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Last Saturday's Youth Turkey Day came on a snowy, windy, freezing, generally miserable day. Still, a number of enthusiastic (crazy?) hunters still went after birds, and a few even got them.
Here's one of the lucky youngsters, Mcguire Osborne, with an 18.5-pounder he killed near Independence. It was Mcguire's first turkey.
While growing up in rural Southern Oregon, Mark Taylor developed a passion for the outdoors while he and his younger brother tagged along with their father on fishing, hunting and camping adventures.
Graduating from Northwestern University in 1988, Taylor spent four years as an officer in the U.S. Navy based in Norfolk before moving into journalism.
After five years writing about the military for a Norfolk-based publishing company, he became the outdoors editor at The Roanoke Times in 1998. He lives in Roanoke with his wife and twin daughters.
Congratulations! Now your officially hooked. I went on an afternoon scouting trip Sat. in Roanoke County and it felt like January with the wind and snow blowing. Again congratulations on a fine first turkey and many more to come.
Comment by Jim Basham — April 12, 2007 @ 9:45 am