I put this Thread on the NWTF web site the day I harvested My first Turkey.

Ok I have read a lot of story' s about everyone' s hunt, I now have my own to tell. But I promise I' m not a great teller of story' s, but here goes.


This is my first year to hunt for Turkey' s so my expectation' s weren' t to high, I figured I would scare every bird out of the state, so if any one out of the state of Louisiana got a Turkey, your welcome.

I have hunted every chance I could, I have had Turkey' s all over me and not been able to get close enough to see them. But my luck changed Friday April 4th, I got my buddy Hunter9850 to go with me and call for me so I could see what I was doing wrong. We took my wife to her blind before daylight and set her up a decoy and left for our hunting area, after riding my 4 wheeler into the area we were going to hunt we walked about 200 yard' s and waited for daylight. As we walked through the swamp Hunter 9850 started with his owl call as we walked with no response to it, so he started using his box call, we had to skirt around a beaver pond and as we did this we stopped to call, it was about 6:55, Hunter called with no respose so I took out my mouth call and told him this is how I had been scareing them ( I sound like I' m choking a chicken to death), as I completed my sequence Hunter was in the process of rolling on the ground laughing at me, a bird answered me,(told you I was scaring them) we had to move about 50 yard' s to find a place to set and start calling to him, we didn' t have time to place a decoy out. We had just been setting about 2 Minute' s and Hunter told me to watch for the white head, as he told me this I saw him coming to us.

This was the most amazing thing to happen to me, the Turkey turned out to be two of them, with only one gobbling. They got forty one yard' s from us and stopped and stared in our direction looking for the hen that was talking to them, Hunter whispered to me that they were about 35 yard' s, I could only see just part' s of both bird' s. They stood there looking for the hen for about a week, but it turned out to just a couple of minute' s, they didn' t see the hen and were starting to move off, as they moved hunter made just a slight sound with his box call and stopped them cold in the open. As the closest bird stretched out his neck to look for the source of the call, I shot. I jacked another shell incase of needing a follow up shot, but it wasn' t needed. Hunter was standing on his neck before I could move, boy can he move when he want' s to, After the high 5' s hand shake' s and the word YES repeated several hundred time' s, I stepped off the shot that' s how I knew he was standing 41 yard' s from me.

We walked out to the four wheeler and decieded to go let my wife know I got my first Turkey. When we arrived at her blind, she informed us she had heard four different bird' s, but the closest one to her left headed toward where Hunter and I was hunting. She was Happy for me and pissed at the same time for us calling her bird off her, we didn' t see it but she was a good sport about it any how.

Well he weighed 19 1/2 lb' s, a 9 1/2 inch beard, and 3/4 inch spur' s, I harvested him at 7:00 with my mossburg 3 1/2 inch, shooting 2 3/4 inch winchester supreme #6 shot.

He may not be considered a trophy by some but he' s king kong to me. I have only one more day that I can hunt so I' ll be out there scaring them again, so everyone get ready I may scare one your way. Oh by the way I' ll be in north west Kentucky may 9th-12th so be ready for them to stampede into the other state' s....LOL

I would like at this time to thank Hunter9850 for doing the calling for me, I learned a lot in a very short time.

Oh by the way Hunter9850 got a Turkey on the 3rd day of the season, but that' s another story and I' ll have to get him to tell it.

May all of you harvest a bird, but remember our loved one' s oversea' s fighting for our right to hunt this noble bird, Our wild Trukey.

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I know, I know you can quit laughing now but my calling really did sound like I was choking a chicken. Momma LH is suppose to down load the picture of me and my bird as soon as she figure' s out how it' s done. I' m a computer idiot.