Brad Herndon - Indiana

Last year our granddaughter Jessica The Rascal Girl killed her first gobbler, a jake, while hunting out of a ground blind. She was nine years old at the time, was 4' 0" in height and weighed 60 pounds. Her mom JoLinda (our daughter) and myself was with her on that trip.

This year JoLinda, Jessica The Rascal Girl and I again went on a turkey hunt, and this time we sneaked up on one of our Imperial Whitetail Clover food plots about one acre in size. A gobbler was in the plot and after two different sneaky approaches, we were finally able to get within range of the tom. The final approach was made by Jessica belly crawling and Grandad Brad doing what we call in this neck of the woods "The Walrus Crawl". She laid the gobbler to rest from a distance of 22 yards.

Now I know you're going to say the gobbler foundered itself on the Imperial Whitetail Clover and was so fat it wasn't able to waddle away, but that wasn't the case. It was a real down and dirty, skillful hunt all the way, and once again it was neat to see The Rascal Girl succeed. She now has grown to 4' 3" tall and weighs 64 pounds! I have attached a picture of her with her mature gobbler.