yankytrash
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I never cry when I hit my thumb with a hammer. Never cried at my wedding. Never cried at my twin girls' birth.
One of my girls (they're 6 now) just came in and asked to play with my Lynch's #102 box call. I told her to be careful, that it was going to be turkey season soon and that I was going to need it.
She takes it carefully and walks of into her room with it, squaking the woods together like fingers scratching a chalkboard. Moments later, I hear a gobbler call from her room. ???? Huh? I hear it again, then again...
The little girl comes back to my office and says, "Daddy, doesn't this sound like a turkey?" She then hangs the call upside-down and gives the call a quick jerk. From the call I hear the prettiest gobble I've heard since I watched an HS Strut instructional video two years ago. I agree with her that it sounds like a turkey. She asks if she could go with me to "kill a turkey" next time I go. She explains that I can use my "sticks" (meaning one of my slate calls) and she can make more turkey sounds with the wood box.
"Sure, why not, " says the father as he turns toward his computer monitor to hold back the swell in his throat and hide the tear in his eye...
Proud pappa. Raise'm right, and you might get to be like me some day...
One of my girls (they're 6 now) just came in and asked to play with my Lynch's #102 box call. I told her to be careful, that it was going to be turkey season soon and that I was going to need it.
She takes it carefully and walks of into her room with it, squaking the woods together like fingers scratching a chalkboard. Moments later, I hear a gobbler call from her room. ???? Huh? I hear it again, then again...
The little girl comes back to my office and says, "Daddy, doesn't this sound like a turkey?" She then hangs the call upside-down and gives the call a quick jerk. From the call I hear the prettiest gobble I've heard since I watched an HS Strut instructional video two years ago. I agree with her that it sounds like a turkey. She asks if she could go with me to "kill a turkey" next time I go. She explains that I can use my "sticks" (meaning one of my slate calls) and she can make more turkey sounds with the wood box.
"Sure, why not, " says the father as he turns toward his computer monitor to hold back the swell in his throat and hide the tear in his eye...
Proud pappa. Raise'm right, and you might get to be like me some day...