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How’d you get your start? #3080062
03/25/20 07:46 PM
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How’d you get into turkey hunting?
Age when you killed your first?

Re: How’d you get your start? [Re: gcr0003] #3080099
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I was 8 and my teacher and her husband took me. Been after them ever since. I still ain't near as good as north40r

Re: How’d you get your start? [Re: gcr0003] #3080111
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Weve been doing it a couple years now but I cant see any end to it. If deer would hollar back at you from 200yds away, I might not ever make it to work in the winter.

Re: How’d you get your start? [Re: gcr0003] #3080120
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The first time hunter advice thread that is pinned at the top of the turkey forum is a great start. I also have learned a lot by many folks on here. It does help to go with an experienced turkey hunter. I was fortunate to learn to turkey hunt from a couple of turkey killers, but you truly never quit learning. I started at 15 and killed my first Jake by myself at 15. Killed my first mature gobbler at 16 and it had two bears and 1 3/8 spurs and is still my biggest to date.

My grandfather got me into it, but he was not a run and gun type hunter. He would put 2 hens and a Jake decoy in a field and wait. Once I started hunted with my first turkey hunting mentor who was a “run and gun” type hunter, it changed everything. My grandfather killed many just sitting on a green field but I love the chase. I’ve been bitten by the bug ever since and am 25 now. I’ve killed a few birds but I’m nowhere near as good as many of the other well known turkey killers on this site.

Re: How’d you get your start? [Re: gcr0003] #3080125
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30ish. No mentor or friends who hunted turkeys so all my learning was by error and more error. Lol I still learn something every time I step into the woods to hunt them. I killed one my first season and have steadily grown to love turkey hunting more than deer. My job doesn’t allow me a ton of time to chase them but I try every chance I get. Good luck on your journey, if it bites you spring time will never be the same.


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Re: How’d you get your start? [Re: gcr0003] #3080127
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I allways made fun of a buddy for hunting turkeys, I was bored and he said come go with me I was already up st the club so I agreed. After a few attempts we finally struck a birds 30
Mins later I had 2 long beards hammering it at the end of the gun barrel!! 2 came in strutting and smoked one of them. I can replay that in my mind like it was yesterday and from then on out I’ve been addicted and I thank my friend every open morning for that great morning I’ll never forget.i believe I was around 23 then

Re: How’d you get your start? [Re: gcr0003] #3080148
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Youth pastor took me when i was 14. Killed one on my first hunt. Hooked ever since.

Re: How’d you get your start? [Re: gcr0003] #3080164
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Pretty young. Fall hunted with my Dad and Spring Hunted with my Uncle, his brother. Killed my first in 1976. I was 12 .

Re: How’d you get your start? [Re: gcr0003] #3080185
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I started just to see what all the fuss was about, took me 2 years to get one but I learned a lot by making stupid decisions. After that first one I was hooked!



Re: How’d you get your start? [Re: gcr0003] #3080229
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Was in my early 20s. Killed my first turkey in the Old River Swamp WMA in south Mississippi with one of my good friends


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Re: How’d you get your start? [Re: gcr0003] #3080255
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11 years old. Eddie Salter guided and called for me. Fosters Loop Road

True story

Been down hill ever since

Re: How’d you get your start? [Re: gcr0003] #3080352
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Started about a decade ago right out of college with my then girlfriend's dad. I hunted 4 years without a bird. Not because he didn't put me on them, but because I kept screwing up opportunities. After that first one, it's been game on ever since!


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Re: How’d you get your start? [Re: Clark8907] #3080358
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Originally Posted by Clark8907
I was 8 and my teacher and her husband took me. Been after them ever since. I still ain't near as good as north40r



You can put the pom poms up for now son! I ain't even close to tagged out!


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Re: How’d you get your start? [Re: gcr0003] #3080359
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I went once or twice in high school just not many birds around on my families land...i killed 1st when i was 30 or 31 a few miles from me I'm 35 now...i saw 1st turkey around my house 4 years ago and I've lived close by my whole life except 5 years...so far my total is 2 birds...deer is much different story i hope the turkeys can grow here and I might change my mind on favorite game but for now deer rules


They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.
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Re: How’d you get your start? [Re: gcr0003] #3080360
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Grew up in the country with an old 20ga shotgun and plenty of land to hunt. Didn’t take long to make 2+2=4. We were blessed spoiled back then from the early-80’s thru mid-2000’s with ridiculous #’s of turkeys. Over the last 10-15yrs there has been a serious decline in population but that just makes the chase more rewarding when everything goes right.


We’re not dead. We just smell that way. Dayum. - AC870

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Re: How’d you get your start? [Re: gcr0003] #3080378
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I took my uncle and cousin on a lease I had in Wayne County TN when it was absolutely covered in turkeys. I let them shoot all the ones they called up and never lifted my gun even when I had an easy opportunity to double with my uncle. I just didn't get it because there were so many birds it just seemed too easy. Fast forward 5 or 6 years and I went with my brother on a place we had permission on in Alabama. . I'd been practicing with a mouth call all off season and decided I was going to give it another try. We heard a few birds but most were too far off the property but I struck one about 7:30 in a deep creek bottom that I thought we could get to. We walked down in the bottom and he answered me several times but I told my brother he was on the other side of a big creek. I started cutting hard at him and I heard wings flap and we dove for cover. He came in on a full run from about 150 yards and stopped at 50 yards and was gobbling his head off. I was shooting a 20 gauge and needed him to come 10 more yards but he got nervous when he couldn't see a hen and skirted us by using a blow down for cover and walked by us at 15 yards gobbling as he left. I looked at my brother and told him I was hunting every damn day until i killed one. I was mad at em like nothing else and I finally killed one on the last hunt that year. I've loved it ever since.


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Re: How’d you get your start? [Re: gcr0003] #3080402
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My dad got me started. Killed 2 when I was 5 years old. He was a Luke warm turkey hunter, but he would get me on a couple every year. When I could drive, I really went head over heels for a gobble. I’d say my addiction has steadily gotten worse since.

Re: How’d you get your start? [Re: gcr0003] #3080443
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We saw a few deer hunting when I was a kid and that got me interested. Started reading everything I could get my hands on about them.
We hunted my dad’s family farm in Virginia every Thanksgiving. They had a pretty long fall season in those days. And first one I ever killed was in the fall. Few years later, AMB and I started getting after them pretty good and I got my first spring bird on his family’s farm in Brewton. Places have come and gone but I still go a little every year. It’s a tad difficult when there aren’t many turkeys where you live. I haven’t kilt one in a hot minute. Maybe this year.


“Killing tomorrow’s trophies today.”

On the distance I like to walk to my stands:
“The first 100 yards is also the last 100 yards.”
Re: How’d you get your start? [Re: gcr0003] #3080451
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My daddy an grandaddy were turkey hunters. My older brother and daddy started takin me when i was 5 or 6. I started shootin atem when i was bout 9...i missed probly 5 or 6 before i finally killed one when i was about 14. It was a jake, i killed my first longbeard when i was 19....an i been wakinem ever since. I have learned alot since i started...but the hardest thing for me was actually killin the turkey...i went through some dark times..but i finally partially finished my turkey education and am refining my craft.


"I dont quit.. And ill fight alone if i have to"
Re: How’d you get your start? [Re: gcr0003] #3080455
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my brother got me started in the 90’s - was late 20’s when i killed my first one

my dad was a dove/quail hunter - but he had a friend in the heating & cooling business that was eat up with turkey hunting & he taught me a lot

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