The Story Behind The Hunt

SO turkey hunting doesn't sound like much fun right??.. We got up about 4:45AM and were in the woods by 5:30AM! I have always deer hunted with my hubby but this was only my second turkey hunting experience and it was my first turkey hunting experience with my own gun.. I have shot guns before but this shotgun was something I hadn't tried out  yet.. But since I am a trooper :) I was brave about it. Anyway, I have to say that Turkey hunting is way more exciting that any other type of hunting I have done because you pretty much have to find them and then follow them around until they stop running away, and deer hunting you just sit in the stand/blind and wait...... and wait..... and pray that something besides raccoons and rabbits will come out and play. 

So, Allie at 5 in the morning isn't chipper, happy Allie... Allie at 5 in the morning is the girl my husband doesn't remember marrying :) the one who snaps at him for just about anything, and he is so sweet that he just says "man you need to wake up.". The one who complains about a headache, and a backache, and the fact that I could hear 1,000 turkey's gobbling but none of them would come close enough for me to even see. So as I sat in the dark (after almost being sprayed by a skunk that was like 10 feet from us) against a very large tree calling the gobblers to come out my husband decides it is time to move to another spot. So as he is walking to put everything up, I hear him..... A gobbler, just behind the trees. So, Sean stops because I am saying "I heard him, he is right back there." Sean comes back and sits down and right then he says "OhMyGosh, Allie get ready, they are comin." I look up and there are 3 toms, and about 15 hens running towards us. I thought Sean was going to have a heart attack... I raise my gun and Sean is saying "shoot the one on the left" so I shoot and then everything is blurry after that because.... Sean shot one too. Which would normally make be very excited because we both got one, buttttt my head was right at the end of his gun, so as he ran out to celebrate I was curled up into a ball crying my gun threw me backwards and because my head was vibrating from my gun, and thennnn his gun that went off 2 inches next to me. Now about the gun. Sean failed to tell me how HARD it would kick and throw me back into the very large, very hard tree. I have shot lots of guns, just not a shotgun so when I asked Sean why he didn't warn me he said "I didn't want you to be scared and not shoot when you needed to" SERIOUSLY SEAN..  So today, not only does my body ache from being thrown into the large tree by the crazy powerful shotgun, but I also can't hear out of my right ear, just a lot of ringing.... But we walked out of the woods with 2 Toms :) and great memories... Honestly, I am lucky to have him... He puts up with happy Allie and grumpy, mean Allie...