Skillet

Thanks!

I can't wait to start seeing PA elk on some of the hunting shows that make us look so bad. Anybody else ever notice how celebrity hunters just happen to draw very limited tags with regularity?

That is about as sexy as a bow can be, right there. Congrats!

I'm Hunter, Kurt's son. I'm 13 & this was my first turkey. We got him this sunday at our camp in Naples. This is my second year of turkey hunting, but I've been going with dad for a lot of years. Last year we had a lot of birds around us but I messed up two shots. I felt bad for wounding a bird. We were both really looking forward to this season. Saturday at a neighbor's hill we call the murderhorn, we had four toms calling on the roost, but they shut up when they landed. We never got them to talk again that day. Sunday morning at the same place, we had two toms lock up at about 100yards in a field. Gobbling and strutting, but they wouldn't come the rest of the way. Then a guy and his son moved in on us and spooked them. We were surprised to see them and they ran when dad called out to get there attention. Then we went back to our land and got into our spot around ten fifteen. Dad called a little but nobody answered. I fell asleep. Dad woke me up and there was a fox standing in front of us. A few minutes later dad said he saw a turkey cross the path aways out. I thought he was joking, but then I knew he was serious by the sound of his voice. There turned out to be three birds. A tom and two jakes. They fed around us for ten minutes, but too far and not clear. Finally they started to move closer. The tom split off from the jakes and came up the trail our decoy was on but he ignored her. The jakes had gotten around behind us but dad said to ignore them or we would be busted. When the tom got around 35 yards, dad said to get him. So I shot and he went down, but started to flop away. Dad jumped and ran after him, but fell on his face over a old wire fence. His call striker went flying out of his pocket and a log hit him in the guts so he took a second to get up and I was scared the tom would get away. I decided to go out there to help. Dad caught him though and jumped on him. They fought for a few seconds, until he stopped flopping. I was so excited! This was the exact tree I had missed from last year and last year dad lost his striker too, running out after the bird. We looked for it, but couldn't find it. Dad said a striker for a turkey was a fair price and that he had another one anyway. He said from now on we will call that tree the redemption tree.

Fans, beards & feet, she'd be interested in. And she said thanks for thinking of her.

My favorite is 2nd from the bottom. Awesome. I want a copy of that.

Like feathers & feet?

I like to make the breasts into cutlets and marinate them, then grill them. But, I often pluck my birds and roast them like a domestic bird. The leg meat can be tough, but I like it and the flavor is good. She'll make a soup out of the carcass after we eat most of the meat off of it.

You're looking at it wrong, buddy. A bad father wouldn't have even been out there with her. A bad father would've been too hung over, or too selfish to share. It's not the bird that makes the youth hunt, it's the time with her Dad. My son and I connected this year & it feels great, but we still talk often about last year & the fun we had even with no kills. Cut yourself a break.

Thanks! He's going to write a story for the contest (I hope). But it was 11:05, up behind our place. He was with 2 jakes. Came in quiet. 35 yards.

Hunter's 1st! 11:05 this morning. Sorry it's sideways.

3 or 4 gobbling like mad on the roost. Instant lock jaw at fly down.

Good luck! May your border crossings be rubber glove-less.

No apologies here. Feel better tho?

Yep, no understanding. You nailed it joe. Ol doc sure told me. Consider me properly chastised.

My trusty 835.

I've noticed the same thing. Like you, I sit all morning anyhow, so if and when they start to talk, well be there waiting. I'm so excited, that I'm having trouble sleeping! 3 days and a wake-up!

No reading comprehension issues here. Classy personal attack tho, coming from someone who always whines about seeing that on the site. Bored, yes. Bored of reading your typical novel style post. So yes, I'm sure I skimmed through and missed your meaning. I don't like your posts, so I don't spend much time on them. Trying to create controvery? No. You're the one who just can't let the crossbow issue go. Instead of trying to use your obviously superior grasp of the English language, to bore people into seeing things your way, maybe it's time to get over it. It's happening. Not if, when.

Congratulations?

They'll never take me alive.

Maybe I didn't pay attention. OR, your post was so drawn out and convoluted that I lost your meaning. No chance of that, is there?

That's the one.

I'm in! Law was telling me about it. Would you believe I've never even heard of that place? Let's make it happen.

Larry, was Paul's hand on your butt?

Great to meet you & the wife, Larry! Not sure how I knew it was you, but I just did. Looking forward to a hunt together. Stop in anytime!