The opening day of the Missouri youth turkey season (April 9-10) was a success for young hunter Bo Jacobson. Hunting on his familys' farm near Bolivar MO, I had the priviledge to tag along with this young man, his dad Tim, and Rick Lowery opening morning.
The turkeys were not wanting to cooperate and Rick used every call he could come up with trying to get an old gobbler to respond. They were as quiet as a church mouse and the only way we could get close to one was to spot and stalk.
We located 6 big toms together in a field surrounded by woods and luckily were able to sneak in un-noticed in front of the long beards. The big gobs (walking in single file) came in quietly and when the lead bird got into the open Bo fired his Fiocchi 3" #4's perfectly.
Weighing in at 23lbs, it was Bo's first mature gobbler. He is now an accomplished turkey hunter and you can bet he'll be out there when our season opens on the 18th.
Well, its off to Arkansas to try and bag a turkey of my own around Norfork Lake. I'll keep you posted.
Bo
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