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Brandon's First Turkey by Marti Davis Contributing Writer, Missouri This past weekend was the Missouri youth turkey season. Saturday morning I took Brandon, my 8 yr-old nephew and Matt, my brother to one of my spots. A storm rolled thru about 2-3a.m. and the birds were awake and already gobbling from the roost as we were sneaking in. We set the Carry-Lite HD decoys about 10 yards in front of the shooting house.
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The Knight & Hale White Liar, Glass Hammer and Prosecutor mouth calls must have had the right sounds to them. We had probably 9 or 10 birds gobbling all around us. Brandon saw the first long-beard on the ground about 125 yards out in front of us at the far end of the field. Two jakes came right in to the decoys and seven long-beards with eight hens were struting around at the far end of the field. I told Brandon if he wanted to shoot one of the jakes to go ahead. Those jakes walked around the decoys like they were attached to one another for 10 minutes. Brandon remained calm, keeping the gun barrel pointed at the bird, waiting for us to say "shoot!" Finally, the jake in front lowered his head and the jake behind held his head up high. When I told him, "shoot...SHOOT!" Brandon and the Winchester Xtended range 20 gauge #5's put this jake on the ground and it was only 6:50 a.m. on opening day! As a bonus, I even got the hunt on video for the rest of the family to watch.
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Matt and Brandon White walk past the decoys to get to Brandon's trophy (above) ...and yes, that's us, below!
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