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Congrats on the bird,nice one.

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Way to get us going Southern!! Congrats on that nice bird! I still have 3 more weeks of sitting on the sidelines before I get a chance to pitch in. Kind of makes me jelous of you southern boys in that you get to get after them so early compared to use Northerners!

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Nice bird Southern! Well guys, my season starts the weekend after this coming one but i have to miss it for a school event.... Sometimes i hate taking a intrest in my school..... But we may get me out during the week sometime so i can try my hand at getting some of the mosters we saw last year

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Great job southern!! Nice to get the ball rolling. To be honest, since I've never hunted them before, I do not know what's good or bad as far as score, but great job none the less!
Dandbuck

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Hey Paintbrush, do you know any water skiers from the Little Crow team in Brainard?

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Southern
I assume you did the picture thing for the contest for the score right?
Later
Dandbuck

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dandbuck
Can't say that I do, sorry.

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WTG Southern, Team 10 is off to a good start, keep em coming...........

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Yeah I took all the necessary pics, but ran off and forgot the sd card back home. My dad will send em to me on Monday probably and we'll get it posted. Didn't have any more luck this week, worked the same bird 3 days straight and his stubborn butt wouldnt ever come to me. Waited him out til about 10 today and still never saw him. Rain again next weekend, should be fun!

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I should have those pics by tonight so we'll get it posted and be on the board. I went through and scored all these birds that were taken by different teams this past week, we're looking good so far.

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sheesh Southern couldnt wait the couple hours for me to get home from a hike to post your score?

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Well guys good news. Not only might i be able to hunt opening day, but my family may have just scored a new peice of property to hunt, ive never seen it before but apparently it isnt that far from where i live, and holds a few turkeys

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Southern my man. Congrats. Your bird has been recorded.

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Awesome guys were off to a good start!!

Southern way to go man, I had no doubt you would put one on the ground there last week!!!

Congrats and good luck to the rest of ya's!!

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I just hope the weather is better for the rest of us, right southern?
lol
Dandbuck

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Yeah I hope it is for yall, it was horrible the other day. Poured from about 7 til 10, but around 11:00 that bird I got started gobbling his head off. I'm off Friday so I'm gonna try to get on another one. The forecast for the entire weekend here, RAIN. 60% chance Friday, haha. Honestly I love turkey hunting in the rain for some reason. Easier to move around and not make a sound. But I'll try not to do my Cherokee Raindance for everybody else's opening day, haha.

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Try not tolook so happy there Southern! lol

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haha, yeah I know dandbuck. I was smiling from ear to ear when I finally killed him. But it was about 3:30 when my mom finally came home to take pictures, and it was pouring when she got there. We had to wait until about 4:30 and she really wasnt into it much, haha, she had a tough day at school with crazy kids. So we were just happy to get all the pics taken between the periods of rain. Dont get me wrong, I was happy and really proud! Any harvested turkey is something to be proud of, even if it's a young jake, so I'm always thrilled to get one!

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Just messin with ya! Nice job. Just got my tag in the mail today, so it's just a matter of time.

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Here is picture from this week. Our season is still about a month away. I am leaving Friday morning to take my 6 year old son to TX to chase rios.

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NICE! He'd look better headless!

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So here it is, Opening day, and I'm at home preparing to goto school, and my parents are off hunting a new peice of property thats only a twenty minute drive away..... Can't say I'm not jealous of them...

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OK guys, I just got home from taking my 6 yr old son on the youth turkey hunt in Texas. If anybody watched the weather this weekend you know the weather was terrible. 7 inches of snow, wind blowing 35 out of the NW with 4-5 foot snow drifts. My little man was a trooper. We popped up the double bull and brought a coleman heater with us. Keep him nice and toasty for our hunt. We had 2 toms come in and stand at 35 yards for 45 minutes, I wouldn't let him shoot b/c I felt that was to far for him. 15 jakes were next followed by 4 more toms. The 4 toms we directly to the 2 other toms and ran them clean off without offering a shot. The jakes left and there were sitting in the cold watching nothing but the snow blow. About 10 minutes later 4 more jakes come in. He starts begging me to shoot and I am persistant "NO!" We argue for about 10 minutes over this, he finally says "dad, does a jake count toward the grand slam?" I told him that it did not........for you guys that don't know me, I completed my slam last year and he of course wants to be like ole dad. He finally gives in to wait for a longbeard and within 1 minute of that 3 toms come in from our right at 5 yards. I get them stopped at 20 yards, he says "dad, I am on him" I tell him to shoot when he is ready.....BOOM and flopping is his first turkey a 18 lb tom with 1 inch spurs, and an 8.5 inch beard. You talk about a proud papa. Our youth season in MO starts next weekend and his is ready to go.

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DTC~~ Thats awesome man!! tell the lil guy, congrats from me! I am sure you were happier then he was at the moment?!! Way to go, now its your turn to get out there and put one on the ground!

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Look at that die hard turkey hunter out there in the snow makin it happen!!! He looks like a seasoned veteran with that big ol grin, awesome bird! Tell your son congrats DTC! Your turn! I'm going again this weekend, looks like we'll have a few dry and warm days, maybe theyll be talking pretty good.

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My parents did not get anything this weekend, though it sounds like a place i would jump right in to and go all over the steep mountains to get where the turkeys are, which they didnt. I may be going before school in a couple days, or possibly saturday morning.

Good looking bird he got DTC I dont think im a hard-core enough turkey hunter to go hunting in snow, but living in Cali i dont have to worry about it

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Good luck this weekend teen! I'm goin tomorrow and Saturday, should be great weather. Dad bought a new Mossberg 935 yesterday. Went to Dick's sporting goods and they had them for $200 off so he couldn't pass it up! I may try to talk him into lettin me take it for a trial run Saturday!

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haha it bleeped it out, didnt know it would do that. He got it at D i c k's sporting goods. They may be having a huge sale right now, yall should check it out.....always need more guns.

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Youth season opens in the morning and my boy is itching to go. Saw5 different toms in the alfalfa yesterday, 4 toms on another farm we have and 2 toms on the place I have leased. Got up to listen yesterday morning and heard 12-15 birds. They aren't gobbling alot just yet but our season doesn't open until the 20th. Good luck team!

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Thats awesome DTC. Well I'm typing this cause I am about to go out for the first time this season, just me and my dad, to a property that has sooooooo many turkeys that some of you guys woulldn't even comprehend or dream about.

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We were in birds all day and I couldn't getmy 6 year olda shot. We set up on a tom with 5 hens first, moved on to the next group 5 toms, 4 jakes, and 20 some odd hens. Shocking that we couldn't get them to work. Found 2 toms and a jake, thought they were by themselves, 12 hens with them. Had a tom and 4 hens come in tonight, spooked from B-mobile (throw that !#$* thing in the trash.) Found 12 hens and 2 toms in a field and got in front of them. Hens flew to the roost trees from 150 yards in the field. Nothing like stressing old dad out. Weather is supposed to suck on Sunday. Maybe we can score in the morning. Our birds aren't ready to work yet that is for sure.

huntnteen, just knew you would have some pics for us tonight. Good luck!

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I blew it for us yesterday guys, got schooled by a wise ol bird. Got on a nice 3 year old bird about 20 minutes before any light at all in some thick fog. It was the same bird I had worked for 3 days during opening week, roosted in the same area. I listened to him gobble for a while then hit him with some suuuper soft tree calls, clucks and soft short yelps. He gobbled his head off at them so I shut up after a few series of calls. After the fog started to thin out about 45 minutes later and the sky was brightening up a good bit, I gave him some more soft clucks and yelps, then hit him with a little bit of a fly down cackle. That fired him up and I knew he was coming, it was perfect. A few minutes later he hammered closer and I could tell he was on the ground, and right in front of me but out of sight. He hit it a few more times, still straight out front. Not a minute after the last gobble, a crow sounded off right above me and he hammered about 30 yards directly to my dadgum right! He had gotten on the road above me where I couldnt hear him and flanked me. I knew I wouldnt be able to hear him coming bc it was still pretty wet, but I didnt prepare well enough for him to come that far around me that fast. I saw him top the hill coming my way at an angle, looking like he would walk right on top of me. Just as he was about to walk behind a huge pine to give me that chance to swing, he stuck that old ugly head straight up and went to clucking, BUSTED. Somehow he picked me out and knew it wasn't right. He started easing off pretty quickly so I swung around and fired off and missed him. I went to pump another shell in, and my dad gum strap was in the way....which I knew NOT to do but didnt think about it I guess, he had me too excited haha. After I moved the strap he was about 50 yards out running in the sticks but I fired another one at him for the heck of it, haha. He'll live to be a hundred now, haha. Oh well, it happens, and I definitely learned a little bit for next time. That was the best chance a lot of people will ever get to shoot a turkey, haha, and I blew it!!! Wont go again til next weekend, so hopefully they'll still be talking. Sorry fellers, he out smarted me! Hope teen had better luck!!

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I think I have a die hard turkey hunter on my hands. My 6 year old wouldn't shoot a jake this morning, we had him at 25 yards for about 5 minutes. I was urging him to shoot and he informed me that he was waiting for a tom. I know when I first started hunting I was just looking for a legal bird.

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Well Guys, I'm out of here early friday morning on my way to Kansas for a 3 day hunt for Rio's. I think they are a cross between Rio's and Merriams tho. Doesn't really matter. What matters is that I FINALLY get to go hunting!! I'll do my best to put a bird or 2 down on the ground for the team. I'll fill everybody in when I get back.

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Well i didnt get anything Saturday, her some gobbling on the roost, then after they flew down they shut up. After a hour i had two hens sneek up on me then after another half hour i had five more hens sneek up on me. My dad walked up and said he was going to look and see if there are any turkeys where we heard them calling in the morning, and where they hang out all the time, nothing was there, so he walked back to me and i decided to walk around the mountain and see if i can get any answers, got no answers, so we decided to call it quits, seeing asi only had a few hours to hunt.

Were going to try to go to a different place this coming saturday, then back to the place we already visited for a late-morning hunt sometime during the week, then on the 18th im going to the property my parents went to on opening day, to see if i can score on a turkey or a pig


Good luck to everyone who is going out in the field

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My season starts April 20th. Plenty of nice birds around!!!

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Hey guys; Got this Kansas Rios on the last day of my 3 day hunt. The gobblers where hen up big time. If this bird hadn't shocked gobbled at a passing truck on a muddy gravel road, he'd still probably alive today! Got within 50 yards of him after he shock gobbled and soft called his hen towards me with him in tow. At 35 yards I lowered the boom!
Weight 21 lbs 9 oz.
Beard 10"
Left and Right spur 1 1/8"
Score 64.0625

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SWWWWEEET!! Way to go paintbrush! My season starts next week wednesday, 5 day season. Starting out with the bow, we'll see.
Dandbuck

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Sweet bird Paintbrush.

Well guys im going at it again for a late-morning/afternoon hunt on the same place as last week, hopfully i can find them gobblers today