My daughter Tabetha (13) was super excited to go on her first turkey hunt for the opening day of NC’s 2023 youth season in Onslow County. It started out with up to 20-mph winds going in, so we stuck to the woods at first, but herd one gobbling on the limb. So we repositioned and snuck in close and set up. As it got daylight the bird went quiet. It was so windy we couldn’t hear much, and he popped out full strut at 30 yards, heading straight to our decoy, and I realized how big it was! Tabetha dropped him at 10 yards with her .410. The bird weighed 19 pounds with a 12 1/2-inch beard 1 1/2-inch spurs.
–gigeepaul
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Tag-A-Turkey
Congratulations to Tabetha, who is now entered in our 2023 Tag-A-Turkey Contest.
This makes her eligible for our grand prize, which includes a 3-year subscription to Carolina Sportsman Magazine, a Thermacell prize package, a Convergent Hunting Solutions Bullet HP Bluetooth predator call, a Millennium Field Pro Turkey Seat, and numerous other prizes.
If you’d like to enter your gobbler in our contest, click here.
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