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JW has the stickers and will be posting them to me soon, anyone who is yet to send me there address or let me know if you want a sticker please do so ASAP as i will be sending them as soon as i get them.

i am still needing

John Deer
Msfieldmouse
NYhunter325
turkeytrack777

please pm me your address or post on the thread that you do not want a sticker. thanks all and good luck

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I went out Saturday morning an hour before light to a spot on National Forest land that has held gobblers year after year; a large bench on the east side of a mountain. I've tried several approaches to get above the bench in the past and decided that my best bet was to go to the right (North) of the bench a few hundred yards, climb to the top and walk the ridge to above the bench and drop down. When I got within a hundred yards of the crest a turkey busted out of it's roost about 60 yards away. Ok, I thought, either I busted a tom off his roost or a hen. If it was a hen I figured there'd be more then one, either way I decided to continue with my plan. Ten yards later another turkey flew off, and then another. Finally when just a short distance from topping out another turkey busted out of the tree I had my hand resting on. That one startled me. :) I discovered that this area at the top had been burned over in a summer forest fire. The undergrowth was mostly cleared but there was plenty of leaf litter from the previous fall. Should be good for turkeys. I followed the ridge and dropped down to where I thought I was about 100 yards above the bench (turned out I was closer to 200 yards and a little further south). Come first light I heard a gobbler far off below, near the creek bottom. He was double gobbling. I also had some hens somewhere below me. I did a soft tree yelp. About 6:20 the hens were really going at it and I imitated the dominate hen as best I could. She sounded really fired up. Gobbler was still gobbling far off. I thought I'd call the hens towards me and see if they'd drag a tom with them. The birds were very vocal until about 6:30. I heard some cars coming up the gravel road down below (who comes in the woods this late during turkey season?) I also started to hear a human calling below and to my right (he would answer my calls and also did some coyote yelps later in the morning?!) All the birds shut up. By 9:00 the wind had really picked up and the temp had dropped. I figured I'd drop down to the protected bottoms where I had heard the gobbler. Maybe they were seeking shelter from the wind down there. As I walked I realized that I had been on the leeward side and the wind was actually even harder then I thought around on the east face. Movement off the side of the mountain caught my eye and I looked to see the grey back of two hens gliding across the valley. I wondered if they had jumped from down below me. Another 50 yards down I was just entering the bench and a gobbler took flight 30 yards in front of me and flew the opposite direction of the hens. I continued to the bottom and inside the woods from some fields I gave a couple of yelps. Nothing. Walking further in the woods between the two fields I see another hunter heading toward the road. I hoped I hadn't bumped him off his position. I hadn't. We talked for awhile and with another hunter who drove up. No one had heard anything, but neither had been there when I drove in in the dark. I headed on as planned and dropped into a creek bottom. On the edge of the dropoff before going down I found a lone deer bed with some shed long hairs in it. As cold as the morning was he better not be too quick in getting his summer coat. It was a steep climb down and I followed a deer trail to the creek. I found one downy turkey feather stuck to a mountain laurel bush soon after I had thought no turkey would be in stuff this thick. In the bottom it opened into a hardwood and I gave some calls before emerging out of cover. No answer. I made my way along the creek occassionally calling but getting no reply. I saw wings flapping in front of me and thought I'd bumped another turkey but it turned out to be a barred owl who came to rest on an bare oak tree to see what had disturbed his morning nap before flying off. Eventually the hardwoods gave way to mountain laurels creekside and white pine thickets on the hillside. I opted to travel the pines and eventually made it back to the service road and then to my truck. I stopped on the trout stream on the way out and fished for half an hour. No bites. I had a good morning just the same. I may go out tomorrow morning before work.

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sounds like you had an eventful day. and a fun hunt. good luck and i hope your next hunt ends with a bird in the bag.

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Well second season starts tomorrow. After school me and my dad will be heading out and hopefully saturday morning I hear/see a turkey, hopefully shoot one.

Today we had our first track meet. We got 4th overall. I've been having problems with my ankles and I wasn't doing the best I can. Highjump I only jumped 4' 6" I was expecting 4' 8" or 4' 10". I ran a 2:45 in my 4 x 800, 2:42 in my open 800, and a 14 flat in my sprint med (100 meters).If I was up to par I could have easily shed a second or two off the 100, 5-10 seconds on my 800s and jump a 4' 10".

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Alarm went off this morning and I thought "No" and turned it off. Sorry guys, just too tired to go before work this morning. Tomorrow for sure.

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haha, I know how you feel. I woke up for our morning practice friday at 6 (really not that early) but I just didn't want to get out of bed. It seem to have changed saturday and sunday morning. The alarm went off at 4:30 and I woke up instantly and was ready to go. I ended up waking up at 2:45 then tried getting back to bed and woke up again at 3:30, so I just stayed up another hour. I was pumped to get out for the first morning of this year.

Well anyway, back to my long weekend story.
I got home from school friday and got ready as fast as I could for turkey hunting. At 5:30 I went out. I called a few times here and there and never got a response. I saw like 20 deer all around me but no turkeys. Then at 6:30 a turkey comes towards me. It walks right next to the blind (about 5 feet away) and goes right towards my decoys in the corn field. I got a ton of pictures of it and some videos of it. The turkey finally left at 7:45 and then right before the sun went down a turkey gobbled over my the creek (about 300 yards away). It was too dark for me to see my pins so I didn't call to it. I woke up at 4:30 saturday morning and left the cabin at 5:00. At 5:30 I heard a loud gobble over by the creek. Then I hear two more gobbles just a little ways from there. Then I heard 4 or 5 differant gobbles south of me. And then a few more gobbles to the south east and a few more to the north east. It was nearly impossible to count because they were going crazy but I would estimate 10-15 differant toms gobbling. I did my diaphrams a bit. A few responded but never came in. After all of the gobbles I only saw two turkeys (far from me) and about 30 deer (4 bucks already growing antlers).
Saturday night I went out at 5:00. I saw about 15 deer (1 buck that I could tell through the binos) and 4 turkeys. I was sitting in my blind and I glanced behind me and saw two turkeys fighting. They were both on top of the hay field eating and when ever they go close to each other they would fight. Then they would split up. Then get close and fight again. They finally went in opposite directions. One headed towards our corn field but sadly I was on the opposite hill). Two more toms followed the one that came towards the cornfield and they went and roosted in our timber.
Sunday morning was crap. Foggy, rainy, windy, and cold. Never heard a turkey gobble. Never even saw a turkey. My dad said he heard one fly down from its roost but it went in the opposite direction as him. Only saw 3 deer.
We're going out tonight again and hopefully I can poke one with my bow.
I caught 5 bluegill and 2 catfish when fishing. :D

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The turkey pictures from my trail cameras...
Notice that all the pictures have both deer and turkey in them and that when I was hunting the turkeys were always by the deer.

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nice pics pope. sound like you had a good weekend, and getting some scouting done for deer season too.

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Beautiful day Saturday. Went out behind my house and set up on a small food plot I made on a flatspot on the side of the mountain where they had the loader when I had the woods selective cut. I didn't hear a thing. Not a gobble, not a yelp. I did hear some movement in a draw out of sight. I decided to move up to a saddle and call into the next hollow. Keeping below the ridetop I set down my stuff and prepared to call when a red head popped up twenty yards away. I dropped down quickly and did some calls but no go....I heard what sounded like two birds leave. The area looked good with plenty of sign so I got set up there and called some more. About 45 minutes later I heard something but couldn't see anything. I decided to be ready and took my gun from a leaning position to on my knee. A tom I couldn't see ran out of a dip about 60 yards away putting. :( Still hadn't heard any gobbles. About 30 minutes later my neighbor behind me drove his 4 wheeler up to the top. (our lines meet on the ridge top and he's retired and uses the 4 wheeler to hunt). I flagged him with my orange and we ended up talking the rest of the morning. While talking 3 deer ran past us, and I jumped another 3 bedded down while on my way out. Got two days planned this weekend in turkey country and may try to get out briefly one of the mornings this week. Working on a long box call for my dad too and want to have it done for this weekend.

Saturday night a bear got on my porch and drug my trash cans up the mountain 100 yards and knocked over my grill and drug it into the yard.

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Dang bears! When we were on vacation in colorado we watched early in the morning as a black bear knocked over a big garabage can.

Well no turkeys sunday evening but I did get some enjoyment out of watching 10 deer mess around in front of me. I got some pretty neat photos and videos. They were all playing around and chasing each other and two of them were trying to mate. And of course I got a picture of it. I think it might have been a button buck on a doe or a doe on a doe because the deer on top wastiny.

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Finished a longbox for my Dad last night and thought I'd break it in this morning. Had a tom gobbling to it at 6:19. He gobbled probably 7 or 8 times but couldn't get him to come uphill to me. I saw him going away from me around 6:45. I didn't see one but I think he was with a hen because I could see him flapping and making a lot of noise like he was fighting or mating. It was real thick where he was so could only see flashes of shadows but I think a hen led him off. Had to pack up and get to work.

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wow that looks really nice.

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Nice looking box call! Well it looks like were all having the same amount of Luck:eek:

I hunted Monday--first day of season in MO. and should have had a bird, but I was in the wrong place--lol, that's my excuse anyway. I heard the tom walk-strut right by me but I was on the down side of a small ridge and I wasn't able to get a shot.

Going tomorrow--Sat. and Sunday. Hope I can post a big bird on here:)

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well we are under a tornado watch at the moment, so hopefully a tornado will drop a turkey on my door step. it seems the only way im gunna get a bird lol..

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Finally the season starts here in the morning. Going out this evening to see if I can't put one to bed. Good luck to anyone hunting in Ontario.

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Same here. Tornados and hail around us. But for some reason when I look outside, the sky is still light. The weather people need to get there facts straight.

Good luck to your colbea.

This weekend was strange for me...strange in a good and bad way.

The good way is that I saw three huge toms, 25-30 deer, and 4 geese fight (which I got on video tape and I will be posting once I get it uploaded to youtube).
The bad way is that the three toms I saw was at 2:00 pm and I just moving my blind. No weapon at all.
Some more bad ways is that the wheather was crappy. Saturdayevening it was a little breezy and a tad bit cold, along with a few sprinkles here and there. Then all saturday night and sunday morning it was pouring down rain and thundering and lightning. I woke up at 4:30 am sunday and it was pouring down rain so I went back to bed and woke up at 6:00. There weather was fine. No wind. No rain. Somewhat warm, just a little bit cloudy. So I decided to pack up and try and get something to come in since it was only 30 minutes after they came out of there roost.
Saw 15 deer on the walk out and then saw no turkeys the whole time.
I caught 2 bluegills with no bait. Just silver hooks.
I finished my new tree/blind camera mount which I will be posting a differant topic on and Ill give you guys a link if you want to see it.
And I got a little muddy on the fourwheeler. :D

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Well a long weekend of heavy hunting turned up NOTHING. Four of us hunted some prime turkey land and all we saw were lone hens and one jake. Friday morning we heard four toms on the roost and then nothing. Two beautiful, if not too hot, days and the action was non-existent. We had hens coming to fields and the one jake came out into a field in the morning but nothing answered our calls or seemed interested in the decoys. We had a pair of nesting Canada geese buzz our decoys though. Each morning they'd come off the pond and fly over us. Saw wood ducks, hawks, vultures, songbirds, but not a single mature tom. Not sure what was going on. We had a good time though and got some work done around the cabin and did some fishing (turkey hunting is still restricted to dawn-noon until May 4). Hope to get out a few evenings after that.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-kCI5vA8Sw

Theirs the video of the geese fighting. I would suggest watching it in High Qualiy (HQ) if you can.

RE: Team 15 "The Struttn' Studs"
 

I got one! First bird of the year. My buddy asked if I wanted to hunt his father in-laws place yesterday. We got set up for first light and the birds started gobbling at 5:35. At about 6:10 these two came out at 100yds. They slowly strutted their way into the decoys.At 6:25 it was all over. I hit mine at 16 yds. Goob's bird went to run by
me, when I moved it turned back towards him. Goob shoot it and dropped on top of mine. Dispite the full fans and decent beards themy bird only wieghed 15 lbs 6 oz. and Goob's 18 lbs 13 oz.
I'm on the right.

RE: Team 15 "The Struttn' Studs"
 

way to go. can you please post the measurements so i can post it on the score board. once again congrats.

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oh never mind i see you posted it. by the way guys my season is over. i got to head out once, and the rest was rain and thunderstorms. so a big up yours to mother nature....[:@][:@] and i hope i have better luck in the fall season. good luck to the rest of you and i wish you all a good hunt.

thanks all.

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Good job colbea!
I have one more weekend left to hunt and its over. We are gonna be hunting some prime land so hopefully I get one down with my bow.

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Congrats colbea! I've got two weeks left of my season and the family is out of town for the rest of the week which means I can hunt evenings! I'll be trying to get out in the morning and evening and some lunch breaks as I have an area behind work to hunt.

RE: Team 15 "The Struttn' Studs"
 

haha that's awesome. go hunting on your lunch break. i want that job lol

RE: Team 15 "The Struttn' Studs"
 

Thanks everyone. I have until the end of May to upgrade. The sadest words I've read in a long time, " my season is over."

RE: Team 15 "The Struttn' Studs"
 

Well guys.... I missed!!!!!!!! If you want a specific article then search the turkey hunting section of the forum and find the one with the long title. But just to sum things up... Friday night I had a hen come in and the gobblers were already near their roost. They would always respond to my calls but never come in. Saturday morning the came in but they walked straight towards me so I couldn't pull back. They walked up to my jake decoy then turned around and walked away and I couldn't get a good positioned shot until they were 36 yards (I stepped it off, after I missed). Sadly I didn't know how far they were exact so I aimed at 40 (my closest prediction from where we were). The arrow went right over the back.

Sadly I got this all on video tape which means my first opportunity at a turkey is a miss and its going to haunt me forever. :D But ohwell, I had a blast. I got to hunt with my mom on mothers day. It was quite a fun time.

RE: Team 15 "The Struttn' Studs"
 

thats a shame dude. well as long as you had a good time, and you know if you delete the video it wont haunt you forever lol;)

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haha, my family wont allow that. they think its funny when I come down the stairs and see the video playing.

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well as long as they dont play it at your 21st bday or something lol.

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Dont worry, for my 21st birthday I wont have a clue as whats going on. Family tradition. :D If you get the hint...

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haha yea

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Season ends tomorrow. I have only seen hens during my hunts before and after work. I'm taking my 6 year old twins with me tomorrow and we are going to make a day of it; hunting and fishing. Should be fun. Hopefully the toms will cooperate. Chance of storms though. If no lightning we will sit in the fields and hope the turkeys come out.

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http://i563.photobucket.com/albums/ss74/NYhunter325/downsized_0516091002.jpg

MY first bird its a jake but i got em this morning following a single hen with another jake and a tom that hung up and he was the one to come into me

3 1/2 inch beard
1/4 inch spurs
and weighed 15 pounds

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did you post it on the score page?? by the way gratz on a bird:D

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Congrats NYhunter325!! Well, I struck out. My season ended Saturday. I took my twin 6 year olds with me for a weekend with Daddy and we had a good time fishing and hunting. Unfortunately we ended the season like much of the rest of the season - only seeing hens. But it was cool since this was their first hunt and the first time they've seen turkey. Looks like we're getting trounced.

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This is what I have to date

okay-Team 15--------
1-colbea-1-1-49.3750-----
2-FLboy77--------
3-jayman035--------
4-John Deer--------
5-Msfieldmouse--------
6-NYhunter325--------
7-Pope94/IA--------
8-Talondale--------
9-Turkeytrack777--------
10-wackadoo--------
11-mrfast--------
-Total-1-1-Total 11 man 49.3750 Total all birds-49.3750

RE: Team 15 "The Struttn' Studs"
 

yep i will update tomorrow JW. my bad, been a little busy.we only got one more bird to add.

RE: Team 15 "The Struttn' Studs"
 

just got a message from arrowmaster he will be mailing out the stickers by thursday. and i will send them the day after i get them to anyone who has sent me there address.

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Well Talondale i had this bird and two other ones follow the hen right into me and i had to convince the hen to come into me and thats how i played my season because in new york i think the birds bred early and im pretty sure of it cause the hens were on the nests til like 9 or 10 in the morning so i think it was kinda luck but like my buddy says there is always next season to try and do what you didnt do this season.