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<blockquote data-quote="Knothead" data-source="post: 5882027" data-attributes="member: 1964"><p>I took a 15 year old (son of a friend of mine) on his first turkey hunt Sunday morning. </p><p></p><p>It was a chilly 35 degree morning! Got all set up by 5:30 am. He was in ground bling on field edge. I was a bit behind the blind and off to the right, against a big tree. First gobble was at 5:59. I bet he tree gobbled 50x. Pitched down with two hens into field 125 yds out from us. Each time hens would yelp, I would do a cutoff yelp. Finally pissed off one of the hens enough and she started feeding toward us ---- with Tom in tow, in full strut and spitting and drumming all the way. They put on a good show. Walked right in front of us. They casually walked along, feeding and flirting. Stopped about 75 yds in front of us. He was in full strut for practically the whole show. One hen 'assumed the submissive position' and he bred one of them — right there in front of us.</p><p></p><p>It was a cool show to watch. Fun hunt.</p><p>Just wish he woulda shot, (but, of course, I didn't tell him that). I told him if he's not comfortable with the shot, he made the right decision not to take it. Thats OK. Confidence and knowing your own limits come with time and experience and he took the first step toward gaining that.. </p><p></p><p>This kid is a heck of a trap shooter but just inexperienced at hunting and simply didn't think he could make the shot due to the limbs, twigs and privet in between him and the Tom. Soooo…….he just walked right past us at 28 yds.</p><p></p><p>All good. I'll just go back after that Tom this coming Saturday morning, opening day! <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="😉" title="Winking face :wink:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" data-shortname=":wink:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Knothead, post: 5882027, member: 1964"] I took a 15 year old (son of a friend of mine) on his first turkey hunt Sunday morning. It was a chilly 35 degree morning! Got all set up by 5:30 am. He was in ground bling on field edge. I was a bit behind the blind and off to the right, against a big tree. First gobble was at 5:59. I bet he tree gobbled 50x. Pitched down with two hens into field 125 yds out from us. Each time hens would yelp, I would do a cutoff yelp. Finally pissed off one of the hens enough and she started feeding toward us ---- with Tom in tow, in full strut and spitting and drumming all the way. They put on a good show. Walked right in front of us. They casually walked along, feeding and flirting. Stopped about 75 yds in front of us. He was in full strut for practically the whole show. One hen 'assumed the submissive position' and he bred one of them — right there in front of us. It was a cool show to watch. Fun hunt. Just wish he woulda shot, (but, of course, I didn't tell him that). I told him if he's not comfortable with the shot, he made the right decision not to take it. Thats OK. Confidence and knowing your own limits come with time and experience and he took the first step toward gaining that.. This kid is a heck of a trap shooter but just inexperienced at hunting and simply didn't think he could make the shot due to the limbs, twigs and privet in between him and the Tom. Soooo…….he just walked right past us at 28 yds. All good. I'll just go back after that Tom this coming Saturday morning, opening day! 😉 [/QUOTE]
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