Nice week in the Idaho turkey woods

[Wallydog]

The morning report

11 yr old, his dad & myself in the "turkey silo"

1000 ~gobbles on the roost by multiple birds

7 am called a strutting longbeard to 20 yds...

little too much excitement and the shot was high....

somber for 5 minutes

Toms still lighting it up in the distance

7:30 henny penny waltzes in yelping and whining to 5 yards

7:45 nuther longbeard responds and shows himself at 75 yds...

more cautious than the first, takes his time (15 min) closing to 25 yards with the help of the "tantilizer call".

11 year old lowers the boom and a real whopper

20+#, 1 1/4" sharp limbhanger spurs, 10 1/2" beard

High 5's and hugs

What a morning.

Then off to the Clearwater country for a little action for us older fellas.

Weather was unsettled but birds were reasonably cooperative. Snow prohibited us from driving in two of the locations we typically hunt. It also had "most" of the birds a few hundred feet lower than our areas.

I'll be out calling for others till I can hunt my second bird after May 1.

Tally: 15 gobblers in shotgun range in 4 days afield........so far.

3 met their Waterloo.

[woody1975]

Man - A lot of young gunners are connecting this year, that is awesome. Looks like a great hunt - Congrats to all involved.

DL