Last Updated June 06, 2026
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PS – here are some pictures from my Dad’s first successful hunt to get things started…
…yes, that’s me struggling to lift that old gobbler – pics circa autumn 1963…
This is the first gobbler my Dad ever shot and yes, he shot it with a rifle! This was about 1963, so Dad would have been about 37 years old at the time of his first gobbler.
You can see the rifle in two of the photos below. It was a scoped Winchester Model 43 in 218 Bee and he used handloads with homemade cast lead bullets to bag this gobbler.
Turkeys were not as plentiful then as they are now. It was a rarity to see turkeys, especially gobblers.
We kids had a long weekend from school due to Thanksgiving that year, so Dad bundled the whole family off to the hunting camp we owned in Austin, PA for a combination holiday and turkey hunt. This hunting camp later became the World Headquarters of Tony’s Work Shop™ and Tony’s Turkey Talker®.
We had been to town in Coudersport, PA and were returning back to the camp late on Saturday afternoon. Dad decided to go up over the back roads to the 4-way junction of Little Moores Run Road, Black Diamond Road and Southwoods Road, for just “one more try” before turkey season closed for the year.
At that time there was an open field near the road junction so Dad left us sitting in the car while he investigated that field on foot. We heard a shot and the rest is history.
The shot was about 150 yards.
He hit that ol’ gobbler about halfway up the neck. I can still see the bullet hole plumb dead center in that old gobbler’s neck after it was skinned out.
Dad had a lot of fun recounting the story of that shot. Whenever he mentioned shooting that turkey in the neck at 150 yards, the listener would invariably remark that that there must have been some luck involved as there wasn’t much area in that neck to ensure a good shot.
Whereupon Dad, with a straight face, always insisted that no luck was involved as there was at least 2 inches of neck ABOVE the bullet hole!
No doubt Dad threw in a little drama and also added how he mentally calculated a little Kentucky Windage™ prior to squeezing the trigger!
Well, that’s the story of my Dad’s first gobbler. I’m telling it because he can’t.
What’s the story of YOUR first gobbler? Feel free to share it here!
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