Last year was my first year turkey hunting, i moved to northeast kansas and we thought we would give it a shot. Ive been hunting pheasants since i was about 6 so i knew this would be a whole different game. We went out one evening and found a spot we knew turkeys were around but we didnt see any. The next mornin we went out and by 9 a.m. i was lookin at a big gobbler headin right my way he came within range and i let him have it with the 3 1/2 in mag out of my benelli at about 50 yards, it knocked him down hard i got up and tried to get out of the thorn thicket i was in and next thing i knew he was runnin, by this time he was already to farr out there and i watched him ducked into the woods, so we went up found where leaves were turned over and followed the blood trail to some rock and there wasn't anymore sign of him. So sad to say after about 2 hours of lookin for him we gave up, it was so hard to do i didnt want to leave him there.And that was just the first of the string of bad luck, and not once but twice on public ground we had a tom comin in to us and some other hunters spooked the toms. So all in all last year was really frustrating but we had a blast doin it. Does anyone have any advice for new hunters im only 15 and im hopin to get a tom next week during youth season and we found a spot that i really like theirs quite a few toms and a couple jakes that we seen out scoutin yesterday so any advice will help for us new to the game