Newbie - SouthCackalackie - Got a BIRD yesterday!

[FlyFishNut]

Great  Site - looking forward to gaining some insights and hearing good stories here.

My dad turkey hunted, but I never took it up until this year.  I joined a hunt club for deer, hogs and turkey.  So far this year I've been 4 times (saw two jakes my first trip) and yesterday I actually sat still for a while and after calling had a hen start walking around clucking.  After 5 minutes of watching her cluck a Jake stuck his head out of the woods and walked up on my decoys.

He never made a sound and I can't believe how quiet he was (it was windy, so that may have masked his movement). 

He was a good healthy bird:  9" beard and 3/4" spurs (but they looked really worn - thick and short, not sharp??).  Anyway - it was a great to sit in the woods on a SC spring day and a bird just put the cherry on top.

  I'm hooked.

FFN

[davisd9]

Not a jake, a tom.  Congratulations!  What part of SC?

[FlyFishNut]

Not a jake, a tom.  Congratulations!  What part of SC?

Thanks -  and I'll accept that correction any day.
Fort Mill - just south of Charlotte, across the state line a few miles.

How about you?

[davisd9]

About 20 minutes south in Catawba


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[OldSchool]

Hi FFN,     and congrats on a beautiful first bird!!

Bob

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