I am from the suburbs of Chicago, but am currently a senior at U of I at Champaign-Urbana. Nobody in my family hunts. I have always loved fishing and the outdoors so I decided to get into hunting and took the safety class last year. I didn't know anything about hunting, but read up on turkeys instead of studying.
The fall season last year was my first and only. I drove up to my grandparents Michigan house and got amazingly lucky the first day. I was laying under the branch of a pine tree and the turkey actually came around the side of the tree I wasn't watching and was within ten feet so it was an easy shot. Cleaning the bird was interesting. I also hunted with a friend I met from school who has a farm in the Rockford Illinois area. We sat out there for three hours then looked up through camo netting and saw about 12 birds with our decoys and both got one. Since then I have been hooked. I went from one box call to friction/diaphram calls and decoys. I know its a lot different hunting in the spring so hopefully my luck continues. I actually did have a spring tag last year for champaign county, but failed to realize there was no public land to hunt and couldn't go.
That about sums up my turkey hunting career as of now.