I don't know when my daddy started taking me cause I don't remember not going! I do remember following him until I either gave out or he got tired of walking slow for me to keep up so he would carry me!

I'm just a couple months shy of being 32 years old now and he's still my favorite hunting partner!

1967...16 years old

1965, age 10, but almost 11.

Killed a couple, by accident, in the 40s in the Pascagoula Swamp of MS but started seriously hunting them(making my own diaphram yelpers) in the 50s around Natchez MS.

1961 in Sumter and Greene County -been crazy about it ever since then...

Some where around the early 70's when Marshall county first open the season. I was hook from the beginning.

1981 Greene County, I was 18 and this was the first place I saw gobblers strut and gobble in the wild. Killed my first one in 1983 in Butler County. I actually quit fooling with turkeys in 1987, I had 2-3 years where I hunted saw nothing heard nothing, just started fishing instead., started back 1991 and stayed with it since then.

1974, age 10

I didnt start till around 2002.

I missed alot of good mornings.

I went for the first time last year and got on a turkey the first time out. A friend of mine was calling for me....and then we went before work darn near everyday trying to kill that bird!

2002

Went to Missouri and hunted with a firend and killed a three bearded super jake.

2003 did not get a shot, learning to call on my own

Next year 2004, I killed a double double, 2 super jakes and each had 2 beards, 3 seconds between the shots. in Texas

2005 The next year I did not get a shot period.

2006 Shot a young mature bird

2007 No shots opportunitites and did not hunt much.

2008 called in a rally good mature bird and killed it

2009 Killed the 4 beard monster bird

2010 killed Three birds in Texas

2011......... looking to repeat in Texas

So I am stil lnew at all this turkey hunting stuff. Learn something new every year!

1993, I was 13. Been a slave to the game ever since.

1985 at 24 - late start, hoping for my 100th in the first week.

Killed my first bird in 89;I was 9 years old but had went many times before and missed several birds before I killed my first.Still haven't killed one with a longer beard;it was 11 3/4".

1980


7 years old at the time. Killed my first one at 8 years old (a jake) and been hounding them ever since.

1989 I was 14 hunting by myself off a 4-wheeler around the house. Everybody in my family deer hunted but I was the only one wanting to chase turkeys.

3 years ago. 2 years of nothing. Called in my very first and killed it last season.

About 20 years ago. My next door neighbor wo is now my father-n-law got me started. I am very greatful for it! Wish I had a place to turkey hunt after getting screwed out of my place this year. Guess its gonna be public land for me.

Then next one I kill will be my first. Only started in on Turkeys last spring. I couldn't ever get my dad to go when he was living. He said he'd hunted as a kid too many times out of necessity. He didn't want anything to do with it after he got out of the service following WW2.

you still got a key and pemit, right? Ain't no way I would give in if I were you.