Turkey Hunting during Tennessee's Youth Season

Johnny and son David with David’s turkey

David's not a morning person, so he and his father arrived at the farm about 7 a.m. and spoted 30 or 40 birds in one of the pastures. The pair sneaked within 350 yards of the birds and set up a Carry-Lite Pretty Boy decoy. The gobblers in the big flock answered their calls but would not leave the hens. About 8:30 a.m. Johnny slipped around the side of the hill and called loudly on his Knight & Hale Old Yeller call, and two gobblers broke from the crowd and headed his way. He quickly ducked back to David, called a couple more times and saw the gobblers running toward them. "When they saw Pretty Boy they went into strut and continued approaching," Johnny said. "They went behind a small tree and David repositioned his gun and took the biggest. His buddy gobbled and flogged the downed bird for about 5 minutes, which David thought was the best part of the hunt."