Turkey Hunting in Chester Country, South Carolina

Turkey Hunting - Chester Country, South Carolina

Chris is one of those kids who are just ‘eat up’ with hunting. I mean 24/7.

We were in Chester Country in South Carolina and set up in a bottom where I’d seen birds a couple days earlier. Before light I’d put out the decoys and we were sitting in a blind. There was not much going on and it was cold – like 29 degrees. I’d just said ‘we need to hear a gobble’ and we heard one gobble behind us. Two gobblers came through a strip of trees and here they came. They walked by the blind at 5-yards, and Chris had his gun sticking through a shooting hole in the blind. They were walking toward the decoys purring and doing figure 8s around them. We couldn’t get them to stop so Chris could shoot. Finally one stopped and Chris shot it. The other gobbler didn’t run off. He just jumped on the downed bird, and before I could stop him Chris had jacked another shell in the barrel and shot the other one! It was just one of those hunts. I ruined him for life on turkey hunting!