Hunt4Ever
04-10-2005, 09:54 PM
I took my 5 year old daughter out Sat. morning to listen for gobblers on the property I hunt. She's been wanting to get out with me for some time now, and with the fine fine weather we had this weekend, I thought, what the hell. Let me tell you, we had a great old time. Didn't hear too many (I heard 3 distinct ones sort of far away, and a couple so far off I'm not even sure, she didn't hear any :-( but getting out with my youngin was priceless.
This is the first time we've ever done anything like this together. She's always been too young. Well, she did absolutely great being out in the woods, walking through the dark next to me with flash light pointed down, staying quite, listening real hard. She did get to hear some owls hooting back an forth pretty close, that was cool, and the spot where we walked to in the woods happened to be right next to a roosted bird. That bird waited as long as it could then started clucking, and flew down. It was still dark, but he/she busted us for sure. Oh well, it was exciiting.
Then, we drove around to another part of the property to check the gate, and in three different fields out in front of our property, there were about 10 birds in each. The last field where the lane cuts through had 2 big ole struting toms. Just fanned out as pretty as you please, strutting for their girls. That was cool, we got to watch the show for 10 minutes or so.
We finished the morning with a big breakfast at Denny's and then back home. This little girl got up at 3 in the morning, slept just a little in the truck both going down and then back, then played hard the rest of the day. I was pretty impressed seeing as how I was way ready for a nap that afternoon! :-)
Great memories, can't wait until she's old enough to actually go with me.
This is the first time we've ever done anything like this together. She's always been too young. Well, she did absolutely great being out in the woods, walking through the dark next to me with flash light pointed down, staying quite, listening real hard. She did get to hear some owls hooting back an forth pretty close, that was cool, and the spot where we walked to in the woods happened to be right next to a roosted bird. That bird waited as long as it could then started clucking, and flew down. It was still dark, but he/she busted us for sure. Oh well, it was exciiting.
Then, we drove around to another part of the property to check the gate, and in three different fields out in front of our property, there were about 10 birds in each. The last field where the lane cuts through had 2 big ole struting toms. Just fanned out as pretty as you please, strutting for their girls. That was cool, we got to watch the show for 10 minutes or so.
We finished the morning with a big breakfast at Denny's and then back home. This little girl got up at 3 in the morning, slept just a little in the truck both going down and then back, then played hard the rest of the day. I was pretty impressed seeing as how I was way ready for a nap that afternoon! :-)
Great memories, can't wait until she's old enough to actually go with me.