Here is picture from this week. Our season is still about a month away. I am leaving Friday morning to take my 6 year old son to TX to chase rios.

NICE! He'd look better headless!

So here it is, Opening day, and I'm at home preparing to goto school, and my parents are off hunting a new peice of property thats only a twenty minute drive away..... Can't say I'm not jealous of them...

OK guys, I just got home from taking my 6 yr old son on the youth turkey hunt in Texas. If anybody watched the weather this weekend you know the weather was terrible. 7 inches of snow, wind blowing 35 out of the NW with 4-5 foot snow drifts. My little man was a trooper. We popped up the double bull and brought a coleman heater with us. Keep him nice and toasty for our hunt. We had 2 toms come in and stand at 35 yards for 45 minutes, I wouldn't let him shoot b/c I felt that was to far for him. 15 jakes were next followed by 4 more toms. The 4 toms we directly to the 2 other toms and ran them clean off without offering a shot. The jakes left and there were sitting in the cold watching nothing but the snow blow. About 10 minutes later 4 more jakes come in. He starts begging me to shoot and I am persistant "NO!" We argue for about 10 minutes over this, he finally says "dad, does a jake count toward the grand slam?" I told him that it did not........for you guys that don't know me, I completed my slam last year and he of course wants to be like ole dad. He finally gives in to wait for a longbeard and within 1 minute of that 3 toms come in from our right at 5 yards. I get them stopped at 20 yards, he says "dad, I am on him" I tell him to shoot when he is ready.....BOOM and flopping is his first turkey a 18 lb tom with 1 inch spurs, and an 8.5 inch beard. You talk about a proud papa. Our youth season in MO starts next weekend and his is ready to go.

DTC~~ Thats awesome man!! tell the lil guy, congrats from me! I am sure you were happier then he was at the moment?!! Way to go, now its your turn to get out there and put one on the ground!

Look at that die hard turkey hunter out there in the snow makin it happen!!! He looks like a seasoned veteran with that big ol grin, awesome bird! Tell your son congrats DTC! Your turn! I'm going again this weekend, looks like we'll have a few dry and warm days, maybe theyll be talking pretty good.

My parents did not get anything this weekend, though it sounds like a place i would jump right in to and go all over the steep mountains to get where the turkeys are, which they didnt. I may be going before school in a couple days, or possibly saturday morning.

Good looking bird he got DTC I dont think im a hard-core enough turkey hunter to go hunting in snow, but living in Cali i dont have to worry about it

Good luck this weekend teen! I'm goin tomorrow and Saturday, should be great weather. Dad bought a new Mossberg 935 yesterday. Went to Dick's sporting goods and they had them for $200 off so he couldn't pass it up! I may try to talk him into lettin me take it for a trial run Saturday!

haha it bleeped it out, didnt know it would do that. He got it at D i c k's sporting goods. They may be having a huge sale right now, yall should check it out.....always need more guns.

Youth season opens in the morning and my boy is itching to go. Saw5 different toms in the alfalfa yesterday, 4 toms on another farm we have and 2 toms on the place I have leased. Got up to listen yesterday morning and heard 12-15 birds. They aren't gobbling alot just yet but our season doesn't open until the 20th. Good luck team!