Must've found a stupid one!

This is a week late but I finally did it, I found a stupid enough turkey to commit to my calls! This is my first year hunting turkeys by myself (Im 16) and after hunting every possible day counting the junior hunt I finally got a bird on 5-5-10. I have about 1 1/2 hrs to hunt before school every morning so I decided to make the best of it. I roosted a bird the night before and set up on him in the morning. At about 5:30 I was set up and heard some birds gobbling a few hundred yards behind me. After about 10 minutes of these birds hammering and mine not making a sound I decided to make a few soft tree yelps on my slate call. For the next ten minutes the bird never shut up! By this point I could see the bird up in the tree about 100 yards away. I decided at this point to give him one more series of soft yelps when all of the sudden he pitches down straight at me. He landed about 10 yards away and proceeds to walk straight at me. I did'nt have my gun up all the way and the bird was walking straight at me, I just pointed my gun at him from the hip so to speak and shot him at somewhere between 5-10 yards! I couldnt miss... The bird had a 8.5 in beard and 1 in spurs. Not my first bird ever but the first completely on my own and Im proud of it. Oh ya and I had the bird cleaned and in the freezer with enough time to still catch the bus! I will upload some pictures when I get the chance.

What a thrill that must have been! Good job.

Excellent.

Smally hunter, I called in 2 to 40 yards for a bud last weekend and when I told him to shoot he didnt! It was a heart breaker! But oh well, and I only called 3 times to mine, the third time I called he flew out in the middle of my calling! Thanks for all the congrats and good jobs guys! Congrats to you too smally hunter!

Nice bird!

congrats