April 10th my son Chris Sillitoe took this nice Tom near our home in Southern Utah. This is his 9th bird we have taken together.

We both have hunted different animals all over the world  and agree turkey hunting is one of the best.

This hunt will go down as one of the best we have done together. It was about 1:30 p.m. and the wind was blowing very bad, so we had decided to go back home and hunt later that after noon.  We returned to the Jeep and our good friend Steve Carroll who was with us spotted this Tom and 6 hens across a small canyon where we were parked. We made a plan were Steve would watch from where we were, myself and Chris would climb up the side of the canyon we were on then cross at the top and come down from above. We got to where we could see Steve across the canyon and set  up just about 100 to 120 yards above them.  After setting up I started with some hen calls. Not  very  many calls at first  but after the first call Steve could see the Tom looking in our direction. It was about 10 minutes and 5 or 6 calls he made his first gobble, after the 2nd gobble I could tell he was coming to us. I was also doing the filming so when I could tell he was coming I put my box call down and started filming. He came very slowly and was looking around  intensively.  He stepped out from behind some sage brush and Chris put him down with one good shot. All three of us have a great passion for calling,hunting and filming turkeys.I have called in all of Chris 9 gobblers and he has returned the favor many times for me.

On his first turkey hunt when he was 12 year old we went to the state of Oregon and hunted with Ellis Hunting Ranch where we took a double together.

Chris is also a hunting consultant with Bryan Carter and myself

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