Take a kid hunting....

[proturkeyhntr]

How many of you guys are planning on taking a youngun hunting this spring??? There our future!!!

scott

[BuckNBeard Hunter]

I always try to take at least one myself.

[proturkeyhntr]

Oh I'm really looking forward to it...One glitch though, my dang schedule changed at work starting next wed. I am working five days a week again. But I get off at 3:30, So I can be up to your place by about 6:00p??

scott

[shaman]

I've got 2 out of 3 sons hunting turkey this season. Moose, 14, has been out with me since 2002. Angus, now 8, has been going since he was 4. Moose and I hunt the KY Yute season together, and then at least one weekend during the regular Spring Gobbler Season. Here's Moose on his first successful hunt:

http://www.blackholecoffeehouse.com/johnnjake1.jpg

Moose is big on getting in the blind and luring the turkeys in with his calls. The problem is his calls sound a lot like snoring.


Angus has had some exciting mornings with me. I take Angus out the weekend after Yute season for some scouting, and then he follows me on a few hunts. One year we got totally surrounded by hens at sun-up and had to stay still for half an hour while they milled around us. He was born in the middle of KY's Spring Season. Girlfriend asked me what that meant. I told her it meant my son was going to be hunting on his birthday.

I can still remember sitting on a treeline one year and watching the sun come up over the next ridge. It just so happened that Angus had never actually sat still long enough to see the sun come up before.

"So does sunrise happen there everyday, Dad?"

"Nope. It moves around throughout the year. But this sunrise is unique."

"How's that?"

"You'll never see this sunrise again."

"How come?"

"You'll see the sun come up. You'll maybe even see it come up from right here again, but this sunrise has never happened before and it never will again, and that's true for every other sunrise you might have seen or will ever see. Happy Birthday, son."

[dmmcm]

:) I take my 4 year old son every hunting trip I go on. If you dont spend time with your kids, they will find others to hang out with and there usually the wrong crowd.. He loves to run our deer dogs in ocala, and he loves to still hunt ( but not for long periods of time) ha! ha!.. He really loves to get outdoors and hit the woods...:)

[proturkeyhntr]

Dmmcm,

I get to hunt a little in Ocala myself, my father in law has a pack of dogs. He lives just outside the forest...

scott

[oldgobbler]

i'm going to take my 13 year old daughter with me this season and introduce her to the fun of turkey hunting. she has went with me on numerous deer hunts and actually was with me in the blind last season as i shot one. she states " you go dad now we can go home and get warm" i said yep after we field dress it and get it to the truck. and she actually enjoyed the whole process. so i'm going to get her sighned up for the next hunter safety course so she can deer hunt with me next season. i'll be taking her squirrel hunting and introducing her to shooting light loads out of a youth model 12 ga. first. does that sound ok to you guys. one of my buddies told me to use a 22 cal. rifle and let her practice that first. anyone have any input on that?

[dmmcm]

We camp at a buddies place there in Forest corners on the edge of the National forest. We hunt at the pipeline,thats all i hear from the time we leave till we return the next year "Is it huntin day yet dad for Ocala"

[oldgobbler]

i will be taking my daughter for the first time this spring

[adamz]

My first post in the new forums. Congrats on the new layout.
I'll be taking my kids out one at a time to try and call one in. I'll look around at dusk so they'll be able to have a shot at seeing something. I just started turkey hunting last Spring and didn't hear or see squat. So, it will be nice for all of us here if we find birds. I am confident after last year that we'll find some this year.
When I bring the kids, too, we'll be in a pop up and I'll have my bow.
AdamZ

[proturkeyhntr]

I would say that is a safe bet, definetly teach her the fundamentals with something with has virtually no recoil...
scott

[PHammond91]

Even though I'm only fifteen I've been huntin by my self since I was twelve. I'm takin a buddy of mine out turkey huntin. He doesn't get to go much so I figured I'd take him out. I might even take him out deer huntin.