Quick confession to make, I owed Junior caster. Fifteen years ago as a very young boy, he had a video game called "Carnivores", a dinosaur hunting game, and he had a virtual trophy room FILLED with T-Rexs. One day while visiting his dad I asked him to play... AND... somehow I accidentally WIPED OUT his ENTIRE trophy room. Senior looked sleepy the next few days at work, thanking me for having to stay up with the boy filling the trophy room back up. So when I learned recently that Junior, now taller than his dad, was on break from Citadel and turkey hunting season wasn't open in SC, I said I would do what I could to help add to Junior's REAL trophy room. Just seemed the right thing to do.
Day 2 starts out with heavy rains, but much more excitement. Gray fox and a group of six coyotes run across our back field as they head to their blind... throughout the day I get texts of deer after deer sightings, followed by four turkey hens called in, and then finally text of two large hogs running by, then two small ones walking by. The walking was a mistake. Junior puts his "one shot, one kill" accuracy to work and it's PIG DOWN!
Dark thirty comes quickly and when Dolphinatic arrives for the pick-up it's raining heavily and lightning is popping all around. He says looks like a brief window of opportunity will open up from around 8:00am until 10ish, so off he and the Carolina Casters go to setup. Senior has already made the call that if they have no bird by noon, they must hit the road to get Junior back to the Citadel for classes, so with still no word of any bird by 9:00am I know it's down to the wire and likely just not going to happen.
Then... Dolphinatic texts around 9:30am to say that he's spotted birds and they're heading towards the Casters' position... then he texts to say that a single boom has been HEARD!
AND THEN he texts to say TWO BIRDS were taken by father & son at the EXACT SAME TIME on a combined "count-to-three" pull!!!
Turns out that Senior has only sat with Junior in the past and never taken a bird himself, so to say that they were excited to kill two birds at the same time is an understatement! They were still smiling when they made it over my way for pictures, text me thanks repeatedly on their way back to South Carolina, and even text again late this evening after making it to share how excited they still were!
So here, folks, are the final pictures from a trip that won't be forgotten for many years to come. Honestly afraid I don't know what to do their next trip down to lift the bar higher than this trip!
... a trip we will never forget. As for the photobombs.. watch your back BBG!! Guys, again, THANKS !
