Mother’s Day Turkey in the bag!!
Well, my son continued his dominance of the ole man this weekend. First he out fishes me up north, then we return and he fills his turkey tag this morning!! Ole man couldn’t be prouder. Always nice to see life coming full circle. As I remember I was usually filling most of the game tags when my dad and I were hunting together.
We saw quite a few birds this morning on the acreage we were hunting. As usual things didn’t get underway till after 7AM. This property seems to be a place where the animals sleep late. The past 3 times I’ve hunted there I haven’t seen much till after 7AM, makes it nice not having to walk in the dark. The bird my son got came out into the field with another at about 30 yards from our location. Took a few tense minutes to be sure they had beards and then it was up to him. He took the closest one to him and I decided to pass on the other bird as I wasn’t fully sure I could see a beard. One shot from his new 12 gauge and that was it, about 35 yards. We did have more birds gobbling around 8:30AM, but they didn’t show and the wind was getting pretty cold, so we bugged out at 9:30. I’ll be back there next week to try and fill my tag too.
Posted: May 9th, 2010.