Facebook Turkeys

I have somehow managed to resist the urge to go spring turkey hunting my whole life. A combination of factors, including; 1) I prefer to fish that time of year 2) after spending almost all of the previous 3 months straight in the woods, I want to spend some time with my wife, and 3) the fact that the addiction I see in turkey hunters scares me! I need 1 less addiction, not 1 more.

Well, enter Facebook (this is going to be real interesting for anyone that has never realized a real return on time invested in this crazy thing). I somehow managed to ‘friend’ one of my cousins in Kansas that I had not been in contact with for some time and had never really even known him because he was older. It’s really a shame. I have some fabulous people in my family and we have all managed to be too busy and have lost contact. Anyway, he sent a game camera pic with a Kansas bruiser and we talked deer hunting. He mentioned that I should contact his brother, a cousin that was close to my age and that I did spend quite a bit of time with when we were young. I did and he was excited to tell me about some land he recently bought in Missouri that he had killed a really nice buck on this past season and that I should come up and hunt with them. He also mentioned that it was full of turkeys and if I wanted, come up for the spring turkey season. Now, this is cool. Here is a chance to reconnect with family that are awesome people, take my Mom to see her sister, go on a hunt in another state, and try this thing they call turkey hunting. I’m in!

The trip is booked and just a few details are left. I am really excited. Of course, this has added a few more to-do items to my list, but that is just fine. A few things I want to do are trying a few different shell/choke combinations in my shotgun, adding an item or two to my apparel collection (gotta have a different camo pattern for the spring!), and buying a simple call that I can learn on.