the hill and opens into a clearing smack in front of us. At 7:00 I made the executive decision that maybe a stand-up and leg stretching would buy us a bit more patience. Stood up for a couple minutes and just as I turned to tell Pickle it was time to sit back down, the bird crested the hill silently, busted us and vamoosed. We had a brief conference, me & Pickle did, and decided it was time to go to the resturaunt for breakfast. So we heard lots of birds, saw one plus a couple squirrels and had a pair of sparrows nearly perch on us. VERY successful morning by my calculation. Here's Pickle. Realtree Hardwoods has never looked so good !! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redkneck Posted May 5, 2012 Report Share Posted May 5, 2012 Gotta love that Don. Congratulations on a beautiful daughter and a good job raising her! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PotashRLS Posted May 7, 2012 Report Share Posted May 7, 2012 That is very cool. You'll get em next time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbHunterNY Posted May 7, 2012 Report Share Posted May 7, 2012 definitely something to be excited about. Best of luck next time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tominator Posted May 7, 2012 Report Share Posted May 7, 2012 Great story. I'll have to check the pic when I get home. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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