Macys First Turkey!

[woody1975]

Took my 10 year old daughter out on Friday morning and had an amazing hunt! Watched two toms and 6 hens run around us for an hour and a half before this one made the fatal mistake of coming a little too close for Macys 20 ga. She did a fantastic job and put this bird on the ground with a perfect shot!

18.5 #

8.5" beard

1" spurs

[Hoyt4]

Very cool congrats on the first bird.

[mrklean]

Congrats

[pumper317]

Awesome! Congrats to Macy!

[NoWiser]

Sweet! Congrats!!

[paceman]

Awesome! Congrats!

[mws4dux]

Congrats!

[hugonian1]

Congrats on a great Bird Macy.

Lots of youth getting put on birds by some great mentors.

Well done.

[CANOPY SAM]

That's awesome! It's pretty gratifying when they pull off those perfect shots after all the preparation and training!

Congratulations to Macy, and to her Dad!

[Borch]

Awsome!!!!

[BartmanMN]

Great Picture and memory.

[IlliniWalli]

big congrats macy and woody

[brittman]

Excellent.

How did the young lady handle the kick of the 20 ga. shotgun ?

[woody1975]

She shot it twice before we hunted and it definitely kicked! She said her shoulder was a little sore afterwards (I was glad to hear it was her shoulder and not her bicep) and that was shooting 2-3/4". My plan was to slip a 3" in when she was loading up for the hunt, but I decided against it and just told myself that we would need to get them in close (25 yds max due to the shotgun pattern). I should note that when I take my kids hunting, I don't hunt (whether or not I have a license). I make it all about them. The first Tom that came out had a 13 " beard and was at least a 25 lber and he was 45 yards away. Would've been a nice shot with the 3-1/2" 12 ga., but as I said I wasn't hunting. I was able to call the hens in and then ended up getting behind us and we were between them and the toms....a perfect storm. They started purring and it was all over. The smaller of the 2 toms strutted right up to within 20 yards of us. She put the dot on him and let it go! Afterwards she says to me...."I didn't even feel the kick this time...as a matter of fact, I don't remember hearing the gun go off, but I remember hearing my heart beat" I just love getting kids out hunting!!!!

[Scoot]

"I didn't even feel the kick this time...as a matter of fact, I don't remember hearing the gun go off, but I remember hearing my heart beat"

I love it! Congrats to her and to you too!

[maros91]

Solid bird!

[rkhinrichs]

Perfect!

[HawgMan]

Good Job!!

[otterman91105]

Congrats that's awesome.