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Here is the same avatar but this fits within HNI's limitations for size.

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I was finally able to go out and listen yesterday. The recent badweather still has them a little messed up. I saw turkeys, but heard no gobbles. The weather is supposed to get back to normal this week. Now we need to dry out a little. Five days and counting for my Texas hunt.

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I like the avatar, thanks.

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I just wanted to share some pics from yesterday. I work as a technician on the Space Shuttle and we launched Discovery last night.

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Not here to stir trouble just to compliment you all on a very cool team name. Good shooting!!

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^^Thanks, same to you.^^
BTW Centaur thosearesome awesome pics.

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nice avatar.

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Thanks journey.. dont forget to stop in every once in a while.. hey when does your season start up again?

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3 days and counting!!!!! Are any of you guys pacing around the garage while rearranging all of the stuff in your vest? [&:]

One of the guys in our shop needed a ride to work the other day and he got there he had the nerve to make fun of all the turkey calls that I have in the car, and the fact that I practice my calling while driving. That just opened the door for me to practice at work, now there's a bunch of guys who can't wait for turkey season to start; they're all hoping I'll stop practicing.

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5 weeks from today in the Hoosier state! Just under 5 weeks till MO opening day...I wish I were in the south LOL!

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Yeah I have to wait until April 25th...

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I'm getting some things together right now for my hunt this weekend. I'll be leaving for Texas Friday morning. Sorry to rub it in guys, but your turn is coming. Hang in there, it will be here before you know it.I can't wait to hunt myLouisiana birds next weekend (28th). Hopefully I'll be telling you a story next week about my Rio's.A story with a happy ending that is.

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Good deal. Good luck to ya and get us on the board. :D

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It was really windy today and nothing was gobbling, I saw one hen but that was it. At least the season's finally here.

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Good luck fellas. Keep me posted! I wanna hear something from you guys who are in season, even if its an "unsuccessful" day. For those of us whose season is not yet in, TELL US ABOUT YOURS! ;)

Again, good luck.

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Guys, I connected on two Rio's this past weekend. The first one weighed 19.2 pounds, 1 inch spurs, and a 9 inch beard. The 2nd weighed 17.9 pounds, 3/4 inch spurs, and a 9 inch beard. I'm having trouble posting pics here. I have tried everything. Can I email pics to someone here and have you post them for me? If someone could send me their email address, we could try it that way. What do I need to do if my file is too large? I thought I downsized the picture, but it still said too large. Anyway, my Louisiana season opens this weekend, but the birds are not gobbling anywhere near my property. I know there are birds in the area though. Good luck guys.

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Sure thing SS email them to me: [email protected] ill get em up ASAP

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Damn nice job superstrutter! I had a feeling you would not let us down. Great job getting us on the board and being the first of us to score! If you can get me the scores from your bird I will post them in the Score thread.

Also, for your own future reference, if a file says it is too large to be posted you need to resize your photo. The easiest way is to COPY the picture (you dont want to edit the only photo you have, so be sure to duplicate it) then paste the picture somewhere you can get to it. (your desktop would be easiest) Now open that file and along the top of the page in one of the options it should say resize. Just use this function to size it down to something that will fit on the HNI board. Make sure you save it afterwards. Hope this helps.

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It's really not hard to post pics and you don't even have to resize them if you follow these directions. A photobucket account is free and it only takes a few minutes to sign up. The guy who built this tutorial did an awsome job.

http://www.huntingnet.com/forum/tm.aspx?m=2821708

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Fingerz

Bird # 1 scores 57.125 (19.2 pounds, 1 inch spurs, 9 inch beard)
Bird # 2 scores 50.5625 (17.9 pounds, 3/4 inch spurs, 9 inch beard)

Both are Rio Grandes. I'll get the pictures up. Mossberghunter will put them up if I can't get them up.

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Ok superstrutter. Great job this past weekend. If you ever need help with pictures and such, you can always send them my way too. I'm more than glad to help. Thanks for getting us on the board ;)

Score submitted. Always check what I've done to ensure its accuracy.

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just send em to me super strutter i dont mind helping the team:D

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Guys, I'm starting to figure out this picture thing. This is my 1st Rio. He weighed 19.2 pounds, 9 inch beard, 1 inch spurs. His score is 57.125

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Very nice. Glad you got the picture thing figured out.

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My 2nd Rio( 17.9 pounds, 9 inch beard, 3/4" spurs) score 50.5625

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Nice work! You may want to read up on the rules though because I think you can only count the first turkey you enter, so if you have more tags you may want to hold off to see if you get anything bigger. Just a heads up. only 16 days til I take a kid out for the youth season and I cannot wait.

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Buckrogers, you can enter as many birds as you like, and the biggest bird will count. Just want to remind everyone, so dont be shy, take what you can get. Plus there is a Overall score which counts EVERY bird taken by EVERY member, so if each of us got 30 birds, each of them would count to our team total. So the more you get, the more points we get, so post every bird that you take guys.

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ok, I was just going by what i remembered from previous years, or maybe it was for deer. Anyways thanks for the info.

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I saw 3 turkeys on monday and 1 turkey today!!!

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Oh yeah when do we get those sticker things?

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Well, they havent even been made yet last I knew mossberg. There was a problem getting them made and they needed the original file to try and send the appropriate format. When they are made, sent to me, and you have sent me your address I will get them sent out.

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Well, I was bored so I edited the very first post of this thread with our total team score and biggest bird from each individual. It will be much easier to keep track of our progress this way. I'll keep it updated as more birds take a trip to the ice cream parlor in the sky.

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Thanks fingerz

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thanks fingerz

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One more week. One week from today I will be on the road heading to Abilene. I hope to roost a few birds Friday evening and then on Saturday morning, my opener, I hope to kill one until its dead!

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Good luck tx. Get us one on the board, and have fun doing it. Be sure to update us, bird or not.

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Haven't heard from some of you in a while. How are the turkeys looking where you hunt?It's been slow here on my property in Louisiana, of course season opened just last weekend. They are gobbling, but I have no longbeards on my property as of now. I'm expecting one or two to cruise through eventually. I did call in a jake last weekend on our opener.That is the only turkey I saw all weekend. The weather wasn't too great last weekend. The weather is looking good for this weekend. I'll be going to Tennessee for a few days to hunt with a friend after Easter. Hopefully I'll have a Louisiana bird by then. Good luck to all of you.

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My season doesnt start until April 25th, but this past weekend I went out to see if the birds had seperated yet. I brought my camera just incase something exciting happened. Boy, am I glad I did. A bunch of birds were gobbling nonstopover an hour after they had gotten off the roost, so I figured they were lonely and wanted to see what they were. One series of hen yelps andI have a hen from behind me pissed off and shes yacking back at me, and the gobblers are coming in on a b-line. Due to the hen behind me continuing to call, the gobblers made their way in to my location. It ended up being 6 jakes in a group. They came within 15 feet of where I was sitting. A few minutes later a gobbler from down over the hill made his way up to the hen calling as well. ANOTHER jake. I ended up seeing 7 jakes and the hen, and all of it was captured on film. It was a fun day, but I sure hope some longbeards are in the area.

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Sounds like you will have a good crop next year. I would be careful though about going out and calling before season opens. You sure don't want to educate those birds. I'm sure you know what you are doing though. Sounds like you had a good day. My season in LA. closes the weekend yours opens.

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I agree superstrutter calling before the season is a good way to mess things up. If done incorrectly. And I know this, so I wasn't about to act like it was a hunting day and call until a bird came in. So, like I said those birds were initially about 150 yards away, and I gave them one seriess of hen yelps, and thats all I planned on doing, I just wanted them to come close enough so I could see them and see if I had a longbeard or two in the bunch. So after one series of yelps, the hen decided she was going to take control, and from there out I didnt make another call, I just sat and listened to her. Nonetheless, those lonely gobblers came right in. I just sat and waited and watched.

Even if the hen wouldnt have started to yelp as she did, I only planned on calling one or two series. My logic behind it is that every day those birds hear the hens yelping etc. so I wasn't going to stir too much of a problem. And again, I was fine with seeing them at 90 yards, but when they came to 15 feet thats fine by me. ;)

When I left the house, I didnt really want to call whatsoever, but it got the best of me. I surely wont be back out there to do it again. But it was fun and informational for me atleast.

I have a local guy that goes up with his decoys and all and calls birds in. Then after he's called them in, he will see which way they go, get up, reposition, and call the same birds in again. He does this every spring, and he never learns. That is just idiotic.