My Dauthers Tom

[PA BEN]

I have 5 Daughters, all have shot deer, two have gotten Turkeys. No digital camera pictures of those birds. These pictures are of my Daughter Megan and her Turkey from the youth season of '04 at age 13 and her Tom from this year age 19. She heard I was going over to hunt this year and She wanted to hunt with me.
This first Bird was from the youth season '04 age 13. We went out at 11:00 am and struck a gobble at 11:45 am. These toms were on another Mountain across a valley on land we couldn't hunt. It was the first time I used my home made boat paddle call and a wingbone call I made too. The Toms gobbled a little closer, I gave another call and they gobbled in the valley below. I looked w/my binos to see 3 long beards coming across the field below. I put out a decoy, set my daughter down and I set up to call in the brush 40 ft behind her. At 12:10 pm 3 long beards were right in front of Megan. It took her a long time to shoot, at times they wanted to leave so I would cutt on my box call and they would gobble and strut. Finely she shot one. When I asked why it took so long to shoot she said when she had one lined up another one would be in the way. This was before you could shoot two toms and she had only one tag. Good discipline for a 13 year old. Here's that bird



This years hunt. I put some toms to bed and we set up on them the next morning. They went the other way so we hunted around the rest of the day with no luck. That evening we set up at there roost to catch them coming back, only two hens no toms. The next morning we set up in a friends field, I put out two strutter toms, two Jakes and two hen decoys. The birds were roosted across the field about 400 yds away on someone else's land I called at them and gave fly down cackles. At day brake a long bird flew into the field and gobbled and strutted at the far fence line. Then about 30 hens and 3 more long beards flew in. They stayed across the field and started breeding. I called and called and called. Then 1 hen came across the field straight to the decoys, 6 feet in front of us. She would PUTT-PERRRR, PUTT-PERRRR, then she got a little nerves and started to go, I gave a little yelp on a pot call and she settled down. Then a big hen came over and did the same, this time I told my daughter not to make eye contact and don't blink. Two hens about 3 ft off our feet right on the edge of the field. They fed around and when they weren't looking I would make soft yelps on my pot call. Then 4 hens broke off the flock and brought a tom with them. What a show for my Daughter to see. The 4 hens came to our right and the Tom saw the strutter decoys at about 75 yds out. He got pissed and ran in. He stopped at a hen decoy to say hi then ran to the tom decoys, Broke into full strut at 15 yds in front of my daughter. BAM, 3" #5's out of a 20 gage was all she wrote. I tried to call the rest of the flock over for my second bird and it worked for awhile until the boss hen got pissed and moved the flock off the other direction. What a great time spent with Father and Daughter
Hunting w/my daughter the day before. "IF I WERE A TURKEY, WHERE WOULD I BE?"

NO BIRDS THIS DAY


"BAM"




Here's Megan's biggest deer

[carpsniperg2]

  great pics

[Wacenturion]

Great pictures........she's a lucky young lady having a father who shares the outdoors with her.

[PA BEN]

Thanks

[bearpaw]

 

[Austrian Hunter]

Awesome, great story!  Congrats to you and your girls!!!!  OMG, these are two exceptional Toms

[PA BEN]

She has gotten 4 turkeys. 3 big toms and one fall hen.

[huntlakewood]

Nice pics it is always nice to share the out doors with your daughter. I have one that hunts and one that likes to fish

[Wenatcheejay]

Congrads to her!

[bow4elk]

This is really great PA!!  Great photos!

[turkey slayer]

Great story, way to go

[PA BEN]

My Dad didn't do much hunting with me as a kid, he doesn't hunt anymore. I think it's great my kids want to hunt with the old man.

[Austrian Hunter]

My Dad didn't do much hunting with me as a kid, he doesn't hunt anymore. I think it's great my kids want to hunt with the old man.

Good for you, I think this is awesome!! 

[turkeydancer]

Both you and your daughter can be very proud ... wish work hadn't "screwed" my boy this year, but there's always a fall hunt !

[Machias]

Great photos and a really nice bird!!