Hunted turkey for 4 yrs befor i got my first, man was i proud!!!, But a couple years later i called one in for my buddies kid, his first and i dont think anything i ever do as far as hunting goes will top that one!!! Untill of course, my boys hit the woods, few yrs to go on that tho.
After 30 years of marriage my "partner" finally went turkey hunting with me. She killed a nice longbeard and I killed one of the other two gobblers with him. That was the first day she ever hunted turkey so it was really special to watch her pull it off and then turn it into a double.
With out a doubt, calling in my son's first bird that he took this year. Neither of us will ever forget it. He is finally old enough (11) to want to hunt with me often and he has killed a deer and a turkey while we were out together in the last year.
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I don't promote 'thin skinned' political correctness.
My very first longbeard that I called in myself. After that, it was mature birds only from then on. I did call in a jake for my nephew during the youth season, but I still have to say, it was my very first Mature bird by myself!!
Selfish as it sounds..... my proudest turkey moment was around my 30th bird.
I had hunted hard all season, dedicating pretty much all my time to calling in birds for other hunters. I had some good karma credit built up.
It was the last three days of the season, and on the piece of property I was hunting (which I knew very very well) I hadn't heard a bird gobble all year long. I knew they were there, I just knew they weren't talking.
Long story short, I patterned a bird and learned his routes and shot him at 530 in the afternoon. It was then that I kinda came full circle and realized just how much I had learned in the last 15 years of doing it.
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I think the last bird was the special one. Each one is so different and SPECIAL!
In 2007 I killed my second Missouri Big Buck. In 1987 I killed my First it was a 8 Point that scored 151 3/8, 20 years later I kill the second it was a 10 Point that scored 150.
NOTHING, get my blood bolling like a Big Gobbler. The antisapation is mind boggling.
Well, seeing as that I called in and killed my first gobbler yesterday, I would have to go with that! Right now, I can't see anything topping it, but I have never called for someone else. Maybe later this season. It was a lot of hard work, as you all know of course, patterning birds and a gun, learning to call and when not to and all that stuff. Payoff was SWEET!
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Wish I could hunt all year long.
I have more bows and guns than I used to, but not enough.
What are you most proud of?
