4/27/08

My First Turkey! 

     First, I would like to thank you for having this wonderful hunt and all the GREAT prizes, also giving me the opportunity to get a bird!  I loved being able to be in the great outdoors and just about having heart attacks when a gobbler goes off 20 feet from you!

     So Saturday Grandpa Ralph and Jay Stuckey and I went turkey hunting.  Grandpa was there to see me get a bird (he gets more excited than me anyway).  Jay came to call them in (Thank You!) and I was there to shoot that gobbler.  So we had been hunting around Saturday and finally got a turkey in our sights!  I took a shot at it with a 12 gauge but my shot was low and hit it in the crest.  It lay  down for a few seconds so I didn’t shoot again then it ran away with a broken wing and got away!  From this I learned that I need to make sure they are really dead.

    So Sunday we went to my Great Uncle Everett’s land where we say turkeys the day before.  So right when we got out of the truck a Jake started gobbling from his roost.  Then we went up ahead of him on the gas line and got the decoys set up and took cover in a juniper bush.  Jay started calling the birds in on his call and about 4 gobblers started gobbling.  The Jake that gobbled first started to come but turned back to another hen.  Then a nice mature gobbler stepped out and a hen out in the field area got ticked off that he was headed to the decoys and started calling him but that did not work.  He was committed to the decoys.  He started strutting his stuff, I pulled up that 12 gauge sight on his head and eased on the trigger.  BANG!  I hut the turkey and he turned around and started his “Helen Keller” like fun to the woods so I pumped the gun back and put some more lead in him, DOWN HE WENT!  After Saturday I know to let those turkeys have it!  Grandpa was just saying he might have a hard time getting up but when the turkey hit the ground Grandpa was jumping over my shoulder headed to the turkey (he was first to get there).  So that is how my turkey came to be!

     Again, Thank “Hunters Helping Kids”, “Sportsman Club”, Jay and the best Grandparents this world has ever come to know.  THANK YOU!

 

Dallas Miller

New York