Turkey Weekend

Well, the turkey weekend is complete. Ben headed out to South Dakota hunting, with 2 other Avery guys last Wednesday. I had plans to meet them out there on Friday after Tayah got on the bus at noon to go to school. We ended up getting a pretty bad snow storm Thursday so I had been debating if I should make the 6+ hour drive out there by myself. School ended up being cancelled Friday but I decided since I was headed in the opposite direction of where the storm hit, I would take off a little early and make the drive. I got there about 6:30 pm on Friday and Ben immediately had me change and took me out to where we would hunt. Didn't see much that night so we just set up to go out Saturday morning.
Last year when I agreed to go turkey hunting with Ben, I did so because I knew the season is in the spring and the weather is usually nice. Well, not this year. Saturday was the coldest day of the weekend and our main hunting day. It was 19 degrees that morning when we woke up and windy. Not ideal, but we made the best of it.
That morning the birds came back to feed just after sunrise, as expected. Ben and I were in one blind and Mark and Nathan were in the other, just down from us. Turkeys decided to come around to Mark and Nathan's decoys and 2 Toms down as Ben and I watched them shoot. We each had a turkey tag to shoot 2 birds. Mark and Nathan had got their 2, Ben got 1 on Thursday before I arrived and was waiting to shoot his 2nd when I arrived. It was my turn. I was up next. I had told Ben that I was not going to shoot a Jake (a young male). I really didn't want to shoot anything unless it was a Tom.
Anyway, long story short. After sitting for probably more than 10 hours, waiting for more birds to come we got our chance. A group of hens and jakes with two Toms came near our blind. Ben shot 1 and I shot 1. 2 more Toms down. And the good part was that it was still early enough that we could clean up to go to dinner to celebrate. It was a fun weekend actually and I would do it again. I'm glad the guys were so encouraging to let this rookie come hang out with them.