Youth Turkey season

Well youth turkey season didn't start out the way I had planned. Mother nature had her own idea. Storms hit around 4:30 it was still raining when we hit the woods at 6:40. We hit the woods and decided to let mother nature do some natural locating for us but that didn't work out to well. We tried to locate birds but we wasn't having any luck. Finally we heard a bird gobble but it was off in the distance. We must have walked 3 miles on that first set. We left around 11:00 and ate lunch. We went back out to a different area after lunch a found a lot of hens and a few jakes. Jackson was really wanting a big tom but we just could not find any. Around 1:00 we were lucky enough to stumble upon 3 jakes that were with 2 hens and Jackson decided that he was going to shoot a jake. He made a great shot. The bird was out at about 30 yards and he took the old single shot 20ga with a modified barrel and hammered the bird. He was really pumped. I wasn't lucky enough to get it on video because of the rain and I did not want to take a chance on messing up my camera. The jake had a 3 1/2 beard and weighed 16lbs. Where the spurs were supposed to be it was only nubs. I enjoyed being out in the woods with my boys. Pop realized how much he was out of shape after walking about 8 miles on the first day. I would also like to thank a guy from work Jon VonPilsen for going out with us and calling. On the way to the check in station we saw 3 long beards strutting out in a field along side the road and Jackson said where were you guys all morning. Just had to laugh. Great day in the woods enjoying all Gods creation.