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My Mom Did It Again

aholdren

aholdren

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This morning was a pretty typical morning with the gobble on the roost and clam up when they hit the ground, so we found a bird that would gobble and set up on him at 7:30. He responded well but he was in his strutt zone and wouldn't move. After 45 minutes I was ready to move on him and I see some jakes coming in behind us, my mom loves turkey hunting and it doesnt matter if its a jake or a longbeard if it steps in front of her gun its getting shot, and that is exactly what happened.
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I do almost all my turkey hunting with my Mom and it's a great feeling to share something I love to do with someone so special to me.
 
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My mom will be 65 in June and gets up at 345 and drives and hour to my house to hunt turkeys, I've never once heard her complain. We have had a great time this year and I will have to say that there are not to many Grandmas thats got a shoe box full of as many turkey beards as my mom. She shot a great bird about 8 years ago that was 22 pounds, had an 11 1/2" beard and both spurs were 1 1/2", when we got home that day I hung it from a tree limb and said "how does it feel to kill a limb hanger" and she said "Im just as happy shooting a jake". I have two young kids and I'd bet my life that she will be there the day they get to pull the trigger on their first bird.
 
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