My 7 year old taking a turkey - neat action pics

Heck, I know some grown men who can't get one with a shotgun on a baited field or not.
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I've seen a few men miss a turkey with a shotgun and quite a few miss with a rifle. The bird isn't as big as it looks and some people that can hit a deer at 100 yards will miss a turkey at 50 or even 25.

One man I know took his son-in-law hunting and they saw a bunch of turkeys in a group. The SIL fired and knocked down a bird. The FIL told him it was a nice shot and the SIL replied "That wasn't the one I was aiming at."

Congrats to your son! (Wasn't that the original intent of this thread?)
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My original intent was mostly to show off and make all of you jealous, but a lot of what you said, too.

Up here in Ontario you got to take a course to hunt
and a course to hunt turkey and then there is a draw
and the bird has to be the right size.
Some years ago there were none but they are coming back real good
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With so many people lacking parents and grandparents to show them how to hunt safely and explain the rules to them, plus the complexity of the rules themselves in many cases, I can understand the requirements for classes. Turkeys were introduced or reintroduced to this area 20+ years ago and they have thrived. I can remember when the limit was 2 birds, then they raised it to 3, now it's up to 4. They roost on our farm and the farm next to us and on a typical morning I'll see over 100 at one time when they come off the roost.

I'm not sure, was this a special youth hunt? Wow did you eat him for thanksgiving? Can your boy read TX. regs?
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I said in the original post that it was a couple of weeks ago, but it might have been 3 or 4, between my in-laws coming to visit and the Thanksgiving holiday I've sort of lost track. We have a youth "pre-season" here where kids can use guns the weekend before regular gun season, which is the last weekend of archery season. This year it was November 1-2. There is another youth post-season two weeks after the end of the regular season. To be honest, I don't remember if this was during the youth pre-season or the opening day of regular season.

We didn't eat the turkey for Thanksgiving. My mom won't cook or eat a wild turkey. My wife made a sort of casserole out of him and he was very tasty.

I haven't shown him the rule book. He reads above his grade level and I suspect he could read the words but some of the meaning would be lost on him. This is the reason kids his age have to be accompanied. Many kids his age (and older, and some supposed grownups as well) can sit still and quiet enough and shoot well enough, but not have the judgment or cool nerves to take legal game or to be safe. It takes time and experience to make a good, safe hunter and shooter and I don't think it is ever too early to start. I think it's good for young hunters to have some fairly easy success at first so they don't get discouraged. Hunting and shooting are also privileges that can be repealed for bad enough or unsafe behavior and the kids know I won't hesitate to do it.
 
Congrats to the youngman nice birds I bet he had a Blast..... :D

I hunted in Mississippi and they allowed rifles for birds.

My dad is 60 years old and this spring I called in his first Tom for him. I would rather see my son or father shoot a bird then take another one myself. It is good to see youngsters out in the field.
 
With so many people lacking parents and grandparents to show them how to hunt safely and explain the rules to them, plus the complexity of the rules themselves in many cases, I can understand the requirements for classes. Turkeys were introduced or reintroduced to this area 20+ years ago and they have thrived. I can remember when the limit was 2 birds, then they raised it to 3, now it's up to 4. They roost on our farm and the farm next to us and on a typical morning I'll see over 100 at one time when they come off the roost.

Your right I was just talking to my son he and one of his twins
were out and my grandson shot a couple of squirrels
he is in grade two.
I bought that 22 for my son when just gitting started and it will
hammer nails. It was nice to hear
All on private land.
 
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great post, my first turkey was taken with a 6mm Rem though I'm a shotgun'ner now. Congrats to your son thats great stuff!
 
keep those youngsters out in the field, the blind, or sitting on a 5 gallon busket with a shotgun. We have to pass hunting on. with all the stuff for youngsters to do these days, it would be easy to "forget" about hunting. "too many regulations. too expensive..." After all. "the 2Nd amendment is all about hunting" .:rolleyes:
 
Awesome job on the bird. So glad to see fathers taking the time...

Heres a photo from the fall season here,

Guess i better say before posting that this pose was for intent of photo only and the gun was unloaded. We shot less than our limit and yes, we are both properly licensed. Jay wore both eye and ear protection while shooting and his .410 is legal for use on the non-baited birds. Those ARE decoys in the background wire and they ARE legal for use in N.C. We obeyed all game laws to the best of our knowledge and i don't know what else to say to stay off the frying pan.... :rolleyes:
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smiling faces

:):):)Wow the smiling faces of those young and successful hunters are beautiful. And the FUTURE of our sport.
The antis know that too that's why they try and throw as many restrictions on youth hunting as they can.
We can not let the anti hunting bas___ds win!
Take as many children hunting as you can encourage others to do the same. Make every effort to make it a fun and enjoyable outing, model good safety and hunting ethics.
The future of the sport and lots more depend on it (you will find it very rewarding for your self too)
now if some one will give me some tips on how to up load pictures I will post a pic of my daughter with her deer I tried the other day but couldn't.t get it to work.

Buzzard Bait
 
Guess i better say before posting that this pose was for intent of photo only and the gun was unloaded. We shot less than our limit and yes, we are both properly licensed. Jay wore both eye and ear protection while shooting and his .410 is legal for use on the non-baited birds. Those ARE decoys in the background wire and they ARE legal for use in N.C. We obeyed all game laws to the best of our knowledge and i don't know what else to say to stay off the frying pan....
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Are you sure that's legal? Are you sure that you shot less than the limit? Let me look up the game laws in your area and make sure you weren't doing something illegal. Blah, blah, blah, blah . . . :rolleyes:;)

It's a shame we have to go through that kind of stuff on a forum dedicated to firearms.

Great looking pic.
 
Amazing to me as a new poster to see everyone get along like they do. I've seen so little pettiness here compared to some other forums i've been on. Refreshing.

It IS all about getting new hunters involved. I think of the men who mentored me and know i would not be who i am without their knowledge and wisdom.

My wife has just started hunting as well, the influence of women in our sport will prove to be part of what saves it for future generations...J.R.
 
Sheesh, y'all are sure trying hard to find something wrong with a kid shooting his first turkey. I got burned out reading the first page!

Last time I hunted turkey here in Arizona, it was legal to shoot them with a shotgun, centerfire handgun, centerfire rifle, or a .22 mag rifle.

And the only critters we can't hunt over bait, I'm pretty sure, are bears and migratory birds. They're trying to change some of that, but so far I don't think it's happened. I don't hunt over baits, so don't usually keep up with changes that affect it, but I'm pretty sure I'd have heard about it if it'd changed.

Congrat's the the OP's kid for taking his first turkey, and congrat's the the OP for getting some neat pictures of it.

Daryl
 
Sheesh, y'all are sure trying hard to find something wrong with a kid shooting his first turkey. I got burned out reading the first page!
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That's what I thought. OTOH I've never gotten this many replies to a thread I started.

And the only critters we can't hunt over bait, I'm pretty sure, are bears and migratory birds. They're trying to change some of that, but so far I don't think it's happened.
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I think you'll have to convince the feds about hunting migratory birds over bait.


Congrat's the the OP's kid for taking his first turkey,
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He got his first turkey last year. He's taken two so far this year. Before anyone goes off half-cocked the yearly limit is four birds, either sex in the fall.

Here he is with his first turkey.
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Here he is the same night calling his grandmother to tell her about it.
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I think you'll have to convince the feds about hunting migratory birds over bait.
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No, I meant change it the other way. They want to add some critters to the list, not take 'em away. I hear bowhunters (and I'm a bowhunter too, but haven't hunted over baits) have been killing a lot of deer using baits, and that just can't be happening. The gub'mint folks feel like they just gotta do sumthin'.

I'm all for hunting the way you want, and as long as they don't try to regulate me spotting and stalking and such, I won't bother them in return.

;)

Daryl
 
The gub'mint folks feel like they just gotta do sumthin'.
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They can feel that way all they want, but I've got a problem with them doing sumthin about the feeling and applying it to private land. Not that my problem with that will fix anything, but I'm a little sick of stupid regulations (my private hunting land is in a "doe days" county, where where's only one weekend to shoot does - stupid). We've got more does than you'd believe. We will have to get a LAMPS permit next year just to rebalance the herd. Sorry for the apples to oranges comment, but gub'mint regs don't make sense very often.
 
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