Well after no avail to find someone to take this weekend turkey hunting I convinced my 8 month pregnant wife to tag along. After her seeing the video of a friends boy shooting my turkey loads it was not going to happen with her shooting it. Not really sure why she didn't trust me. I even bought some 2 3/4 Winchester Extended Ranges. So off to Billings Sat evening to buy a new 20 gauge automatic. I think it was alittle bit of her wanting to go, her going to deliver my future hunting buddy in a month or the fact I just wanted a new gun. Well about 750 dollars latter we are off to the woods. I had found some birds last weekend and listened Sat morning and they were in the same spot. It was 4 long beards and like 20 hens roosting in same spot. I swear one of them sounded like King Kong. He did not sound like a Merriam. He had that rasp like an eastern. We went yesterday in probably the worse conditions. 40 mph winds and 38 degrees. I set up a double bull blind and two Avians and started the waiting game. She kept telling me I don't think there are turkeys here. It seems dead. I am like Patience Grasshopper. If you build it they will come. After about hour half a bird hammers it. They just cant resist a GA boy calling on a Lost Lake Custom Call (Sweet Sassy Hen) thanks to Joe Mole http://www.lostlakecustomturkeycalls.com/. They are absolutely the best call on the market hand down. On to the story. After about 45 minutes of "Playing the Game" he is about 30 yards to our 7 oclock strutting. We close up all of the windows on the blind and open the one at 9oclock. He is strutting gobbling and drumming up a storm. He sees the Avians and is committed. He passes a cottonwood I cluck he raises hi head and I say CHOOT EM, CHOOT EM, CHOOT EM WOMAN. She toasts his tator. First bird and to top it off 8 months Pregnant. I couldn't be any happier. My wife and boy killed their first turkey. That's 4 birds that have took a dirt nap in Wyoming in a week. 20 lbs, 8 inch beard and 1 inch spurs. I have to say either there are a lot of two year olds in Wyoming or they are breaking their birds off with the cold and rubbing spurs with rocks. I really don't think he was a 2 year old.
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