We're lucky

[Old Timer]

A few years back I started to realize there's more to the hunt then the kill. I learned to enjoy the nature. On a slow day I'll pick some leeks and regard that as a success. Some of my old buds cannot do this anymore or have passed on. Yes we are truly blessed!

[TrackeySauresRex]

Gratitude!   

[JeffC]

Congrats on the bird Sam, and to add to all the things we are fortunate to have, this forum, I dont have any friends that share the passion of chasing the King of Spring, love the fact that I can jump on here and share that passion with so many like mined people all over the country. Safe travels Sam and continued sucess. 

[Zobo]

A few years back I started to realize there's more to the hunt then the kill. I learned to enjoy the nature. On a slow day I'll pick some leeks and regard that as a success. Some of my old buds cannot do this anymore or have passed on. Yes we are truly blessed!

     How lucky we truly are, enjoying one of God's great gifts, time spent outdoors in nature's beauty, doing something we love. 
     Blessed indeed, ill never take it for granted, great post and comments.

[Tom007]

I'm sitting in the truck on a forest rd in the Mark Twain National Forest right now just waiting for the fog to lift a little bit.  I've been catching up on OG and I realized how good we've got it.  We're living in a time when you have options on the style of hunting you prefer, run and gun, blind and deeks, faning, or just go sit in the woods and "deer hunt". We have gun choices, ammo choices, camo patterns and calls out the tail end and all we can do is not be satisfied.  Sure turkey numbers are not what they once were in a lot of places, but we as turkey hunters, overall are recognizing the problem and looking for solutions. 

We're teaching our kids to turkey hunt and planting seeds with 410s and tss sooner other than trying to complete with modern society and the hustle and bustle.  We're lucky plane and simple.  We're also spoiled and never satisfied with what we have.  It's a fact otherwise we'd have a lot more tolerance for other hunters, or at least I know I would.

Most importantly I have my health, my family is well a job if you call being a professional turkey bumb such and my peace of mind.

My rant is over and I'm going to go try my hand again.

Amen brother!

[tomstopper]

We'll I'm back.   I didn't take long.  I got out of the truck immediately after I posted this.  Had a bird gobble in the fog at like 200 yards.  Made a 75 yard circle to get out of sight of the truck ( makes me feel better) called had him answer and another bird gobbled behind me.  The initial turkey gobbled like 40 times in 10 minutes and finally pops his head around a tree at 15 yards.  Instant flopage!!!!... Jake Flopage.  Actually I'm not disappointed about it.  He'll make fine turkey/jalapeno poppers and he gobbled like a hot 2 y/o and most of all I had fun. 

Note:  I've never hunted within 50 miles of this place and drove up this morning. I kept looking at it on the map and had done a carpentry job not far from here a few years ago and the customer told me they had a lot of birds.  I'm calling it a success.

It's legal and eats the same. Congratulations. Spot on post Sam. There is always something positive if you look for it

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