Sunday, April 22, 2012

Hannah's first longbeard!!!!!!!


  Let me start out by thanking the land owner that lets Hannah hunt his farm.This place is full of turkeys!!It's one of those places that you dream of owning yourself.The alarm kicked off at 5:00 for Hannah and myself and we were on our way.After a stop at McDonald's we were on our way to Washington county.It was a short walk to the blind but it took awhile before the birds started sounding off.Birds were gobbling all around us but there was one right behind us that seemed more interested than the others.He gobbled 3 times on the roost and once he hit the ground he gobbled 1 time and was already within 50 yards.After we finally seen him to our right,it took him forever to come to the decoys.First off the decoys we were using are the inflatable ones.What happen next was amazing.This ol longbeard come in at 20 steps,struttin the whole way and mounted the decoy and started his thing and popped the decoy!!!!Finally i told Hannah to hold steady on his neck and squeeze that trigger.She smoked him and her first longbeard was in the books.We got it all on film and needless to say i was once again a proud papa.This was her second bird.She killed a jake last year in KY.Her bird weighed 20lbs,10 inch beard,and had 32mm spurs.Yesterday the barebones crew knocked down 3 longbeards, it was a awesome day.Congrats to Kurt.and Drake on their kills yesterday.

3 comments:

  1. Way to go Hannah!! Drake and I were with her and her dad in Ky last year when she got her 1st bird, and we loved hunting with both of you. That is a great bird. I cant wait to see the video! Good job Dave.

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  2. Good job Hannah, way to go girl! That's just an awesome bird. I know Daddy's proud. Awesome video too!

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  3. Great job Hannah!!!! Way to go dad!!

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