DID ANYONE???????????

Did anyone have any luck today?

My buddies 10 year old bagged a big jake with white tipped tail feathers...
 
Love the look on  a kid's face when they discover something new....
 
Kudos to all you mentors that took a kid hunting and helped preserve our sport.....

i dont understand yer question. why wouldnt it be safe? is it hunted heavily? if you would hunt it, it ought to be safe enough for you to take her...

It is safe as long as you have your 100 sq.in. of orange where you hunt.
Don,t try to sneak after a bird.

i started killing more birds when i started going in real early. as long as you dont snap no sticks or make much noise you can sit right under them.they will be sleeping. while its all the way dark they are sleeping unless something wakes them up. if you know they are roosting there, go there in the middle of the day real quit and make it easier to get in closer with out making noise. snip branches and stuff. get a spot your going to sit. go in early, get the decoy where they will see it as soon as they get up. dont make no noise and dont move. they may fly strait inn.

The only thing truly amazing is the parents would take a 2 1/2 year old turkey hunting and let him or her shoot a gun. I beleive in teaching them a little early but come on. I think that it is a truly idiotic thing to do.

Well rollcaster.. YOU can think what you want. I worked with his dad and him for over two hours practicing calling, gobbling, being quiet, staying nearly motionless, shooting the gun, etc... everything it takes to turkey hunt. You're idotic part is what iritates me...he has great safe parents and the kids have no access whatsoever to any weapons and his dad and him are in complete control of the gun when the hunt is taking place. Idiotic is the person who hasn't seen anything and want's to comment.. such as yourself. Nothing against you or anybody else but I wouldn't believe it if I wouldn't see it for myself. The kid bears down and moves the gun up, down, and side to side to the targets and turkey and you can think what you want but that is amazing to me.

i have a quakerboy call that i bought just 2 months ago. sounds better than any call i ever had. blew it up sat. cant find another.

I don't think 2 hours of shooting practice is enough for a 10 year old before he goes hunting let alone a 2 year old. This to me sounds like the dad just wanted to kill a bird and saw a oppertunity in taking his way to young son. The more I think about it the worse I think it is. I have a 4 year old and a 2 year old and i would not take the 4 year old hunting yet, it is just to early. He is happy going fishing and soon enough he will hunt with me.

Should th PGC put a age limit on the mentor hunters?Sounds to me like dad wanted to get a head start.I guess he couldn't wait a week.

Like I said.. real quick to judge. I know what i've seen and done. By the way his dad has killed a longbeard every year since he was 12.. why kill a jake. His son wanted to go thought we'd work with him for two weeks.. not just 2 hrs. Like I said.. the kid bears down and move the gun himself while sitting on his dad's lap, not difficult to understand.

Unless he is the worlds largest 2 year old, he can't hold the gun properly even if it is a youth gun. Also there is no way he can aim and even reach the trigger at the same time. Hey its not my kid so good luck to him. Your are the one that posted this so you kind of ask for the response you got. There is no way you could convince me that it is OK to take a 2 year old hunting and shooting a shotgun. This is what they make NERF toy guns for tell your friend to try one of these his kid might enjoy it more. Even most toy guns say 3 years or older.

Guys.. I'm not trying to argue or anything and this wasn't the responses I was expecting.. his dad does take the recoil of the gun and wears hearing protection. I didn't even think that this was something an almost 3 yearold could do.. but I've seen it.. without seeing it I know exactly where you are all coming from. Sorry if I offended or p.o. anybody.

Spooked our "guaranteed" birds as they were coming in to roost @ 8:15 friday night.  Went into a spot we hadn't scouted in 2 weeks saturday morning.  6 am all was still quiet, hit the hooter twice, nothing.  wait another 10 minutes, while getting text messages from 4 or 5 other guys who had birds tearing there heads off other places.  Packed up the blind, we took 10 steps and one cut loose.  Quick answer and the whole hillside explodes.   Rush job set up, and this is the result about 15 min later.  Really proud of the daughter.  Two really crappy (less than one inch beards) jakes showed up and marched all around the pretty boy, but with the 3 long beards strutting on the ridge above, she held out (with some encouragement).  20 1/2 lb.  10in beard.  Her first spring bird.

Congrats Musky.. thats a nice thick bird. Hooked now!!