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5 year old buck +
Chip took the hunter safety class and went squirrel hunting a few times when he was 8 years old. Focus and obedience can be problematic in the pre-teen years and since you don’t get a second chance with a firearm, Chip had been on restriction from hunting. His older sister had become a quite proficient hunter shooting an 8-point buck on her first youth day deer hunt a few years ago and then harvesting her first deer with a muzzleloader this past fall. She is now a teenager and decided to pass on the opportunity to go out for spring gobbler this year. Since his behavior had been consistently improving, his parents decided to approve when I invited him to go in her place. He was so happy he was grinning from ear to ear. He even quipped to mom that she should not buy a turkey for Easter dinner because he was going to shoot one. I did my best to dampen his expectations since I know many men who have been hunting spring gobbler for many years without a harvest.
My buddy John went to our pine farm early Friday morning to listen for gobblers in preparation for taking his grandson Brandon on Saturday morning. He heard two gobblers near a blind he had used previously on a small food plot called Boomerang. I picked Chip up later on Friday morning and headed for our pine farm. We checked out a few ground blinds and sprayed the inside since they become favorite places for wasps to nest. On the way out, we saw three jakes at a standing soybean field. That was good news. Next we went through the game camera pictures from the previous two weeks. We found turkey pictures at quite a few locations. These included a band of three jakes and a long-beard that were hanging around one of our food plots.
I have a ground blind on another field that was a few hundred yards from the field they were using, so Chip and I planned to hunt there.
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My buddy John went to our pine farm early Friday morning to listen for gobblers in preparation for taking his grandson Brandon on Saturday morning. He heard two gobblers near a blind he had used previously on a small food plot called Boomerang. I picked Chip up later on Friday morning and headed for our pine farm. We checked out a few ground blinds and sprayed the inside since they become favorite places for wasps to nest. On the way out, we saw three jakes at a standing soybean field. That was good news. Next we went through the game camera pictures from the previous two weeks. We found turkey pictures at quite a few locations. These included a band of three jakes and a long-beard that were hanging around one of our food plots.


I have a ground blind on another field that was a few hundred yards from the field they were using, so Chip and I planned to hunt there.
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