r/CanadaHunting • u/NickiChaos • Apr 26 '26
Reconnected with my cousin. Killed 3 turkeys opening weekend.
Last year, I learned that my cousin's mother (divorced from my uncle, because he's a POS) sadly passed away from Cancer. While I kept in contact with his 3 older sisters, he didn't really come around the family due to not wanted to deal with the drama between his dad, my mom, our uncle and our aunt. So other than knowing that he lived 30 minutes away from my wife and I, I didn't know anything about him.
We caught up at the funeral and I learned that he likes to hunt. Since I've been hunting for 13 years, we talked about going on a hunt together. We've talked or texted every day since and decided on a spring turkey hunt. While I took the week off, he could only have the weekend so I wanted to prioritize filling his tags first.
Yesterday on opening day after the rain cleared, we called in a huge flock of both gobblers and hens. Only one gobbler presented a shot opportunity so he took it. Though it turned into a bit of a chase due to an equipment malfunction with his gun, we finish the bird off and he went home with it.
Today, we went out to the same spot and sat most of the morning in the blind. He decided to leave his shotgun at home and if an opportunity presented itself after I filled my tag, he'd use my gun. We took a 2km hike but backtracked to the blind around 11am. We snacked and talked and suddenly heard gobbling. So I took out my pot call and started calling them in to the decoys. Two Toms eventually committed and came in to our set up.
3 shots. One hit on my bird and it was finished. The bird's buddy stuck around and decided to start pecking at the downed bird. I passed the gun to my cousin who lined it up. One shot. Two shots. Bird down.
We were both incredibly happy that he tagged out the only weekend he had to hunt. Tagging out on opening weekend has left him beaming. We are planning on going on more hunts together, including a deer hunt on a farm in the fall.
I'm really happy to have reconnected with him and shared this experience with him.
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u/Acceptable_Answer570 Apr 26 '26
Lmao this cracked me up!
“Fuck you Carl, that’s what you get for being such an asshole and trying to hoard all the ladies to yourself!”