My sons second bird, 1st unassisted.

[Wrangler95]

 


Very nice,congrats!!!

[Number17]

You've got a turkey hunter on your hands thats' for sure.  He looks like a little man sitting there with his trophy.
I would let him decide on the mount.  Just tell him one day he is going to shoot a longbeard.  His choice, mount the Jake now, or mount the Longbeard later?

[TrackeySauresRex]

  WTG! Congrats on a great hunt

[bowhunter84]

congrats

[Gobble!]

Congrats

[NCTURKEYHUNTER]

Fantastic Bird, Congrats. Can not wait until my Grand Boys are old enough to take hunting.

[bayou gobbler]

Congrats!! 

[Basser69]

If money is an issue, do a fan-beard-spur mount.

Congrats!! 

[mossybird]

Its been awhile since I've been on here, but since turkey season is coming in MO, I'm fired up.  Took my 8 year old son out this last weekend for the youth hunt.  Lots of birds but they didn't seem to interested in the calls.  So we spent the afternoon in a ground blind in a pretty good travel area.  I let my son do all the calling with a box call.  No sooner than he put the call down here came this large jake.  He let him have it at 30yds.  He had turkey fever so bad that had to clamp his hand over his mouth to keep from giggling!   We had an absolute blast, one of the best days of my life!!!  This is his second bird.  He got the first one when he was six, but is required a little assistance from dad, he didn't get to go last year because I grounded him for getting his BB gun out without supervision.  This bird is 100% his and he wants it mounted.  Do you guys think I should get it done?  Also this was a public land bird.

I called in my little brothers first 2 birds, they were jakes, He was fine with Just doign a fan mount which is what im doing. Good luck.

[socalturkeyman]

Congratsto your boy!!!

[RutnNStrutn]

He's still very young. I'd wait until he blasts a gobbler. Then mount that one!! Good job one teaching your son right from wrong. As stated earlier, with many parents these days, that is lacking.

[mossy835]

He learned his lesson on the firearms rules. He shot his first unassisted turkey. If you can fund it I would do it we never know what tomorrow may bring. Congratulations on a nice turkey hunt.

[LX_Trkyhntr]

Congrats on the great hunt with your son!!  That's awesome that he called him in all by himself!! 

My daughter killed a nice longbeard last weekend, her first bird and she called him up as well.  I am sure glad she didn't ask to have him mounted!!  I would have been on the way to the taxidermist, but she wanted a fan mount like all of mine to hang over her bed!!!

[tnturkeyman28]

WTG!!!

[deadbuck]

I would tell him that I would buy him his choice of guns instead of mounting a turkey. I had one mounted back in 1988 and got tired of looking at/after it in only a few years. Paid $300 then and had buyers remorse soon after.