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Title: Illinois Youth Turkey Hunt Begins In Heartbreak - Ends in Celebration
Post by: heathwesley on April 09, 2013, 11:46:15 AM
I wrote out the whole stroy - a great one - but when I went to post it deleted it bummer.  No time to write it all out again.  But check out the pics.  We had an amazing youth turkey hunt here in my home state of Illinois.  My nephew missed a Jake on Saturday but smoked this gobbler on Sunday.  We had to work for him - played games with us all morning.  About 10:00AM we finally got somewhere he liked and he came in.  Really put on a show.  The celebration was on!  First ever turkey for my 12yo nephew Jonah.  He was estatic!  22lbs, 1" spurs, 10" beard. Pics Coming!
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Post by: heathwesley on April 09, 2013, 11:51:40 AM
My nephew with his first bird - we hunted hard all weekend and it paid off.
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Post by: tomstopper on April 09, 2013, 11:57:15 AM
Awesome gobbler. Congrats to that young man.....
Title: Re: Illinois Youth Turkey Hunt Begins In Heartbreak - Ends in Celebration
Post by: heathwesley on April 09, 2013, 12:00:00 PM
Happy Hunter Here!  Proud moment for his Dad and Uncle for sure!
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Post by: ALfwlmth on April 09, 2013, 12:21:51 PM
Love it when the kids connect!!  :icon_thumright:
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Post by: DirtNap647 on April 09, 2013, 12:26:38 PM
congrats  :icon_thumright:
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Post by: Gold Spur on April 09, 2013, 02:13:28 PM
Congrats nice bird... :icon_thumright:
Title: Re: Illinois Youth Turkey Hunt Begins In Heartbreak - Ends in Celebration
Post by: JVA54 on April 09, 2013, 02:32:29 PM

  Congrats!!
Title: Re: Illinois Youth Turkey Hunt Begins In Heartbreak - Ends in Celebration
Post by: Tommy Strutsalot on April 09, 2013, 03:14:56 PM
Awesome, Good work. He's hooked for life.   The NEF Pardner did the job again..... that was my first gun.
Title: Illinois Youth Turkey Hunt Begins In Heartbreak - Ends in Celebration
Post by: MarkTNturkeyhunter on April 09, 2013, 03:49:52 PM
Nice bird way to hang in there guys and get-r-done!!
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Post by: Hognutz on April 09, 2013, 04:20:42 PM
Congrats to Jonah and all that were involved. There is nothing in the world that compares to this..He will remember this day until the day he dies. Kudo's to y'all!!
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Post by: boomer on April 09, 2013, 08:42:06 PM
Congrats!!
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Post by: Improvinghunter101 on April 09, 2013, 09:59:12 PM
Congrats!
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Post by: wingbonehntr on April 09, 2013, 10:05:02 PM
Awesome!!
Title: Re: Illinois Youth Turkey Hunt Begins In Heartbreak - Ends in Celebration
Post by: heathwesley on April 09, 2013, 10:36:28 PM
Quote from: Tommy Strutsalot on April 09, 2013, 03:14:56 PM
Awesome, Good work. He's hooked for life.   The NEF Pardner did the job again..... that was my first gun.

Man it was mine to.  I honestly did not shoot it much as a kid.  I probably got it when I was 12. Last year we decided it would be cool to start Turkey hunting with it.  My Dad bought it for me and we lost him to cancer in October 2011.  The last 2 years we have killed turkeys with it.  Actually patterns real well and both birds have gone straight down!  Don't need an automatic with 3.5 inch shells to kill turkeys. 
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Post by: Turkeyfan on April 10, 2013, 12:29:56 PM
Man that is awesome. Glad the big boy final wanted to play the game.
Title: Re: Illinois Youth Turkey Hunt Begins In Heartbreak - Ends in Celebration
Post by: Illini Tom on April 11, 2013, 07:35:55 AM
congrats, guys! great job on a nice IL tom  :fud: :gobble:
(some crazy smileys on this site  :laugh:)
Title: Re: Illinois Youth Turkey Hunt Begins In Heartbreak - Ends in Celebration
Post by: ILHUNTER on April 11, 2013, 11:31:56 AM
Congratulations on the nice bird,  Here in the central part of the state the youth season was tough.
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Post by: surehuntsalot on April 11, 2013, 11:24:54 PM
congrats to the young man
Title: Re: Illinois Youth Turkey Hunt Begins In Heartbreak - Ends in Celebration
Post by: heathwesley on April 12, 2013, 09:46:32 AM
Quote from: ILHUNTER on April 11, 2013, 11:31:56 AM
Congratulations on the nice bird,  Here in the central part of the state the youth season was tough.

We hunted in Macoupin County.  What county where you in??
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Post by: Rex on April 12, 2013, 02:59:34 PM
Congratulations to you and to Jonah. What county? If you don't mind me asking.