My Turkey

About a week and a half ago Dad said that he would take Ethan and I on the Youth season turkey hunt. We woke up at 5:30am Sunday and it was pouring down rain while the wind was blowing hard! Ethan said he didn’t want to go if it was still pouring down rain like it was. But at 6:00am (the time we needed to be over at Tim’s) the wind and rain had completely stopped! It was amazing! Anyway at Tim’s place we grouped up and headed into the woods behind his house. It was decided that Tim and I would be in the blind and Ethan, Dad, and Dave would call their turkeys to them somewhere else. Not an hour later a turkey flew up. He was still a little too far away to shoot so I waited awhile. And Man! I have got to say that turkey wasn’t skittish at all! He came right up and I took a shot but completely missed. But hey, I have a good excuse; the gun I was using didn’t have a bead on it, it was my first time turkey hunting, and turkey heads are small.J Well after I shot the turkey, he just kinda jumped away a few feet and started acting like nothin’ happened. Oh and also after that he started gobbling!
Let’s see I think it was a half hour later when two more gobblers flew up. By this time Tim was pretty excited. I was excited but not enough to make my heart beat wildly. Anyway I took the shot and... YES! I hit him! He started flopping around and Tim ran out there and held him down so he wouldn’t fly away. It took awhile but he finally died. Tim said that I had almost shot 2-in-1! We met up with the others to find out that when I had fired I had scared away the turkey they were going to shoot. HEH HEH. With Dad, Ethan, and Dave there we looked around for the other turkey in case I had killed him but couldn’t find him so we took my turkey back to Tim’s house and got the meat off him then headed home because we needed to be back at 9:30am to get ready and be at church by 10:34am*.
One thing that was amazing about my first turkey hunt was that the whole time we were sitting in that blind the turkeys were gobbling like mad! So it was exciting all the way through! Tim and Dave were really nice and made a fan out of the Turkey’s tail for me. Once I get the pics I will post them on here so you can see.



*our church used to start at 10:30am but Pastor changed it to 10:34am because he likes the passage Acts. 10:34.