Youth season success!

[Rex]

A huge thank you to Pappy and to Arnold Patton for their great calls!
My daughter with her first turkey.   Came in spitting and drumming all the way!  She shot him at 15 yards.  Very special father/daughter moment.
Strange bird: mature fan, nubs for spurs, and a 4"beard (evidence of beard rot )
Weighed 16.5 lbs

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[Dukejb]

Congrats! I'm looking forward to taking my daughter in a couple of years.

[suburbhunter]

  FAN-TASTIC!!! 

[g8rvet]

No bird you ever take will match that trophy!  Way to go pops and daughter.

[renegade19]

 

[rayvond33]

Awesome congrats! ! Ours starts next Saturday

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[Greg Massey]

nice bird, congrats

[Bowguy]

Nothing better, congrats to you both!

[mossyhorn2]

Congratulation to both of you!!!

[1iagobblergetter]

Congrats...The feeling i got calling in and shooting my first Gobbler was completely surpassed years later when my Boy shot his first one..

[MISSISSIPPI Double beard]

Awesome, congrats to you both.

[beagler]

Congrats to the young lady!

[Gooserbat]

Well done

[turkey harvester]

Way to go!!! 

[MK M GOBL]

CONGRATS on the first of many!!

side note on the bird, back a few years when I was hunting Iowa I killed a bird gobbling hard, strutting and displaying and all. I did notice a short beard on the bird before killing him but he had a full fan... Once I put my hands on him, I noticed his nub spurs, beard almost made 5 1/2" and looked over his fan, 8 center feathers were long and the remaining 4 on each side about an inch and more shorter... The bird also went over 22 lbs., still considered him a Jake. The previous year we had a very warm early spring and figured he was part of an early hatch. We have seen this a few times when we have warm, early springs...

MK M GOBL