I've been trying to kill my first bird now for a couple years. I scouted 20+ hours last two weeks and located a lot of birds. This morning was opening day in SC and GA. Wake up to wind gusts and storms. Made it to national forest land, fought other trucks and hunters. After walking a while I just sat next to a tree. Hit my trumpet a few times and relaxed. After 5 minutes I hear a sound look to my right and see two red heads 20 yards behind me coming up a hill. I killed my first bird. A Jake, but still super proud.
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After a buddy showed me how to clean them and got a couple pictures, we grabbed lunch. I decided to go hit a spot in Ga after the storm passed. I made my way to a clearing, sat down, hit my trumpet another time and sure enough, 100 yards away a gobble fires off at 2:15PM. I cut back and he cleared 100 yards of woods in around 15 minutes. He came in perfect, gave me a great shot.
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It took me 3 years to get my first bird, it took 3 hours to get my second. It was one heck of an opening day. On a side note, if you don't have one of Seth Hamon's trumpets, you need one. Birds couldn't help themselves today with it.
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Good for you, congratulations! You'll never forget that day, beautiful trumpet from Seth.
Congrats on an awesome hunting day and a mighty fine turkey killing horn!
That's awesome!!
Congrats on a nice gobbler
Nice. Congrats
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Congrats, go buy a lottery ticket!
Well done. Congrats on both.
That's Awesome!
Nice job young man. Nice. Your scouting and persistence payed off!
Well done, congrats!
Congrats to you on your birds.
Well done, there's plenty more in your future I'm sure!
Congrats brother good for you!
Congratulations, great job on two good birds and a fine trumpet from one of the best.
Awesome, Congrats!
Congratulations!
Way to go congrats on both birds
Great job!
Congrats on the birds! You will remember them for many years. :icon_thumright:
Way to go. Congrats on both birds!
Good for you and way to stay after them.
I respect that.
You sho nuff put the April fools on them!!! Congratulations on that hard earned first bird and the big gobbler as well!!
What a day, congratulations!
As good a day as you can get! Congrats on your first two
Congrats on your success.
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Congratulations to you. I think I still hold he record though, I started around 96 and got my first in 2018
Congrats! You were positively blessed today.
Heck Yeah! You'll always remember this day!!
Congratulations on a great day that you'll always remember! Sometimes you just have to break the ice and it all comes together after that.
CONGRATULATIONS!! Now Your Rolling! This is what makes Turkey Hunting so addictive. It seems we go several years of ZERO success and then Boom it HAPPENS and happens in a BIG way. Good Luck to you from this day forward.
Congratulations on both your gobblers, good hunting
Well done
That's a great day !! Congrats on 2 fine birds!
Definitely worth the wait! Congratulations on your success. Good hunting the rest of the way.
Jim
Congratulations! Hope it was worth the wait!
Congrats!!
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