when did u get your first turkey?

[strutnrut1984]

i got my first when i was 14. it was on a fall hunt in venango county pennsylvania in 1979. it was just a small hen but i was really proud. my first tom was shot in 1987. i was out feeding the horses in the morning after work. when i heard a gobble in the woods behind the house. so i ran in grabbed my shotgun and box call and slipped into the woods sat down by a big white oak and made a few calls. they answered right back here it was 3 jakes they came in on a string. from then on i was was hooked. since then i have hunted many different states and each hunt is just as exciting as the first. theres not much out there like the spring turkey woods.        strut

[509er]

About six or seven years ago.

[OneHorn]

i believe i was 9 or 10

[Machias]

I was 16 and it was in 1979 in Missouri.  They had just damned the Osage River and started forming Truman Lake.  It was forming several islands and lots of birds were being stranded on the hill tops.  So I and a classmate skipped school and took a canoe out and paddled to an island with a lovesick gobbler.  A couple of hits on the box call and he was running full out.  Almost had to kill him in self defense! 

[firecrotch]

when i was 9 killed a jake at 15 yards with a single shot .410

[Elkstuffer]

My first was a jake I shot in 1997 in the Joeseph Creek W/L area.

 I've had the sickness ever since.

[bowhunterforever]

I killed my first when i was 16!

[wastickslinger]

Jake in 1998. Really got into it in spring of 2000 and been hooked ever since.

[SpokaneSlayer]

A jake on opening day 2007.

[Turkeyman]

My first was in 1993 a big double bearded Merriam.

[PolarBear]

I was 6 and shot it out of a tree with a .22 on my Uncles place in Alabama.

[yelp]

I shot a jake on the Tucannon River in the Blue Mountains in  April 1992, I believe.  I was with a bunch of friends that took me.  They showed me how to call them, hunt them and most of all be patient.  I don't know if I will ever be able to pay them back for that.  I am addicted to the gobble and I still get excited....We are very fortunate to be able to have this much fun..

[10Key]

...still waiting. I have hunted them off and on from 2001, really got "serious" last year.

[yelp]

Spokaneslayer...I like the sweet "Got Beer" hat?   

[bowhunter/taxidermest]

i got my first turkey ever last year it was a tom with a 9 inch beard and 7/8 spurs not quite a inch but close enough i called him in myself opening day