Nebraska Young Gun Success

[BuckMaxx]

I mentored a girl named Mayson Rae thru hunters safety a few months ago. We attended the whole class together and I told her if she passed I would take her turkey hunting in Nebraska.
We arrived at our place in Nebraska on Thursday afternoon. I had some projects to do that I needed help with and we would then go turkey hunting on Saturday.
 Friday afternoon we could not find anything on our private stuff so we elected to head over to the public land and have a look. We found a few birds to hunt and figured we would go after them. Saturday by 30 minutes after days light there were trucks driving all over the place turned into an all out ZOO! We decided to go find the birds elsewhere. We did a lot of driving around that afternoon and found a small group of birds on our private stuff.
 We parked the truck thinking they would be eventually be heading towards some bigger trees in a windbreak on an abandoned farmstead. We snuck in and got set up. The birds kept walking and were soon right by where we parked, just off the county road in the farmstead driveway. I watched as they all piled into a tree above my truck. There was still some time so as we walked back to towards the truck they jump out of the tree and across the county gravel road. We made it up close to my truck but keeping and old grain bin between us. I started calling and they came back walking past my pickup. I said when he steps up that bank you shoot but DO NOT shoot my truck! He came up the bank 5 yards off the back bumper of my truck. She shot and missed both my truck and the bird. They ran about 400 yards around the windbreak and jumped up in the tree we were originally set up under. So we left them alone to roost for the night.
The next morning we got in there well before light and set up the decoys. The birds did exactly what they were supposed too. Except for one little hiccup. The dreaded woven wire fence. At 80 yards they paced back and fourth walking past an open gate twice. The only on to make it thru was a young hen. She came up to us and got within 3 yards behind Mayson. I was whispering... Mayson DO NOT MOVE! The little hen could not figure out why the decoys would not move or talk back to her as she tried to be their friend.
The birds finally all moved on without coming in. We left them for the day to settle down and the wind began to blow.
That afternoon we found them in a hole in the windbreak protected from the 40 mph dirt blowing wind. I told her get your gun, we are going to sneek em. As we got closer they started to get nervous about these blobs crawling thru a pasture. I thought to myself after all the perfect setups that haven't worked this is NEVER gonna work. As we got to within 60 yards of them they hens started walking, we were protected from view by one cedar tree. I told Mayson to get up on her knees behind the bush. The birds then walked single file past us 6 hens but no gobbler in sight. She had been holding my 12 gauge auto up rock solid for close to 10 minutes. I could see her arms shaking and she said where is he? I said I see the top of his head get ready. About then they hens started putting from 25 yards and he picked his head up above the grass. About the time SHOOT came out of my mouth the gun went off and the bird went to flopping. Thinking he was going to get away she dump two more shots into him before I could say stop!
 Let me tell you she has told this story to everyone whom would listen! She already asked if she could come again. This time she wants to do it with her bow. Ofcourse... I said yes.

 18 lb gobbler with a 6" beard and 3/4" spurs.

[VolFan]

Great story!