I took my Nephew hunting this morning and he bagged his first turkey. It was an extremely quick hunt, I had a bird roosted and he was gobbling his head off before sunrise. We got about 100 yards from him and set up. I waited until it was close to fly down and hit him with some soft tree yelps followed by a fly down cackle a couple minutes later. He immediately responded and soon after we heard him gobble three times in a row. My Nephew said he's further away now, I told him the bird was on the ground and that's why it sounded further away and muffled. A couple minutes later I heard him gobble and I could tell he was headed our way. It wasn't long before I heard him gobble again it was definitely much closer. I told my Nephew to get his gun up, the turkey was coming. It wasn't long until he came strutting in and when he got about 30 yards away and stuck his head up I told him to shoot. The turkey dropped straight down and didn't even flop. I think the recoil of the 20 gauge TSS shell caught him off guard and he lost sight of the bird because he asked if he had got him. I told him you smoked him and to go get his gobbler. I looked down at my watch and it was exactly 6:45 am. This was a great first bird and I'm extremely happy to have been part of it. I know the turkey won't count on the team contest but I wanted to score him anyway since he was such a nice gobbler. I was hoping he would score over 65 and he ended up at 68.36. What a great morning!
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Congrats to your nephew! You have some healthy mature Toms. On quite a roll this year, congrats again to both of you.
Congrats! Love seeing first timers have some success.
Great hunt and a big congratulations to your nephew. It must have been satisfying to have the gobbler willing to really put on such a perfect show for him. Well done.
Cheers ;D
FC
Congrats that's a fine first bird.
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Awesome bro