Photo of your first bird?

[perrytrails]

A little emotional on this one................

Roosted these birds the night before.  Took Dad with me.  First time he'd ever gone spring turkey hunting.  First time he'd ever seen it done.  I called two birds with several hens in tow.  We were sitting shoulder-to-shoulder against an ancient cherry.  We talked this one the whole way through to a simultaneous trigger pull.  Birds fell feet apart.   Dad's first, last and only spring bird.

Memories and blessings for sure

[perrytrails]

A few from back in the day. My first and 2nd birds. 1983 I'm pretty sure. Used my Winchester model 12. Check out the LL bean pac boots

[Scspurs72]

Many moons ago. Yep its a polaroid. I hunted for three years before killing this bird. Been addicted ever since.

[Tom007]

Wow, Beauty and a fine memory for sure....

[WildTigerTrout]

I don't have a photo of my first. I remember it was the first day of the fall season 1975 here in Pa.  Nice fall gobbler.  Very exciting for a 15 year old teenager.

[Matt76cmich]

I can't remember the exact year, but it was around 2008 or earlier. Took this bird with my hand me down 20 gauge 870 Wingmaster with a fixed modified barrel and #6 pheasant load.

[Tom007]

Real nice memories..

[dswmsn]

Not my 1st, but 3rd killed near Ridgeway, SC in Fairfield Co. This Gobbler thrashed around in the wet bottomland, hence the muddy feathers. A guy that owned a small hunting & fishing shop & also wrote fishing & hunting articles for the Winnsboro newspaper would take a picture of your trophy for $5. The pic dates back to 1993' which explains the Jim Crumley Trebark camo. I killed 32 Wild Turkeys in 23 years off this 3000 acre lease which I had all to myself for 4 years before some of the deer hunters decided to try & become Turkey hunters.

[ScottTaulbee]

Unfortunately I have lost the photo of my first one and the beard, fan, and spurs somehow. It was back in 06. I was 11. I missed at least one every year from 02 until 06 because no one in my family Turkey hunted and my dad was telling me to shoot at them at 50+ yards. My first one was a Jake, I called him up and didn't shoot when dad told me to about 10 different times and shot him at 8 steps. I was determined he wasn't going to be a miss. My earliest photo I have is from about 2013. I was 18. It would have been about the 20th I had killed. The one that means the most to me is the second picture, it was the first my dad had ever had called up to him. He told me it was the best hunt he had ever had in his life and said it topped his once in a lifetime Ky elk hunt. We doubled.And my daughter was 9 months old.



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[RutnNStrutn]

My first turkey was a jake on a WMA in Florida. The next year, in the early 1990's, I got my first gobbler on the same WMA.
He came down the trail shock gobbling at a fire engine siren. Being a firefighter, I knew this was my bird. As the engine went out of hearing range, I started calling. 10 minutes later he strutted out of a fire break into the oak hammock I was set up in. A couple minutes later I had my first gobbler!!

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[EastKyGobblerSlayer]

My first and patient zero for my obsession, he ran the 100yrds separating us so quickly that I didn't think to shoot him, he made it to the base of a large cliff I was on top of and ran out of sight around the side. I was sure he ran off until I heard his wings and realized he was flying up to the backside so he could come to me. I've always been overly patient on the trigger and allowed him one last gobble in my face at about 5 big steps before rolling him back down the hill he just flew up. As you can see from the bloody hand, like so many of our first timers, I was clueless what to do with a flapping bird and got a good and mighty flogging while holding him at arms length!


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[Mabren2]

This is a great thread, I love all the pictures!

[Tom007]

X2, keep them coming....

[TurkinTone]

Sumter National Forest, Newberry Co. SC 1985. Remember it like it was yesterday.

[Teamblue]

My first turkey.  Fall 1992 State land in Schoharie, NY.  Winchester 1300 20 gauge NWTF I got new.  Ammo used was whatever dad gave me.  First post also.  Did it work?