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When I went turkey hunting in Kansas last year it was terrible, pitiful, horrible, and just about every word that goes with that.

We got there at about 11 o'clock. When we got there my cousin checks his sport bag NO SLEEPING BAG! So my brother and I had to give up our blankets and my uncle had to open his sleeping bag and lay it out flat and put the blankets on top. Plus those blankets were small and thin. So that caused them to put this like heater fire thing in there. The only risk of that is if it touched the tent FIRE!!! Another bad part about it was, it was 16 to 30 degrees and when the turkey are out it is around 5 o'clock so we wake up eat a gronola bar, fruit roll up, (We get that because my uncle is AWESOME!) and an apple.

Then we trudge wearily out to the blind, but the bad thing was my uncle had the pop-up blind. A pop-up blind is a blind where you have a bag where it goes then you carry it out where you want to hunt. Then you open the bag and it pops out. Well our so called blind wasn't really a blind it is called sitting under a tree with a camo netted fence thing around us. In the beginning it was okay because I had my dad's jacket, my coat, some long johns with camo pants. Plus I was sleeping. But then I woke up and we still had 3 hours to go so I only knocked out 2. We leave the tree at 10 o'clock and go to my uncle's truck he comes to it about 30 minutes later.

When we get back to camp we started a propane fire thing got in the tent and it started pouring. But I already had my sleep. So while everybody else is sleeping that means my uncle, dad, cousin, and brother, I have nothing to do. So I just sit there in my sleeping bag. When all of them woke up we were all bored. So my uncle said that we were going to this small resturaunt place. Which was ok because we got burgers. They also had some NBA playoffs on.

Then when it clears up we go back out at maybe 6 or so. Still nothing. Next day I wake up, go to the lake and on the shore there is a dried up fish. It was big, had a long nose, and the eyes were gone. I was happy that we went out at 8 this morning because waking up at 5 isn't always fun. This time we tried somthing different. It was to walk around this big set of woods. Around the woods there was some tall brush that we were walking through. When we walked through a patch of brush we stopped every time and on our second patch we saw some turkeys on the exact opposite side of where we were. And of course they have the most amazing eyesight in the world so they see us and hightail it to the big hill and they are out of range and out of sight. So we keep going and then 2 hens, can't shoot. About 4 more and we see one. We go behind a tree and my brother steps on a root and and there's some noise and it runs away. And that's the last of our trip because it rains again we have to wait for my uncle and cousin.

The next day my uncle and dad cooked breakfast. My dad did the bacon and my uncle cooked the pancakes and eggs. It was good to have a nice meal after 2 days of not really meals. Then we packed up and left because my older cousin had prom that night with his girlfriend. And my uncle had to pick up his tuxedo. Well we didn't get one on that trip, but I one this year. 21 pounds 9 and a half inch beard. So it's all good and fine.