Bob Hodge: No bird in the hand, but some lessons learned while stalking turkey
18.05.12
CARTHAGE — Like beauty, success during turkey season is in the eye of the beholder.
Caston Weeks hunted in Campbell County on Terry Lewis' farm a week ago Saturday and bagged a bird in the first hour of the youth hunt. That's success by any measure.
It was the 12-year-old's second turkey hunt and he now leads his dad in total turkeys 1-0.
My 14-year-old son Zack, his friend Brandon Brown and Brandon's father Mike had to put up with a different kind of success. Unfortunately it's the kind that doesn't end up with a turkey.
Both Zack and Brandon, better known as BB, were first-time turkey hunters. Mike Brown had hunted turkeys once and had a gobbler coming in range only to have it spooked by one of his friends on a four-wheeler.
Four wheelers and turkeys mix like Republicans and Democrats, but that's a story for another day.
What we counted as turkey-less success after two days of hunting was two 14-year-olds learning that turkeys — like deer and bass and ducks and crappie — don't always cooperate. And the lack of cooperation is often a matter of minutes or a matter of a few yards.
Source: Knoxville News Sentinel