Tristate
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Howdy! Just got back from spring turkey hunting. Ranch I went to was lousy with lovesick birds. I was trying to get my son his first turkey. He has been going with me since he was four and has seen a couple of them get blasted but this was his first year as triggerman. The first morning we were set up nicely and I could here at least twenty Toms gobbling from our front and right. At day break eleven of the toms were strutting in the flat 200 yards in front of us. My boy told me, "This is the best turkey hunt ever". Later that morning I put three toms right in his shooting lane and he shot one but he ran away. Birds came in too fast and too twitchy. It would have been a tough shot for most gunners. The next morning I put two in front of him and he hammered a nice bird. A couple things I learned on this hunt is first it is much harder setting up a turkey for a kid to kill him than it is to call one in. Second little kids can actually pass out from an adrenaline rush.
Keep killin', everybody.
Keep killin', everybody.
