Illinois Youth Turkey Hunt Begins In Heartbreak - Ends in Celebration

[heathwesley]

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!

[heathwesley]

My nephew with his first bird - we hunted hard all weekend and it paid off.

[tomstopper]

Awesome gobbler. Congrats to that young man.....

[heathwesley]

Happy Hunter Here!  Proud moment for his Dad and Uncle for sure!

[ALfwlmth]

Love it when the kids connect!! 

[DirtNap647]

congrats 

[Gold Spur]

Congrats nice bird...

[JVA54]

  Congrats!!

[Tommy Strutsalot]

Awesome, Good work. He's hooked for life.   The NEF Pardner did the job again..... that was my first gun.

[MarkTNturkeyhunter]

Nice bird way to hang in there guys and get-r-done!!

[Hognutz]

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!!

[boomer]

Congrats!!

[Improvinghunter101]

Congrats!

[wingbonehntr]

Awesome!!

[heathwesley]

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.