8th Annual - 2022 YOUTH TURKEY HUNT CONTEST (enter by Mar 15)

[bearpaw]

Time passes quickly, today the kids and families arrived. We also have three other kids here with their dads for the hunt, one of the other kids is Trey, he won the contest two years ago. They went shooting to check their guns and then I snapped a couple photos of RJ and Wesley with their families. Then we had a spaghetti dinner. Everyone just headed to their rooms so we can get a nice early start tomorrow. We’ve got plenty of birds scouted, it should be a great hunt.

[wadu1]

Hope to see photos tomorrow, with more smiles.

[C-Money]

Good luck! Hope you all have a great time...

[hunter399]

Looks like a blast for the kids.
🤞Looks like this mourning should have less rain on the horizon.
Where you can whack'em and stack'em.
Good luck you all .👍

[bearpaw]

Saturday morning was a bust, amazingly we did not get a single bird, a few birds came within range but for one reason or another the kids couldn't shoot. In the afternoon it went much better, we ended up with several birds taken by Trey, Bruno, and Wesley (one of the contest winners).

[bearpaw]

Sunday morning was tough again, no birds taken, but Wesley went Varmint hunting and got a rockchuck and a couple squirrels. Sunday evening Trey passed a couple jakes (holding out for a long beard) and Tatum got a bird her first successful hunt.

[bearpaw]

We told Wesley he got the spring slam: turkey/squirrel/rockchuck

[bearpaw]

Unfortunately RJ (the other contest winner) did not get a bird, but I think he had a great time as did all the kids. It was fun listening to all the kids telling their hunting stories each day at lunch and in the evening at dinner time.

Read RJ's Story: https://hunting-washington.com/smf/index.php/topic,269738.0.html

[bearpaw]

We sent the kids home with some various turkey calls (RJ was already getting pretty good with his pot call), and enough ammo for future target practice and hunting. Wesley is getting a mount of his bird, a fan/wings/beard mount like the one in the photo below.

Thanks to everyone on the forum who participated in the contest and also to the members who so graciously donated so the winners would also get all the extra merchandise and mounts. 

[huntnfmly]

All of them were great kids we enjoyed being in camp with them and everyone
Wesley was on a mission for sure👍😁

[Pinetar]

Congrats to everyone, love these youth hunts!! Grandpa and grandson out hunting together, what's better than that?

[huntnfmly]

Congrats to everyone, love these youth hunts!! Grandpa and grandson out hunting together, what's better than that?

Nothing 👍