My First Wild Turkey

Well, after a lot of stress, hard work, and calling in the expert, I was able to bag my first wild turkey. My dad was going to be in SLC this week so I invited him to come up to Idaho to do some calling for me. We worked pretty hard all day but could only find hens (story of my whole hunt). We finally spotted some gobblers and decided to move in a little closer. It was nice to have dad there running the call so all I had to do was stay still. Dad was sitting a little higher and saw one bird sneak (no gobbling) through the grass that I couldn’t see. Then another bird came along and all you could see was the neck up due to the tall grass. I am not sure exactly how far away it was but at least an honest 45-50 yards and about 20 minutes after sunset. Dad whispered to me, “Are you sure it’s a gobbler?” And about as soon as he said “er,” “BANG, FLOP, FLOP, FLOP.” I could see the color in his head and was sure it was a male, but I had to play with dad a little bit. He said, “Are you sure it was a gobbler?” And I said, “You said it was a gobbler.” He thought that I may have just heard the part where he said it is a gobbler not the are you sure part. When I brought him back over it was no question it was a gobbler. He had nice (not huge) spurs, a nine inch beard, and weighed 19 pounds. Not the biggest turkey, but pretty nice for my first bird.

Thanks KUPI 99...

Thursday when I was driving to work Katie called and told me she had won a 99 second shopping spree at the local grocery store. I tuned in just in time to hear her on the radio. So that night we went through and scouted everything out and schemed multiple plans not knowing what the rules were. Well, yesterday we found out that she didn't win but was put in a drawing to win... So we went down this morning and cased the place out in case her name was drawn. She did her crinkle the paper up trick so that it gets picked and sure enough she was the third name. Our main plan revolved around electronics, drugs, meat, detergent, and the mother load $200 gift cards to Home Depot. As luck would have it most of those things were off limits and you could only get 3 of each TYPE of items. So she ended up with 2 packs of $30steaks, a big ham, 3 blocks of cheese, 3 large bottles of Tide, 3 loaves of bread, two oranges, 3 packs of batteries, a SD Card, a jump drive, case of Mt. Dew, a cake, 2 oranges, 1gal of punch, and an Azalia flower that she picked up for a mothers day gift for our neighbor friend. It all totaled 302.99. Not too bad since she wasn't able to get about half of the things she had planned for.