when did u get your first turkey?

[SpokaneSlayer]

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

I was wondering if anyone would notice. 

[blessed]

Yeah nice hat! oh and nice Jake too!
Aneoakleaf and I were living in Underwood WA. in 1987  and I was home with back surgery . Packed to many elk out on my back .
It was during the fall hunt and the turkeys occasionally wondered threw the one acher the house was on. I had told Annie earlier in the spring that she couldn't shoot one in the yard. Well, She was fixing dinner  and I was on the couch watching TV when a string of turkeys paraided into the yard on their way to the field at the neighbors . She turned off the stove and announced dinner would be delayed or canceled. And she headed to the back of the house where she had hung her bow by the sliding glass door! I got up and said whats wrong??(WHAT NO DINNER??) She said "I'm going to shoot a turkey!. Not to get left out ( as I quite often am ) I got my bow TOO! So She went out the left side of the house and I went around the right side of the house and I could see she was sneaking in on the front end of the parade and I watched as she shot, then I shot one at the back of the parade! I was wrestling whit mine and hollered to her didn't you get one??   All the birds had flown up into the big fir trees by now. She said I thought I did but it flew off??? I walked over to her with my bird in hand. We were looking up at the birds in the 40 ft. trees just as one fell out like a cannon ball! WHOHOOO We shouted!!  yeah...WE were bit!! No amount of ticks can chaise us off

[MuleyontheWall]

I got my first one two years ago, big tom, 9 3/4 beard..had been out a lot for the few days before i got it with a group and everyone had finaly given up on the hunt and just went back to the house to sit around...i had the itch bad to get a bird and i didnt figure one was going to walk into the kitchen and jump in the pan so i headed back out by myself..got to my spot and walked in about 100ft and called...big gobble and about 10 minutes later he was over my shoulder and headed back to the truck..

[Birdguy]

April 13. 2008 in Montana . April 15, 2008 north of Spokane #2 . April 17, 2008 further north of Spokane #3 . Last year was a great week. After three years of nothing it all came together. I suppose I used all my luck/skill last year but I will be back this year . If this year is half as fun as last year I may have to take a whole week off next year to get the kids theirs. I can not wait to see all those pictures of dead turkeys! Good luck guys!

[DOUBLELUNG]

Fall jake 1990 Wyoming

[Tom Tamer]

My first was in 2002 after starting out in '98 banging around the Capitol forrest and never finding anything. I went up into the teanaway where in'94 I saw a couple hens in front of a guys house. I called and called all morning and not knowing what i was doing I was bout to give up. So I stopped beside a huge cottonwood and decided one last call from my box call then I'd head for home. Nothing happened so I started to walk away when I startled a huge and I mean huge bird it was what I'd been looking for and he stayed long enough for a shot my first jake( It was huge because I wasn't expecting there to even be turkeys in the area). that got me going but the following year I got a classic hunt with the calls and gobbles, full strut dance and the works, from then on I was and am offically hooked.

[Phantom Gobbler]

Great Thread!  I started turkey hunting in 2001 and harvested my first bird, a Jake, on opening day in 2006, hunting NE WA. As we braved spring snow showers, we tried calling to a fired up Tom that would not leave it's hens at the edge of the field.  Suddenly we became aware of some silently approaching birds.  I pulled up to shoot my Mossberg 935 and click, the shotgun was not fully cocked and did not fire!  I cycled the shell again into the chamber and let drive at the last Jake in a rapidly departing flock of eight!   

You can see a picture at:

http://www.backwoodscalls.com/pics3.html

[Gobble Gobble]

I got mine in the Fall of '05 and again in '06 '07. My avatar is a pic of my first bird and hence my screen name.

[rosscrazyelk]

I got my first turkey three years ago and I got three that year first time ever trying. have not done as well since

[fishunt247]

I killed my first when I was 10 on my first day turkey hunting. It was in 1997, Klickitat country merriams with three beards. I'd been in the woods with my dad scouting for 7 years prior to that, and was thrilled to finally get to go hunting for them.

[blacktail luv]

I was 10 when i got my first bird(birds ).  Dad called in a group of about 15 jakes.  When they poked there heads up over the tall grass i looked them over, saw they all had beards, picked one and shot.  The other birds scattered and mine was doin' the chicken.  So we rounded it up and headed off the mountain.  As we headed down, we stumble upon another dead bird.  One bb from the 20 guage hit him in the neck and ended up killing him.  OOPS!  Dad tagged him for me, what a guy.

[demontang]

I'm still trying but hope this year is it.

[Gobble]

About six or seven years ago.

Me too, I never hunted them until about ten years ago. It takes a couple of years to figure out what to do and what not to do.

[luvtohnt]

Got my first jake last year on opening say, and first double as well, my hunting buddy got his first WA jake about 20 seconds earlier.

Brandon

[teal101]

Hopefully this year, just started last year and the bug bit me hard!