My First Spring Turkey

[mark patten]

On Saturday April 15th my brother Pat (TrapperPat) and I decided to travel down to Page County and hunt some spring turkeys with our older brother Ron (blake) & our nephew Ryan (Songdog).

I paired up with Ron, we set up his blind, put out a spread of decoys, and started calling. We heard gobbling activity all around us at dawn. We waited for fly down, but no birds came to our seductive calling?

We did see several young tom’s working away from us at 200 yards, so we put the sneak on them.

The results: I got my first gobbler, he was a young bird, but I was very pleased with him. We found out that he had a triple beard when we started to dress him.

It was a fun hunt!

 

[Rudd]

Congratulations Flytie!

 

[DOUBLE LUNG]

Congrats

 

[Limb Chicken]

Congrats on the spring bird.

 

[Kat]

Good job, congrats!

 

[LoessHillsArcher]

Awesome!! You got a heck of a bird for the first one!! Congrats!

 

[Skully]

Great bird, three beards are hard to get! Good job!

 

[blake]

Congratulations Mark!

I sure did enjoy that hunt little brother. The look on your face when that bird dropped in his tracks was <font color="red">PRICELESS</font>.

By the way, welcome to iowawhitetail.com

 

[ironwood]

I second that welcome and congrats on that first Tom.

 

[muddy]

Great bird!

 

[Pat Patten]

I was with songdog that day. We had a great morning, talk about birds. I blew it like usual but later heard a shot that we knew came came from Mark and Ron. I hoped it was true and found out it was later. Great job Mark I am truley tickeled that you got one as I know how much you wanted to.

 

[dbltree]

That smile says it all!

 

[Blaster]

Nice bird! Congrats!

 

[Ryan Wyllie]

I sure did have a good time hunting with you last Saturday Uncle Mark.

Nothing like getting that first bird under your belt.

 

[longspurs]

Congrats on your first bird and welcome to the site!!
-Longspurs-

 

[dblmainbeam]

 

[GOLDTIP]

Congrats on your first bird!!

 

[Jethro]

Nice!