Garbo
10-18-2008, 10:22 PM
Ok the story,,, We were generously invited to hunt another members property and as you can see had some good success this morning.
We got in the field and set by 6:50ish and about 7:20ish light started to break. I used a box style call I purchesed from RSF I believe it was at the outdoorr show in Novi last year and started making some noise. Almost immediatly I was getting some response from behind and to my left. We were in a pop up blind opposite one another watching over one anothers shoulders. My guess that there was a good Tomm about 100 yards to my left and after about 1/2 hours things got quiet for about 10 min. I figured we got busted and he was gone. Just as those thoughts went threw my head I churped the call one more time and suddenly from about 5 yards behind me the loudest gobble came out and darn near scared the crap outta me. My daughters eyes grew big as I see her finger point over my right shoulder. Neither of us in any type of shooting position and in fact I had leaned my gun against the wall when this happened. This bugger snuck right up in the blind spot.
My daughter slowly tried to move into position but he had her. He ran to my left,, seen her again then to my right and so on each time instead of running str8 away he ran a zig zag and every time he seen her just changed directions but getting further out each time. After about a minute or so of this she said daddy you're going to have to take the shot and in a selfless act leaned the gun towards me. Now the entire time my back was to it so I had no idea where it was but I was also in a section of the blind that I could move around without being spotted. So she used her finger as a compass and pointe to me which direction it was at. When it got to where it was over my left shoulder I spun and had to make a quick decision to shoot or not (being that that was the first time I actuallt seen it) and that decision was easy. Blam!! He fluttered about for a minute or two and was done
Regardless of who actually pulled the trigger neither one of us on our own could have taken this bird the way it snuck up on us and in fact her identifying that fact that she couldnt likely get a good shot and then assisting me in making it was truely amazing to me. Her first time actually hunting (been with me before but wasnt old enough to hunt herself) she was anxious and I'm sure would have placed a good shot. @ 10 years old she's got the instinct. Not to mention that the only thing I did dressing this thing up was the cutting. She plucked it and gutted it herself (gaged once) but then got right back to work. Awsome experience for both of us. My first turkey as well.
We got in the field and set by 6:50ish and about 7:20ish light started to break. I used a box style call I purchesed from RSF I believe it was at the outdoorr show in Novi last year and started making some noise. Almost immediatly I was getting some response from behind and to my left. We were in a pop up blind opposite one another watching over one anothers shoulders. My guess that there was a good Tomm about 100 yards to my left and after about 1/2 hours things got quiet for about 10 min. I figured we got busted and he was gone. Just as those thoughts went threw my head I churped the call one more time and suddenly from about 5 yards behind me the loudest gobble came out and darn near scared the crap outta me. My daughters eyes grew big as I see her finger point over my right shoulder. Neither of us in any type of shooting position and in fact I had leaned my gun against the wall when this happened. This bugger snuck right up in the blind spot.
My daughter slowly tried to move into position but he had her. He ran to my left,, seen her again then to my right and so on each time instead of running str8 away he ran a zig zag and every time he seen her just changed directions but getting further out each time. After about a minute or so of this she said daddy you're going to have to take the shot and in a selfless act leaned the gun towards me. Now the entire time my back was to it so I had no idea where it was but I was also in a section of the blind that I could move around without being spotted. So she used her finger as a compass and pointe to me which direction it was at. When it got to where it was over my left shoulder I spun and had to make a quick decision to shoot or not (being that that was the first time I actuallt seen it) and that decision was easy. Blam!! He fluttered about for a minute or two and was done
Regardless of who actually pulled the trigger neither one of us on our own could have taken this bird the way it snuck up on us and in fact her identifying that fact that she couldnt likely get a good shot and then assisting me in making it was truely amazing to me. Her first time actually hunting (been with me before but wasnt old enough to hunt herself) she was anxious and I'm sure would have placed a good shot. @ 10 years old she's got the instinct. Not to mention that the only thing I did dressing this thing up was the cutting. She plucked it and gutted it herself (gaged once) but then got right back to work. Awsome experience for both of us. My first turkey as well.