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Sophia Strikes Again

Started by tomstopper, April 06, 2020, 10:51:13 AM

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tomstopper

April 06, 2020, 10:51:13 AM
Took my daughter out for the youth opener on Saturday here in NC and all we seen was a large number of Jake's. I told her she could take anyone that she wanted as they were all legal and she made it clear to me that she wanted to wait for a gobbler.
I was pretty impressed that she had the determination and discipline to hold off.

Fast forward to this morning (tried to get her to go yesterday morning but she was exhausted and passed) and we heard a bunch of gobbling behind our blind. They flew out and to the right of us and followed hens across the field and about 250 yards away. We watched them until 7:15am and then had another one gobble very close behind us. I looked over to my right and he came out from the wood line. As soon as he saw our avian Jake he lowered his head and marched straight towards him. Sophia was ready and wasted little time and at 7:38am her 20gauge went off and this guy dropped.

Her bird had 9 5/8in beard, 1 1/8in spurs and weighed 20.38lbs

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Tom007

#1
April 06, 2020, 10:54:10 AM
Fantastic, congrats

owlhoot

#2
April 06, 2020, 10:55:41 AM
Congrats ! Nice bird.

BennieGobbler

#3
April 06, 2020, 11:09:37 AM
That is awesome!!  Keep it up!!!
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Harty

#4
April 06, 2020, 11:30:04 AM
Congrats on a great father/daughter hunt!

Muzzy61

#5
April 06, 2020, 11:52:49 AM
Congrats to the young lady and dad.
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MISSISSIPPI Double beard

#6
April 06, 2020, 11:53:37 AM
Awesome! Congrats to you both.
They call him...Kenny..Kenny

JeffC

#7
April 06, 2020, 12:09:47 PM
Congrats, awesome pictures, glad you got to enjoy her success. 
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1iagobblergetter

#8
April 06, 2020, 12:19:11 PM
Irreplaceable memories. Congrats.. :icon_thumright:

Yoteduster

#9
April 06, 2020, 12:21:10 PM
Congrats on a nice bird

blake_08

#10
April 06, 2020, 12:23:23 PM
Awesome! Congrats to the young lady and to you. I'm hoping to get my 8 year old son his first bird in a couple weeks.

Tunaguy

#11
April 06, 2020, 12:24:35 PM
Congratulations!!!
" I wouldn't want to belong to any club that would have me as a member." Groucho Marx

GobbleNut

#12
April 06, 2020, 12:35:32 PM
Very cool!  Nice to see your young lady taking an interest in hunting and dad following through doing his part.  Young folks like her,...and especially women,...becoming hunters are the key to the future of hunting in this country.  Well done, dad!

Gooserbat

#13
April 06, 2020, 12:50:57 PM
Looks like we created a monster.

Congrats again young lady.
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One of my personal current interests is nest predators and how a majority of hunters, where legal bait to the extent of chumming coons.  However once they get the predators concentrated they don't control them.

dublelung

#14
April 06, 2020, 01:01:55 PM
That's time well spent! Congratulations to you both!
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