Turkey Hunting/Scouting of Days Gone By

A repost...dedicated to the approaching season..

 Here are a couple of my daughter's (at age ten, eight years ago) first bird, one with just her, and the other with her and my wife:

Now for just a few with my friends and fellow Turkey Hunters:

                                                Steve and one of many we have harvested...

Chip with the bird that got us in trouble with his brother, his brother was going to take him out the next day...oops

 My hunting buddy Bill and his son.   After taking this monster, while sitting in a folding chair, behind a wood pile in .... sorry can't give this one away.

 My buddy and friend Bryce (bfd) with his first Tom...shot at 530am...the bird just flew out of the roost and into our decoy set...no really

Here is Chip with another bird along with my buddy Russ, nice double...

I called in most of these birds and have many on video being harvested.  Thanks to my wife Jo, who for the first five plus, years of turkey hunting together, did most of our video coverage...

Thank you, Baby

Just a couple of photos to demonstrate a portion of what we have seen over the past 15 years:

This is the first nest I had seen, my wife and I were hunting when a turkey flew out from under the brush, we went over to check and this is what we saw

One day while Steve and I were out scouting this group of birds caught our eye, so we stopped

Then we noticed these two fighting, Steve said "I bet I can I can get right up to them before they notice".   He made it to within about 8 yards before they noticed it was truly amazing, notice the birds at the right.

Here are are a couple of pictures, of the birds fighting, that I particularly like. 

Now if I can just add to these pictures, this year, that would be fantastic...

Bring on are the BIRDS!!!!!